Wednesday 23 December 2015

Character skirmish - Skaven vs Aelves - Age of Sigmar

With plenty of time after our main battle I decided to show Pete how versatile the AoS rules can be.
So I suggest we each choose 3 infantry character. We moved all the scenery in nice and tight. And played a character skirmish.

Deployment
 On the left standing in the building is the High Mage. At the buildings base is the High elven Prince, and sheltered behind the church is a Loremaster.
 On the Skaven side of the settlement, there is a Warplock Engineer, in the middle is a Warlord, and on the right a Plague Priest.

Turn 1 Elves
The Skaven Engineer has his head poking out to far, and is targeted with arcane bolt and the prince's arrow, the spell is dispelled, and the arrow is dodged, but would have served him (me) right for having his stood out that far.
 Turn 1 Skaven
Skaven scamper into buildings for more cover. Warlock casts boosted warp lighting and is dispelled, a feeling he will soon get use to, as the elven casters spend the rest of the encounter shutting his spells down. Trusting  his pistol more he takes a shot at the Prince, but using the cover of the trees he evades the shot.
Plague Priest attempts to invoke the pestilence breath, but is not devote enough and must pray harder for next time.
 Turn 2 Aelfs
Lore master shelters in the shadow of the tower, and casts mystic shield on his Prince. High Mage glides through the forest, his arcane bolt is dispelled by a frantic warlock, who now realises he has been separated from the pack. Prince exits the forest and shoots at the warplock, but cover saves the rat man injury.
Prince and High Mage assault the building the warplock is hiding in. He is wounded but lives at least for the moment.
Turn 2 Skaven
Plague priest invokes wither on the loremaster, warlord declares he will "gnash'n' gnaw his bones" as they both pile out of the tower to strike at the lore master. Between them they wound him grievously but some fight yet remains in the elf.

Warplock tries desperately to kill one of his foes, recognising the heavily armoured Prince with a mystical shield is a tough nut to crack, he decides to focus on the mage. He casts a supercharged warp lighting ....... it is dispelled before it lands, he fires his pistol point blank at the elven mage, but the blow is a glancing. He hacks maddly at the elf, but is unable to do any telling wounds. The Elven Prince steps up and hacks the loathsome rat wizard down. Knock prone barely clinging to life.

Turn 3 Aelfs
The wounded Loremaster casts Arcane bolt at the warlord before fleeing away from any retribution. Seeing his warlord in peril, the engineer/wizard attempts dispells the magical attack, but is unable to do so and the Skaven warlord is badly wounded.
Only to realise his mistake, as the Elf mage in combat with him begins to summon his own magical attack, too exhausted to dispelled again, he is blasted to atoms.
Now free of the gun toting rat man. The prince and mage exit the building to attack the exposed Warlord and priest.
Drawing his bow, the Elven Prince looses his arrow into the Skaven warlords back, who dies with a squeal.
Then the Elven mage charges past and out distances the Prince, to get at the Plague Priest, both swing their staffs, but only the pox priest is able to land a blow.
Turn 3 Skaven
The pestiliant Priest invokes wither on the Elven mage, he raises his warpstone tipped quarter staff to stave the elves head in, swings and misses.
In return the mage thrusts his staff into the rats abdomen knocking the breath out of the creature.
Turn 4 Aelf
Looking down on his winded foe the mage summons an arcane bolt and and finishes of the rat.

A Victory for the elves and a great demonstration of how flexible the Age of Sigmar rules can be.

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