“Brewin thought that he had a good deal. Rostered against a depleted Chaos team that could only field six players he thought that finally he’d get a chance to restore his team back to eleven players…

To say that the following events were a calamity is a huge understatement. The match took place in the midst of a howling thunderstorm and in short order two Skaven were removed from the pitch, one of them, Cylde, dead. Then the weird influence of Chaos began to take a hold: Cylde rose from the dead, and retook the pitch, invisible to the opposing Chaos team. The ref cited NAF ruling 49.6c, Section 4 that spectral players were banned from the game, but was unsuccessful as he couldn’t see the player either. As if that weren’t enough, multiple balls appeared and players began to materialise in multiple places at once. (It is also understood that such Chaotic events have occurred in a previous Malefactors’ game and so perhaps is indicative of their team tactics!) The ref insisted on continuing the match, until lightning stuck the member’s stand and set it alight. It was obvious then (if it wasn’t before!) that Nuffle did not wish this game to continue, and so the match was abandoned…

The match was restarted a couple of days later, and word of the extreme events of the two teams’ previous meet seemed to inspire an even larger turn-out. The Snipers had a numerical advantage of 9 to 6 players (a rare thing for them!) which enabled them to score with ease, steal the ball and score again before quarter time. The Malefactors seemed more intent on scoring than mauling as they’d yet to inflict an injury on the Snipers, which led coach Brewin to start mocking the opposing team for being a “pseudo-chaos bunch of bunny-loving wanna-be elves that loved Slaanesh for the beautiful game”. –It probably wasn’t a good idea to tempt fate in such a way as the following events demonstrated…

Enraged by the insults, the Malefactors showed the rat boys was it means to worship Chaos by quickly putting two of them into hospital. This took their focus of the ball a bit and the Snipers managed to steal the ball again and score just before the half-time whistle, but not before one of their Storm Vermin was surrounded and gang-fouled into oblivion.

The second half saw 6 Snipers facing off against 6 Malefactors. A bitter skirmish ensued with the ball changing hands numerous hands before the Malefactors finally scored with two turns remaining. Now with only 4 Snipers left (against the Malefactors who were still uninjured with their original 6 players), the Snipers almost managed to score again at the death… What should have been an easy win for the Snipers (and a “recovery” game to boot) had instead ended in yet another bloodbath…”