Who is making race an issue??

While McCain and the GOP has not once mentioned race, and is probably afraid to mention it, old Hope-Change himself isn't afraid to put words in McCain's mouth for him.

“We know what kind of campaign they’re going to run. They’re going to try to make you afraid. They’re going to try to make you afraid of me. He’s young and inexperienced and he’s got a funny name. And did I mention he’s black?”

-Senator Obama June 21, 2008

And then yesterday:

“What they’re going to try to do is make you scared of me. You know, he doesn’t look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills.”

-Senator Obama July 30, 2008

Then they have the audacity to come out today and say that the statement had nothing to do with race.

Huh!!!??? Do they just think we are idiots or what?

He is trying to make McCain into a racist, period. And eventually, if you don't vote for Obama, you might as well wear a label that says racist.

Hey, if he won't make racist comments, we will make them for him. What the hell? Most people won't know the difference anyway.

Its not the color of his skin that bothers me, its his attitude towards the color of my skin. And his attitude towards everyone in the US. Like we are a bunch of idiots.

Oh yea, not to mention his socialist dogma he wants to force on us.

Until next time...

HopeChange Quote of the Day

“On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes — and I see many of them in the audience here today — our sense of patriotism is particularly strong.”

-Senator Obama May 26, 2008

Hmmm, how can you see fallen heroes in the audience??

Are we noticing a pattern yet? This guy is a MORON!!

Until next time...

HopeChange Quote of the Day

“This past, uhh, this past week, we passed out of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee, which is my committee, a bill to, uhh, call for divestment from Iran…”

-Senator Obama, July 22, 2008

Nice, but only problem is Obama isn't on the Senate Banking Committee.

I guess if you spend your entire Senate term running for president, you don't have time for trivialities like which committee's you are on.

Until next time...

HopeChange Quote of the Day

"It is wonderful to be back in Oregon. Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go. Alaska and Hawaii, I was not allowed to go to even though I really wanted to visit, but my staff would not justify it."

-Senator Obama, May 8, 2008

57 states huh??

Obamessiah Facts of the Day:

Obama has been a Senator for 2 1/2 years now, since Jan '05.
Before that, state Legislator for a few years and before that college.
This guy has a big bag of nothing. Lets look at his accomplishments while in the US Senate.

Number of legislation passed by the Senate that he has sponsored: 0

He has missed more votes than any other Senator in the same time frame.

Obama has been rated as the most liberal-left Senator in the United States. Even more liberal than Feinstein, Boxer, Kennedy, etc... These guys are so far out there, its ridiculous. And the man who wants to lead this country is even further liberal than *** ALL ***, let me repeat that, *** ALL *** of them!!!

Wake up America.

Until next time...

Quote of the Day

"Let me be absolutely clear, Israel is a strong friend of Israel's."

-Sen. Barack Obama, July 22, 2008

You think??

Until next time...

13 Cow Rats tourny report

So at the Hillbilly this last weekend I ran my Cow Rats Skaven team into the tournament. There were only 10 players so, that was a bit of a disappointment. But what it did mean was the players there were serious blood bowl players (is that an oxymoron) who really knew how to play.

The guy running it, did a fantastic job setting up the boards, providing dice, templates, free pizza and free beer. Even with all of us drinking, we didn't empty the cooler. I had way more than my share of the blood bowl drink of choice.

My team consisted of 4 Gutter runners, Thrower, 2 Storm Vermin and 6 Line rats.
I also took 2 re-rolls and one fan.

Game 1: Vs Brad. Brad also ran a Skaven team, not a lot different than mine. 3 GR's, 2 SV, 2 throwers, 5 linerats, 2 fans and 3 re-rolls.

We rolled and I got the fan base on my side and the kick-off.
We got the ball and scored in turn 2 for a 1-0 lead. I could tell Brad was a very experienced player that wasn't use to being scored on so quick. He got the ball and bashed it down the field. My guys started dropping left and right. He got a lot more knockdowns and that turned into more injuries and more deaths and knockouts.

I was seriously out-manned and couldn't get to his ball carrier. So he scurried around near the goal line and managed a turn 8 score.

