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...