Tomb Kings vs. Tomb Kings (Settra vs. Arkhan)

Again some movement of Settra's army. A Tomb Scorpion that was "entombed below the sands" arrives and is placed near Arkhan's Screaming Skull Catapult and Casket of Lost Souls. In the Magic Phase, The Purple Sun moves in a random direction and destroys Settra's catapult! Then, after casting, two of the four chariots that got killed in turn 1 come back (it helps a lot that the special rule we rolled doubles that effect of the Lore of Nehekhara). The archers do little damage. No close combat.

Arkhan's army moves forward too, his Necrophinx charges the bowmen in the oasis. "Entombed below the sands" were three Sepulchral Stalkers - they appear out of nowhere and shoot at the chariot unit that contains Settra. And Settra gets wounded (down to 1 wound! EDIT: no, that's not correct... he is down to 2 wounds, since he starts the game with 4). Then Arkhan's catapult hits Settra again, wounding his chariot twice. And together the stalkers and the catapult killed a total of two chariots. Skeleton bowmen kill a few models. In the Close Combat phase, the Necrosphinx kills all skeletons in the oasis.

No surprise here... Settra, the chariots and the sphinx charged Arkhan's Tomb Guard. The scorpion charged the catapult. My Tomb Guard reformed so that they faced the stalkers, then they moved a little bit towards them, thereby increasing the distance between them and Arkhan's chariots. Settra did some magic and brought back 2 of his chariots (again, I rolled high, and the result was doubled because of the scenario special rule). That looked good! Unfortunately, Settra got a miscast by doing so... I rolled a "2-4" result on the miscast table. Guess what? Settra got dragged into the realm of chaos. And the other scenario special rule was what again? Right, you lose the game if you lose your general...

That was somewhat disappointing! The game looked really interesting... it felt as if the game had ended prematurely.

Then why, you might ask, do I show you such a game? Because this game will be only the first chapter of a longer story and I want you to get the whole picture! My opponent and I agreed that there must be a rematch! Sofar, we had no opportunity to play it... but it will happen in 2022. Settra will get his revenge!

For fun, we still did the combat between the scorpion and the catapult. The scorpion killed the catapult without getting wounded. He then reformed so that he would be able to charge the casket next turn (if there was a next turn). Who knows what would have happened without that miscast? I really like the civil war rules, but sometimes... yes, I could have chosen not to cast a spell with Settra, but I had only used three dice, so a miscast was unlikely...

So, the game ended much earlier than we had expected - before lunch. We had a lot of time left, so we played a game of Horrified...

Thank you.

This is the third time we used the civil war rules. We had played O&G vs. O&G and Skaven vs. Skaven before.

Yes, Arkhan is on a chariot. He is in the centre of the big chariot unit (his chariot is GW, but the miniature on the chariot isn't - next time there'll be a closeup).

I just read a battle report fom White Dwarf 30 (2014)... it is the scenario "The Humbling of Settra". You can see on the photos there that they put Settra right in the centre of a chariot unit.

When I played Settra, I put him to the side (as you can see in the pictures above), because he had the wrong footprint and couldn't be put anyhwere else in the chariot unit. At least that's what I thought.

So... can Settra be placed in the centre of a chariot unit or is that White Dwarf batrep just GW people not knowing what they are doing?