I got several knocked out players back and had knocked out a couple of his, so the numbers were closer to even again. I kicked off the 2nd half, and a fan threw a rock, knocking out one of his storm vermin. This helped a lot and he had a hard time moving the ball down. I ended up knocking it loose and we scrambled around back and forth. Looked like he was going to score late, but tripped and dropped the ball. I picked it up, looked like I was going to score, but did the same. Then time ended.

Draw 1-1.

Game 2 vs Jeremy with Humans. Jeremy had a great looking team and all he really wanted to do was bash some players. ;-)
We got 2 free skills for this game and I took Leader on my thrower to get the extra re-roll and strip ball on one of my runners.

Strip ball is just unreal as you get to knock the ball loose all the time.
I kicked off to the humans who started bashing and fouling right away. Move the ball? what the hell for. We are just here to bash you.
His team was a thrower, 3 blitzers, 7 linemen and an Ogre. He quickly realized the Ogre wasn't as good as he thought when I reminded him of his Bonehead rule. Oops. Jeremy was a great sport and we laughed and talked smack the whole game.



Here we are lined up. His thrower on the far left has the ball, while I have 2 runners next to him.



And here is Jeremy. He got my favorite opponent vote as he was just a blast to play.
He struggled moving the ball as my guys were just swarming him.
Finally I grabbed the ball for a turn 8 TD and a 1-0 lead at halftime.



here we are setting up for the 2nd half kickoff.



And then this pic is 2 turns later after I've spiked the ball in the endzone for a 2-0 lead.
Things really got wild when I surrounded his Ogre later and dragged him down. Now this is what blood bowl is all about.

Win 3-0

Game 3 vs Matt and another human team. They were almost identical except he had a catcher instead of a lineman. Matt was another excellent player who really knew his stuff.
I got the kickoff and in fine Cow Rat fashion we took it down for a turn 2 1-0 lead.
Matt got the ball and was forcing his way down. I stripped the ball and was about to score again when I dropped a 2+ pass. So he grabbed it and ran down score.

I got the ball back and again the efficiency of the Cow Rats again proved itself with a late half TD to go into the half 2-1.




The 2nd half didn't go as well, as I burned through all 3 re-rolls in my first 3 turns and Matt managed a 2nd half score making it 2-2 with very little time left.

I got the kickoff and he kicked it out of bounds. I gave it to a gutter runner and the cheers of the fans gave me another re-roll. I desperately needed it as well.
I blocked open a hole and ran the runner down 11 squares and was only 2 from the endzone.
Matt had one chance to stop him and ran 2 players down their, the 2nd blitzed and failed to knock me down.
About then the director wants us to wrap it up. Matt is more than a sportsman and suggests I try to score. Needing only a 2+ (that is re-rollable) to dodge and run into the endzone, I make it we call it a game.

Win 3-2

So when they came time to do the awards, he was giving away the 2 custom built pitches and a painted Orc team. As well as a couple bags of dice, 2 cheerleaders and a painting trophy.

So he calls out best overall and he calls my name. He hands me this plaque.



And I get my choice of prizes. I take this pitch:



I got to play my 2nd game on this custom built field and it is so great. My 3rd game was on the other custom field, but I definetely liked this one better.

Anyway, hope you enjoyed it.

Until next time...

Ratspawns Last Run

I'll try and do a lot more in-depth battle reports later but here is a
brief overview of probably the best GT I have attended in memory.

I'm not sure how it could have been much better. I think back and
thought, well if I had just won a couple more games, or pulled a draw
out of the loss, and then I think. Well then I would have gotten
screwed in the next round pairing and lost. So I'm very pleased with
how things worked out.

Friday, we get a bit of a late start in the Pope-Mobile loaded for
bear carrying most of the DAWGS as well as the LAWGS. We made great
time as I was the only one who wouldn't go over 85, and they called me
slow.

We unloaded our gear in the game hall and I met Paul V. for the first
time. We have talked on-line for years, so that was a real thrill. I
think I met everyone I wanted to this weekend except TDG.

One of Pauls friends Camerron (I may have the name wrong there, sorry
if I did.) A really great kid who pulled out a "soft" Orc and Goblin
army. But he played it to the max.
I really don't remember a lot about this one, as that was way too many
beers ago. But I do remember laughing a lot. Having 3 miscasts in
the game and fighting to an almost dead draw. I might have been up by
100 points or so. An outstanding practice game to get started off with.

