Storm of chaos megabattle

 

And so we come to the last game of the Storm of Chaos campaign: a 4.000 points a side megabattle pitting four players in a massive fight on the road to Middenheim

Empire and dwarves hold the line faced by a horde of chaos and skaven abominations

The good guys got the first turn and started blasting way with all the guns, the steam tank moving forward and unloading the hellbaster gun into the unit pushing the screaming bell

Meanwhile on the left both Archaon and Valten rode towards one another, resolved to decide the battle in a duel to the death

Hordes of rats swarmed the road

While imperials and dwarfs fired from the safety of some ruins

On the right things were far more quiet thanks to a couple of forests that hid the enemies from sight

But then a dastardly warplock engineer leapt in and started casting lightning bolts!

On the center meanwhile the steam tank had a close run with a hellcannon blast

And then was severly damaged by the warp lightning cannon

The allied artillery answered in kind blasting the hellcannon to bits

Both cavalries finally clashed, but the astute imperial player tanked the lord of the end times with a priest equipped with van Hortsmann's speculum while Valten slaughtered the swords of chaos

All alone the supposed everchosen turned tail and ran, only to be cut down by the victorious imperials

The tank meanwhile was being swamped by hordes of slaves, but thanks to being in combat the brass orb thrown by an engineer into it bounced and landed on a skaven instead

More slaves menaced the gunline on the big hill

While the warriors with halberds were completely pastered by an organ gun

The slaves routed eventually the handgunners, pursuing them off the board

On the right side of the road things were being hampered by a ruined village, both sides getting closer and closer into charge range

The first to fall were the chaos undivided warriors, ravaged by the artillery and then pushed off the board by the hammerers

Who went on to rout yet another block of followers of the dark gods

Things went from bad to worse for the bad guys when a catapult shot started a big rout that made run the entire skaven flank

Turn five was reached and Valten and his knights charged the screaming bell, slaughtering scores of ratmen who stood their ground only thanks to being stubborn

But with just a score of units left it was all over for the forces of chaos, who beat a hasty retreat back to Kislev following their defeated champion. The empire had been saved thanks to the courage and fury of men and dwarfs!

The second siege of Brass Keep

 

The brave men of the Empire defend the Brass Keep from a horde of evil ratmen

The imperial guns roar and the first siege tower goes down in flames

From the ramparts the Altdorf arquebusiers rain death on the foe

As the second siege tower is blown apart

Things go even better for the imperials when the storm invoked by the enemy battle standard peters out, clearing the day for the guns

The hellstorm cannon takes aim and misfires, but a roll of six means that the gun fires a devastating volley that causes 30 hits on the foe

Evaporating the skaven general, banner and bodyguard unit

Undetered the rest of the ratmen march forwards

And while the handgunners die to a warp lightning the Bögenhafen swordsmen plug up the gap

It is now turn 4 and the skavenslaves storm the ramparts

Only to be hit by a comet of Cassandora, and then routed in hand to hand combat

The last skaven unit scales the walls, but after some turns of combat turns tail and flees

Leaving the Keep in the hands of its brave defenders!

The liberation of Hergig

 

With the Storm of Chaos engulfing the Empire Karl Franz takes the lead and attacks the hordes of chaos in Hergig, besieging the fallen capital of Hochland with the army of Altdorf

First breach is made in the fortress gate, broken in with massed cannon fire

The rest of the imperial army moves to the assault covered by this bombardment

While the chaos warriors cower behind the walls

Atop Deathclaw the Emperor jumps the walls and disembowels a chaos champion

Smashing next into the chosen unit

The Carroburg greatswords push the tower into the wall

While their liege is having a field day beheading followers of the dark gods with the Reikland runefang

Terrified by the bloodthirsty Emperor the chaos warriors reform and retreat

While on the walls the regiment of Khorne keeps the greatswords in a stalemate

But by then the imperial bombardment has taken its toll on the fortress, taring down a section of wall and opening the way for the halberdiers

Who seize two sections of  the city with help from the Bögenhafen swordsmen

Not even the explosion of one greatcannon can turn the tide

Sandwitching Karl and the tank the cowardly regiment of warriors 

And forcing them from the table

In just five turn the bulk of the chaos forces have been annihilated and the city of Hergig falls back in imperial hands