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Post by baaderthegreat on Dec 22, 2021 12:53:46 GMT
Hi folks,
this is was our Christmas game 2018, so I don't remember many details - but I'll give it a try.
We played the Triumph and Treachery Battle for the Artifact scenario with Dwarfs, the Empire, Skaven, Lizardmen and Dogs of War. Though this is an 8th edition game, two older army lists were used: Bubonic Court of Nurglitch for the Skaven (from the old Lustria campaign book) and, of course, Dogs of War. Army sizes were 1500 points each.
The battle took place somewhere in Lustria. The artifact that is worth 500 additional victory points is the famous Skull of Xatlyatlsoyasathippitasa, a powerful magic item. At the beginning of the game, the skull is on the top of the pyramid in the centre of the battlefield.
The battlefield
To be continued...
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Post by baaderthegreat on Dec 22, 2021 13:06:46 GMT
The jungle to the left is an ordinary forest. The one to the right is dense jungle - it can be only entered by skirmishers.
The Empire (with a unit of Demigryph Knights in reserve):
The Lizardmen:
The Dogs of War:
The Skaven:
Unfortunately, there is no photo showing the Dwarfs in their starting position... but don't worry, you'll see them soon enough.
To be continued...
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Post by baaderthegreat on Dec 22, 2021 18:46:23 GMT
Dwarfs on the march... the skull is not far away:
The Amazons and other Dogs of War units move forward:
But this time the Dwarfs were faster! (Okay, actually this isn't true... they just had the best starting position.)
The Dwarfs have it, everybody wants it:
The Skaven are the first to challenge the Dwarfs for the skull:
But the Skaven also have to fight the Lizardmen:
To be continued...
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Post by baaderthegreat on Dec 22, 2021 20:37:49 GMT
The Amazons prepare to face the Dwarfs in the jungle:
The Amazons didn't stand a chance against the Dwarfs. The Empire wiped out most of the the Dogs of War army on their side of the table:
All Skaven units have been eliminated... now the Lizardmen and the Dwarfs prepare to meet:
But the Dwarfs are victorious:
To be continued...
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Post by baaderthegreat on Dec 22, 2021 22:14:43 GMT
Okay folks, that's it. As I said, the game took place three years ago. I don't remember everything that happened.
A few things, though: - We wanted to give the whole game a strong Lustria feeling. So one of the armies had to be the Lizardmen, and Clan Pestilens Skaven seemed logical too. The Dogs of War had Pirrazo's Lost Legion (= conquistadors) and the Amazons. The Empire force was supposed to originate from the only Imperial colony in Lustria, Port Heldenhammer. The Dwarfs were a prospector expedition army. - The Skaven got crushed by their two arch-enemies, the Dwarfs and the Lizardmen. I think by turn 3 or 4 there were no Skaven units on the board any more. - The Dogs of War didn't do well either. A good deal of their army was killed off by the Empire, the Amazons got killed by the Dwarf. There was a strong Paymaster's Guard marching towards the centre, but because of a combination of Triumph and Treachery cards, the rune of slowness and bad rolls for charging they never got into a fight! - The Dwarfs took the Skull of Xatlyatlsoyasanthippitasa very early in the game and kept it until the end - so the 500 additional VPs were theirs.
When the game ended after turn 5, the VP situation looked like this:
1. Dwarfs 1900 2. Lizardmen 1700 3. Empire 950 4. Skaven 350 5. Dogs of War 0
A victory for the Dwarfs!
(However, if the Lizardmen player had been able to avoid combat with the Dwarfs in the last turn, he would have been the winner... so we see, sometimes it is wise not to fight!)
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