I then went out to find my "friends", who had left without me. I got
directions from my other "friend" Greg on how to find them, and I find
myself on a dark street with nothing but parking garages, ally ways,
drug addicts and hookers. After hiding my wallet, switching to my
ninja outfit, and taking the safety off my Mac-10, I felt better and
after about 20 mins found a lighted street.
Got directions to a restaurant that would be open from a security
guard and decided to head back to the room. Ran into my friends, who
still had not found a place to eat, so we all turned around, went to
Union street and had a hell of a good time.

Saturday morning first game was against Ben Nietzel from the Direwolf
list. I've seen Ben post a lot, so it was great to finally put a face
to the name, and actually play a game. His Dark Elf list was
extremely comp friendly and looked great on the table top.
Ben, I have those pics, let me know if you want them.
It was grab Ruby, and she was in the middle of a swamp. So I set up a
herd to go get her.
Highlights included the terror bomb that made the herd holding ruby to
let her go and run right into his warrior unit and get wiped out. I
was winning the right flank pretty easily. And the far left flank.
But his general and cold one riders slammed into some hounds about
10-11" in front of Ratspawn's unit. I needed him to make short
overrun, but it was not to be as he overran 12-13" and hit Ratspawn.
A couple rounds of combat later and Ratspawn went down as well as the
whole unit. I was lucky to have a unit of 4 Minotaurs outrun some
Dark riders who charged them in the rear and rally on 6. So I pulled
out a draw and was thankful. With the objective, I got 13.

Round 2 was against a great young man Ty Williams. I've played Ty in
my local League and beat him badly. Ty had a fantastic Orc and Goblin
army that should have given me no problems at all. But Ty would not
go down so easily this time. He fought hard.
Highlights included when his pump wagon came up 1/2" short of hitting
a herd. So my herd was able to charge him.
I got a beast cower on another chariot, this caused his left (my
right) flank to crumble and I took out his 2 warmachines over there.
Furies ate the other warmachines.
I charged his black orcs with minotaurs, furies and chaos hounds, only
to lose by around 84 and everything popped or fled. This was after
the goblin hero exploded wiping out 2 units of mine and doing nothing
to him.
And it finally came down to a 4 minotaur unit charging his general's
unit. I charged, killed a bunch and he whiffed. I won combat and he
made his test. Next round he goes off killing 3 of the 4 minotaurs.
His boar doing the last wound on the 3rd one. This left my last
minotaur who fled, but he missed the goblins behind him running right
by them. He rallies on turn 6 to save me 92 vp. If he doesn't do
that last wound, I'm cut down by the goblins. When we add it up, I'm
up by 380 vp. That 90 points would have made it a draw.
Ty was a fantastic opponent, that will get better as he plays more.
I also got the objective, so 18 points to be at 31 after 2 rounds.

Round 3: Vs The Todd Thacker. I'd met Todd before but had never
played him. I knew he was good, but was hoping to give him a good
game. Todd brought out a hard but fair wood elf list. I know its
hard because I've looked at building something like this myself.
Turn 1 I get off dark hand on his highborn alter and do 2 wounds to
him, he is later killed by a minotaur.
But turn 2, he gets off a wild rider charge and wipes out my herd with
2 wizards. So much for magic dominance.
I get a flank charge on his glade riders with my furies, if he breaks
there, things are looking good, but he holds and dryads poor in.
After that it was just Todd picking me apart with dryads and
wardancers and I was spinning in circles trying not to get
slaughtered. When the spinning stopped and we called it a game, Todd
had the objective and the win.
Todd was a fantastic opponent that played his army to the max.
Nothing wrong with that. His was the hardest army I had to face the
whole weekend, and I thank many gods and Roy for that.

