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Skaven Chess?
Topic Started: 3rd April 2008 - 07:17 PM (773 Views)
Warlord Ritchet
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I got a really geeky thought today, what if you used skaven for chess? I could just immagine the littlebuggers going across the board. I think itwould probably go like this

King: Warlord
Queen: Chieftan
Bishops: Grey seers (or plague monks)
Knights: StormVermin
Rooks: Clanrats
Pawns: Slaves (or maybe giant rats)


What do you think?
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Skavenblight
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It's a neat Idea, however I don't quite agree with your choices for positions

King: Warlord
Queen: Grey Seer
Bishops: Stormvermin
Knights:Gutter Runners
Rooks: Rat Ogres
Pawns: Clanrats

I can't see a chieftan being more powerful than a Grey Seer, Storm Vermin are bodyguards so it suits the Bishop's position, Gutter Runners tunneling unerneath lines to pop up later, Rat Ogres as something that can do significant damage, and keeping the slaves in the mines, use clanrats as the basic warrior.

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I think it would be better to stick with standard sized models. Rat Ogres are much bigger and I've found that a pain in the past. Plague Priests as bishops make sense and seems obviously. That leaves us open to put Storm vermin as Rooks, as the most heavily armoured models in the skaven army they make sense as Castles. Gutter Runners or Assassin as Knights is a great idea and makes perfect sense.

King: Warlord
Queen: Grey Seer
Bishops: Plague Priest
Knights:Gutter Runners
Rooks: Storm Vermins
Pawns: Clanrats
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I think gutter runners are good for knights and aree with Niz' that storm vermin would be good for Rooks.
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I did an oversized tyranind version once...

King - Hive tyrant
Queen - Zanthrope
Bishop - Raveners
Knights - hormagaunts
Rooks - Carnifexes
Pawns - spore mines

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I remember seeing a chess set using rackham models, or something like that. I've thought about this before, though using rackham models (my warhammer models would go into a WHFB army, I don't play confrontation so they can go into chess). The dwarves of mid-nor have an amazing model that's a walking castle tower, the best thing for a rook.
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Apr 3 2008, 02:17 PM
King: Warlord
Queen: Chieftan
Bishops: Grey seers (or plague monks)
Knights: StormVermin
Rooks: Clanrats
Pawns: Slaves (or maybe giant rats)

I would go for

King: Grey Seer
Queen: Warlord
Bishops: Plague Monks
Knights: Assassin
Rooks: Storm Vermin
Pawns: Clanrats

Grey seers are really the tops, being above warlords in the peck of things. There being fewer Grey Seers than warlords would make them a bit of a more vital objective.

Plague Monks are more of the bishop types, and have their own maddening ideas on where to do, good for the diagonal movement.

Assassins take things in an indirect route, sneak around the back or side, good for the odd movement of knights.

Storm Vermin are really the straight forward kind of guy, the real heavies.

Clan Rats are the tossers of the army, just above the slaves in the pecking order, I'd fit them more for pawns. Though slaves would work well, the rules for getting to the other end of the board would fit a clan rat more ("You succeeded in the mission, you get upgraded!").
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Anukex
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I think my Chess set would be somthing like:

King: Warlord
Queen: Grayseer
Bishops: Plague Monk W/ Staff
Knight: Plague Censer Bearer
Rooks: Storm Vermin
Pawns: Clan Rats

I like trying to keep it to just 2 heros / Lords. Just seems right
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Anukex
Apr 17 2008, 10:10 PM
I think my Chess set would be somthing like:

King: Warlord
Queen: Grayseer
Bishops: Plague Monk W/ Staff
Knight: Plague Censer Bearer
Rooks: Storm Vermin
Pawns: Clan Rats

Just replace Plague Censor bearers with Gutter Runners and you've got my lineup.

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King: Warlord
Queen: Grey Seer
Bishops: Plague Priest
Knights:Gutter Runners
Rooks: Storm Vermins
Pawns: Clanrats


Yeah, like that!
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King: Warlord
Queen: Rattsu
Bishops: Plague Monk W/ Staff
Knight: Gutter runners
Rooks: Storm Vermin
Pawns: Clan Rats

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Bring 'em on! I'll use my Vamps set!
King: Vlad
Queen: Isabella
Bishops:Necromancers
Knights: Wraiths
Rooks: Grave Guard
Pawns: Skeletons
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Warlord Ritchet
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that seems like an interesting set up for a VC chess set but, I would use zombies instead of skeletons for pawns. Pawns tend to be the more mindless expendable piece so zombies would fit it better and plus you might confuse your pawn for a rook if you use skeletons leading to a nerd fight.
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Do you want the fluffiest skaven list?

King- Warlord
Queen- Grey Seer
Bishops- slaves
Rooks- slaves
Knights- rat swarms
Pawns- slaves.

Everything except the king and queen is expendable :P

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*toot*

Aha, but even the queen is expendable, if the exchange is worth it. ;)

Besides just using WH models, could we incorporate WH rules as well? Like, to capture a piece you need to roll to hit and wound? :P
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True that scriv :P but I didn't think that a slave could cut it.
Ok, I'll compromise - the queen can be a doom-wheel. Powerful but still expendable. And it can run over pretty much everything.

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