#testing game

After only getting into Warhammer Fantasy Battle a couple of Months before the End Times I never really had the chance to get serious with it. I owned a small army of Skaven and small army of Wood Elves. I am an incredibly slow painter, but when WFB changed to AOS I just gave up painting both armies for a while. Earlier this year I decided to give it another go, but I am determined to paint up as much of both armies as possible before purchasing anything new for them.

Finally I have at least two working armies all now moved over to circle bases. Most are undercoated, but excuse the lack of paint for now. The winner of this fight will be the next army on my paint station. Using the Warscrolls from the older PDFs for now, but the Generals Handbook for Allegiance Abilities, Command Traits and Artefacts.

Pitched Battle, Knife to the Heart, 1000pts aside.

CHAOS (Skaven) 1000

Leader:

Packmaster

Skaven Assassin (was Deathmaster Snitch)

Skaven Warlord (GENERAL with Chaos Talisman and Dark Avenger)

Warlock Engineer

Battleline:

20 Clanrats

20 Clanrats

Other:

2 Rat Ogres

20 Stormvermin

ORDER (Wanderers and Stormcast) 980

Leaders:

Spell Weaver

Waywatcher Lord (GENERAL with Phoenix Stone and Tenacious)

Battleline:

10 Glade Guard

10 Glade Guard

3 Liberators (Storm of Sigmar)

3 Waywatchers

Other:

3 Retributors (Storm of Sigmar)

5 Wild Riders

Battle Round 1:

Skaven take the first turn.

Hero Phase: Warlord gives Gnash-gnaw on their bones (GGTB) to the Stormvermin and the Engineer gives them Mystic Shield.

Movement: All the Clanrats ran up, the stormvermin walk forward, only just in range for a 12 inch charge. Rat ogres walk back to defend the objective.

Shooting phase: nothing in range.

Charge phase: Stormvermin fail the charge.

Battleshock: none.

Order Turn 1.

Hero Phase: Mystic Shield from the Spellweaver to the Wild Riders

Movement: Liberators and Wild Riders set up some charges.

Shooting: Both Glade Guard units weaken one of the clanrats, waywatchers and waywatcher lord take 6 from the other clanrats.

Charge: Liberators charge clanrats, Wild Riders charge Stormvermin THE ASSASSIN APPEARS FROM THE STORMVERMIN.

Combat: Wild Riders kill 1 Stormvermin, Clanrats kill 1 Liberator and put a wound on another, Liberators deal no damage to Clanrats, 43 attacks from the Stormvermin easily put down the Wild Riders.

Battleshock: 3 from each clanrat unit flees.

Battle Round 2:

Skaven turn 2

Hero: GGTB and Mystic Shield on the Stormvermin

Move: Slow walk forward, hoping to get the charges into the Order lines.

Shooting: Engineer snipes out the wounded Liberator.

Charge: Stormvermin make it into the Retributors and Clanrats charge the closest unit of Glade Guard.

Combat: Clanrats kill 2 Glade Guard, Retributors kill 4 Stormvermin, Clanrats finish off the final Liberator, Glade Guard kill 1 Clanrat, 31 Stormvermin attacks destroy the 2 Retributors

Battleshock: 4 more Stromvermin flee

Wood Elves Turn 2:

Hero: Spellweaver uses Blessing of Life and returns the two missing Glade Guard to the unit.

Move: Repositioning the Glade Guard not in combat

Shoot: Glade Guard fire Arcane Bodkin shots into Stormvermin removing 4 from the 22 shots Waywatcher Lord kills a Clanrat.

Charge: Glade Guard and Waywatcher Lord into the Stormvermin, Spellweaver fails a 3 inch charge to help the other unit of Glade Guard

Combat: Glade Guard fail to harm the Stomvermin, Stormvermin deal 2 wounds on the Waywatcher lord and 4 into the Glade Guard, Other unit of Glade Guard kill 2 Clanrats, Clanrats who fight back only kill 1 Glade Guard and Waywatcher Lord fails against the Stormvermin.

Battleshock: 2 Clanrats, 1 Stormvermin and 2 Glade Guard lost.

Battle Round 3:

Skaven win the roll off again!

Hero: GGTB and Mystic Shield on Stormvermin

Move: Everything closes in.

Shooting: Assassin misses with throwing stars and Engineer shoots into the Glade Guard fighting the Stormvermin and kills 3 with a single shot.

Charge: Clanrats run in to help the other unit of Clanrats and the assassin hunts down the Waywatcher Lord.

Combat: Assassin jumps in and slaughters the Waywatcher Lord with ease. Glade Guard miss all attacks against the Clanrats, the Stormermin devour the last Glade Guard stood in their way, Clanrats work together to kill 4 Glade Guard.

Battleshock: Glade Guard hold strong, but only just.

Wood Elves Turn 3:

Hero: Arcane Bolt fails to cast.

Move: Waywatchers climb down from their perch

Shooting: Glade Guard do not hurt the larger unit of Clanrats and the Waywathcers put a single wound on the Assassin.

Charge: Spellweaver into the Clanrats and Waywatchers into the assassin.

Combat: Waywatcher fail to harm Assassin, Clanrats kill 2 Glade Guard, Glade Guard kill 2 Clanrats, Spellweaver misses all attacks and the Assassin murders all 3 Waywatchers.

Battleshock: Clanrat unit destroyed and the Glade Guard pass again.

Battle Round 4:

Wood Elves start finally.

Hero: Arcane Bolt kills 1 Clanrat

Move: None

Shooting: Glade Guard failed to kill a Clanrat

Charge: Spellweaver into Clanrats

Combat: Spellweaver missed, Clanrats kill 2 Gladeguard, last Glade Guard missed.

Battleshock: Glade Guard and Clanrats pass.

Skaven Turn 4:

Hero: GGTB and Mystic Shield on Stromvermin.

Move: Characters and Ogres retreat towards their Objective. Stromvermin and Assassin aim to finish the last two Order models.

Shooting: Assassin throws a star and kills the Glade Guard.

Charge: Stromvermin into Spell weaver

Combat: The Stormvermin finish off the Spellweaver with ease.

FINAL RESULTS:

Order were tabled.

Some rules were forgotten, concentrating so hard on getting the mechanics and units right, the allegiance traits etc were kind of left behind.

All together it was a Skaven victory, so I will start looking into what I want to expand them into. 

Maiden: You have tested the same scene over and over and over again. I want a break.

Me: Do you want to events to flow well or not?

Maiden: Er

Me: Though so.

Maiden: How does my line go again?

Me: "Was I wrong to want change?"

Maiden: Was I wrong to want change? A life-

Me: *sigh* Eh I actually hate that. Sounds cliche.

Maiden: Back to the drawing board?

Designer: Charmonroe

"A certain distance fosters a sense of protection in a game of testing the waters."

Set: Destiny Rose

You have to wear heels, honey!