The profanation of Oyxl

 

After their defeat at the hands of the Empire last week the warriors of chaos took the offence in the south by attacking the temple city of Oyxl, defended by the brutal ogres of a mercenary expedition

Pitching two melee oriented armies against each other the game would be quite bloody, with the followers of the dark gods centered on profaning an altar in the ogres' deployment zone

With plenty of jungle and swamp in their side of the battlefield the ogres formed a solid defensive line to receive the enemy charge

Spearheaded by a fearsome champion of Khorne mounted on a juggernaut

The chaos horde rushed forwards

trampling some carnivorous plants on the way

The fauna took its toll also on the ogres, devouring a leadbelcher and making his comrades leg it!

While the second unit blew itself to bits and also scarpered from the field

The cowardly brutes were then slaughtered by the vicious chaos furies

With the ogres still standing their ground, the hounds of chaos smashed into the foe

Being repulsed by a unit of yethees and some valiant gnoblars

The mountain beasts then charged into the foe, routing a chariot and surrounding a chaos spawn 

While the giant loomed protectively over the sacred altar

Not even the warriors of Khorne were safe, caught in open order by the butcher's unit and put to flight by a single combat resolution point

With the battle going against him the exalted champion massacred the poor gnoblars

While the yhetees made a meal of the isolated spawn

But at last it was the furies who sealed the deal, taking over the temple and corrupting it under the very nose of the giant

The ogres retreated then to the river ford up north and took a boat to the fuming serpent, while the dwarves attacked the empire in the north setting the board four the next battle of the campaign

The Golden Spire of Chotec

The gaming season kicks off with a Lustria campaign. Played at 1.500 points the first round saw all players scrambling to seize neutral territory and the imperials attacking the chaos hordes in the Golden Spire of Chotec

The scenario rolled was take and hold, which worked against the imperial gunline

But undaunted the men of Altdorf started blasting in the first turn, cutting down to size the chaos knights

Bogenhafen swordsmen and the Reiksguard seized the alter on the center of the battlefield

While a carnivorous plant emerged from a swamp eating up a bloodbeast of Khorne

The Khorne paladin emerged from cover to confront the human knights

While the chaos right flank wheeled towards the center

A combination of magic and a precise mortar shot took care of the chariot

While the valiant halberdiers routed a block of chaos warriors

To seal the deal the knights smashed into the juggernaut paladin, but the beast was so well armoured that they didn't cause a single wound!

In their last turn the second paladin slaughtered the mortar's crew, but it was too late to contest the altar, which guarded by the swordsmen gave victory to the Empire

In the map the chaos northern army retreated to Xahutec, while their southern force attacked the ogres in Oyxl, which will be our next game of the campaign

Flayerkin

The last unit I painted before going in vacation are 10 flayerkin for the warriors of chaos. Made up of heavily mutated barbarians these horrid creatures were converted from orcs with a heavy dose of chaos bits

Battle for Tlanxla

 

And so we've come to the end three warbands venture into the lustrian jungle to explore the ruins of Tlanxla, an abandoned temple city on the shores of the Amaxon river

The brave amazons deploy next to a temple to Sotek

While the ratmen and pirate invaders start to trade shots

First blood goes to a giant rat, that after taking a pirate down is slaughtered by his comrades

While their foes fight it out the amazons keep well out of the way

The skaven at last abandon the pyramid and charge against the wolves of the sea

While a lashworm pounces from the foliage on a warrior woman

And the skaven sorceror runs from a scary tribal totem

The first skaven reach the foe

And the battle quickly devolves in a fierce melee

Men and rats fight it out until the pirate captain falls

With the amazons pelting the foe with arrows all the way

Finally the amazons charge routing the skaven by killing their leader

But it is them who leg it then leaving the ruins in the hands of the pirates