Recent content by Akkatha

Also hellion, as the rules say as far as terrorgeists go with skaven (and I checked because several people play skaven in the league!) they get to 'use' the generals leadership. They don't get the bonus from strength in numbers ranks as it's not a leadership test, it's a check. So while they can...

Why no nightshroud Hellion? my thoughts behind it are that he will definintely bring assasins, and with 2 vamp heroes the necro ends up being my general. I'd like to protect him! Thats also where the vamp on foot with beguile comes in, standing next to him. The vamp lord might be a touch too...

Yeah I thought about the Grave guard, but at least with cavalry they cant get dreaded 13th'd! The ghouls can go, but I wanted a unit that could actually chew through some of his models a little more reliably. I could cut the ghouls, go up to 40 skellies and 30 zombies (raise more anyway) which...

Hi all, Sorry for the inflammatory post title! Myself and a few friends set up an escalation league locally and opened it up to the local players. For the most part it's been amazing fun, but one kid has sapped the fun out of every game he's played, bringing super cheesey lists, arguing over...

Zombies would be great, I just have to buy/build/paint them.... when i make that decision! I took 30 zombies with my necromancer and banshee in them. He wiped them out by turn two. Both his warmachines hit every single time, and he dispelled both my invocations. What can you do eh? Smart player...

Sadly Slaves do get slings, for half a point per model. So thats 2.5 points for a rat with stats like skellies, a shooting attack and big rank leadership bonuses. Not really sure if theres a way for vamps to deal with all those numbers! We're not playing end times stuff or models as a rule, so I...

Just wanted to update this post as I've just had that game against Skavem. I didn't stand a chance! He brought almost 150 slaves with slings, a warp lightning cannon, a stone thrower thing and deadly characters including an assasin kitten out with the re-roll ward saves item and sword of...

Cheers for the input folks. I can indeed change out units as and when I like. We just thought running things as an escalation would give us chance to get things painted :P I can do 40 odd skellies no problem. Is a bigger block that much better though? I suppose they at least get armour saves...

Yes, this is something I've worried about. At 1000pts, he is likely to have more models to start with, and his don't crumble! My thoughts are that I need at least the 4 ranks in my units to even out the combat res scores as much as possible. I can't think of much else to take that can chew...

Hi Chaps, long time lurker. I've only just tried my hand at Warhammer, having joined a local store's escalation campaign. Games 1 and 2 at 500 and 750 points have gone pretty well, mostly through magical dominance, but at 1000 points theres some really scary stuff out there! The Skaven player...