The thing in the woods

 

While the undead threat has been defeated in Reikland, peace is still hard to find. Our brave band of witchers is now targeted by the local witch hunters, envious of their success in destroying the Undying and incensed for their use of magic, a practice forbidden by the church of Sigmar

Unknown by both sides however, a pack of feral creatures have been shadowing their movements, and just when both warbands meet in the forest a terrifying howl pierces the air: the werewolves have come

The witchers promptly get first turn and charge the savage abomination close to their deployment zone

While on the other side of the battlefield a second beast smashes into some demented flagellants

Undaunted by such monster, Yennefer takes the fight to the foe scaring away one of their hounds

With T and S 5 the wolves are more than a match for the crazies, dispatching the flagellants with ease

Having tasted blood, the savage monster closes on Yen, but as ever Geralt is there to save her

Meanwhile Ciri and her crossbowmen have been blasting away at the witch hunters, killing a score and bringing them below their morale threshold

Too late alas for poor Geralt, who is wounded by a werewolf

Yen and some random zealot trade blows

But the cowardly witch hunters have no stomach for a fight against the werewolves and they flee back to Altdorf, leaving the monster hunters as sole protectors of the good folk of Reikland

Ruined manufactorum

 

The two ruined factories are a recent addition to our 40k scenery and will provide some nice cover in the eternal battle between the Imperium and its many enemies

Given that it's a Mechanicum instalation I went with a classic red for the outer surfac, that wat it ties up with other industrial elements like the furnace  painted last week and the necromunda silos 

Working in a red tinted environment would be hell by any worker, so the interior was painted in a calming cream with some baroque brass accents

So far we only had some shabby cardboard buildings to give cover so I'd like to purchase more 40K scenery in the future to bling the table up, the sector imperialis church would be nice

Ambush on the Reiksumpf

 

In their crusade against the undead menace our brave witchers have entered the marshes of the river Reik. The hunting party gets lost in the foggy swamp and suddenly the undead attack

Thankfully the humans manage to grab the first turn

And Lotho slams into some poor ghouls

On the other side of the marshes a lone halberdier charges the enemy liche

Lotho doesn't manage to take down his opponent and is soon swamped by carrion feeders, fending off their clumsy attacks with his two swords

No so much the halberdier, taken OOA by a dreg

One of the necrophages is dead, but now some zombies have joined the fight

Meanwhile the company of honour has taken good care of the enemy leader, staking the Undying with their sharp halberds

Ghouls and zombies fall before Lotho, who will get some nice advances in the post battle sequence

And with the total destruction of their vampiric leader the undead menace is vanquished from Reikland!

Sector Mechanicus: blast furnace

 

A smelting furnace to turn all that necromunda scram into something useful for one

Sector Mechanicum: power conduits

Always in the hunt for more Necromunda scenery I stumbled on a quite good deal of pipes and buildings in Wallapop which I promptly bought to bulk up our underhive terrain

The first part of the kit is a set of pipes of a quite gothic aesthetic which include two broken ends with dangling cables and a control terminal, all festooned with the ubiquitous skulls and Mechanicum iconography

As always GW terrain is chock full of little details

 

The heart of darkness

 

After rescuing the poor peasants held by the repugnant undead our heroes enter the Reikwald in pursuit of the Undying and his gang, catching them in a heavily forested area far away from civilization

Having the edge in ranged combat, the witchers keep back and open up with their crossbows

Downing a poor vampire slave

Yennefer flies forwards to cast her spells

Unfortunately she misses, and is then charged by a rotting wolf

On the other side of the swamp the necromancer hides behind a wall of ghoul flesh

Yen is injuried, but Lotho and the altdorfers come to her aid

Dicing the undead animal

In the back line Gerhart and the crossbows keep firing away, killing a ghoul

A thrall and some zombies skirt the edge of the swamp towards the imperials, but the Company of Honour charges and kills them all

With more than a quarter of the  warband OOA the necromancer flees to his vampiric master