“With three gutter runners missing for this one, I find it hard to be optimistic walking into this match.

The game starts in pouring rain, pact receiving. We get sort of a bad kick without the kicker lino. By turn three the pact's big guys have managed to BH a linerat each and I start to feel a tad shorthanded. By turn five I get some pressure on the ball carrier and hope for an opening for a blitz. I can't find a way to land a hit on the BC and my linerats keep flying off the pitch at a steady rate. My rats make some fine dodging on my turn seven to at least make the pact work for the TD but still two easy dodges and the score is 1-0 for the pact. I fail a oneturning attempt on my turn 8.

I get all the KOs back for second half and the rats are only outnumbered 11 to 9. I mess up failing a pickup and the pact come fast after the ball. I fail a one die block which couldve saved me, and the dark elf easily picks up the ball and runs off with it. I fail the dodges to land a blitz on the elf and they score on turn 3. At least it stops raining on kickoff and we get perfect blood bowl weather. I find a hole to sneak a gutter through and quickly score in two turns hoping to luck out and have a chance at a tie. I go all out on the dark elf trying to force him to make a pass, basically just to make any mistake so that I could get a chance at the ball. No luck there, the pact cage is too solid to break through, but at least I BH a marauder on a ragefoul on turn 8. Yeah!

A nice game decided not by luck, but skill IMO. shaq played well on both offense and defense never giving me a chance to get much done. Good game indeed.”