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The fall of Morathi; BR
Topic Started: 8th July 2004 - 01:37 AM (349 Views)
Antherak_173
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Here is how my game went, 2000pts.

I took:

#gs# Plague lord Haskdrask, weeping blade, ring of darkness
(skaven) Plague priest, flail
(skaven) Plague priest, flail
Chieftain, bsb, storm banner
27x monks, f/c, xhw, burning hatred banner #gs#
24x monks, f/c, xhw (skaven)
24x monks, f/c, xhw (skaven)
25x clanrats, mus, std
25x clanrats, mus, std
20x slaves
20x slaves
20x slaves
6x pcb
6x pcb
6x pcb
3x tunel team, poison h/w
3x tunel team, poison h/w


He had

Morathi
lv2 sorceress, +1 power dice
lv2 sorceress
20x corsairs, f/c
20x spearelves, f/c
20x xbow-elves, f/c
20x witches elves, f/c
1x chariot
2x bolt throwers



The last rays of the light faded in the horizon as the day was coming to it's end. Plaguelord Haskdrask's gutter runner scouts warned him of some dark elves coming their way to investigate the non-stopping decay that plagued Zundap. Warned, Haskdrask planned an ambush. When they came, he was ready. The dark elves leader stopped, as if a sixth sense warned her of an incoming threat. Haskdrask shouted his orders and the battle began. All surged forward, walking. Both clanrat units ran to the sides, trying to take the advantage of the flank, accompanied by the fanatical censer bearers, who'm only the Horned Rat can order to stop. The enemy general was also cunning. She knew her stuff. While hiding near the forest, most of her troops surged forward full speed. Both sorceresses left the safety of the bolt thrower crews and moved forward, to better see the enemy in the light of the moon. Lancers made a strange move and decided to abandon the witches and go to the side of corsairs. A cold wind blew in the night and some slaves dropped dead, iced from head to toes. All heared chanting from behind the trees and from the earth came out many black tentacles that dragged 3 censer bearers with them. Haskdrask stopped. Although he had some experience dealing with enemy mages, this time, he knew it was different. The amount of power drawn by that sorceress was like nothing he ever saw. It was by far the most powerful spellcaster he ever saw. She was even more powerful than all the grey seers he knew. He looked at his dark ring and uttered a prayer to the Hornet Rat. The bolt throwers did little damage, but the crossbowmen on the hills had a better view and killed 6 of his unit's monks.

Seeing that the chariot moved too much ahead, he changed his plan and ordered his slaves into it. The cold ones killed 2, but even outnumbered, the elves did not loose their cool. As the same time he ordered other slaves to move right in front of the corsairs, his quick eyes saw both tunel teams come out. The first, right on target, charged the sorceress, pursued and killed her, but in their killing fenzy, they came in contact with the crossbow elfs. The second team, a little of target, emerged in front of the witches. They promptly put themselves in a position which the other sorceress could not escape. The leftmost monks and bsb clanrats did a nice flank manoeuvre. Seeing he was not paying attention, the third slave unit tried to go for freedom and did a full 180. Seeing the quickly moving fur mass, Morathi fell back a little, startled by the numbers of her enemies, but she knew her magic was superior. The corsairs charged the slaves, who were beaten and fled past Haskdrask's unit. A ray of moonlight glittered on his yellow teeths, as he smiled. those dumb elf-things had played right on his hand. Witches furiously charged slaves in combat with chariot on the flank and they panicked, fleeing far away, letting them wide open in the field. Spear-elves charged censer bearers, only to see 3 of them fall to the foul gasses, as well as a bearer. They killed 1, and lost 3 more, but stayed. The last living sorceress, seeing death's door, casted a chill wind into the tunelers, killing 2 of them. The third, for reasons unknown to this day, fixed her with fury in his eyes and decided to avenge his fallen companions. Meanwhile, on the hill, the crossbow elves quickly dispatched the other tunel team.

Lone tuneler got in combat with the sorceress, did 1 wound, but she stayed. Excellent, he thought, he would have the pleasure of killing her directly. Haskdrask felt the frenzy take over and he charged the corsairs in the front, while the monks on his left side charged them in the flank. Not a single elf survived. In their mad rampage, they greatly moved in the enemy lines, Haskdrask unit was within meters of the all-powerful sorceress. If only he could get in combat with her, as he knew that magic-learners spent most of their time in their books and not on the battlefield. Censer bearers got in the front of the witches and clanrats helped them in the flank. Here also, no she-elves survived. The censer finished their run in the sorceress fight. The third monk unit charged the chariot, beating him and making him flee far away, takingt the monks in the bolt thrower crew. Gas killied another 3 spear-elves, but took 2 bearers also. Seeing their lord near, the censer stayed. Seeing it was perfect time, Plague lord haskdrask invoked the mighty power that Warlord Raasnaard lended him. Clouds gathered and covered the moon. All light faded. The sky roared with fury. A great and mighty thunderous storm broke in the nights. The cold ones took fear and fled the battlefield. In a fit of anger, Morathi casted a black horror in the rightmost clanrats, the most probable centerpoint of the storm. 12 clanrats died, and even the standard bearer took a wound, but they stayed, confident. The bolt thrower crew was slaughtered by monks and the sorceress and a censer died of the fog of death. The spear-elves finally killed all censers bearers.

