As you can see the Skaven Plague Furnace is rampaging forward and bearing down on the Dwarf lines.
Standing in its way is a lone Dwarf Dragonslayer.
SO WHAT HAPPENED NEXT?
Post your thoughts and I'll post the answer tomorrow.
The Answer is Below
The Plague Furnace is bearing down on the Dwarf lines.....only the Dragonslayer stands in its way.
If you believe the propaganda of the "Gotrek and Felix" books the Doomseeker will step up and destroy the Skaven contraption.
Well dear readers, here is a lesson in life for you - don't believe everything you read!
Faced with an honourable doom our brave red-headed stunty deftly steps out of the way so he is no longer in the charge arc of the Furnace which now barrels forward into the Dwarf defences.
All talk, no trousers, these stuntys.
The brave 'doomseeker' slinks off and eventually eats a mouthful of Warplightning for his cowardice!
Unfortunately in life, there are no happy endings!!!
The Slayer bites his lip, drawing blood, and utters an invocation to his ancestors. Drawing on the berserker rage burning deep within his shame, he rushes headlong into the vile contraption, climbing upwards towards the Ratman leader atop a growing mountain of corpses. The surprised Warlord is split from head to toe.
ReplyDeleteHe climbs to the top of the structure, and throws both axes down towards the front wheel axle, each slicing through rotting, corrupting wood. The Furnace collapses around him, and after an earth-shattering explosion of warpstone and shrapnel, is left standing atop the wreckage.
Denied an end to his shamed existence and another chance to redeem his honour, the lone Slayer bellows in rage and sadness. His tears stream with his blood and the blood of his foes, and his primal scream echoes though the End Times.
Nah...Timothy you got it all wrong...the Furnace runs the slayer over :-)
ReplyDeleteThe Grey Seer skitterleaps in front of the Dragon Slayer, then throws 6 dice, gets an IF, and turns him into a rat!!
ReplyDelete*Sigh*
ReplyDeleteDragon Slayer runs in and only has to take one toughness test which he passes, the plague monks take six tests and fail four of them, the dragon slayer attacks the furnace and does all but one wound on it leving it rather creaky and almost falling apart, the returning attacks from the crew and plague priests all miss as the slayer ducks and dives the blows, the wrecker ball attack misfires and the censer lands on the furnace destroying it and panicing the no longer unbreakable plague monks and runs them down heroically.... either taht or he dies a heroic death from the fumes before even singing his axes ;)
ReplyDeletePete, the code of the Slayer also says "Don't help the enemy". In this case, charging a no-armour, no-ward, I4, 2W character into a Plague Furnace (d6 T tests, small chance of a wound) with a 4 attack, S6 Plague Priest is a bad idea. It's an even worse idea when doing so will block the cannon shot which killed the Furnace 2 phases later.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately a Dragonslayer, despite the name, might, with luck, kill an Ogre or possibly even a Troll. A Plague Furnace, and even a stinkin' Plague Priest, is generally beyond him. Which is what actually happened in this case. You charged him in your next turn, and the Priest killed him with his 4 S6 attacks.
When the next Dwarf book comes out, maybe then the Slayers will live up to the hype. Until then, I'm playing them as fluffily as you play your 'cowardly Skaven' engineers....