Battle of Sundered Peak (Triumph & Treachery)

Okay, now the reason for the Dark Elves being there... if I remember correctly, before the battle the Skaven encountered a Dark Elf expeditionary force that was in search for dragon eggs. The Skaven promised to get them some dragon eggs if the Dark Elves would help them against those Dwarfs who are on their way to the village right now.

Golgfag Maneater and his Ogre mercenaries just happened to be in the neighborhood, and Golgfag was like "Who is that Goblin everyone is making such a fuss about? I want to see him..."

For the whole story, read it in the T&T rule book - it's entertaining.

This was a very chaotic game. Some of my notes go very much into detail, others don't. I'll try to give you a good understanding of what happend as good as I can.

As I said, the Dwarfs didn't take mercenaries. They had 8 Gyrocopters, however...

Skarsnik's special rule resulted in Queek Headtaker and his Red Guard Storm Vermin not getting deployed on the battlefield, along with two other Skaven units.

- In their first turn, the Dwarfs killed the leader of the Dark Elves and his Black Pegasus. He had good armour and ward saves, but the Organ Gun and the Gyrocopters were to much for him.

- The Hellpit Abomination survived the Dwarfs' shooting: In the first turn it was hit and wounded by the Cannon and the Grudge Thrower, and both time it failed its regeneration save, but both times the Dwarf player rolled a 1 for the multiple wounds...

- The Skaven units that were delayed by Skarsnik entered the battlefield.

- Skaven shooting killed the Dwarf Cannon.

- Poison Wind Globadiers appeared behind the Dwarfs' lines and did a lot of damage.

- The Goblin entered the battlefield in their turn. Skarsnik lead a Night Goblin unit in horde formation with a lot of Night Goblin characters in it against the Dwarfs. His unit was guarded by two single Trolls and two single Stone Trolls. Fanatics were released, killing one Gyrocopter and damaging another one.

After four turns of action, there isn't much difference in victory points between the three armies. Who will come out on top after the last two turns?

- The Hydra declared a charge against Skarsnik's only Orc unit. The Orcs failed the Terror test and fled off the board.

- Skarsnik and the rest of his unit (only characters) and the single Trolls destroyed the Organ Gun and the Grudge Thrower. The only units the Dwarfs still had were 6 Gyrocopters and the unit containing general, BSB and Bugman. But at this point, the Greenskins and the Skaven had lost a lot of units too.

- A Skaven Warlock Engineer threw a brass orb at the Arachnarok Spider, hoping for a lucky (or, from then Greenskin's perspective, unlucky) roll. The Spider passed the Initiative test.

- The Arachnarok, Golgfag and his Maneaters charged a unit of Clan Rats. In combat, Golgfag had extremely bad rolls (6 attacks hitting at 3+; rolling 1-1-1-1-1-3, so only one attack hit; it wounded at 2+, but he rolled a 1). His Ogres did much better, and the Arachnarok got 6 thunderstomps. The Clan Rats broke, fled and were run down. That took Golgfag's Maneaters and the Spider right in front of Queek's Red Guard, and the Hellpit Abomination was positioned near the Ogre's flank.

- In the last turn of the game, the Skaven player decided not to charge with Queek's unit. The Hellpit Abomination, however, was supposed to charge into the Maneater's flank, but rolled too low.

- A single Troll charged a Gyrocopter, but was defeated.

- Night Goblin magic killed some Dwarf models.

Victory Points at the end of the game:
Orcs & Goblins 1800
Skaven 1550
Dwarfs 1400

I like it - Goblins prevailed against Skaven and Dwarfs (that one Orc unit was irrelevant).

So, I won this game, but if there had been the possibility for the game to last another turn (like in normal T&T games), who knows what would have happened. Skarsnik only had 1 wound left, and so did most of the characters in his unit. That means that one more turn of Gyrocopter shooting against that unit would have gained the Dwarf player lots of VP. And then there would have been the chance that the Hellpit Abomination, Queek and his Red Guards could have scored some additional VP against the Ogres. Without a doubt, it was good for me that the game ended after turn 6.