Young Daniel's return from deepest darkest "Yarkshire" prompted a four player game of Dragon Rampant, Pete and Aggressive Dave fielding Skaven against me and Danny with my Empire forces....who have so far been undefeated....oh how Danny's Yorkshire influence would ruin this!!!
Given that it was Danny's first game we decided on a straight forward 24 point battle. I allowed Danny to have the pick of my units, fielding a heavy infantry spear unit, wardogs (lesser warbeasts), 2 units of scouts, a unit of light missiles, a unit of heavy missiles, a wizardling and a block of peasants to bravely sacrifice themselves to defend the Comte D'el Monte.
In his true style Pete had 3 units of slave (fearful) infantry, two of them with the exploder rules, a block of heavy infantry with a wizardling, heavy missiles and lesser warbeasts.
The rolls for deciding who was attacking/defending. Pete rolling a one and Danny rolling a stunning two (maybe one his best rolls of the game!!).
The forces lined up and Danny prepared to move his battle line forward.....his plan for destroying the vile skaven clear in his mind's eye. Obviously he failed to activate his unit, oh how Dave rejoiced at somebody being as appalling at dice rolling as himself!.
This set the tone, after four turns Danny, the attacker, had managed to advance some scouts, but failed to move anything else, I believe he can be quoted as saying "let the defenders come to us".
Stunningly the Empire scouts managed to see of their opposite numbers, routing them. However slowly but surely the Skaven approached the Empire's battle line, which apart from some manoeuvring of the brave enchantress to screen the Comte D'el Monte (despite the ratmen berating him for hiding behind an innocent virginal woman) the Empire troops just would not activate. Two units of slaves openly marching straight at the dense Empire line......Dave making several assurances that they were not the exploders, even though his general's unit stayed suspiciously back from them!!
However, as these two units approached Danny had them in a bottle neck, two units of scouts, the enchantress and the light missile troops all setting their sights on them... surely nothing could go wrong..... yet another failed order on a double one...obviously the exploders did exactly what you'd expect, wiping out the scouts, breaking the missile unit and killing a couple of spearmen!! But they did take a unit of skaven slaves with them too.
Danny's wardogs did manage to kill the skaven warbeasts, this being the crowning glory of Danny's game. The enchantress did manage to stop the skaven missile troops from firing repeatedly but this only delayed the inevitable slow demise of the remaining Empire troops.
The Comte D'el Monte eventually fled the field. His phobia of rats (and close combat) getting the better of him. Clearly Le Yogi Bear needs to return to the Empire army!!
From now on Danny shall be known as "Dandicap", the only person consistently able to roll worse dice than aggressive Dave!!!