Saturday 14 September 2024

The march to Xaultepec

 

With the ratmen on the back foot after their failed ambush, the forces of Altdorf kept pushing south til we reached the ruins of Xaultepec, a long abandoned temple city where we hoped to find great plunder
The ragged hosts of the ratmen stood once again before us, but lady Yennefer summoned a great storm of lightning that fried a flamethorwer and sent all the nearby foes scurrying 

Our guns then opened fire while the infantry and myself with the knights advanced, forcing the skaven to open ranks while they hunkered down behind the trees


Turning my head backwards, I saw a commotion in our lines as a swarm of local beasties attacked one of the artillery crews, the survivors running away and earning themselves a week of latrine duty 
The vile ratmen had enlisted the help of some local warrior women, but me and my reiters rode them down without breaking sweat
On the other side of the battlefield meanwhile, the Viktoria was also cutting a bloody path trough the remaining skaven, running down one of their warlocks beneath its armoured mass
While I led the advance in the center, the left flank was guarded by a harquebusier company, the soldiers taking down many a rat ogre and an enemy champion with their accurate fire

In a last ditch attempt to stop our progress, the skaven charged into lord Albrecht's regiment
But the hardy mercenaries sent them packing with help from father Johann

Dusk had started to crep over the battlefield, but with their center destroyed and their leaders killed or routed nothing could stop our entry into the temple city, which provided the expedition with treasures and artifacts beyond the hopes of any soldier of the Empire



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