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The only Fantasy game I've ever seen was a bunch of dwarf crossbowmen and siege engines on a hill with a bunch of Skaven walking across the board to reach them. I don't think they ever made it past halfway...

Good to hear that's not the usual way games turn out.

I'm sorry, I could be misremembering. I think what happened is the Skaven player was new to fantasy and using a borrowed army. Each player got to set up their own table half's terrain (so many problems with that...) and the skaven player put a wall across the entire table with about 2 gaps just wide enough for one of his troop bases to get through. I guess he figured he'd choke point the enemy or something.

Basically what happened was the troops going through the choke point ate the entire Dwarf army's firepower, broke, then ran backwards through the entirety of his army which was clustered around the checkpoint. This started a wonderful cascade of Skaven failing panic tests and running for the hills. (in whatever edition he was playing any unit that saw a friendly unit run past them had to make a test or start running too).

He also put his general in front... he didn't last long.

There was one rat ogre that kept failing his panic test, running backwards through a couple of troops units, then regrouping the next turn, advancing forward through said troops units, then breaking again...It was a real nightmare.

I think now I recall more closely some shell of the skaven army got to the foot of the dwarf hill, but what was left of it just crashed into a wall of wooden stakes the dwarfs had somehow for defence and didn't manage to inflict any real damage.