Showing posts with label Skaven. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Skaven. Show all posts

Sunday, 12 August 2018

Rats of War

Club night on Thursday saw my Ratmen/ Skaven get their first outing in a game of Dragon Rampant. It was a 4 player game with random turns. I would be up against John with his Men of the West, Tom took the Rohirrim and George the dastardly orcs. Neil would umpire.

The game involved controlling a ruined tower in the centre of the table where armoured deceased mate had left a treasure hoard.

My force was made up of the following
1x heavy foot Inc Warlord Snicket with offensive trait.
1x light foot Inc Warlock Skritch
3x light foot
1x bellicose foot (Rats ogres) with venomous weapons.

Now I was worried as when troops were laid out I could see demons, giants and lots of horsemen eeek!



The game began with a quick advance to the centre while my warlock moved to protect the left flank from the Rohirrim. Good job too as the Rohirrim charged straight at us. Luckily despite a few casualties we were forced back before Wedlock Skritch unleashed his arsenal of spells and blasted the incoming horsemen.

In the Centre it seemed the deceased mate was not quite dead as we thought as he began to raise indeed warriors to protect the tower.





Over on the other side of the table the orcs and humans sat around observing a clash between the giant and demons. This lasted a few turns before the demon was eventually banished.


The Rohirrim though sought revenge and King Theoden brought forward his knights only for a few pesky skeletons to get in the way. This delay allowed the Rat ogres to hit home and cause carnage. Bringing down Theorem and most of his knights. The rest of my warriors began to occupy strategic positions ready to assault the tower.






Unfortunately time ran out. My rats claiming a victory purely on kill count. Enjoyable game.

Sunday, 2 March 2014

More Skaven

Well second post of the weekend. This time I have been painting up some more Skaven for WFB 3rd edition. I'll also be able to use these as allies to my Undead forces of the Lichemaster. First up I've painted another 8 figures for my Warlords own personal unit, until I can replace them with some Stormvermin. Then they will be relegated to mere clan rats. These also contain a standard bearer.

Clan rats
Clan rats
I have also completed a second full unit. These will either serve as basic clan rats or possibly skaven slaves as I need twenty according to Warhammer armies. Once again these figures are all from the Island of Blood set, this time armed with spears. I did manage to obtain 40 of these from EBay for a paltry sum, very good value. The second twenty are already started and will serve as a second clan rat unit. This time I went for a blue and grey colour combo and think they turned out rather okay.

Skaven slaves / clan rats
Skaven slaves / clan rats
I've painted these guys in a very basic fashion, concentrating more on how they look as a unit than as individual figures. This is allowing me to get through them quickly and providing a welcome respite to my WSS project.