“Our necros are up against Ignaz's much higher-rated chaos. They have 4 nigglers and give us 3 handicaps, but unfortunately we can't get the Virus we need to clear them all out! Instead it's morleys (on 3 players!), bribe and extra training.

They will have 9 players (8 for the first drive) with a niggle failing to turn up, but they still have 3x STR 5 players (including a +STR/+AGI CW) and a block/claw/RSC beastman... this is going to be tough!!

We kick and their RSC blitzes our av7 zombie, MNG'ing him. We gang up on their STR5 claw warrior and DP gang foul him for a stun, and then the following turn do the same to their claw/RSC, using up our bribe the ref. Arg - we need them off the pitch not stunned!

Their rookie beastman with the ball then blitzes and seriously injures a wight (regen) - we counter by KO'ing a guard beastman. But they then KO two more players to make it 7v7 and dodge the ball through towards our endzone. Just when we need a boost we manage to 2d blitz over their RSC with a flesh golem - badly hurting him - who then dodges through a tackle zone twice to mark their ball carrier! But it's not enough as they easily dodge away, and despite our best efforts they score on turn 7 after badly hurting one of our flesh golems (no regen).

We have just 10 for the rest of the match now vs 8. Morley's and failed KO rolls means they have just 5 to hold us back for the final 2 turns of the half, and their blitz kickoff roll is wasted as their 2 spare players are too far back. We rush our wolf and ghoul through while our AGI4 wight collects the ball- but they are still able to 2d blitz the wolf and MNG him. Not our day for cas today! We free our ghoul but he fails the catch and the half ends.

Their KO box sees neither of their beastmen wake up and morley's hits hard again so they will have just 4 players for the second half! We are down to 9 and they have 3x STR5s and an AGI4 (including 2 claws and a blodge troll) on the pitch- so it's not as easy as it sounds!

Our 4th DP gang foul of the game fails even to break armour (every other one was a stun) and gets our fouler sent off, while they continue to smash us scoring another cas on a wight (regen) and KO'ing a zombie. We do however have the ball safe by their endzone, where looking at the numbers on both sides we decide to stall it out and take the draw, scoring on our last turn.

Good game Ignaz- an unusual match up to say the least! Next time we'll foul properly I hope!!”