The first battle of Praag

 We had another game in the Siege of Praag campaign, this time it was a proper battle that saw the troops in Praag defending the outer wall, while an army of Nurgle accompanied by Max's warband, trying to take positions inside the defenses.

The army of Nurgle didn't have too many fast troops, but had resilience and a good amount of cheap expendable troops on its side.

The attacking army taking position 

The defenders of Praag

The opening moves of the battle

The chaos troops start to take position

A cannon hits and kills a chaos spown (infortunately on the wrong side of this picture), the manticore fails a panic test and flies off the table on turn 2, big loss for the chaos army

The imperial knights sally out to slow down the chaos advance

A couple of views, from both ends of the field of the centre of the Nurgle army advancing steadily

On the Empire left, the second unit of lighter knights lines up to charge the chaos hounds

As the knights charge thunders in, the zombies in the center start taking losses

The knights smash through the chaos hounds, losing one of their number, but they end up in a very threatening position behind the chaos lines

The brave (or reckless) imperial battle wizard flies behind the chaos lines close to the knights and with a terrible vortex of chaos spell, wrecks havok in the unit of bestigors. In the meantime, the general of Nurgle and the Chaos dwarf champion face the knights in an attempt to save the rear flank.

The zombies advance is slow but relentless

The vortex of chaos sweeps through the fight sucking the general of Nurgle and half of the imperial knights into the warp, at this point the game is called and it is clear that the forces of Pestilence are unsuccessful.

So it is that the first game of the actual siege of Praag is concluded.

There will be three more games, one for each of the chaos powers, after the four games, we will see if the armies of the ruinous powers will succeed in the invasion of the northern regions and gain access to the Dwarven and Imperial realms.