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My son finished painting up his Chaos Legion so we had to have a throw down. Since it was his first game with a new army I let him pick my army. He picked Skaven, now I enjoy playing Skaven but probably have no clue what I'm doing.

The Skaven horde



Chaos Legion




Turn 1
Skaven advance. Magic is out of range and War machines are a bust.



Chaos advance.



Turn 2
Grey Seerer casts Death Frenzy on the Plague Monks. Globadiers take a wound off the Daemon Prince and the Brood Horror crunches some Khorne Warriors.


Daemon Prince and Warriors charge into Warlord and Stormvermin.


Knights hit the Plague Monks but hold. The Stormvermin hold from the Chaos onslaught. The Khorne Warriors beat down the Brood Horror.



Turn 3
Warlord and Bone Breaker chop down the Daemon Prince. Rat Ogres break the Khorne Warriors but can't catch them. The knights still can't break the Plague Monks. Skaven war machines are on target and chew up the second unit of Warriors.


A second unit of Warriors hits the Stormvermin. The first unit is almost unscathed because they have had Glittering Robes.


The Warlord gets cut down, the Stormvermin break and get run down. The Warriors pursue into the Grey Seerer's unit. The Doom Wheel chews up a Spawn and the Cygor starts bearing on the wheel. The other Spawn hits the Rat Ogres.



Turn 4
Grey Seerer Skitter Leaps out of the Combat. Rat Ogres kill the Spawn and face off against the giant. Plague Monks continue to hold on. The Assassin reveals himself in the Clanrats but his blows bounce off the Warriors. Even Death Frenzy doesn't help the Clanrats as they take a beating from the Warriors.



And now the hurting really starts. The Brey Shaman, who's been hiding in the Warriors, turns himself into a Great Fire Dragon.



So after regular Combat, breath weapon, and Thunderstomp, only the BSB and two clan rata survive. Even the poor Assassin got stomped.


So that could have gone better. The BSB and last two Clanrats break, the banners go boof leaving just the musician to run away. Even more ridiculous is that the Rat Ogres killed the giant, however the giant fell over killing 4 Rat Ogres causing them to panic. The Knights finally break the Plague Monks and catch them. The Cygor finishes off the Doom Wheel. The smaller unit of Warriors makes it into the second unit of Clanrats that the Grey Seerer is trying to hide in.



We called it there. The rats just don't have enough left to deal with the Legion. I always have fun playing Skaven, it's hilarious to watch the wheel come flying off the cart.

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 Orlanth wrote:
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Skave are not exactly my wheelhouse but you just have to have fun with them because you never know what's going to happen. I do consider it a small victory that this could be the first game I have played them where the Warp Lightning Cannon did NOT blow up