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I just played a game last night against a friend of mine's Empire army. I was, of course, concerned about his Steam Tank. Fortunately I did have the D6 S10 hits if target fails an initiative test spell (Actually, I had all of little Waagh).

Well, turn one, I cast the spell and he Seal of Destruction's the spell...And promptly makes the 4+ roll to destroy the spell. So my thoughts are...How in the heck am I going to deal with it now?

Next turn, the block of night goblin archers with my level 4 squabbles and the big block of night goblin spear with a Night Goblin Lord and my level 2 Waagh into the flank of the Steam Tank on an animosity roll. Needless to say, I don't do any wounds to the tank. His turn, he squishes about 9 of my valiant gobbos and I pass the steadfast break test.

Third turn, I cast Gork'll fix it on the Tank. I do 4 wounds with my gobbos and he rolls 6, 6, 6, 5 for the saves. He looks all happy until I remind him that the 6's were 1's. he uses one steam point to fire the steam gun, hitting 5 gobbos in the unit fighting him and 10 gobbos in the archer unit. He almost rolls a yahtze of 6's to wound the archer unit. However, he only had 2 5's...So of the 15 models hit, he killed 2.

So I chipped away at it, with Gork'll fix it every turn and bottom of turn 5, I charge the archers into the rear of the tank, and Spider Riders into the other flank. One of the goblin units puts the final wound on the tank, destroying it.

He called it quits after that, as the only thing he had left on the table was a severely wounded unit of fleeing swordsmen and a single Flagellant that was fighting a unit of Boyz with my BSB and my General. He had managed to kill a Doom Diver, a Giant and an Orc Chariot.

I've been saying this for a long time. At 300 points, there's too much out there that causes tanks to auto-die. Crack's Call, Brass Orb, Pit of Shades, Purple Sun, etc. And then you've got your chaos warriors with halberds and warshrine buffs and so on who auto-hit it with so many attacks that sooner or later some get through and cripple you. I'll never run a steam tank under 4000 points... it's not that good, and all the whining people do about it makes it even less worth putting on the table.

Gratz on the win, I'm thinking of starting greenskins.

Yeah... Steam Tanks are really easy to kill now. I hate to sound like a downer but this has been pretty obvious for a while.

It's a damn shame too, I really love the model and the concept.

i took down my opponents cus i kept making him take ALOT of Toughness Tests !

Plauge Furnace with Plauge Censer Priest for the Win!

Oh and i'd got Wither off on him. Twice.

STank auto-passes non-initiative characteristic tests.

Does it?!

Fair enough...

My opponent did not know that...


had to ruin my victory

Hey, you killed it with a unit that people actually consider dangerous. I did it with Night Goblin spearmen