Saturday Night Blood Bowl: I played in the 3 round BB tourney
Saturday night. Hmmmm, Free Pizza, Free Beer, Free to play. sounds
like a combination that I cannot pass up. I entered my Skaven team of
4 Gutter runners, 2 storm vermin, a thrower and 6 linerats.
Game 1: vs Skaven: very tough hard fought game 1-1 tie. Brad was a
serious player, that was very tactical and thoughtful. It was still a
great game.
Game 2: vs Jeremy and his Humans who love to foul. I had a blast in
this game, laughed the whole way through as he kicked my ass beating
my players up, while I continued to run circles around him and win
3-0. Jeremy got my fav opponent vote.
Game 3: vs another human player and a great tactical chess match. Wow
was this one great. Matt pushed me right to the limit and then was a
great sport when time was called to let me try and score, which I did
and took the 3-2 win.

So 2-0-1 for the Blood Bowl. No one went 3-0. And only 1 other
2-0-1, and that was Brad, my round 1 opponent. Soft scores pushed me
up for Best Overall winning me a Waaagh plaque and a great looking
blood bowl pitch.

Sunday, I am dead tired as I drank way too much but then couldn't
sleep as I was too pumped up from the win. Sat down across from
Andoni and his 2nd Gen Slaan. My first reaction was still, great its
not VC or Daemons. My 2nd reaction was great, 2nd gen. But he had no
bsb, banner of fear, krox, steg, terradons, no skink priest, WTF?? He
had 3 saurus blocks, 3 skinks, salamanders. That was about it.

We had to capture the outhouse. We went round and round, as this game
looked like an easy win for him as I couldn't roll above a 2 to save
my life for turns 1-3. Minotaurs charge skinks and bounce off. 2
Tuskigor chariots charge a saurus block and bounce off. etc...
Add on his magic that I couldn't stop and I was dieing off way too quick.

Luckily things changed in turn 4 or so, and all the sudden his 2nd gen
was failing to cast with double 1's. My minotaurs traded in their
rubber weapons for real ones. And I crushed a saurus block, got the
salamanders, all the skinks, captured table qtrs, and did a turn 6 fly
over with the furies to contest a table qtr and grab the outhouse for
a very lucky 350 point win with the objective. 18 points. For a
total of 54 points.

Finally round 5 had me against the biggest punk there, Shane Knapp.

Well my dice continued their high rolling streak as I failed a
re-rollable Ld 9 panic test on my general. And if it wasn't for the
only insane courage I rolled for the whole tournament he would have
won in turn 2. No doubt about it.

Luckily I held on and tried to just bring it back for a draw. And
that was all I could get out of it. The only whole units I had left
were Ratspawn and company and 1 herd that was 1 model above half.
Everything else was dead or decimated. When we added it up, I was up
by 50-100 points or something, and I was thankful for that.

Shane and I laughed through the whole game, and it was such a
fantastic end to a weekend that had already been more than enough to
make it a great weekend.

Shane did get my fav opponent vote, but I would have liked to given
out at least 3 and the other 2 were so close.

So overall I finished with 64 battle points out of 90. Horrible for
me with a 2-1-2 record. At least only 1 loss.

Then during the awards Roy calls out my name for 3rd best overall.
How the hell does that happen?? That made no sense. But I ran up
grabbed it and got out of town before he figured out what happened.
So Roy, don't bother to call and ask me to return it. It aint
happenen. ;)

We all piled in the pope-mobil for the long drive back to DFW. My
head and prizes barely fit in the van. But everyone had a great time.
One of the Dawgs was pretty disappointed after going 4-0-1 and
getting nothing for his efforts. Sometimes things work out that way.
With 160 players, I'm still very interested in the final standings.

Sorry this got so long. I'm going to try and do a play by play with
diagrams and pics later. but wanted to get the weekend report out
there.

It was such a pleasure to meet all the new faces to go with the old
names. And see all the old friends again.

Until next time...

More Blood Bowl Team Pics

As promised, while packing up my Blood bowl team last night, I broke out the camera and took some quick pics.

Hope you enjoy.

First up, the Gutter runners.


And then the other side.


Next up is my thrower Eldo with his 2 main blockers DeMarcus and G.Ellis.


And hopefully a view I rarely see, their backsides.


And finally the grunts of the team, the linerats and our coach 'Ben'


And their back sides. Can you pick out the coach?


I'm really proud of the team, and I'll be taking it to the Hillbilly tomorrow.

