Nemesis - Skaven vs Tomb Kings duel (starting)

[llamabeast]

Aaargh! You're so annoying! You just ran away again! Why won't just throw yourself on my PD as per my plan?

[llamabeast]

Okay, have to stop for now. Not least to think of a plan. I have to say it's not looking good.

[Cicadian]

I have another couple of tricks still in the bag as well

I'll be very impressed if you manage to win from here, I have to say! As I said, though, I think Skaven are at a severe disadvantage versus Tomb Kings.

[llamabeast]

I don't think you need any more tricks in the bag!

I will also be very impressed if I win from here. In the unlikely event that I beat your army you have about three times as many provinces as me since you've been cunningly expanding while I've been trapped fending off your army.

I think perhaps Skaven are not ideal vs Tomb Kings, but I think I could have done much more to ameliorate that. Certainly giant rats weren't, in hindsight, the best focus for my strategy.

[Sombre]

Skaven have serious problems versus Tomb Kings. They have poison and disease immunity, excellent massed missile fire, swarms of chaff,.. all the tools needed to whomp the poor ratties.

I don't think giant rats make good chaff against archers. They die too easy and run too easy. Clanrats with sermon of courage would probably be better. But Skaven don't really have much of a counter to massed composite bows, longbows and whatnot.

[llamabeast]

Look you, just attack me!

Sombre: Yep, I think giant rats were just about the worst thing I could have chosen to focus on. Incidentally, I think the packmasters are much much worse deals than the warlords. Wish I'd built warlords from the start - they're useful. The rats just die in droves. Maybe 5 rats a turn from the packmasters?

[Cicadian]

All in good time!

[llamabeast]

Prince of Death: Causes Fear (+23)

omg I am so pwned!!

Also Flaming Arrows for some reason caught me completely by surprise, not that there's anything I could have done.

To be fair that big battle went exactly as planned, in that my troops were astonishingly brave and survived several volleys while my mages rained down (final) death on you. Unfortunately there just wasn't enough final death to go round with your large and powerful army.

I had kind of forgotten how much stuff you must have been doing while I've been squatting in my little north-east hovel. Your fully-kitted PoD certainly brought it home though. Oh the pain!

Have to go to bed now unfortunately, although I think there is little left to play for. My mages all escaped happily, but my army summoners didn't. They are trapped inside the fort.

[Cicadian]

Ouch, those battlemages hurt! I think that if you had had a better start (not losing your god early on), I might have been in trouble. What killed him, by the way?

I always do manual magic site searches and got lucky with the sites so I was able to forge all that stuff. I've also got a couple of Ushbantis on their way up to join the party. That spell is hard to cast since only 1 in 30 tomb kings have 2E. Fortunately I had enough earth gems to empower one.

[llamabeast]

Yep, the battlemages are pretty good. And if they could have got close enough for some more Dust to Dust action they would have been devastating.

Did you see my god then? He had a short and sad existence.