Warhammer Old World Escalation campaing 1, game 3 Megabattle

 

For the third and last game of our Escalation campaign gaming day we decided that instead we would have a megabattle, as we were six player it was easy to split up into two equal forces. Chaos marauders, Skaven and Night Goblins would be facing Bretonnia, Tomb Kings and my High Elves. Each with a 500pts force, so 1500 vs 1500pts.

The scenario we played was to have champion on each side face each other and the winner would give his side the first turn.
The bad guys decided to bring forth a champion riding a big beast, to win the combat. We instead opted another tactic... We sent forth a skelington champion... He could always be resurrected when he loses the challenge...

After some intense dice rolls we had a winner...

Maybe not to any surprise the squig would kill of the undead champion... No matter he can always return... 

Bretonnian knights are seen charges right into the fray.
Skavens are in their path...

But to all our surprises the knight totally failed their charge, the rat men was victorious and the knights fled in an attempt to save their lives...  

A large unit of Bretonnian infantry having just won a combat against some Chaos marauders pushes forward and are here battling a unit of Night Goblins.
Granted, the Marauder had been soften up by longbow archers and were not to strength to face them.  

On my flank I had charged a unit of Night goblin with my Ellyrian noble and a unit of Ellyrian Reavers.
The fanatic that I faced had taken its tool when I tried to close in...
And all that was left after some round of combats was my lone noble...

A lone fanatic is here seen tornadoing around my backfield as my noble tries to hold up the Night goblin by him self.

But it was not to be, and he fell to all those sharp spears.

My cavalry are here seen moving up, the plan is to help out the undead by a massive flank attack. Hopefully this could be a massive shift in this bloody battle.

Undead and Skaven are seen here facing of.

Here I missed alot of pictures.
The Chaos Marauders had a unit of "monster" a small unit had outflanked and entered from our flank or rear. 

With the mark of Nurgle and large two handed flails these massive warriors but the fear into living...
As our undead Tomb Kings pushed forward into the Skaven lines the close support for our long bow archers were thin and the chaos "monsters" had a field day in our rear...
Crushing anything in their path... 

I had no interest battling these massive warriors, as they threatening my flank the only sane option would be to flee and leave them behind...
The Tomb Kings looked as they didnt need any support so it felt better to spare the risk of the lives of my Ellryrian warriors and using the speed of my elven horses I made a "tactical redeployment"...  

When the dust settled an we counted up all the points from the battle it was decided it battle ended in a draw.

Warhammer Old World Escalation campaing 1, game 2

For the second game of our escalation campaign my Ellyrian warband cought up with some Night Goblins towing an magical stone.  

Using my speed I set the Ellyrion Reavers out on the flanks and threaten the Nigh Goblins from all sides. The Night Goblins hugged the center trying to protect the magicad stone they had raided from some Skavens.

After some skirmishing with the archery of my Reavers and my Reaver Noble I sent them in to engage the squigs.
They managed to take out the first unit of "jumpy" squigs, the Reavers tired out but the Elven Noble pushed even further and charged a unit of squigs with their herders. 

With his Ithilmar sword swinging, squigs are chopped to pieces...

My Ellyrian Silver helmes closes in...

My Elven Noble pushed the squigs and their herders back with casualties and they panicking all over the place. Some of the squigs flees packwards and forces further panicking in the Nigh Goblin lines.

But...
In the commotion one of the squigs attacked my Noble and he fells from his horse... 

The Ellyrian warband pushes forward, encircling what is left of the Nigh Goblins.

This game ended in a win for my High Elves.

A fun game that was closer then one might first think looking on the pictures. Had the Night Goblins holed on just one turn more I think the Night Goblins would have won.


Here under are some pictures I toyed with in Chatgpt. The results are somewhat mixed, some of them are nicer then others...