“Well, this was a good, old-fashioned butt-kicking and no mistake. I was out-bashed all the way through, I may as well have not been wearing any armour, and I managed just one injury roll off my 27 blocks - resulting in a KO.

I got in a nice quick score up front, because I thought I ought to, and then I set about trying to defend against a solid wall of ugly that was rolling relentlessly downfield. For a couple of turns things went okay, and I was able to keep the Nurgles on their own side of the field until turn 4, but then the bashing started to take effect and I lost the ogre and the good guard in the same turn.

I tried to slow down the onslaught, but really I only succeeded in losing moire players and renard_sagw scored a comfortable turn 8-er.

And then he did it all again after the kick-off, reducing me to four players before he decided to score on turn 6, leaving me with a whole three turns to try for the draw. Luckily, most of my KOs came back so I had nine on the field, and I thought I had it in the bag when I cleared the defence with a blitzer on the quiet side of the field.

But twice in a row renard_sagw blitzed with a non-block rotter and knocked me down, forcing me into a desperate last-turn effort which required a fair bit of dodging, a 1-dice blitz and a go for it...

...which succeeded.

So a very lucky draw, and certainly our most painful game to date. Still, I've done my duty and played against Nurgle, so I don't need to do that again for a while. And I did still manage to squeeze in 12 yards of passing, which I suppose is okay for humans against Nurgle.

So, an ogre-less game coming up next. Let's see how that one goes.”