“The Grey wizard opens the portal and the Hammers arrive at the Black Cup. The Hammers seek glory and what glory there is to be had but first up some Ulric loving barbarians...we knew coming in it was going to be a fight. Down 2 men to start the match. Just had to be patient, lay some quality boots and hope our Sigmar infused and blessed armor held up. But we also had a "shaved knuckle" hanging out in the stands, Tim the bright wizard, he has never let us down and we were counting on him.

The Hammers get the kick off and immediatly the Brigade calls an audible at the LOS and sets up in the perfect defense, looking grim.. The Hammers could not disengage from the LOS and are barely able to protect the ball. The brigade jumps all over the Hammers and pounds us into the pitch. It was looking grim right off the bat. We lose the ball in turn 2 and the brigade sets up the defensive turnover drive.

At this point the Hammers start teeing off on them. Laying the boot thick and trying to stay out of trouble. The brigade goes in on turn 6 and the Hammers have two turns to respond. But something interesting happened. The Brigade had 5 players Ko that did not return. If we scored they would get two more shots to get their players back, so we take the chance and do not attempt to score, in fact in our two turns we lay out two more of the barbarians and at the start of the second half we have shortmanned them. That was the first gamble that paid off.


Hammers kick off and a riot takes place, there goes one turn, so its a 7 turn second half now. the pressure is on to get the defensive TO and then take it to OT or attempt to get the second score. Hammers call on Tim right off the bat. Tim rises up in the stands, calls on the winds of magic, they are strong in the stadium, in fact Tim has never touched raw warp power before, it was all around him. He call on the conflaguration of DOOM..As the ball of flame decendes from the heavens it gains a lot of size, Tim realizes he just cast the spell with irrestiable force and double enhanced. It smashes into the pitch, a dust cloud covrs the entire playing field.

As the clouds go away the Brigade is shattered. A Kill, SI for MNG a KO and a stun on a 5 man Fireball spell. Hammers close in and get the ball sourrounded. Next turn the hammers finally recover the ball and go in for the score.

But the Brigade is realing at this point. 6 VS 10 with 4 turns to go. The Hammers respond with their own perfect defense and set it up. The Hammers pressure the short kick and get a defensive turnover fast.

Even with the man advantage the Brigade makes it tough to get the winning score across and the Hammers have to rely on a 3+ dodge with no rerolls to get the winning score across.

But the Brigade is really mad. In the last two turns they KIA 2 blitzers and get the Tombstone match.

This was a titanic struggle that came down to 4 key moments of the match. Well played and a lot of fun.


Now the Hammers get some R@R and await the skaven scumm who are up next.



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