Tuesday, August 08, 2006

Battle Report: Dwarfs vs Skaven part I

This little 2250 point practice game was fought on 8/6/2006.

I was playing my horde skaven army. It looked like this:
Velsquee's Vermintide
Characters:
Warlord Velsquee w/heavy armor, great weapon
Plague Priest Juhel w/flail
Warlock Squelch with full kit, warp pistol, storm daemon, warpstone charm.
Warlock Sqeek with full kit, warp pistol, 2x dispel scrolls.

Core:
4 units of 24 clanrats with standard & musicians
2 ratling guns
4 units of 20 slaves with standard & musicians
2 units of 18 giant rats with 3 handlers
2 rat swarms
2 units of 6 night runners with extra hand weapons
7 poison wind globadiers

Special & rare:
19 Plague monks with standard & musician
6 plague censor bearers
5 jezzails
6 tunnelers w/poison hand weapons
6 gutter runners w/poison hand weapons

His Dwarf army was a bit heavy on the rune side and looked like this:
Dwarf Lord w/ Gromril armor, shield, Master rune of swiftness, 2x rune of fury
Thane BSB w/Gromril armor, Master rune of Valaya, Rune of Battle
Rune Smith w/Gromril Armor, shield, rune of spell breaking, Master rune of spell binding
Rune Smith w/Gromril armor, shield, rune of spell breaking, spell eating rune.

Core:
24 Warriors w/shields, full command
10 Crossbowmen
10 Crossbowmen
10 Thunderers

Special & Rare:
23 Hammerers w/shields, full command, runic standard, rune of battle, rune of sanctuary

1 Cannon w/rune of forging, rune of fortune
2 Gyro copters.

As you can imagine, magic played a very small role in this battle.
I had 288 models on the board while he was sporting a mere 84. Outnumbered over 3 to 1, could the might, toughness and stubborness of the Dwarfs win the day.

We were deployed as diagramed below:


**Click on Image to Enlarge**


Legend:
Dwarfs in blue blocks
W = Warriors
R = Rune smiths
X-1/X-2 = Crossbow units on hill
G = Gyrocoptors
C = Cannon
H = Hammerers
L = Lord
T = BSB Thane
TH = Thunderers

Skaven in Brown and Red:
S1-S4 = slave units
CR1-CR4 = Clanrat units
V = Warlord Velsquee
W = Warlocks
RG = Ratling guns
Gr = Giant Rat units
NRs = Night Runners
jezzail = Jezzails
GRs = Gutter Runners
PM = Plague Monks
P = Plague Priest
PCB = Plague Censor Bearers
RS = Rat Swarms
PWG = Poison Wind Globadiers
x = Tunnel marker

Dwarfs won the right to go first and took the initiative. How would you play it?
Part II coming soon.

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