The Story of Lucky: A Warhammer Fantasy Story

I first got my hand on 'Lucky' my dwarf cannon about 2 years ago at the release of Battle for Skull Pass in my local GW. It was one of two that I got because of the official swap allowed on that day. I was never much into dwarves but decided what the hell, there's a decent moderately cheep army worth of em goin' I may aswell. Besides I needed the new rulebook anyway. There was a cosplay competition on the day too and for my costume as a Wood Elf I won myself a battalion of dwarves (I know, the irony right?) and so that settled it, I was doing an army of the short gits.

Thanks to the free battalion I now had three canons in my army and was starting to play some games with mixed success. One particular canon, soon to be dubbed 'Lucky' was the first and at the time only one I had painted. For my first few games my canons did nothing as I got to grips with guessing ranges. Eventually however I started to get them right and my canons started to do some damage to my oponents, well ... two of them did. No matter how good I got a guessing ranges, 'Lucky' never had any effect.

If I guessed the range pin-point you could be fairly certain 'Lucky' would end up with a 10 on the artillery dice and overshoot the target. Or if it didn't overshoot it would fail to bounce the shot and he canonball would simply lodge in the ground directly in fron of some very relieve looking enemy troops. Better still 'Lucky' would misfire. Now the important thing to note is that 'Lucky' would never ever explode from a misfire, it would only ever end up unable to fire for the next turn or this turn. 'Lucky' was consistantly anything but. I still used it though, in ever single game. It had such character by now, I could imagine the dwarf crew thumping it with wrenches and hammers trying to get it to work right for once but never quite succeding.

Soon enough I was forced to add some slayers and a dragonslayer to my army. The reason was this: The engineer who crafted 'Lucky' in the first place must clearly have become a slayer. If ever there was a reason to take the slayer oath it would be for having been responsible for bringing 'Lucky' into this world; probably the worst canon in the world. Time went on and 'Lucky' finally began to rack up some kills alongside its two brothers, if only those kills had been from my opponents force and not mine. Now we come to the end of the tale of 'Lucky' for my friends, 'Lucky' is no more! 'Lucky' is in fact unbelievably lucky that the little canon has gone and inexplicably gotten itself lost. Its crew remain, sitting in my figures case with nothing to do. I do have plans to get a replacement in the near future though, the name 'Lucky Number 2' has a certain ring to it don't you think?