“Warpstone Open XI - Round 1

My first outing at a Major and against a well known opponent. I had been fortunate enough to get the better end of the luck against PurpleChest on a number of occasions recently. With the Delvers winning the lottery to enter the Open, I suspect both he and I felt it was his time to get lucky.

Opting to receive against full strength dwarves, I was really unsure it was the right choice. I was afraid of the attrition I'd suffer with all those mighty blow and guard skilled players - and hoped to at least get 1 or 2 out to make any defense a bit less brutal, even if I was going to lose a few players myself.

Blitz... guard and big hitting dwarves swarmed our line. This looked tough. Fortunately the kick was deep. Monk hit the only 2D I had on and Jim scooped up the ball. Bad dice avoided initially, and a few more blocks moved the play up to the north flank. A few rookie linemen held up some of the skillful dwarves down south and the super star runner pressured Jim. Then Tom Scurvy knocked out the legend blocker with a 1D knockdown, which was a big piece of early luck.

Soon it swung. Monk killed a super star blocker (apothecary failed) then piled on another (badly hurt). Meanwhile the Devils took no damage at all, albeit a few knockouts kept the numbers even. As it started to get tactical, PC's plans were halted by a snaked go for it (something I avoided all game) and the catcher ran away to safety.

My other pomber took out tricky blitzer Gareth and soon after super star blocker Zacharcy was injured as Monk completed a hattrick of casulaties. It was really hard going for PC for the entire match. I got my kayos back, and the 2nd half followed a similar pattern. A rerolled block preceeded some skulls and that was that, game over. The Delvers nearly left their mark - Stanley was killed but my apothecary worked.

That's 3 in a row against PurpleChest. A run that will end soon, I'm sure!”