Hope you enjoyed them.

Until next time...

4 Movies 2 days

This last weekend was quite the weekend for watching movies.

Saturday morning was my son's school social day and we went to the movies to see Wall-E.
Then during dinner we sat down and watched my son's Netflix movie, then our movie, then Sunday night we watched another.

Sunday's movie: "Back to the Future" was a real treat. I had not seen it in years. My oldest brought over the whole DVD collection so we popped in the first. It is easily Michael J. Fox best movie he ever made. It is a solid movie that almost anyone would enjoy. If you haven't seen it lately, pull it out.

My son's Netflix movie was definetely an oldie. "The Apple Dumpling Gang" with Don Knotts, Tim Conway and Bill Billingsly. Wow, I haven't seen this since I was a kid. And it still had me laughing throughout the whole movie. If your kids are running out of movies to rent, I highly recommend this oldie for a wholesome movie the whole family can enjoy.

Our movie was Clint Eastwood's "Flags of our Fathers". This movie takes you behind the scenes of what happened to the not so famous Marines that raised (or should I say re-raised) the US Flag over Iwo-Jima in WWII. It was definetely nothing like the wife or I were expecting. While it is about a battle, only about 1/3 of the movie is a war movie. It gives you some real insight into the thoughts, feelings, and problems, our young men experience when they go to war.
And to me every man who puts on the uniform and goes to war is a hero. Doesn't matter what they did when they were there.
Well worth the 2 hours, and of course with Clint Eastwood Producing and Directing it, it was top notch quality.

Finally, Saturday morning with Wall-E. 45 minutes with no dialog to start the movie. I thought there was no way it would keep the attention of my son or his friends from school. (All of them with some form of mental disability.) Or myself for that matter. But if that was 45 mins, I'm the president. That time flew by so fast, it was unreal. You really start to care for this little robot and everything he has done and accomplished in the 700 years he has been on Earth trying to clean it up, and barely made a dent.
I disagree with Cogill on the humans. I think they were a very necessary part of the movie. And the captains desire to bring them home, when he could have easily gone back to his hover chair and liquid diet that definetely puts the pounds on.
I also disagree with people who say we could never end up like those people. Or didn't like the way they portrayed people. Just look at many of our youth today. Now imagine 700 years of this.

Anyway, Every child coming out of the movie had a smile on their face, and loved the movie. And I expect it to be another Pixar classic, maybe not on the same level as Toy Story and Monsters, Inc, but up there with The Incredibles, and Cars.

So 4 movies this weekend, and I loved everyone of them.

Until next time...

Fantastic Independence Day Weekend

The weekend started off with my 2 sons coming home. We spent some time talking with them and then cooked burgers out on the grill.

Then as is our family tradition, we popped in Independence Day the movie with Will Smith, Bill Pullman and Jeff Goldblum. I love this movie, and while its not top of the line material it is an easy and fun 2 hours.

Afterwards, my son and I broke out blood bowl and played a half. My Skaven faced off against his Lizardmen and I won the toss. By turn 2 I was up 1-0 and by turn 4 it was 2-0. Things went against me to prevent a 3-0 run-up by half-time and I still could have scored on turn 7 if not for a double 1's throw and then a turn 8 score if not for a 1 to pick up the ball. Oh well, we called it at half with me up 2-0.

Saturday had us packing up the car and heading into Ft.Worth to my brothers house. At least 30 people there, in a large family reunion with lots of food, burgers and hotdogs, swimming and lots of laughing.

After eating and swimming, we broke out Junta. And if you have never played Junta you have missed something. Me, my son and 3 nephews battled it out for who would be El Presidente and who could assassinate who before they got all their money in their Swiss bank accounts. My son pulled off a last turn massive deposit that pulled him the win. I actually did pretty poorly and came in 4th. :(

Saturday night after watching Pan's Labyrinth, a Spanish movie that was ok. My oldest son loved it. Didn't do a lot for me. Derek and I broke out the game Titan. Another fabulous throwback board game. We went around for a few hours building up our forces, and Derek caught be by surprise attacking my Titan. I was sure I was safe and didn't worry about things much as I had 2 minotaurs, an angel and a warlock with the Titan. But some good dice rolling on his part and soon I was down to my Titan and 1 minotaur against a lion and guardian.

