“Here the Raiders faced up to the clawpombers Rash. A significant value mismatch so we brought in two babes and a merc to absorb some hits.

Rash started with a quick snap and soon advanced in a cage. Each side were making potshots but the killers could do little damage. The Beastmen went up near the corner. I forgot frenzy on a Stormvermin and so rather than surfing I ended up positioning wrong and the rat being surfed! Another Stormvermin was also taken out. Headcrusher kept doing his best to hurt the opposition but could only manage a ko. At almost the death of the half Snutz dodged in to wrestle down the carrier beautifully. Really though a strip or pow was needed to give a chance for the ball to go off the pitch. As it was a Beast dodged and picked up (3+) to make the TD just before half-time.

A cas on our turn by Hugruck boosted our confidence for the 2nd half. We came out for that with 11 v 9 players. The hitting then went really well and by our 6th turn there were 3 Rash players ko'd and 3 cas'd. So we decided to score and have a win chance rather than wait for a certain draw.

But then on their drive Rash cas'd two players and caught the ball at kickoff. They then handed off to a Chaos Warrior. Headcrusher saw a beauty of a chance to surf the carrier. But he got 1 on the break tackle and loner failed!! Rash then pow'd a player in the way and got the winner.

I feel the loss was not deserved at all this time. Mostly we did well and we had players up for the last defence, hoping for a defensive TD, and we were given a great surf chance but are rewarded with defeat. Nuffle laughed at us in the last few turns after giving us hope. Well you can always count on a Rat Ogre to let you down at some point.”