Game 9 vs Chaos Dwarfs

Rodders - a tough opponent!

“Hang on a minute – didn’t we play these blokes last week?” complained the players.  Khorne’s Killers were still travelling in the Dark Lands and had been scheduled against another Chaos Dwarf team.  Neither the minotaur or any of the beastmen were happy about it – the evil dwarfs were surprisingly spiky and their beards smelt funny.  Even more worrying than the grooming habits of the followers of Hashut; there was another minotaur on the field.  They would have to trust to Khorne and let the blood flow where it would.

This was a far different game from the previous match.  The ball surged one way and another and most players ended up prone or stunned at some point.  It was the Dawii Zharr Rockets who were the first to draw blood – a punishing blow from a bull centaur killed the Killers’ kicker.  As he lay struggling to breathe, he beckoned the team’s apothecary hoping to be saved.  The medic just shook his head, pointed to himself and then to the Killers minotaur – he was the personal physician of the big cow and everyone else was destined for the post-game BBQ…  As they first half concluded, the Rockets had scored (a quite unusual touchdown as it was a blocker who’d trundled in to score).

The second half kicked off and the Killers fell to pieces immediately.  The minotaur had aimed himself towards his counterpart on the Rockets team but got himself into such a rage that he lost control and just trembled in anger and frothed at the mouth.  This left the Chaos Dwarfs an easy chance at surging into their opponents half and, before long, they had scored again, this time by one of the bull centaurs.

Knowing they were doomed to lose the game with such little time remaining, the Khorne team focussed on punching opponents really hard – and it paid off when a bull centaur was killed.  Too busy celebrating the slaughter, they failed to notice the Rocket’s apothecary pull out a resurrection scroll and in seconds the fallen player was on the sidelines waiting to get back into action.  With the reduced number of evil dwarfs on the field, the Killers managed to get the ball into their opponents half and, somehow, scored – merely a consolation goal though.

The Rockets finished the game in a fine show of brutality but to no real end as they caused no further injuries.  They had been the better team and deserved their win.

As the Killers limped back to their ship they swore never to come to the Dark Lands again.  There were no skulls for Khorne here.  Only hair gel and smelly chainmail underwear…

Final score 2-1 loss.

Rosters:

Killers : 1 minotaur, 11 beastmen, 4 rerolls, 1 babe

Opponent : 1 minotaur, 2 bull centaurs, 6 chaos dwarfs, 2 hobgoblins, 3 rerolls