“Our chaos are up vs Fathernurgle's orcs. Surely Father Nurgle has a lovely present for a chaos team? Our single handicap is Bad Press. Come on 'get da ref'!!

They have just 11 players with a black orc MNG'd, so that's just 3 BOBs and 2 blitzers - not as tough a cookie as you usually face versus orcs.

They pick up the ball in the blizzard and start moving it forward, a gang foul on turn 1 from their DP seeing a beastman KO'd. We're defending cautiously, trying not to let them through too easily and trying to minimise the blocks we're taking too. Eventually a rookie beastman 1d blocks over a BOB - KILLING him!! Their apothecary is able to lash the magic sponge on in time and save him, but that's a good start!

We block them on one side so they run back and around to the other, breaking through with a blitzer- and we can't reach them. We go for a gang foul (our first of the match) and see our only DP sent off for a KO on their other blitzer. They KO a CW back immediately with their own foul, then blitz through to score on turn 8.

With 2 turns of rolls each we have only 1 of 3 KOs wake up while neither of their 2 return. Our troll also manages to badly hurt their troll (regen fail) so it's 10 of vs 8 of them.

We quickly bash them over and gang foul (no DP sadly) their block/guard lineorc to the KO box. They however take advantage of a foolish turnover the following turn to surround the ballcarrier - though they can't manage a 2d block on him and we're able to engineer a blitz and then a dodge to get him through. They do well with successive 1d dodge-blitzes, knocking him over once, but with their rerolls soon burnt up and our player advantage oppressing them we're able to score on turn 6.

A few turns left and we have 2 RRs vs 0, 11 players vs 8.. and roll up a blitz! We push through near the ball, secure it when they give us a turnover with a rookie Black Orc, then run for the endzone. They manage to dodge a player over to mark ours and we are forced to use a reroll to blitz him free. This means a single 3+ GFI (still snowing) to make the winning touchdown... and he trips over!!

Good game FatherNurgle”