Warhammer Game Night: Monday, February 9th

The new Fantasy league started this past week, and I showed up with my Eshin. This time, I included two units of clanrats for a new twist to the army. Not only did it make the games more fun and interesting, but it provided me with the opportunity to learn how to use ranked infantry--something I'm going to need to do whenever I get my Dark Elves up and running.

I played against Brick Bungalow and his beautiful, all very OOP Dwarf army. Here are some simple highlights of the match-up:

• Throughout the game, every time the Skaven and Dwarfs were running after each other, the Skaven ended up out of range by 1". This was all due to the Skaven's +1 fleeing roll, and the Dwarfs -1" fleeing/persuing roll. It was funny to see.
• My Master Assassin ended up too close to the Dwarf cannon and took a grapeshot to the head... only to have me roll the necessary 6 on one die from the Talisman of Protection. WHEW!
• The Triad worked well this game, tying up units and turning combats in my favor. They owned the right flank--which consisted of quarrellers and thunderers--allowing my other units to march up the field unmolested.
• Poor Brick rolled all ones multiple times. There was a time when he said something to the effect of "If I were playing Blood Bowl, I'd be rolling all ones." He then rolled four dice, and, well... all of them were ones.
• Ratling guns were fun. I had three misfires throughout the game, because I was throwing three dice each time I fired. One of the misfires ended up with me blasting my own clanrat unit that was locked in a very important combat with the Dwarf Lord and BSB. Luckily, out of 9 hits, I only lost two or three rats (and ended up winning the combat, anyway).
• My proxied Ratling Guns were Eldar Shadowweavers. People got a laugh out of that.
  

It was a good time, and I'm hoping to model up another unit of clanrats so that I don't have to use a mis-matched unit of metal figures that are most definitely not clanrats.