The lost temple of Axlotl

Ton conclude our Lustria campaign I've hosted today a four player megabattle in which a coalition of Empire and dwarfs faced off a foul alliance of skaven and ogres for the control of an abandoned pyramid in the middle of the jungle

My imperial army featured an expensive unit of demigryphs fielded thanks to some homerules I'll post shortly in the blog

The dwarf force was made up of hammerers plus two units of warriors and several warmachines

The ogres brought an assorted collection of monsters

While the skaven deployed their usual mass of warriors backed up by a ton of jezzails

Me and the dwarf player

The opposition

The Carroburg swordsmen were the first to climb the temple led by Ludwig Scharzhelm, the emperor's personal champion

The dwarfs opened ranks and entered the jungle

And oneshot the giant with a catapult that caused 6 wounds

The second turn saw the first charges, yethees and the ogre general smashing into the elites

While on the hill several native traps started killing gunners

First to fold were the yethees, beaten in combat by a combination of discipline and magic standards

The same that happened to the ogres, who then got caught by some unlikely speedy dwarves

On my own turn I then mass charged a unit of clanrats

Who lot half their numbers and fled

While the dwarves got a bullseye on the second unit of skavens who promptly fled

Keeping on with the charge I then smashed into the jezzails sweeping the fleeing yethees on the way

Even some leadbelchers fell to the forces of good, caught by the dwarf on open order

The skavens got a good shot with the warp lightning cannon however that wiped out my cavalry

But that also killed off the remaining jezzails

The last charge of the game saw the ogre gunners leg it

Sealing a solid victory for the human-dwarf alliance

We grabbed our post-victory lands and the campaign ended up like this: with the Empire on the lead, followed by dwarves, chaos and skaven and ogres tied up at the bottom with a single territory each

Qurveza crossing

 

Wit the Empire turn done it's time for the warriors of chaos to shine, promptly attacking the mercenary ogres in a ford over the Qurveza river

The Khorne general leds his men to glory behind a screen of hounds

But the first charge is made by the ogres, who smash into a unit of chaos knights in the ford

Sadly the ogre's player luck runs out just then, as first one of his leadbelchers blows up routing the whole regiment

And then he rolls a 9 and a 10 after losing the combat by a single point, fleeing the general and yethees only to be run down by the chaos riders

Even the ogre giant trips and falls in the next turn, brought down by a swarm of harpies

One last desperate charge by the butcher and his ogre bulls also fails to turn the tide, the hulking brutes being slaughtered by the exalted champion of Khorne and his juggernaut

The harpies eventually vanish, but by then it's too late

The giant falls the charge

And is cut down in turn by the malevolent knights

Leaving just two leadbelchers left against the victorious hordes of chaos

With that the chaos player bags another territory and ascends to the second place tied up with the dwarves. All will be decided in the big multiplayer game we've planned for this next weekend

Captain on pegasus

 

A pegasus mounted captain from Highland Miniatures joins my Altdorf army

Jungle fever

 

Another battle in Lustria today with the Empire attacking the skaven in the ruins of Huatl

The imperials move through the jungle

As their guns open fire

Both sides engage then hand to hand

With a thin line of imperials standing against the vermintide

The day goes against the Empire however

And the troops flee from the battlefield

Leaving the temple city in skaven hands