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So in january I have a 2400pt tournament for fantasy.

Having got bored or Warmachine and 40k I decided to start a whfb army. And the bank manager has already skalded me for it.

As the TO is an ex member of Team Canada he likes to use the ETC rules which can be found here
http://warhammer.org.uk/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=119292 and only a draft atm.

So following these rules and having aquired my rule book, read the rules, and all the fluff on all the armies I really liked the idea of skaven . So watched a load of batreps/tactics videos on skaven I went with them.

First thing I did was toy with various lists and decided on the following:

+++ New Roster (2400pts) +++
+++ 2400pt Skaven Roster (Standard)) +++

Selections:

Skaven (Standard) Selections:

+ Lords + (533pts)

* Grey Seer (340pts)
Earthing Rod (25pts), Skalm (30pts), Skaven Spells of Plague, Skaven Spells of Ruin, Talisman of Preservation (45pts)


* Warlord (193pts)
Shield (3pts), The Fellblade (100pts)


+ Heroes + (447pts)

* Assassin (170pts)
Potion of Strength (20pts), Weeping Blade (30pts)


* Chieftain (72pts)
Battle Standard Bearer (25pts), Shield (2pts)


* Plague Priest (160pts)
Dispel Scroll (25pts), Skaven Spells of Plague, Wizard Level 2 (35pts)


* Warlock Engineer (45pts)
Doomrocket (30pts)


+ Core + (605pts)

* Skavenslaves (122pts)
Musician (2pts), 60x Skavenslaves (120pts)


* Skavenslaves (122pts)
Musician (2pts), 60x Skavenslaves (120pts)


* Stormvermin (361pts)
Fangleader (10pts), Musician (5pts), Standard Bearer (10pts)
* 42x Stormvermin (336pts)
42x Shield (42pts)


+ Special + (335pts)

* Plague Monks (335pts)
Bringer-of-the-Word (10pts), Musician (5pts), Plague Banner (30pts), 40x Plague Monks (280pts), Standard Bearer (10pts)


+ Rare + (480pts)

* Doomwheel (150pts)


* Doomwheel (150pts)

* Warp Lightning Cannon (90pts)


* Warp Lightning Cannon (90pts)

Obviously the grey seer will be the general (which nicely sits with the fluff too)
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I already own everything with the exception of a foot seer and a finecast war lord. I own the island of blood version which is to be my bsb

So I assembled everything barring the doom wheels as they'd suck to paint fully assembled.

And completed the majority of my tester model on the storm vermin unit. For the bases I'm thinking a black/grey city base. With snow and the old skool grass not these tuft things.

So i've fnished the first doomwheel finally and got the base sorted any comments etc appreciated.

Ive gone for they heavily travelled town road look at beginin of winter look

All banners in my army are to be white and will bear the names of my defeated opponents into battle. Though I still need to work on the wheels banner


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And I have spotted a few bits like inide tracks. But I didnt realise until after assembly live n learn for wheel 2

So I just got home from a lunch time game against a potential opponent at the tournament.

So it was ogres vs skaven in a straight vp pitched battle.

The seer ended up with wither blessed with filth cracks call and skorch
the priest had pestilent breath and vermin tide.

I went with slaves a wheel and a cannon on each flan. In the centre the monks were joined by the priest, and all other characters loaded up into the vermin.

My opponent put his 10strong bull in the centre with the butcher his bsb and another hero of some sort. Backed up with some sort of riders and a 3 man ogre unit. n one flank was a hunter and sabretusks? With a cannon charriot. And the other flank had a scrap launcher and a 3 man ogre

Turn one:
Having finished first and won the roll for T1 I surged forwad just enough to tempt my opponent to charge, generated all 12 dide and had the 3 tokens on my seer. Sent a skorch wounding 4 ogres.

On the right flank restrained the wheel, half an inch saved his cannon. On the same flank my cannon opened up through the 3 man unit aiming for them n the cannon.unfortunately missing my intended target but killing all 3 ogres so kind of a bonus.

On the other flank took out the 3 ogres.

For my opponent his luck sucked. Having only made one charge unfortunately into the slaves with no back up (hoarde slaves), 10 wounds on the hunter and sabres laterthe slaves managed to win combat by 2 and the ogres turned tail and ran never having a chance to regroup again.

The funniest part if the whole of t1 was the scrap launcher kicking its own nads.

