Season 2: Match 5&6

The Hailers spent the holidays season travelling to Lustria, far away from Empire lands to play their final 2 games of the season. The local sponsors had selected the Aristocratic Lizards for the first game, as a warm up to the long awaited clash between the Hailers and the Harrowbay Harpies and their usual hire Helmut Wulff.

Hochland Hailers – Aristocratic Lizards
TD 3-0
CAS 1-1

The Lizards had had a rough season and their last match against the Broncos had left them out of play-offs and hardly being able to field a full team. After a gentlemen’s agreement, both teams took it as an exhibition match sporting crazy tackles into the crowd, vicious gang fouls, outlandish ball play and even fireballs! without real damage to any of the teams. The match ended 3-0 to the Hailers but the real winner was the crowd, happy with the show and ready to see the clash between the Hailers and their chainsaw wielding nemesis.

Hochland Hailers – Harrowbay Harpies
TD 2-1
CAS 3-1
The coin was favorable to the Harpies who started a strong drive pushing their male counterparts around and sending Gilius the Bret to the infirmary. Apparently some of his pre-match comments on Twittelf regarding the place of women in Blood Bowl was not to the liking of the amazon players and they made it clear to him, along with Bechilda and Ellene, two Hailer players that joined the lynching. However, the main bulk of the Hailers were unimpressed and, clearly uninterested. All the ex-Bomber players had one target only. Helmut Wulff. Ignoring the ball, they proceeded to pin down the veteran (and raving mad) star player and once they were done with him the world had one less freebooter and the Harpies were leading by 1-0.

Undeterred by the result, the Hailers spent the rest of the match controlling the clock, scoring at the end of the first and second half. They managed to keep the Harpies at (Harrow)bay, despite the amazon warriors going on a frenzy and practicing ritual “snu-snu” execution to T. Slammer, by throwing him on the floor and, apparently, gang fouling him. The Hailer’s Ogre survived mostly unscathed. His Stand Firm skill really helped him endure the amazons, despite several mighty blows from dirty players.

Despite a shaky beginning, the Hailers have managed to match last season TD and CAS numbers and are good candidates for leading the regular season with a 5-1-0 score. Question is: Will this be enough for the title?