My minotaur was almost dead, and if he died, my Titan would surely fall soon as well. So I took the chance, protected my minotaur and threw my titan into the melee. I killed off his guardian and then missed killing his lion by 1 wound. This came back to haunt me as the lion was able to do enough wounds to kill my Titan and give Derek the game.

Sunday, we laid around and didn't do a lot of anything. Played on the computer and then cooked Fajitas out on the grill.
We played Disney Scene It, one of my youngest son's favorite games. He crunched us all being able to name Hunchback of Notre Dame, Hercules and Little Mermaid from 1 picture each for the win.

Afterwards we broke out Robo-Rally. Another fantastic board game where you are a robot and you program your robot 5 moves in advance each turn. The robots are in a race. My oldest Andrew and I shot out to the lead when Derek got pushed off the board by yours truly and he had to start over. I touched the #1 flag first and was headed to #2 with Andrew close on my heels.
With a set of bad cards, Andrew passed me up but barely as we both went through the teleporter and were about to touch the flag. Andrew did a outstanding move, spinning to face me and forcing me back through the teleporter with a special gun. This forced me off into a pit and I had to go back to the first flag.

Meanwhile, Derek and my wife had both touched flag 1 and so I was in last place. Andrew touched flag 2 and was heading for the finish line, way out in front and looked impossible to catch.

Derek took a ton of damage from my wife's robot and soon had to power down to repair itself and my wife was 2nd to the #2 flag, but couldn't quite get the flag. I was right behind her and managed to pass her and started heading for the finish line.

Andrew got caught up on some conveyor belts with crushers and got caught on the wrong side of them. Unable to get across, he lost valuable time trying to position himself. The wife touched the flag #2 and was trying to catch me.

I caught up to Andrew and when it looked like it would be a photo finish, Andrew messed up and got caught in a crusher that sent him back almost to the #2 flag. I was able to cruise in for an easy win.

Andrew packed up to head home and my wife, Derek and I broke out the Clue DVD game. Similar to the old clue game with several new twists. First there are 4 categories to solve instead of 3. Who, where, what and when. An inspector on the DVD helps you along with some clues and some cards don't get dealt out. Taking a secret passage is no longer such an automatic thing either as it can help or hurt you.

In the end, I solved the mystery first to wrap up a fantastic weekend of good gaming, good fun, good food, family and relaxation.

I hope everyone had as good a weekend as I did. Now just 10 more days till the countdown of the biggest game weekend of the year with the Hillbilly road trip.

Until next time...

INDEPENDENCE DAY!!!

With the 4th of July tomorrow, I want to wish all my readers a great Independence Day. And even if your not in the US, look at tomorrow as a day that changed the course of the modern world.

The US has changed history in many ways, and most of them for the good.

The NRCC blog has started a thread on why you are proud of your country. And I thought what a great idea.

I am proud of the United States of America, because at no time in history, has one country, done so much, spent so much and helped so many, for so little.

Name another world power in the history of our world, that would send troops to stamp out oppression, only to turn around and go home and not ask for a dime.

Name another country that has sent so many troops into harms way, to free people of hunger and poverty, to pull them out when the job was done and say, glad we could help. Call on us again if needed.

Name another country who spends SSSOOOOO much money on so many countries, and all we ask is that they don't hate us so much.

We are a proud nation, that puts up with so much BS from flies and pests that we could crush with the flick of our wrists if we wanted to, and yet we do not.

We are a country that gives hope, ideas, prosperity and freedom to more people in the history of the world, than any other country ever sought to do.

That is why I am proud of my country. I've served her, I lover her and I support her and our president.

If you read this, please add a comment on why you are proud of your country.

Have a great holiday weekend. I'll be barbecuing all 3 days of the weekend.

Until next time...

13 Cow Rats vs Clan Blackstone: 2nd Half

The excitement in the crowd was buzzing as the Skaven and Dwarfs lined up for the 2nd half kick. The cheering was so intense it got both sides really pumped up.

The kick was short, and the dwarfs moved up forming a huge front at the Line of Scrimmage. A runner grabbed the ball and was ready to follow the line.

