OGAM and the Horned One

One of the things I love about the glut of small non model specific games on the market at the moment is the fact that you can use whatever figures you like in them and if they don't have a force that appeals to you, the chances are that you can make one up.  Now this is something that us longer term (i.e. old) gamers are used to doing but for many folks, you play within the bounds of the system and creativity is stifled.

Not any more.

So as I talked about in my last post I've been playing a lot of OGAM recently but looking over at my figure cabinets I keep seeing the Skaven in them and thinking 'haven't played with you for ages'.  So why not kill two birds with one stone and create a Skaven OGAM force.

So how to go about it?

Well first things first, there is only one god (The Great Horned One) but he can be represented on the mortal plane by his mighty Verminlords so thats what I will go with.  The other two defining features of Skaven are the fact they run away a lot (this can be represented by lower Q scores) and that they are fast (give everyone long move).  With those basic thoughts in mind this is what I have come up so far.  Note no Legends yet, need to dig out my Skaven army book to find the special characters, plus it makes another blog post :)

Vermin Lord		332 Points	God
Q2	C4	Long Move, Lightning, Teleportation
Option: Poison Weapon : Add Poison for 12 points Option: Throwing Star : Add Shooter (Long) for 28 Points

Stormvermin		30 Points	Mortal
Q5	C3	Long Move, Armoured, Steadfast
Clanrats		23 Points	Mortal
Q5	C2	Long Move, Armoured
Slaves		13 Points	Mortal
Q5	C1	Long Move
Plague Monks		21 Points	Mortal
Q5	C2	Long Move, Poison
Rat Ogres		25 Points	Mortal
Q5	C3	Long Move, Big
Rats		11 Points	Mortal
Q5	C1	Long Move, Animal, Rare(8)