Hello Chaps!
It has been a couple of weeks without an update due to being unable to upload pictures.
A couple of weeks ago Legionnaire Bert came over to play a game with his Chaos Possessed warband. He had finished painting them so there are no more shots of 'naked' possessed. Phew!
First up shots of the Protagonists;
Firstly, Bertie's Chaos Possessed warband- The Theatre of the Grotesque!
There may be only a few of them, but individually they are as hard as nail!
Opposing them would be the contingent from Nordland- The 2nd Krappefortt Expedition.
A large warband, but no match for the Chaos scum on a one-to-one basis!
The game to be played was a Breakthrough mission, with the valourous warriors of Nordland attempting to force their way through the lines of the chaos-worshipping scum!
The table had been set up with an interesting variant of the standard Docks.
Instead of being positioned along the edge of the board, the Docks sections had been arranged so they they bisected the centre of the table.
The Docks arranged in this way would be the only low section of the table, potentially a very dangerous place to be if missile fire was accurate!
The Docks themselves had various extra items placed on them to create 'paths' across the water. We decided before the game that any gaps of less than an inch could stepped over with no movement penalty or having to attempt a leap across the gap.
This was to prove crucial later in the battle.
The terrain had been placed before the mission was generated, and created an interesting obstacle for both sides during the game!
The Docks, showing the 'paths' where movement was possible.
A few views of the rest of the table before play started.
If you look carefully you can see it is possible to walk they whole way around the table, using the walkways, without coming into contact with the ground...
As the Nordlanders were the 'attackers' in the game, they had to set up first and opted to field most of their strength on the right, for a concerted push across the Docks, hoping to break through the Possessed with sheer weight of numbers.
While above the missile armed troops hoped to provide cover for the advance
Meanwhile, a single, lonely, halbardier was tasked with getting across the table using the walkways and reach the other side.
(The Nordlanders had to get at least two of their number off of the other side of the board and this was intended as 'ace in the hole' manouver!)
On seeing the deployment of large numbers of human troops on their left flank, the Possessed opted to put most of their number facing this side, positioned in cover to avoid the firepower that the Nordlanders had at height.
The first few turns were a bit 'cat and mouse', as the Possessd went into 'hiding', hoping to ambush the humans as they came within reach, whilst also avoiding being shot!
The Nordlanders advanced across the Docks, whilst a small contingent made their way through the ruins on the opposite side of the table
After several turns of advancing, with very little being done by the Possessed, the Chaos scum decided it was time to spring a flank attack on the humans frem one end of the Docks, whilst waiting patiently to spring the other side of the trap!
This involved a 'diving charge' from one huge Beastman on an unsuspecting halbadier!
With the clash of steel and the screams of the wounded ringing around the Docks, and the Nordlanders finally within reach, the Magister ordered the trap to be sprung!
With a huge battle taking place in the Docks, the smaller group of humans, who had been rushing unopposed through the ruins on the other side of the table, were almost within reach of their objective and victory.
Seeing that they were being outmanouvered, and without the numbers to move any bodies to the other flank to stop the smaller group of Nordlanders from reaching their objective, the seriously outnumbered Chaos warband had gambled on taking as many of the humans out of action as quickly as possible, and therefore forcing them to rout.
And it almost worked!
The Nordlanders lost enough men in the rumble on the dockside to have to make a couple of rout tests before finally forcing the Chaotic monstrosities to flee.
A fantastic, and very tactica,l game that could have gone either way at the end was finally decided in favour of the 2nd Krappefortt Expedition (Nordland).
As a final twist of the knife, poor old Bertie had his scorpion-tailed mutant captured and dragged off to the pits, where he was duly slaughtered by a Pit_Fighter!
Some guys have all the luck!
(Sorry, mate...........)
Next installment- the Undertaker's is finally finished and I will post some pics in a couple of days, along with some pics of the other warbands of Krappefortt.
Until then....
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