The Rats tried to run around the flanks, but the stubbornness of Clan Blackstone paid off and the blitzer at the end of the line refused to go down making a turn 1 blitz impossible. The Rats were able to put 2 players on the runner with the ball. Forcing a dodge.

The Dwarfs blasted through the center, knocking down skaven left and right. The ball runner dodged out of the coverage and ran into the middle of this pack of muscle and armor.

The Cow Rats had to bust up this cage of death and threw themselves into it, pushing and shoving. They manage to push the runner to the edge of the cage, and dwarfs are tied up everywhere.

The dwarfs again knock the rats back, but unable to move the cage, the runner feels safe and sprints for the end zone.

Again, he underestimates the speed of the gutter runners even when knocked down. They catch him just yards from the endzone and with a long blitz they knock the runner down, grab the ball and sprint into the endzone.

But here the rats coach underestimated the speed of the stunty ones. A slayer and blitzer were able to get down to Crayton holding the ball and with a full blast, sent him reeling into the stands and to the same fate as his brothers who got knocked in the stands.

A mighty heave from the crowd sent the ball into the left side bleachers and then another heave sent the ball all the way back into Blackstone's half of the field. A couple more knocked out linemen and Ellis-Rat and the Cow-rats were down to 5 players left on the field. Blackstone still had 11. He managed to get a blitzer back to the ball and pick it up.

The rats spent the reprieve trying to untangle themselves from the dwarfs who outnumbered them badly. But a bad dodge by DeMarcus (the only remaining Storm Vermin) had the dwarfs off and running. The Dwarfs again surrounded the last few rats and tried to beat them down. The Cow Rats star thrower Romo is knocked out of the game, leaving only 4 rats on the pitch. DeMarcus(SV), Eldo(GR), The Barbarian(GR) and one linerat.

But the dwarfs again underestimated the resolve and speed of the runners. The two of them untangled themselves from the pack of dwarfs surrounding them and clotheslined the blitzer with the ball, and he went down. Barbarian picked up the ball and ran for all he was worth back to midfield.

The dwarfs do their best to start coming back for the ball. Precious time was ticking off. A slayer blasts into the runner and pushed him further away from the goal line, but then knocked him down and the ball bounced free. It laid on the pitch daring the slayer to attempt it. The dwarf coach screamed to the slayer not to try it. He had one last ditch play set up. And with 2 dwarfs around the ball, things looked like he would have a chance.

Then Eldo makes an amazing 3 dodges to get through a haggle of dwarfs to lend an assist to DeMarcus who stands up and blitzes the lineman near the ball, knocking him down into the ball causing it to squirt out to a more accessible spot. So the Barbarian leaps up, dodges away, jumps back into the group of dwarfs snagging the ball, dodges out again, then sprints down the field.

THE RAT FANS GO WILD!!! It was an impossible play that Ben called and it worked.
The camera's flashed as they caught the Barbarian looking back over his shoulder at the defeated dwarfs.



Click on Picture to Enlarge. The Runner on the far left has the ball after he spirited it away from the gaggle of bodies in the middle. You can see there are only 4 skaven left on the field. You only see 10 dwarfs in the picture, there is one dwarf not shown on the right down by the goal line hoping for a last turn desperation hail mary.

The dwarfs have only one chance to get to the runner. A blitzer can make it down to him at a full sprint, but can't lay the block down. But a slayer has one shot, but he has to dodge away from DeMarcus first. Other Stunty lineman beat up on the last poor linerat sending him to the showers as well, leaving only 3 Cow Rats on the field of play.

The Slayer decides to go for it. The Blackstone crowd stands as one, ready to urge him on. He turns from his block on the storm vermin and tries to doge out, but the rat swings his tail just catching his ankle. The slayer starts to stumble and fall. But the crowd screams and yells. The slayer pushes himself up before he goes down, trying to get it everything he has, but the grass gives way under the force and he falls face down in the mud. And any hope of the Dwarf comeback slipped away with him.

The Barbarian skips off into the end zone for a 2-0 lead and with only a minute left on the clock, Blackstone just lets the clock run out while the rats storm the pitch in celebration. Warpbrew flowed freely and red meat, mainly from many of the spectators, was devoured in mass.

