Battle for a giant

 Last week we had another game to move forward with the story plot.

The idea is to play four games, each with the army of a specific chaos power, including the relevant player's warband, facing a portion of the defenders of Praag, in the end we can see who won the most games between chaos or the Imperial/Kislevite forces.

In this specific scenario, the warbands had to confront a giant and beat it into submission to claim him as an ally in their game against the defenders of Praag.

The participants were Cyrus, with his Khorne warband, Doyle with his followers of Slaanesh and Ronan commanding his newly generated warband of Tzeentch.

I was acting as umpire and controlling the giant.

The giant is asleep in the center of the table after having pillaged a small hamlet and having drunk the local reserve of alcohol. When charged and wounded it would wake up and act appropriately drunk.

The unnaturally fast troops of Khorne engage the giant right away...

...while a three way clash between Khornegors, Slaangors and some mutated berserkers followers of Tzeentch takes place nearby

In the meantime the Tzeentchian mercenary captain mutated into a hydra fights some slaaneshi dwarves while some orc on boars try to encircle it

The other troops of Tzeentch, cover their champion who has the ability to teleport around shooting away with his needle pistol.

The two main fights: Khorne orcs versus the giant and beastmen and daemonic berserkers are still going on in the center of the table, while the crossbowmen of the lord of pleasure shoot indiscriminately in the melee with the giant, getting rid of the champion of Khorne in the process

In the end Khorne is victorious, the giant is defeated and will begrudgingly be part of the section of the siege assigned to the forces of the Blood God.

A new warband joins the party

 We got a new member joining the warbands party for the siege of Praag.

Yesterday we had a 4 ways game, Max was not available, but we had Ronan joining with a new Tzeentch warband.

He has never played any Warhammer before, so we had a simple game to get him introduced to the system. We thought to do a 4 ways game, but we ended up with two smaller 1 Vs 1 games, one a classic Slaanesh Vs Khorne challenge with Doyle and Cyrus clashing on the far side of the table, while mine and Ronanès Tzeentchian warbands duelling to see who is the favourite of the Changer of the Ways.

On the far end Slaanesh ended up winning thanks to a lucky spell that left Cyrus' champion dancing on his Juggernout and a bunch of crossbows that at this size of game are very very powerful.

On our end I started really well with a charge from my ogres that put most of Ronan's warband running for the hills, the problem was the Icon if Divine Wrath that his champion got as Mark of Tzeentch that blasted and rounted a lot of my troops with its lightnings.

I still could have pulled a win with the Dragon ogre, but I decided that it was safer to retreat and give Ronan a little boost on VP to get his warband up to speet with the other ones.

Here are some pictures of the games

The view of the table

Ronan's new warband, some Norse berserkers mutated into pseudo-daemons, their captain cross-breed with a hydra and some brigands and goblins for support

My warband with the now stupoid champion and orks on boars on the right hand side

Cyrus' Khorne warband

Doyle's Slaanesh followers with the insane amount of crossbows in his ranks

A series of fighters running away on all sides that decided the confrontation between the Tzeentch followers

 

Two more battles

 We had a couple more games in the Siege of Praag campaign.

The first one saw my Tzeentch warband challenge Cyrus' one, they are the biggest and most powerful, so we needed to level them down in order to avoid too much of a gap with the other ones.

The battle background revolved around the appearance of a warped chaos brain plant in a nearby village, both champions wanted to collect parts of it in order to brew a magical potion granting immunity from any psychological effect for some members of the winning warband.

Khorne's followers arrayed for battle, you can see the mutant plant, the objective of the battle

The warband of Guillaume, the champion of Tzeentch is ready to take on the followers of Khorne (note the dragon model proxying for a dragon ogre)

Cyrus' centaur champion charged directly into the plant monster and, thanks to his daemon weapon, instantly slayed it obtaining the ingredient for the potion

Little he realized that the Blasted standard of Tzeentch was close by and ended up killing him with horrible mutations.

