Monday, February 16, 2015

The Egg of Quango

I was playing a game against Lizards on the weekend and powered a Doomwheel into the front of a Salamander.

The Doomwheel blew straight through the hated acid spitter and had little choice but to overrun (otherwise it would have faced a Temple Guard unit charge). It overran into a Skrox unit that had a Skink Chief in the front rank - far end.

After killing one skink from Impact Hits, the Skink Chief declared he had the Egg of Quango and proceeded to open it. He rolled a 4 on his D6 which meant 2D6 Strength 5 hits. He then proceeded to roll double 6 for the hits. This inflicted 7 wounds (5+) leaving me to make three 6+ saves to survive.

One save later.....Take It Off!!

So here's a tip Kids.....Beware of Smart-Arse Skinks carrying Eggs!

13 comments:

  1. Is it safe to say those rats had egg on their face?

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  2. What an eggciting story! I definitely cracked up.

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  3. That's terrible. Are you allwhite now?

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  4. How eggciting that it scrambled your opportunity to roll up another unit.

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  5. I love the Egg of Quango - one of the best write ups. Doesn't always work, but when it does (or does not), there is a great story that's worth telling

    cheers
    J

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    1. 60% of the time, it works every time?

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    2. Ah - I was not precise in my writing and/or you are pedantic and baiting me! Sorry - rather than 'doesn't work' I should have said - very random - it can do one low strength hit or many decent ones (if I remember correctly it can range from a single S3 hit to 12 S5 hits) - so by 'work' I meant inflict a reasonable amount of damage - ie, pulling out a magic item and saying 'a-ha' and then rolling nothing is equally as good a story as is pulling out an egg and smashing apart a doomwheel, etc. Clearly I could not write (or use) FAQs.

      cheers

      J

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    3. I don't see anything "good" in a Doomwheel being destroyed by these superweapons.

      They must be banned

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  6. Pete, GW has listened to your troubles and gone with the necessary step of banning the whole race

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    1. About time too. That thing is broken.

      If it was Skaven it would have been banned years ago.

      I can't believe it costs the same as the Doomrocket. How can GW overprice one and underprice the other? Madness

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    2. That Doomrocket is at least 15 points too expensive. I agree. #madness

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    3. You're joking right?

      It should be 10 points max.

      I usually take it purely as a fluff choice. Never gets anything like its points back

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  7. Note to self: if my lizards ever come back, make sure they bring eggs! Maybe the new flying pyramids will be able to drop them or something lol

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