Other censers charged the front of spear-elves, while clanrats got in their back, demolishing them. The second bolt thrower also was killed by plague monks. Her back against the wall, Morathi couldn't flee and was charged. Seeing it as an affront, she immediately challenged the young impetuous fool who dared fight her, but Haskdrask was stunningly quick and unnafected by her magical-like beauty. He sliced 2 times at the dark pegasus, only lightly wounding him, but the poison made him suffer so much that he reared. That's when Haskdrask, seeing his opportunity, slashed at the elf. However, she seemed protected by the gods themselves, but no god was as great as the Horned Rat. A single scratch was all he needed. The poison that seeped from the weeping blades spreaded and with great pain, she fell, dead. With fury in it's eyes, the dark pegasus fled, and soon was nothing more than a spot in the horizon, surely to warn all elves. Strangely, the storm calmed and the light of the moon returned. All that was to see was the dead corpses of the elves everywhere he looked.



Notes: after the initial hth, the slaves were clearly not needed, so they hunted table quarters. All i lost was 1 pcb unit and 1/2 another, 1 tunel team and 1/2 another, 1 slave unit, 1/2 a clanrat unit and 1/2 my bsb. I got 4 banners, 4 quarters, all his units points and the bonus for killing the general. Btw, Morathi couldn't flee, as she was too near the edge of the table, so loosing it for loosing it...

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Very well written.

Wish I could write that well...
Oh well. Good job killing Morathi. I'm pretty sure that she's supposed to be hard to kill.
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must have sucked to be the DE player when you rolled a 5/6 for weapng bades.


nicely writen, and good-good job beating her. Was this in SoC?

btw, do you acctualy own all those monks?
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Nice job on the win, it looked tough with your lack of magic, but good job.
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@Jackety

She's not really hard, when you catch her. She only has an elven To of 3 and a 4+ ward save and her steed To4 no save.


@Cypher19

Yep, SoC

No, i don't roll 1D6, i roll 1D3. Don't remember where i got it, but it's about the only time i use it, and yes, it annoys them.

And yes, i've got THAT many monks (80 total, all metal). My army numbers now at more or less 650 rats of all sorts.

At the moment, i have not acces to a digital cam, but i will try a desperate move with scanner, we never know...
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Good work, Morathi is a bitch.


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Hehe!

Cool you wrote a battle report. The hero (roughly translated, hero means fool in the Skaven tongue) of the day is that lonely tunneler. WHAT was that rat thinking; live to fight another day might as well be THIS day??

Nice to see you obliterating that lot, which you seem to fear quite a lot before the battle.
Again, gratz on a job well-done. (and could you please burn/eat/play soccer with Morathi's head? It's starting to smell up this place ;)
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nicely done! although it's hard NOT to percieve a win if you have nearly 20 PCB's on T3 elves! go skaven!1 ^Warpfire^
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Antherak_173
Jul 7 2004, 10:37 PM
@Jackety

She's not really hard, when you catch her. She only has an elven To of 3 and a 4+ ward save and her steed To4 no save.


@Cypher19

Yep, SoC

No, i don't roll 1D6, i roll 1D3. Don't remember where i got it, but it's about the only time i use it, and yes, it annoys them.

And yes, i've got THAT many monks (80 total, all metal). My army numbers now at more or less 650 rats of all sorts.

At the moment, i have not acces to a digital cam, but i will try a desperate move with scanner, we never know...

3 sided dice don't exist(at least ones that roll randomly).

actualy, come to think of it, I thought of a 9 sided die, that will allways roll on one of 3 sides.


if you've seen cystal castle dice you should have a good idea of what im talking about.
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Jul 8 2004, 10:19 AM
3 sided dice don't exist(at least ones that roll randomly).

actualy, come to think of it, I thought of a 9 sided die, that will allways roll on one of 3 sides.


if you've seen cystal castle dice you should have a good idea of what im talking about.

I've seen one. I wouldn't want to call it a 'dice', cause well.. it wasn't, but you could spin it and get a random 1,2 or 3 (like the d4, the outcome was on the bottom)
On a side-note: you can hardly call a d4 a 'dice'. It doesn't roll and you can influence it's outcome, yet it exists (for AD&D and stuff). It's like trying to roll a pyramid <_<

Anyway.. about the d3. The one is saw was at a tournament. Some O&G player (with a brilliantly painted army..negro Giant.. snotlings on pigs.. stuff like that) had a spindle-shaped object with a triangle shape in the middle. You spun it around and after it lost speed, dropped on one of the three sides in the middle. He told me it was used by Islamites who liked to gamble but are forbidden by their religion to use dice. (hypocrites..? naaaaah :P)

It wasn't tournament legal even though the outcome was completely random (I tested it) and if the opponent agreed, he could use it. I let him use it (it was too funny.. and it was a fun guy), even though throwing a d6 was quicker, cuase now we had to wait for the spinning to stop.

Sorry for going so off topic, but when I read this.. I just had to share that :)
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3 sided dice don't exist(at least ones that roll randomly).


It's a traditional 6 sided dice, with 2x 1, 2, and 3 on it.
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or a regular die
1/2=1
3/4=2
5/6=3
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As i told, go in the paint & hobby section. I posted 'scans' of my horde.
Hurray for the furry fiends !!!

Btw, chaos slaanesh will be demolished next for SoC tomorrow. If i win, i'll post them as renegade defenders as to get us 1 more win.
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