The battle ended with Guillaume swooping in with his disk of Tzeentch stealing the ingredient, but his human followers carrying the Blasted standard were killed and the standard was captured and destroyed by a band of Khorne's beastmen.

In the end the battle did bring the two warbands down a notch, I lost my very powerful magical standard and Cyrus lost his second warband champion and its daemon weapon.

The following battle was a big free for all, the chaos powers summoned their champions for a challenge to determine who will be leading the assault on the first defenses on Praag, the four warbands deployed on the corners of the table and the last remaining one would be granted an army to assault the city.

The battlefield near the city of Praag itself

The small, but very resilient warband of Nurgle with its horrible and almost unbeatable mechanical chaos spawns

My still very large warband of Tzeentch with beastmen, ogres, dragon ogres and a few remaining human brigands and horsemen

Khorne's bloodthirsty followers, mostly beastmen and orcs

The followers of Slaanesh, mostly humans with a few dwars and some powerful crossbowmen

The four warbands are deployed

The warbands start to get in position

Thunderstruck, the dragon ogre, ischarged by Shaq the chaos spawn, but kills it in the first round of combat and causes the bowmen to flee from the battlefield

Slaanesh and Khorne battle it out on the opposite flank

My horsemen mote to the eastern flak to keep an eye on the fight between Khorne and Slaanesh.

At this point, as it often happens, I got absorbed into the game and didn't take any more pictures.

The fight between Doyle (Slaanesh) and Cyrus (Khornd) ended when Khorne's followers, thanks to some poor leadershi and coolness tests, ended up fleeing the battle, on my side of the table, the ogres tried to engage the chaos spawns, but couldn't inflict much damage and ended up fleeing the table causing Guillaume itself to panic and flee on his disk, so the rest of the followers of Tzeentch decided to follow its example and I moved them off the table.

At this point all that was left on the table were che followers of Nurgle and some battered remains of Doyle's Slaanesh warband that decided to play it safe and left the field to the diseased ones.

Nurgle will then be in charge of the assault of Praag, next game will be a regular Warhammer game with Max's warband as part of a 2000 points Nurgle army attacking the external defences of Praag, I will be GMing while the three players will split command of the armies involved.

I'll make sure to provide army lists and proper pictures for a kind of battle report.

The battle of the coaching inn

 We had another game yesterday, the Khornate and Slaaneshi warbands clashed in an attempt to destroy a coaching inn that troops sent from the Empire to reinforce the city of Praag could use as a staging point.

The warband of Khorne, as you can see, is substantially larger than the Slaanesh one, so it ended up taking care of most of the imperial troops defending the inn.

I was GMing the battle, so I could take a decent amount of pictures to show how the game went.

The forces of Khorne

The warband of Slaanesh

The inn with its defenders

A view of the battlefield

The warband of Slaanesh sent some scouts to check for Imperial reinforcements

The same was done by their opponents, these are the scouts sent by the champion of Khorne

The followers of Khorne advance quickly towards the defenders

The centaur champion starts outflanking the inn under the waving tentacles of a chaos spawn springing from a neraby well

The warband of Slaanesh advances as fast as it can

Khorne charges in

The imperial scouts leave the protection of the inn to harass their counterpart from the Khornate warband joining the fight after their exploration 

Slaanesh rushes in to join the fight at the inn

Imperial cavalry reinforcements come in at the back of the followers of Khorne

The champion of Slaanesh is in position for a charge

The fight at the inn in full swing

Forces of Khorne turn around to stop the advancing light cavalry

The last few defenders get surrounded by the followers of the two chaos powers

The former Bretonnian levies leave the inn as it starts to burn

As the imperial helbardiers are massacred, the two warbands battle it out to the last few beastmen.

In the end Khorne carried the day, but the centaur champion Hoof didnèt get any new followers.

Thatès all until the next battle.