WHFB Orcs & Goblins VS Skaven

The second game of Pilgrimage practice was against Matt's Skaven army of DOOOOOOM! (Sorry, just had to).

He brought the usual 'cheese' - Grey Seer, Warlord, BSB, a rat with that bloody doom rocket, a plague priest on furnace, hellpit, doomwheel, big unit of clanrats and a BUCKETLOAD of Skaven slaves... ughh.

My plan was to drag him near the forest and hope I picked up some Fungus forests to help make my Goblins Stubborn or that he would be foolish enough to charge in and have a majority of his models inside it, making his units unable to use Steadfast.

We played the Meeting Engagement scenario, where you roll for reserves for each unit and each character. Luckily, most of my units stayed on the board, however, my BSB, Level 1 Night Gobbo Shaman with Scroll and a single troll rolled 1's and had to come on as reserves.

This is how the Skaven army was deployed. Nice long battle line with the plague furnace on the far right flank where my Black Orcs were. I should let you know that the Black Orcs (named 'Da Rusty Blades') also had the flaming banner, hence the Hellpit's deployment on the far left flank.

Knowing the potential of a Furnace with a priest and its Monks, it was the first thing that had to go. I put the Mangler Squig full speed ahead towards the unit and targeted it with some Poisoned arrows and the artillery. By the end of my shooting phase on Turn 2, I had taken out the Furnace and the priest....

So my wolf chariot got smacked by the Doomwheel, which came as no surprise. I eventually took out the Doomwheel with Great Weapon wielding Black Orcs aided by a Doom Diver which pummelled it with 2 hits on the previous turn...

I used the troll as a Diverter/Charge speed bump for the Monks. Unfortunately, when the Monks overran, they didn't make it to the Black Orcs, which is what I was hoping would happen. If the Monks had made it, I would've simply charged the Monks in the flank with the Savage Orcs...

His Hellpit went to town on my Squig Herd unit, wiping them out in one turn. The Squig bomb didn't do much. I then parked my Troll as another speed bump for his Hellpit, which he happily charged and smacked in combat. He then overran into my Warboss and his unit of Choppa wielding Big Uns. Took 2 turns to take out the Hellpit, but a Warboss, BSB with Great Weapon and some lucky hits by the Big Uns was enough to take down the hideous monstrosity...

Things were getting quite interesting in the end, where an opportunistic 6 on the animosity table came up. The 6 result on the animosity table allows the unit to pivot to face the nearest visible enemy followed by a charge declaration. The Savage Orcs managed to pull it off after some Skaven slaves hurled some insults at the brutes, prompting a charge on the flank.

The game went to 6 turns this time around and while I didn't kill any of Matt's Skaven Lords, nor the BSB, it was still a resounding victory to the Orcs and Goblins.

So Game 2 out of the way of Pilgrimage Practice. Really looking forward to another game sometime soon as the Pilgrimage is only around the corner...