Battle for Xahutec

This friday it was the turn of the Empire to attack and I went for the chaos army in Xahutec

I had packed a lot of melee units to counter my last defeat in hand to hand combat, but the scenario rolled was a simple pitched battle

With no need to rush to the foe I deployed all my imperials on the table edge, placing the artillery on the steps of a lustrian pyramid

Then the gods of dice smiled on me as my first jungle peril opened a quicksand pit that swallowed an entire unit of chaos knights

Followed by one of the champion of Khorne

Losses that routed also the chaos hounds in front

Then came my shooting phase, in which I downed both  spawn of Khorne

The chaos player moved only a bit in his first turn, putting the furies on top of the temple

And throwing a nasty swarm against my guns

Taking this chance I concentrated fire against his exalted champion and one cannonball ripped his head right off with a magnificent shot

To add insult to injury the furies killed themselves charging the Reiksguard

And the chaos barbarians were swept away by a swordsmen detachment

Leaving just two units against the victorious imperial army

It was an easy victory, and the hordes of Chaos were evicted from Xahutec and fled to the remote temple city of Tlax

Dire wolves

 

Painted some unded doggos to play as chaos hounds in my warriors of chaos army

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