I played a game with my friends the other day. a 1250 limit per army, with tk and me against skaven and orcs. (skaven players version can be found on underempire) Lists skaven chieftan heavy armor enchanted shield and desolate blade Warplock engineer (had item that lets him use wl) warpstone amulet and storm daemon Warplock engineeer (same as above but with a dispell scroll and warpstone charm 30 clanrats with musician and standard 25 clanrats with spears, musician and standard. a unit of 3 giant rat packs 20 slaves 9 night runners with extra hand wepons ratling gun (not sure which unit it belonged to i forgot) 20 plague monks 3 rat ogres Orcs Black orc big boss with shield, heavy armor, warboss imbads iron gnashas collar of zorga, and martogs best basha night goblin shaman with staff of sneaky stealin night goblin big boss with BSB n the spider banner 38 night goblins with spears and full command 20 night goblin archers with full command 19 orc biguns with full command 10 forest goblin spider riders with full command spear chukka doom diver troll 10 black orcs (we discovered after the game that he had 2 rare units AND was 130 points over his limit) TK Prince with great weapon and 4+ ward, liche priest (1 mounted), 16 skellies with hand weapon light armor and shield n champion/standard, 16 skellies with spears, light armor and shield n champion/standard 16 skelly archers with standard. 8 skelly horseman with standard/champion, 3 chariots with standard and champion ME! Scar vet Kai-Tli with enchanted shield, sword of might, bane head and light armor Skink priest Tehe-Xili with lvl 2, dispell scroll and diadem of power Skink chief Kai-Lot-Tli with stegadon war spear n ancient stegadon+shield 11 jav skink skirmishers 12 skinks skirmishers with blowpipes 10 tg with musician+standard 16 saurus with full command the game was played on a fairly big table with 40" (WE ALL AGREED AFTER THE GAME THAT WE WOULD NEVER AGAIN DO THIS!!!) in between armies and 18"deployment zones. A rock in the center with some hard cover to the right of it and dificult terrain to the left (effectively funneling both armies) Turn 1 TK/lizzies Skinks make a run for the hard cover followed closely by the TG (hurray meat shield), stegadon, chariots and horseman make a run for it and incantations are used to speed up the slow moving tk army Skaven/Orcs and goblins animosity forces archers to move forwards, and a bunch of biguns start arguing about which target the goblins were going to shoot at, breaking out into a brawl. spiders,troll and nightrunners + ratogres rush towarrds the hard cover aswell. As the doom diver prepares to fire something goes wrong and in an instant debri flies in all directions killing the crew. Diadem shuts down all magic while one engineer needs to use a magic item to prevent a miscast. Turn 2 Kai-lot-Tli rushes forward with his pet named steggie into the rough terrain to make room for the horseman, the liche priest in the unit uses his magical staff (bound spell) and 2 clanrats are devoured by locusts. tehe-Xili zapped 1 night runner while the archers on the chariot shot down another 1. Orcs n rats Now that the doom diver exploded and the other argument was over the orcs squabbled again, but this time about what the goblins did wrong! Spiders charge the skinks who flee but are caught (1 more inch and they would have been behind the tg!!!!!!!!!) but the spider riders slam into the temple guard, slaves manage to charge the chariots. With a powerful surge of magic, 4 blowpipe skinks are blasted with a huge warp-lightning another warplighning is thrown into the slave combat, killing 1 chariot and 2 slaves. The spear chukka fires and wounds the stegadon.A spiders mandibles crush a temple guard while its rider stabs another just before being cleaved in two by one of the mighty saurus, the temple guard were losing, but stubornly fought on. Meanwhile the chariots smash 2 slaves into the ground, but combat is tied. Lizzies n TK turn 3 Kai-Tli, although he was not the smartest of creatures, knew that the right side was in trouble, the chariots were taken by surprise, and 11 skinks already lay dead, and he was nowhere close to the enemies main battle line. The tomb prince, angry at the site of his faltering chariots, charged forwards towards the troll who cowardly fled leaving 3 menacing rat ogres standing a few meters infront of the him. Meanwhile on the right flank Kai-Lot-Tli rode towards the cused ennemies, and gave the order for his skink crew to unleash a full barage of blowdarts onto the giant rats and 2 of the foul creatures dropped from the poison. As one chariot is brought back from incantations, the spider riders desperately tried to break the will of the temple guard, but even with there feroucious onslaughtof attacks, only one fell before two of them stepped forwards and smashed two of the riders and their mounts into the earth, yet even so, no side had the upper hand. The chariot and slave fight continues to have no clear victor. Orcs n Rats Giant rats stand before the mighty stegadon and the cowardly troll turns around to face his ennemies, while the orcs finally stop fighting and reposition themselves. The tomb prince and his unit hold their ground as the three monstrous rats break into a charge.With a single warp lighting Tehe-Xili is knocked of his feet and all of the surrounding skinks are completely eradicated, while another amazing warp lightning all 8 skeleton horseman are fried to a crisp leaving there liche priest all alone... until he is gunned down by a ratling gun. The night goblins unleash a hail of arrows at the oncoming stegadon, Kai-Lot-Tli orders his crew to take cover, but even so one of the skinks is hit by an arrow and thrown off of the howda, landing with a thump on the