Game 10 vs Dwarfs

Alister before the kick-off

Last game of the season.  They just had to survive one more game and their season would be ended. Khorne's Killers had started the CBBBL with very few thoughts of anything other than trying to kill and maim as many opponents as they could but, along the journey, they had turned into a fairly decent Blood Bowl team.  This was their final test though - travelling to battle against another Dwarf team, albeit one without any minotaurs...

The Killers arrived at the Netherdome, a curiously constructed twin-domed stadium with an entrance neatly in the middle of the two hemispheres.  It was obviously a masterpiece of Dwarven workmanship but it looked exactly like a big arse.  The home team were the Nether Region Ravagers, a fairly new team to the CBBBL but they were still Dwarfs - rock solid and packing a punch like a headbut from a charging billy goat.  Thankfully for the Killers their team was entirely made up of charging billy goats so they were hopeful they could do well.

The day was hot and steamy as the had Dwarfs refused to open the stadium roof and a lot of the players were looking ropey as the game commenced.  They would never last the whole game in this heat, but the teams got underway with full lineups as the ball was kicked off.  The Killers received and did their best to try to break through the Dwarf lines but a blitzing Trollslayer laid out the ball carrier and the Dwarfs stopped the Chaos players drive.  The Khorne team did their best to surround the Dwarfs and get the ball back but the game descended into a toe-to-toe punch up, both sides seeing linemen too injured to continue.  The Killers' minotaur enjoyed himself by goring a journeyman Dwarf blocker to death and then waved the still-twitching corpse at the jealous Trollslayers to tease them.  The half ended with the score tied at 0-0.

At half-time the sweltering heat took its toll on both teams with the Dwarfs only being able to get six players back onto the pitch for the second-half, the Killers also losing players but less than the Dwarfs who had already suffered some injuries.  The roof of the Netherdome was finally opened to allow the heat to escape - but the bright sun outside was blinding - no-one would be trying to pass the ball now...  With just six players on the field, the Ravagers did their best to cage the ball-carrier but there were just too many beastmen for them to take on.  One by one the Dwarfs were bludgeoned to the floor or pushed into the crowd and the Killers soon had control of the ball and slowly walked it down the pitch.  They strolled over the touchline as the final whistle blew.

It was a tough game for the Ravagers but the only serious injury done to their players was to a journeyman so they chalked the game up to experience.

For the Killers though, they had won their seventh game of the season and gotten within a hair's breadth of qualifying for the CBBBL playoffs.  They had done Khorne proud and were looking forward to retiring after their final game.  Khorne had other ideas for them though...

Final score 1-0 win.

Rosters:

Killers : 1 minotaur, 11 beastmen, 4 rerolls

Opponent : 2 runners, 2 blitzers, 2 troll slayers, 3 blockers, 2 journeymen, 3 rerolls, 1 wizard, 1 travelling apothecary, 1 bloodweiser babe