A rant about the first games with Skaven

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There is a lot of text in this and is only me recalling my warhammer start, so if you aren't interested about some strangers experiences you can skip this post. There, some sort of a disclaimer.

Many years ago, when the choice to start getting into the hobby was made,
i had to choose the army that i would like to own.
I looked at the patches of information for the races, and this was a time when chaos dwarwes with their own figures were a possibility, and tried to choose. I knew that i wouldn't get a "goody-goody" race. No High Elves, No humans, nothing of the sort.
The friend that was choosing along with me went with The Undead, and i was seriously looking at Orcs & Goblins.
Then i noticed the one race that appealed to me by their fluff, the models and most of all, by being cute furry and adorable. The Skaven.
All the figures had to be mail ordered
+ paints + army books + main rule book + the box that had the magic lists for the armies and lots of magic items as a book and as cards. We painted the figures that we had gotten, with the small selection of paints that we had ( i had bestial brown, vermin fur, golden yellow, putrid green, chestnut wash and flesh wash.)a small amount as the clan rats were metal blisters 3 in a pack, and everything else was metal too. It was still then that the packets advised to wash hands after touching the figures.

So...

You can propably imagine what 40 clan rats, 10 plague monks, 6 plague cencer bearers, 6 jezzails, Grayseer Thanquil and *****ipper (the live one), 2 doom wheels and a vermin lord look like painted with only and only those before mentioned colours?

They were my first and i still have them in that condition and i won't over paint them because i like to look at them and remember my warhammer start all those years ago.

Anyway...
As we looked over the rules and thought that we kind of got them, we tried to play.
It was propably the biggest mistake to include magic from the very beginning. For a very long time we both agreed that okay, Nagash casts the winds of death,
yes it says in the card that you,

quote-use the wind of death template to represent the passage of the wind. Place the template so that it touches any table edge with the arrow pointing in the direction it is to go, and move the wind 2D10" onto the battlefield. Each model that the wind passes over suffers D6 wounds on the D6 roll of a 4 or more. No armor saving throws will work against the wind of death. The wind of death remains in play and continues to move 2D10" in the same direction in each of the undead player's magic phases-end quote.

The template, the template, the template. We just used THE TEMPLATE to mark where the wind of death invisible line that was stretched across the battlefield was in its journey to the other table edge. You understand what i mean, dont you? Like the 80's tv show "Night Raider" where KITT's front sensor in the front of the car was constantly panning the red vertical bar from right to left to right to left.

My Skaven died a lot as the line came into contact with each of my units as it went across the playing area. There was no outrunning it. Of cource it also did the same for the undead and we both kept dying from it, ha ha ha....

We talked about it and agreed that it was kind of strange to use a mutually assured destruction but as we had no prior experience as to how powerfull the spells in the game were meant to be we just thought that, damn! Thats some powerfull stuff the undead can cast.

"As a side note my friend didn't agree that as the army book had in the skaven slave description (not in the army list page) a typo in the statistics as having the slave have 2 wounds, to let me have 2 wound slaves"

Back then Skaven had lots of goodies. Nice spells, a deamon, war machines, long range guns, (it was actually the warpfire thrower that decided that Skaven must be mine). The skitterleaping verminlord to hand to hand, kill, and out again... ahhh......

I have other armies now, but the Skaven are still my favourite.

What experiences have you had with the cute worm tailed fuzzies?