Winter 2009 Fantasy Escalation League
Week 0: Before the League Begins
Painting
I haven't done much work on my Skaven in the past couple of years, honestly. So, the stuff I painted beforehand, I won't note here... just the stuff I started painting when I finally said, "Hey, I probably need to start painting for the League!"
I've painted a full unit of Plague Monks.
I converted and painted... Ratputin himself. Depending how I feel, I'll field him as either a Plague Deacon or a Plague Priest. He was supposed to be this crazy rat monk dude, but just ended up as a kinda cool plague monk.
I've also started painting enough Jezzails to last, hopefully, well into the league.
I've started some work on some Plague Censer Bearers and an Assassin. I suppose this means I probably should turn an eye towards what 1,200 points will look like.
Army List
I figure there's going to be a lot of waffling between now and then, as a direct result of my not knowing what the hell I'm doing. Of course, at 1,000 points, there's not a lot of wiggle room. Of course, as I get in some "practice" games I'm starting to waffle on what those first 1,000 points want to look like.
List A
Chieftan - Heavy Armour, Shield
Warlock Engineer - Accumulator, Condenser, Warp-Blades, Dispel Scroll x2
Clanrats x25 - Full Command, Ratling Gun
Clanrats x25 - Full Command, Ratling Gun
Slaves x20 - Musician
Slaves x20 - Musician
Plague Monks x25 - Full Command, War Banner
Warplock Jezzails x5
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List B
Chieftan - Heavy Armour, Shield
Warlock Engineer - Accumulator, Condenser, Warp-Blades, Dispel Scroll
Warlock Engineer - Accumulator, Condenser, Warp-Blades, Dispel Scroll
Clanrats x24 - Full Command, Ratling Gun
Clanrats x24 - Full Command, Ratling Gun
Night Runners x5
Night Runners x5
Plague Monks x24 - Full Command
Warplock Jezzails x5
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List C
Chieftan - Heavy Armour, Shield
Warlock Engineer - Accumulator, Condenser, Warp-Blades, Dispel Scroll x2
Clanrats x24 - Full Command, Ratling Gun
Clanrats x24 - Full Command, Ratling Gun
Slaves x20 - Musician
Night Runners x5
Night Runners x5
Plague Monks x25 - Full Command, Umbranner
Warplock Jezzails x5
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List A is what I'd initially been planning to take. However, I've since played with a couple of different lists and have found that two Warlock Engineers is very nice... hence List B. You and I both know, though, that three characters is too many at 1,000 points. Right now, I like List C, which is a lot like List A, but dropping a unit Slaves opens up room for some Night Runners, which have been useful, and the Umbranner, which should be much more useful to my Plague Monks.
1/14 - Maybe I should have called this page "Week -3 through Week 0," seeing as how this page is describing pretty much all my build up to the Escalation League over the past few weeks.
This past week, I ran List C twice. It didn't go well. I don't think the list is wildly off, but I will need to make some changes. The Accumulator simply doesn't make any sense on the lone Warlock. It's pretty much just a loose, useless magic die. The unit of slaves, I'm thinking about dropping. Academically, I know they're supposed to be in there and that I'm supposed to use them. In practice, though, Clanrat Slaves have done nothing for me. If I drop the Accumulator and the Slaves, I've got nearly 60 more points to spend on maybe some Giant Rats. I'd take more Night Runners, which I've had a great deal more luck with, but that Mainstay Unit business says, "No."
So, the new list will be something like:
List D
Chieftan - Heavy Armour, Shield, Halberd
Warlock Engineer - Condenser, Warp-Blades, Dispel Scroll x2
Clanrats x24 - Full Command, Ratling Gun
Clanrats x24 - Full Command, Ratling Gun
Giant Rats x6
Giant Rats x6
Night Runners x5
Night Runners x5
Plague Monks x24 - Full Command, Umbranner
Warplock Jezzails x5
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