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Last night saw not one but two new teams enter the bloodbowl league, eager for glory and a well earned death, they didn't dissappoint!
Newly reformed after a break from the cicuit the orc team and perennial favourites of some bloke in the corner the Black Def Skwad roared into action against the brand new rookie Skaven of the Rattusberg Renegades, the crowd were eager to watch new blood and 25k of them crammed into the arena.
The Renegades took the Kick off at the start of a very avergae half, quickly scoring the opening touchdown and handily dismembering the Skwads Goblin on the way, we'd say he'd be missed but we didn't even know his name! In return the Skwads catcher plucked the ball from the air at the kick off and the eam rolled down the pitch, the Renegades swarmed around the cage trying to slow it down and pick off the stragglers, the plan seemed to work to a point as a Linemean joined the Goblin in the injury box with what looks like will be a Niggling Injury. A bit of shortsitedness and a rush of blood soon changed things though, when one of the blitzers decided to man mark the ball carrier, oblivious to the Black Orc next to him he didn't see the blow that ended his carreer and life. Two more rats were handily knocked out and another removed for the remainder of the game before a neat hand-off saw one of the skwads blitzers score. 1-1 at half time.
The second half kick off was a thing of beauty by the rats as they punted it to the back corner of the field, just out of reach of the nearest orcs, who proceeded to flatten the front line of linerats. They then man marked the ball and watched as the downfield players failed to make any real gaps in the Renegades defence with a bit of pushing. the renegades responded with what they do best, running. A quick take down saw a gap emerge, through which the gutter runners and a few linemen sped through, threatening the ball. Unphased the Skwads Thrower swept up the ball and sent it hurtling down field to a blitzer who had pushed himself clear, but No, Interception!!!!!!!!!!!
One of the sneaky Gutter runners snatched the spinning ball from the air and grinned as a few team mates swept passed him and gave the Skwads thrower a ticket to the injury box, where he'll be spending the next game as well, a quick pass to one of the other unners saw the Renegades go up 2-1.
Eager for revenge one of the Skwads Black orcs opened up the batting on a line rat from the kick off, unfortunately he tripped as he swung and landed on the poor rat stunning the renegade, but impaling himself on the helmet spike which promptly killed him. A big hole in the line and a ball loose in the back field wasn't going to be ignored and once again the renegades swarmed through the hole. Unable to cope with the pressure a third score was conceeded by the skwad though another renegade was given the rest of the game off.
Once more the orcs received the ball ad despite a bit of early pressure a Blitzer skipped away from his marker swept up the ball and sent it downfield, slightly off target the ball landed and then bounced to the feet of the awaitng receiver. The renegades deciding scoring was the best way of not being hurt sent a runner deep downfield and then swarmed around, but just out of reach of the Skwads players, a cheeky blitz on the ball guarding Blitzer not only rmoved him from the game but seriously reduced his blocking capability as well, the ball was ten swept up and sent spining downfield to the awaiting runner, who despite the attentions a last minute marker stepped away and into the touchdown for the fina score of the game. 4-1 to the Renegades.
What a crazy, crazy game! the first half was a bit average for both teams with a 1-1 score and a bunch of failed rolls, prob more so for the rats as I couldn't pass a dodge on the first attempt and rolled a uncany amount of defender downs.
At the start of the second half, I had removed two of daves team from the game (Killing the goblin), but I had also lost a linemean and the Blitzer (Who was dead) and had two linemen knocked out. The way it was going Dave was going to finish knocking me around and score at his leasure. the turning point came with the interception and the removal of daves Thrower with a serious injury and the recovery of my KO's. From this point on the game turned, especially afer the next kick off and the Blck orc dieing from the both down result on his block.
the lack of playes on the field allowed me to use the spaces to run around at will and to be honest I was lucky with my casualties, three linemen graced the casualty box but all would return the next game, the sore point being the dead Blitzer. This was my fault as I wanted to mark the ball carrier, thinking the Orc behind was a Blitzer, a 1 dice block I could risk. that orc was actually a Black orc who promptly ripped his head off.
Daves casualties were awful, he lost his Goblin and a Black orc, his Thrower has a serious injury(cant remember what), a Blitzer suffered -1ST (he was also the one player to skill up), while the lineman would be ok for next game.
The after game rolls carried on being crazy, with four of my player gaining skills, three of which were double. These are yet to be decided on but the possibilities of mutations are very high! I gained enough winnings to replace my Blitzer, along with cash i had in the bank, while dave could replace his Goblin.
all in all a great but rather weird game. Neither of us played a hitty game, I ran as much as possible and scored when i could, dave caged up and moved, hitting what was in reach. It just seems our dice were on steroids for armour breaking as dave usually rolled 10-12 for mine and I pretty mutch matched him.
Final score was 4-1 and 5-4 cas
