The Storming of the Flying Fastness -5 Players Battle Royale

Here's what the players took for their Storm of Magic points (they had 450 points for that):

Beastmen: an Arachnarok Spider, the Windcatcher Prism

Chaos Dwarfs: a Curs'd Ettin (upgraded to a Level 1 Wizard so that he could be placed on a Fulcrum), 12 Giant Spiders, a Unicorn

Daemons: a Dark Emissary, a Giant

Empire: a Truthsayer, a Griffon, a Great Eagle

Dwarfs: Fozzrik's Flying Fortress, a Giant

I decided to go a little bit more into detail...

In this scenario, each player starts with one Arcane Fulcrum. The Fulcrum inside the fortress, controlled by the Chaos Dwarfs, is called the Primary Fulcrum.

The four towers of the fortress are objectives. The Primary Fulcrum is an objective too.

The player who controls most objectives at the end of the game wins. If two or more players control the same number of objectives, the winner is the one among them who controls most Fulcrums. If there is a draw too, the winner is the player who controls the Primary Fulcrum.

Accordings to the scenario rules, this game could have many, many turns. We agreed to limit the game length to six turn.

- Lots of losses everywhere right from the start. With their first spell in this game, the Daemon army loses its Daemon Prince (miscast), and their Skull Cannon blows itself up with its first shot, and their Dark Emissary (on a Fulcrum) is killed in the first round eliminated by a Beastmen spell. The Daemons have no Wizard any more. A Dwarf Grudge Thrower kills the Chaos Dwarf Hell Cannon with its first shot, the other Grudge Thrower kills an Imperial Griffin with its first shot. Wow!
- The Empire captures Fozzrik's Flying Fortress (a special Storm of Magic artifact) from the Dwarfs in the first turn.
- Shortly afterwards, the Dwarfs kill two Empire Wizards, but the Dwarf Runesmith later gets a miscast and blows himself up along with his Fulcrum. The same thing happens later in the game with a Beastmen Shaman and his Fulcrum.
- The Grudge Throwers later cause a tower in the fortress to collapse (we played with rules that allowed that to happen). In the second half of the game, the fortress is fiercely contested, the Chaos Dwarfs have to give up one section after another, but also cause some serious losses to the invaders.
- The last round is very exciting: the game is still completely open. Two Fulcrums had previously exploded and no longer exist. Two other Fulcrums are empty because the corresponding wizards/runesmiths are dead. The only occupied Fulcrum is therefore the Primary Fulcrum in the fortress which is still controlled by the Chaos Dwarfs (they have an Ettin there).
- Now in the last game turn a Grudge Thrower manages to kill the Ettin on the Fulcrum... now no player controls a Fulcrum anymore.
- The four towers that are considered objectives (one of which, as I said, was destroyed by the Grudge Throwers, but the ruins it left behind are now considered an objective instead) are in different hands: One tower is controlled by the Daemons, one by the Beastmen, one by the Chaos Dwarfs, the ruins that are an objective are controlled by the Dwarfs. Three close combats are important in the last turn: The Daemons assault the Beastmen's tower; the Chaos Dwarfs assault the tower of the Daemons; the Dwarf assault the tower of the Chaos Dwarfs. In all three cases the attack can be repelled and the defenders hold their respective tower.

Which leads to a very unlikely and bizarre result:

- Nobody controls a Fulcrum (the Primary Fulcrum included)

- Each of the Beastmen, Daemons, Chaos Dwarfs and Dwarfs control one tower objective.

- The Empire controls nothing.

There are no other victory conditons than control of objectives and Fulcrums. Therefore, Beastmen, Daemons, Chaos Dwarfs and Dwarfs are co-winners. The Empire lost the game.

Some more pics:

Since 2015.

And in 2019, we introduced "Summer Games".

That's what we did sofar:

Christmas Game 2015: Empire and Lizardmen vs. Orcs & Goblins (a 2-players-alliance against 1 player)

Christmas Game 2016: Bretonnia and Empire vs. Tomb Kings (again a 2 players-alliance against 1 player)

Christmas Game 2017: 3 players Triumph and Treachery - Chaos Dwarfs, Dwarfs, Empire

Christmas Game 2018: 5 players Triumph and Treachery - Lizardmen, Dogs of War, Empire, Dwarfs, Skaven

Summer Game 2019 Part 1: 3 players Triumph and Treachery - Beastmen, Ogres, mixed Dogs of War/Kislev list

Summer Game 2019 Part 2: 3 players Triumph and Treachery - Beastmen, Empire, Chaos Dwarfs

Christmas Game 2019: 5 players Triumph and Treachery (underground) - Dwarfs, Chaos Dwarfs, Skaven, Skaven, Empire

(no Summer Game in 2020)

Christmas Game 2020: The Battle of Sundered Peak (3 players Triumph & Treachery) - Dwarfs, Orcs & Goblins (with Ogre mercenaries), Skaven (with Dark Elf mercenaries)

Summer Game 2021 Part 1: The Gauntlet of Sorcery (3 players) - Dark Elves, Undead Legions, Orcs & Goblins

Summer Game 2021 Part 2: The Siege of Mount Bloodhorn (4 players) - Chaos Warriors, Chaos Dwarfs and Daemons vs. High Elves & Dwarfs

Christmas Game 2021: 4 players mini-tournament  - Dark Elves, Skaven, Lizardmen, Dwarfs

Summer Game 2022: The Battle of La Maisontaal Abbey (3 players) - Bretonnia, Vampire Counts, Skaven

Christmas Game 2022: 6000 points End Times game (2 players) - Black Host of Morhog vs. Grand Legion of the Everchosen

Summer Game 2023: 4 players Battle Royale - Dwarfs, Gnoblars, Empire, High Elves

Christmas Game 2023: The Storming of the Flying Fastness (5 players) - Beastmen, Dwarfs, Chaos Dwarfs, Empire, Daemons