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...