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Yes-Yes! A new warband for Warhammer Underworlds Wyrdhollow has landed, and it’s time for the Skaven to return!

Yes, a third warband from the Skaven is with us, this time focusing on the Clan Pesitlens. Skabbik’s Plaguepack is a great set of minis, along with a Rivals deck and fighter cards.

Also up for preorder today is a brand new Rivals deck available for all, Paths of Prophecy.

First things first, unboxing! You can check out it in the video below:

So with that out of the way, let’s review the Plaguepack first.

What’s in Skabbik’s Plaguepack?

First of all, two sets of lovely sprues. The warband is made up of a total of 7 characters, Skabbik’s Rivals deck and fighter cards for each of the characters.

What are the Plaguepack minis like?

They come on green sprues, and as with all Underworlds warbands are push-fit models.

Now, I like push-fit minis, however I do sometimes find the Underworlds a little…fiddly… Wishing you had a third hand to push some of the models together. The great news, however, is I had zero issues with the assembly of all these minis. Not one slight issue. Just an enjoyable build from start to finish.

Now sadly, I didn’t get to finish painting them!

What is the deck like?

The warband focuses on grabbing and corrupting territories. If two or more territories get corrupted then your warband Inspires, which is always a great thing! To corrupt a territory:

• Two or more friendly characters need to be in the same territory
• One or more friendly Befoulers are on a objective in that territory
• Once a territory is corrupted it stays corrupted until the end of the next action phase. 

Aside from Inspiring, you’ll also find a number of the upgrade and objectives play off being in corrupted territories. Luckily, with you having so many characters this should be fairly straight forward. To also aid you in corrupting is the Befouler special rule, which you will find on every fighter card apart from Poxlix and Rikkit.

Now being Skaven, they are not the strongest characters in the game, nor do they have much in the way of health, but they do a surprising amount of damage in my opinion, in particular when you slap a few upgrades on them. Their are a number of them which buff the attacks of the fighters, such as Screaming Lunatic (+1 Damage to this fighter’s Range 1 or 2 Attack actions whilst this fighters has one or more Charge tokens and/or one of more wound counters) or Feverish Flailing (re-roll one dice in the attack roll for the first Attack action made by a friendly fighter in the next activation. 

If you play clever and keep on target Corrupting territories, you can score yourself some major Glory with the objectives. 

I really like the combination of cards in this deck, and I cannot wait to give it a go in a game!

Paths of Prophecy

Alongside the warband, Games Workshop also kindly sent us the Paths of Prophecy Rivals deck, which can be used by any faction in the game, including Skabbik’s Plaguepack. 

Now, the objectives in this deck are pretty unique, or at least I haven’t seen similar ones to these (if you have then my apologies, I need to play more Underworlds clearly!). They are for the most part capture objective cards, however with a slight twist. For example, A Dire Omen scores you a Glory Point if you hold objective 5 or the value of your objectives your warband holds adds up to 5 precisely. There are plenty of objective cards just like this, which is a fun twist!

As for the upgrades and ploys, you get a fair few which stagger or grant you extra movement, which actually works well for Skabbik and his rat friends, as well as other warbands which have more than a few characters. 

Summary

I really, really like Skabbik’s warband, and his Rivals deck looks like it will be an awful lot of fun! In my opinion it feels like a really balanced deck.

The miniatures themselves are fantastic, and have really made me want to paint more of the Clan Pestilens. They are also some of the most straightforward Underworlds warbands I’ve ever built.

Paths of Prophecy looks like it can be a lot of fun too. I can imagine it’ll be fun mid-game working out what all your objectives would add up to in order to score, perhaps one for those more experienced players.

If you’d like to check out each card from both decks, make sure you check out the video at the start of the article. 

For me post-review, I’m going to be finishing painting the warband…probably on our returning live stream! Keep an eye on our social channels for more information on that!