“Skaven. One of my all time favourite races. I've played with em a lot lately, let's see how I'll do against them!They do have a few marvellous gutter runners, which I can't help but admire even if I'm a tad afraid of what they're capable of on the field.

We choose to kick first and get perfect defense on the kickoff, that should help us a lot. The rats get the ball on a gutter and badly hurt one of my linemen on their first turn. We get the str3 gutter badly hurt on our turn 2 and force them to score on their third, that makes a legend gutter! Grats! I lose the ball, they get it with ag 5 and next turn I stupidly get the annoying legend gutter next to my blitzer by following a block and can't get a blitz on the ball carrier. They make a getaway and I'm left baffled and can't do much damage on my blocks either.They score again on their turn 6 and make it 0-2. At last my blows begin to be mighty again and I get two casualties on linerats next drive on my turn 6. I get into scoring range on turn 7 and seriously injure the newly achieved legend gutter (-ST), but luckily apo sames him. They land a blitz on my ball carrier and manage to strip ball... only to see it bounce back into his hands. I make the GFI required to score on turn 8 and make it 1-2 for the second half.

2nd half starts and I get one linerat SI'd and one KO'd. I also manage to get the ball up. I advance steadily, but it's taking a bit longer than I'd like. I can't get that many rats out and by my turn 5 I'm facing a tough decision whether to stall or go for the win. I take some time thinking and Enigma179 helped me a bit too, and I decided to go for it and score even though I'd only have three turns to do it. My fans throw a rock on kickoff and a linerat makes a "look out sir" to save the legend gutter and takes the hit instead. Well, they make an unexpected chainpush move and score on turn 6 and It's 2-3 for skaven. I've still got two turns to score, but so do they. I send a few guys into scoring range and leave a few behind to get the ball. They fumble it on turn 7 however. I still have a chance to score on turn 8, but fail to catch the pass required for the TD.

This one was truly an exciting match with a lot of action and it really could've gone either way. The skaven had too much reserves for my norse, despite the 6 casualties made by my star blitzer alone they still had like 8 players on the field for 2nd half, which is usually enough for rats to score. Had they failed to get the Ag5 gutter back for their offense on 2nd half things might've been different and as said I could've stalled and likely made it a tie but I'm glad I made this call as the remainder of the game was really exciting with even a hope of making it a tie on turn 8. Thanks Enigma179 for a well played and entertaining game!”