T2.
Charges successful across the board for the skaven theslaves continued after the hunter double 6 changing catching and killing him. And successfully redirecting into the cannon. The giant charged by the vermin bomb and the monks slamming into the bull. And the doom wheel with nothing to do moved into position for the scrap launcher.

Magic duped him with wither on the big bull unit to cover my true intention of poisoned on the monks. And shooting by the wheel saw the end of the cannon chariot.

Combat saw the quick demise of the giant by the warlord and dropped killing 8 vermin. (their only casualties all game) and they overan into the riders. With the monks I popped there banner and the priest did 2 wounds. Then his butcher had 3 monks.and the unit retaliated for a total of 25 wounds of which 21 failed and I lost a further 8 guys.

At ghe start of the ogre turn in prep for the assassin to come out he drank his potion. (not that he needed it damn warlord was on fire) the scrap launcher ran off the table and magic was uneventful. The combat reulted in all but the big bull unit command and 1 hero dead his general kill a few vermin his bsb dying. And 2 monks dead. And the riders wiped out by the warlord. Position to kill his command

T3
The vermin bomb moved in for the kill wiping all hehand left on the board

Total killed plus bonuses: 2625
Total losses: 90

Crushing victory for my first game. Few slihhtly out of time things which my opponent allowed as was first game.


It couldnt of gone better if I tried



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Now for food rnr n the the next doom wheel

So not a very productive night in the end lost one of the gears sections turned my room upside down and still didn't find it.

On the over side I got most of the cock pit assembley painted. All the bronze colours done and all sections barring rats and rivets of the wheels completed. Should have this one finished tomorrow and will upload pics

Another slow day unfortunately had to cover sickness at work so got a few hours in the next wheel is all but done now just the rivets and the pump man left to do. Final pics up tomorrow night for the wheels. Then onto the cannons.

Plan to just leave their crew till after the rest is done which means 3-4hrs to do the cannons. So hopefully lots of pics up tomorrow night

Bloomin inspection from landlady tomorrow had me blitzing house all day. Game this evenin ended up beinga treachery game wierd ad some of the stuff is so broke its stupid.

On the plus side I found the missing piece for the wheel but the same wheels banner pole snapped

So slow progress as I have been extremely busy with work. Managed to get quite a few games in and have settles into a final list for the tournament.

+++ New Roster (2399pts) +++
+++ 2400pt Skaven Roster (Standard)) +++

Selections:

Skaven (Standard) Selections:

+ (No Category) + (46pts)

* Giant Rats (23pts)
5x Giant Rats (15pts), Packmaster (8pts)


* Giant Rats (23pts)
5x Giant Rats (15pts), Packmaster (8pts)


+ Lords + (366pts)

* Warlord (193pts) Nearly finished chopping weapons around Shield (3pts), The Fellblade (100pts)


* Warlord (173pts) General and started painting
Armour of Destiny (50pts), Shield (3pts), Sword of Anti-Heroes (30pts)


+ Heroes + (568pts)

* Assassin (170pts)
Potion of Strength (20pts), Weeping Blade (30pts)


* Chieftain (115pts)
Battle Standard Bearer (25pts), Enchanted Shield (10pts), Ironcurse Icon (5pts), Obsidian Amulet (30pts)


* Plague Priest (129pts)
Dispel Scroll (25pts), Flail (4pts), Skaven Spells of Plague, Wizard Level 1


* Plague Priest (154pts)
Flail (4pts), Skaven Spells of Plague, Skavenbrew (50pts), Wizard Level 1


+ Core + (604pts)

* Skavenslaves (122pts)
Musician (2pts), 60x Skavenslaves (120pts)


* Skavenslaves (122pts)
Musician (2pts), 60x Skavenslaves (120pts)


* Stormvermin (360pts) 10 partly done but not based
Banner of Swiftness (15pts), Fangleader (10pts), Musician (5pts), Standard Bearer (10pts)
* 40x Stormvermin (320pts)
40x Shield (40pts)


+ Special + (335pts)

* Plague Monks (335pts)
Bringer-of-the-Word (10pts), Musician (5pts), Plague Banner (30pts), 40x Plague Monks (280pts), Standard Bearer (10pts)


+ Rare + (480pts)

* Doomwheel (150pts) Painted and nearly based


* Doomwheel (150pts) Painted and based


* Warp Lightning Cannon (90pts) Painted but needs basing


* Warp Lightning Cannon (90pts)



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So here is my general to be.

The model is the Avatars of War Vermin Lord.

The fur is a combination of Dyad Bark drybrushed with Skrag Brown when I finish work tomorrow