Clan Blackstone honored their oath and withdrew from the caverns and tunnels in question and the spread of the Skaven hordes continued.

Until next time...

13 Cow Rats vs Clan Blackstone

The Dwarfs had agreed on the terms of the peace settlement. The underground caves in question would be the final prize. Instead of having a deadly and costly war over the caves, a blood bowl game would decide the fate.

The Skaven sent none other than their up and coming star coach Ben The Rat leading his team with star thrower Romo-Rat. Other stars on the team included Eldo-Owens-Rat, Marion the Barbarion-Rat, Crayton-Rat and Newman-Rat.
Their big hitters were Ellis-Rat and DeMarcus-Rat, along with several less well known line rats, but including their latest addition, Packrat-Jones, who was given the coveted number 13.

Running out onto the field on the stunty side was clan Blackstone. No numbers or names, just armor. From head to toe, they seemed to walking tin cans. The Cow Rats were able to pick out a couple runners and troll slayers who had a bit less armor. A couple blitzers were wearing Nike's and the rest were just Line-dwarfs, ready to take the field.

The attendance for the momentous game numbered over 150,000 cheering fans, with only a few more dwarfs there than rats. Could the larger number give the stunties the advantage? We would soon see. The Cow Rats won the toss and clan Blackstone lined up for the kick.

The gun sounded, but instead of kicking the ball, both teams just charged at each other and began to beat on each other. The benches cleared, fans came down from the stands, and the fans broke out into a large fight. Only the Umpire, a large and very frightening Chaos Lord, was able to eventually settle things down and get the teams lined up again and the fans off the pitch. Dead bodies were hauled out of the stands, except for the ones the skaven were snacking on.

Meanwhile, the clock was reset and the kickoff landed in the middle of the field.
The skaven did a sweep left, with Newman and Barbarian sprinting to the other side of the field, until Eldo dropped the ball.
The Dwarfs were still too enraged from the riot and just pummeled on the poor linerats pretty much forgetting about the ball.

This lack of concentration cost Blackstone as Romo-Rat picked up the ball, ran forward and lofted it into the waiting arms of the Barbarian sitting all alone in the endzone.

So the Cow Rats took a very fast 1-0 lead that had the dwarfs spinning their heads around. The camera crews hadn't even gotten setup in position.
Coach Ben the Rat gathered the team around for a quick pep talk and sent them back onto the pitch.

The Skaven tried a dirty onside kick, and everyone was paying attention to the short kick, no one noticed the Skaven fan hurling a rock that caught one of the dwarf runners in the side of the head and knocked him out.
The ball took a bad bounce and the dwarf lineman wanted no part of the ball and it bounced onto Kosier-Rats hands. The linerat quickly tried to tuck the ball under his tunic, but the Ref would have no part of that and awarded the ball to the dwarfs.

A line was formed and rats began to drop. The skaven tried to block, but got tied up into a big scrum. The Dwarf runner got impatient and made a break for the goal line. He was sprinting as fast as his stunty legs would carry him. But he forgot about the speed of the gutter runners. He was quickly surrounded, but refused to go down. Holding the ball.

Unable to run, more dwarfs came to his aid, but were unable to block him free.


Click on picture to enlarge. Note the Red shirted runner has the ball.

More rats begin to fall but with the aid of DeMarcus-Rat, the Cow Rats were able to push the runner to the sideline and into the crowd. The crowds were ruthless and his screams could be heard for miles.

The Dwarfs followed suit pushing Newman rat into the crowd where the dwarf fans took their revenge out on the poor gutter runner.
Eldo had a chance for a quick score before the half, but again, dropped the ball.

But the dwarfs were unable to get the ball and Eldo managed to run it downfield but couldn't get to the goal line before the gun went off heading into half-time.

The medics went to work on the dwarf runner that was knocked out and the 2 linemen that were knocked out and all were able to return. That couldn't be said for the Blackstone runner, gutter runner and linemen that were knocked in the stands. Their bodies were never fully recovered.

So halftime has the Cow-Rats up 1-0 over Clan Blackstone. But with Blackstone receiving the kickoff after halftime anything can happen.

Until next time...