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Empire //Me

Wizard lord : Net, speed of light, light of battle and time warp.

BSB

Warrior priest

20 crossbows

50 halbreds, full command

30 halbreds, musician, standard

30 halbreds, musician, standard

1 canon

2 mortars

Skaven

Warlock engineer : warp lightning, scorch

Plague priest : Pestilent breath, plague

3 units of 6 wide, 4 deep plague monks // two of which later turned out to be clan rats with a poison mortar and doom flayer weapon team

2 units of 7 plague censers

1 warp lightning canon

1 unit of 6 wide, 4 deep giant rats, 2 packmasters

2 units of 2 ogres with one packmaster each

6 wide, 5 deep unit of skaven slaves



Turn 1 empire

Some slight movement of the halbrediers

Magic

8 power dice, 7 dispel dice

5 dice to cast net on engineer + slaves, 5 dice fails to dispel

Shooting

Crossbows shoot at closest rat ogre unit, kills packmaster and inflicts 2 wounds on a ogre

Canon destroys warp lightnng canon

Mortar kills 8 models, plague priest unit

Mortar on plague priest, scatters, kills 1 plague monk, kills 2 packmasters from the giant rats unit and 1 giant rat.

Turn 1 Skaven

He opts not to move the slaves, which end up blocking the plague censers behind it

Giant rats fail stupidity test



Magic

5 PD, 3 dispel dice

Warlock engineer fails strength check to cast scorch, 2 slaves die

Turn 2 empire

Halbreds move to the right a bit

Magic

9 PD, 7 dispel dice

6 dice net on plague priest
Shooting

Canon fails to hit the ogres

Crossbows deal 3 wounds to the closest ogre

Mortar on slaves, kills 2

Mortar blows up

//Plan was to force a panic check on the engineer + slaves, since it had a very low LD and wasnt in range for inspiring prescence. The mortar scattering and blowing up screwed this plan up though.

Turn 2 skaven

Ogre fails frenzy check, tries to charge halbreds, fails

Plague priest unit passes strength check to move



Magic

7 PD, 6 dispel dice //The skaven has sucessfully channeled every turn so far...

3 dice to cast skorch on BSB, 5 manages to dispel

4 dice to cast plague on BSB, dispel scroll

//This is the part where i suspect something is really wrong because the only core unit he has seems to be 30 skaven slaves. Then he tells me the two units of plague monks on the left are really clanrats instead.

Shooting

Poison mortar on closest halbreds, scatters 10 inches, misses

Turn 3 empire

BSB charges ogres

Middle halbreds charge plague priest

Left halbreds move into the woods

Magic

9 PD, 6 dispel dice

2 dice speed of light on BSB, 3 dice fails to dispel

3 dice net on bottom plague censers, 2 dice to dispel, rolls double 6

4 dice time warp on BSB

Shooting

Crossbows kill the wounded ogre

Canon lands short of plague censers

Mortar on plague censers, scatters onto slaves, kills 5

Combat

BSB unit wipes out the ogres and overruns into the warlock + slaves

Middle halbreds kill 5, lose 15 thanks to a 30 pt banner that lets them all re-roll failed to hits and wounds for one phase, steadfast, stuck in combat



Turn 3 skaven

Both plague censers charge the BSB



Magic

6 PD, 5 dispel

5 to cast plague on the halbreds and plague priest combat, 5 to dispel, success.

Shooting

Poison mortar misfires, may not shoot this turn

Combat

BSB unit kills 12 skaven slaves and 6 plague censers. 7 halbreds die to the censers toughness check. Plague censers kill 3, slaves kill nothing.

Slaves automatically destroyed.

Plague censers flee 10 inches, BSB pursues 5 inches.



//Match put on hold. This game took something like 3 hours + due to the language barrier and i got that impression he wasnt that familiar with Skaven, which has incredibly complex rules.

Comments so far :

Plague censers and plague monks can dish out an impressive number of attacks...and they are really cheap as well. Plague censers in particular are useful for "sniping" T4 characters with high armor saves.

The mortars killed significantly less skaven than i expected due to scatter.

Low LD is not a big deal when almost everything in your army is immune to panic due to Frenzy.

Halbreds are really deadly with WS 10, I 10, ASF and 2 attacks each.

I forgot i get +1 dispel dice for the WP. Still, my level 4 pretty much dominated the magic phase, and the dispel scroll helped stop plague (which is the best bang for your buck instant death spell ive seen)

12 inch range on some of the lore of light spells can become a problem.

cool pictures man, what a waste of skaven

Nice battle report, how did you do the images though.

Go to the link. Its a site where you can play WHFB online.

How hard is it to use?

Eh not hard at all. Check out the guide. Basically you start a room, select a army, place the units you want and start moving them around like you would on tabletop. It has all the rulers, dice and templates.

Its even easier than tabletop because when you rotate it tells you exactly how many inches you are using to wheel.

what gave your halberdiers those stats?

romegamer wrote:what gave your halberdiers those stats?

2 different light spells, i cant remember which ones off the top of my head.

Timewarp and speed of light?

Question wrote:
Plague censers kill 3, slaves kill nothing.

Slaves automatically destroyed.

lol