Saturday 14 January 2012

High elves vs Warriors of chaos

With the knowledge that their homeland had been consumed into the so called "New Ulthuanic kingdom", ruled over by King Vyshnevtsky, the tower guards of Saphiry (now releaved of their position with Teclis imprisoned) had sailed north to Norsca in the hope of finding a long lost and most powerful elven item to destroy the invaders... But Valmir aesling, still smarting over his and Sigvald's recent defeat at the hands of the elves and men set out to crush the invaders. His entire tribe had mounted up and ridden out to destroy them...   

The Aesing Vanguard
  •  Valmir aesling on juggernaut
  • aelfric cyenwulf on disc of tzeentch
  • 5 units of 5 marauder horsemen
  • 8 marauder horsemen
  • 5 knights
  • 5knights
  • chaos chariot
  • 2 warshrines
  • ancient stegadon
The Tower guard of Saphiry
  • Lord on Griffon
  • Mage on horse
  • Mage
  • Mage 
  • 49 lotheren sea guard
  • 18 archers
  • 5 shadow warriors
  • 5 silver helms
  • 5 ellyrian reavers
  • 10 sword masters
  • 2 tiranoc chariots
  • 2 repeater bolt throwers
The two armies arrayed themselves with the high elves bracing themselves and readying their bows for the inevitable cavalry charge

By Turn 1 the speed of the cavalry became aparant with the aeslings covering half the board in one canter, bringing themselves in charge range...
...Then they charged. Aelfric blasted off a spell at the horde of sea guard (all imbued with okkam's mind razor) which made them attack each other, it goes without saying that the results were devastating with half the sea guard torn apart by the enchanted mind power of their battle brothers, leaving less than twenty five standing. Having lost the left flank marauders to the ellyrian reavers and chariots, the orcy knights on the left and the ancient stegadon flank charge the elves, smashing to bits the chariots and sending the reavers running towards the knights.
Being viewed eye to eye by the mage that my opponent said had "a very nasty suprise in store", Valmir and the kraka drak veteran horsemen charge into the wizard who stands and fights revealing his "nasty suprise"! He was wearing a magic cloack that prevented him being harmed by non-magical attacks, unluckily for him he hadn't noticed the sword of Rending at Valmir's side and the elf ended flat on the floor.
Unfortunatly my opponent had also revealed that his prince on the griffon "wasn't ment to figh...." i took that to mean fight and so the next turn my chariot and 5 horsemen went crashing into him. soon the griffon had been skewered on the side of the chariot and hacked up by the warriors on board.
The prince also died soon after...
The Chariot then went charging into the archers and the horsemen into one of the bolt throwers.
One of my 5 marauder horse units had also charged into the archers and owing to being heavily outnumbered they were butchered.
Finally the right flank knights went smashing into his famous shadow warriors and chopping them all up before over running into the silver helms.
so far going well for the aeslings. 
In the next turnValmir, the ancient stegadon and 5 marauders for good measure plunged into the sword masters. Valmir challenged the champion who accepted and got his head smashed in for the arrogance of accepting a challenge against the destroyer of kraka drak! After that his unit was completly destroyed by the stegadon and horsemen.
The chariot smashed up the archers a bit before pursuing them off the field followed shotly by two units of marauder horsemen who had just finished smashing up the repeater bolt throwers.
And the chaos knights proved themslves better than any elf by completly annihilating the silver helms and mounted mage in their path. However, unfortunatly the ellyrian reavers dodged all charges directed against them.
By the end of turn three it was pretty obvious the high elves would have to get their act together and prepare for a fighting retreat if they stood a chance of rescuing Teclis from the Hardenburgers.
The remaining spearmen lead by the last remaining mage formed  a defensive square enabaling every man to fight and braced themselves for whatever the aeslings could throw at them, hoping against hope that perhaps somewhere on the battlefield was a remaing unit to aid their withdrawel to the beech, their ships and on to ulthuan.
Aesling turn 4 and Valmir ordered the charge, by now he was intent on annihilation for these upstart elves! He charged into their square followed by the stegadon, the savage knights and nine marauder horsemen, including all five of the veterans of kraka drak!
...While over in the west 4 horsemen charged the 4 reavers to determine whether man or elf was better once and for all... it was hardly fir however, as the warshrine bestowed the blessings of slaanesh on the marauder horse causing them to sprout all manor of terryfying odities and causing the reavers to flee the field for their ships.
Soon came the time to declare challenges and Valmir challenged the sea guard champion, readying his axe for yet another elven officer's neck!
Then the savage knight champion found himself challenged by the mage and forced to accept this unworthy opponent.
But in the end the elves lay strewn dead upon the field, Valmir had taken no chances and all 25 plus the mage lay slaughtered, however it had cost him a unit of knights, but this was a small price to pay for annihilation.....

In the end the battle was a victory for the slaaneshi horde and the remaining elven archers and reavers sailed back to chrace (the last free state of Ulthuan) empty handed

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