When I started playing Warhammer a few years ago, I always wanted to play Skaven. The idea of zany ratmen with weapons that were dangerous to everyone really seemed like something I wanted to play. Pretty much all of the races looked really good, but after looking into it Skaven where just so overwhelmingly expensive to play. I guess it wouldn’t have been so bad if I wanted to play the Skyre Army of Doom, but hoard armies rule. The skaven I wanted were just to expensive to try out in a game I had never really played before.
I ended up going with Ogres for my first army. They had just been released, and an army of fat guys who want to eat everything seemed like it would be fun to play. I have never regretted my Orges. They are still one of my most fun armies to play even though my record with them is abysmal. (Rank bonus and outnumbering, who knew) The release of 7th Edition and a cap on the overkill bonus was the best thing that ever happend to my Tyrant. Dwarf Lords getting +15 overkill on me in a challenge really made some games an uphill battle.
I started picking up stuff for other armies, and eventually had a few. Dark Elves and Chaos are some of my favorite, and Empire was my first real attempt at a hoard army. I would get a box of Skaven stuff every so often, but never anything to much. One day I looked over my Skaven and I realised, “Damn, I actually have a lot of this stuff.” I had about 1500 points. I started playing some games, and building it up. The army was really fun, but at this point I didn’t ever really consider magnetic bases. I knew that they existed but I never really thought about doing them myself. I ended up playing Ogres much more than Skaven, because it would take 30-45 min to set up my 2250.
The new Skaven book comes out Saturday, so I have decided that I am actually going to finish my Skaven army. I don’t need too much of the new stuff because I now have 3500 points, but my hatred of metal models is requireing my to get the new Screaming Bell and Stormvermin. I still like the old ones, but will never play the models again.
Painting this army will be horrible. I have a few painted characters and about a half finished unit of Clanrats. Oh boy.
November 3, 2009 at 3:33 pm |
I hope to see aluminum banners with painted hamhocks.