cold hard ground. The slaves viciously attack the chariots and kill a horse and a man from one of them (2 wound) even so, the chariots smash another slave into the ground. Meanwhile the rat ogres rip six of the skeleton warriors to ribbons, but the tomb prince would not lose to the beasts, and he crushed a rat ogre under his giant blade, and amazingly neither side lost ground. Seeing the skill of the Tomb Prince, the temple guard would not be out done, as one the warriors shoved the goblins back before leaping upon them again and slaughtering 5 of them in a hurricane of flailing arms and severed limbs, the two remaining goblins, covered in the blood of their brothers, fled from the might of the saurus never to rally. Lizardmen and TK turn 4 As the army continued to advance, Kai-Lot-Tli invoked the name of Sotek as him and his pet charged into the night goblins and the goblins brace for the impact of the terrifying beast. No magic gets through. When the stegadon hits the goblins, 3 are instantly crushed, before the stegadon eats two more and Kai-Lot-Tli stabs 2 more before a skink strikes out and kills yet another one, then, the goblins break and flee before Kai-Lot-Tli rides up behind them throwing nets out and capturing a total of 31 goblins including the battle standard before running off into the think jungle (off he board, Massed goblin sacrifice is being prepared) where he leaves the captured goblins. The rat ogres kill nothing and then take 2 wounds before fleeing but luckily escaping, and the chariots finally crush the slaves and catch them. Orcs and Goblins The black orc general moves with his unit to keep his units in line incase of a returning stegadon, and as the biguns and giant rats lay a trap for it upon its return, the night runners rush towards the now unguarded skink priest, and as the troll charges viciously at the tomb prince and his skeletons, the frenzied plague monks charge the chariots. Then, two huge blasts of warplightning blasts the hierophant and his unit of archers into oblivion (UH-OH). Luck was not totally on the skaven side however, as their preciouse ratling gun explodes. Plague monks hack and slash at the chariots until only one is standing, and just barely at that. The Tomb prince hacks yet another monster into and overruns into the Rat ogres who had rallied. Turn 5 lizzies and skellies Seeing the night runners, Tehe-Xili rushes backwards towards safety and four of the skeleton spearmen crumble to dust, as Kai-Lot-Tli emerges from the jungle, he once again orders a barrage of darts and this time 3 of the giant rats drop dead. The Tomb prince kills the last two rat ogres with the help of his soldiers and the packmasters flee never to rally. Yet another round of attacks by the plague monks proves useless, as before the last chariot crumbles it resolves to smash one of their number into the ground. Orcs and Skaven Giant rats charge the flak of the menacing stegadon and the biguns charge the front. The night runners, not wanting to keep up their chase decide to attack the back of the saurus unit, trying to stop them from getting to the plague monks. Three of the temple guard are fried by warp lighting and the spear chukka skewers 3 of the skeleton spearmen. The night runners only manage to kill a single saurus, before having three of their number smashed into the ground by the brutish warriors, who then continue their advance as the night runners flee. The puny weapons of the enemy have no effect on the stegadon however, and he resolves to make a meal out of two very unlucky biguns as Kai-Lot-Tli and his skinks kill yet another two giant rats, however the numbers of the enemy force Kai-Lot-Tli to flee back into the dense jungle, where he would pick up his goblin sacrifices and bring them with him back to the temple city. Lizzies n Tk FINAL TURN The temple guard and the saurus warriors charge towards the frenzied plague monks, who cowardly flee and the tomb prince tries to use his incantations in a last ditch attempt to hit the clanrats in the flank, but a scroll is read and it is dispelled. Tehe-Xili ensures that the night-runners won't rally and calls down a thunderbolt from the sky, effectively frying one and scaring the crap out of those that remained. Two more of the skeleton spearmen crumble. The skaven and orcs Warp lighting fries all but one of the temple guard, but the engineers hurt himself in the process, meanwhile, the last temple guard is speared by the spear chukka and the plague monks fail to rally. Goblin shaman miscasts and forgets one of his spells. Tehe-Xili yelled to Kai-Tli, who wanted his veangance, telling him that they had delayed the orc and skaven army long enough, and that they should meet up with Kai-Lot-Tli back at the temple city. Even though it was clear that they had lost, they had still achieved in their sacred goal... All they had to do was to keep the enemy army at bay while the biggest sacred spawning seen in their city in years was taking place. If the skaven had not been delayed and had arrived at the city, there would be little protection as everyone was caring for their new bretheren. Kai-Tli looked up at the black orc big boss, with eyes colder than any mammal could be, before picking up a few injured skinks, and slowly backing up into the jungles, there would be a lovely sacrifice of goblins later in the day.... Result: minor victory for the orcs and goblins (by 60 points!!!!!!) MVL= most valuable lizard skink chief on ancient Stegadon: Destroyed an entire unit of goblins and the standard bearer, aswell as distracting half of the enemy army for awhile (hey hes practically the only one that did anything) MVA=Most valuable ally Tomb prince: This guy is a beast!!!!! MPE=Most powerful enemy DAM THOSE WARPLOCK ENGINEERS!!!!!!