Banners Beware battle report (Pics)

Warlord Snerkritt watched the snout of the scout carefully, not because of the scar running down it but you see Snerkritt was a gray seer, but a gray seer who was born deaf.
Snerkritt learned the ways of war with a weapon not spells!  
He glanced over at Horus the human musician/rat catcher that played that marvelous instrument that hypnotized his brothers but not him due to his loss of hearing from birth.
"These beasts move against us?" Questioned Horus.
"Yesth-yesth, thhey seem to want what we have" answered Snerkritt.
"Call the swarm together, we go and end these marauders taking are live stock" ordered Snerkritt.
Horus reached for his flute and began playing a tune that made the rats around them dance and swing in mystic way, Snerkritt looked on in anger at Horus.
Horus stopped playing "Kill the beastthings! We march to the surface,” cried Snerkritt.  




The Beastmen gathered for battle



Early morning mist covered the ground as the Beastlord red eyes pierced the gloom
"One Horn, take your herds around with some hounds and kill the smoke shooters" commanded Old red eye.
One Horn nodded and obeyed.
"They are many" stated goretooth to red eye.
Red eye looked at goretooth and smiled "Sound the advance horn" ordered red eye.
The beastmen advanced on the Skaven battle lines.



Beginning of the beastmen advance




Red eye sends forth his right flank forward



And his left flank



The end of movement on turn 1 for the beastmen



Goretooth begins his first spell and "poof" the winds of magic roll double ones thus ending the magic phase.

Snerkritt begins his march to war!!!




the plague monks on the right flank advances as do a few clan rat units and the slaves are driven forward.

Gnasarak envokes his storm deamon to life, which is dispeled by gorethooth.
Queekernen conjours from his accumulator warp-lightning which is dispeled by the reading of goretooths dispel scroll.
Gnasarak conjours a warp-energy lightning blast at the first spawn doing 8 str. 5 hits!!
Only one wound on the spawn.
The councils message (jezzails) open fire on minotaur unit doing 2 wounds to a beast and The Horned ones breath (warp lightning cannon) fires on the minotaurs hit and not wounding on str. 4

Turn one ends.

Jesus Christ! How many points is this!!! That'sa boatload of skaven models.......looks good for ya in the first turn!:D

2000 point game, almost 290 models.

Old red Eye placed the horn to his lips and blew a long lengthy hollowed sound from the horn.
"Now we shall come from behind as well as in front, keep advancing" spat red eye.
"Great one, I see rats in the ruins ahead" mentioned a gor.

A small herd fails the Ld test but comes on inches away from where they should have.



A unit of hounds come on the board and threaten the flank of a slave unit with a wizard in it.



One horn comes on the board total in the wrong spot and runs behind the rocks to protect himself from the plague monks.



The rest of the Beast army advance, a third shaman screens the second Minotaur unit and chariot.







Luxurious Torment is cast on the lone ratling gun which fails to go off, Blissful Throes is cast on blue clan unit and takes 4 wounds. Saving my dice for Unseen leerker did not pay off as double 6's come up and the hounds flank the slave unit with the engineer in it  
In combat the hounds cause no wounds on the slaves and take one in return losing combat and running of the board!!!



"Send the slaves in" ordered Snerkritt



Slaves fail the fear test required to charge the spawn



Plague monks are forced by frenzy to charge the other spawn

The beastherd with the shaman grydal fleed from the charge of the slaves.


Gnasarak once again envokes his storm deamon to life, and one horn casts his dice to get rid of the spell, both dice answer 1.
The storm deamon kills the spawn the slaves failed to charge!
The Horned ones breath (cannon) and the councils message (jezzails) fire on the minotaur unit, the jezzails do 2 wounds and the cannon comes up str.8 but out of range.
the monks go into a fury and kill the second spawn.



The ratling gun spins around firing on the small herd fill many and the rest run off the board.

Turn 3

Red eye need to send in the army as he chould not restrain them anymore.
The Minotaur unit and beastmen chariot declared a charge on the plague monk unit



The other minotaur unit and beast chariot charge blue clanrat unit



Blue clan flees


The plague monks take the charge, as one horn moves behind the unit.



Blissful Throes is cast on the swarm, causig 4 wounds, Gnasarak uses his scroll to save the ratling gun from Luxurious Torment, Unseen Lurker is dispelled.

The beastigor bellows as he slames into the plague monks, the monks step aside and none are run over   :blink:   (yes all 5 impact hits failed to wound) 2 monks fall to bestigor and tusgor attacks, the minotaurs butcher 3 monks. The plague monks in turn do a wound to the minotaurs and one to the chariot  
The minotaur unit holds it's ground but the beast chariot breaks from combat, causing panic on the bestherd and one horn run from the board  

Snerkritt could not believe his luck, 2 times his units should be dead or running and yet them held  

"Send the slaves and swarm in" cries Snerkritt


The Chariot flees and is caught by the swarm


The Beastlords unit caused the gutter runners to flee towards the ratling gun (lower right side) and my own swarm came to watch  :angry:



Gnasarak fails the adjust the accumulator and miscasts causing a wound to himself and ends the magic phase. The horned ones breath (lightning cannon) fires at the Beastlords herd in the trees and kills 2 gors and 2 ungors.
The ratling gun jams and blows up.
In the combat phase the minotaurs lose combat and are run down by the plague monks.

The centigors charge a unit of slaves


The minotaur unit charges the slaves


Rat swarm get charged on the hill


Red eye's unit charges out of the woods into a slave unit


The slaves run from the minottaurs and get away


The Shaman's unit fails unruly and moves forward.


As the slaves are run down by the red eye's unit he realizes his mistake and is surrounded.


The slaves die in numbers to the centigors but hold due to the Warlord being next to them, the swarm takes wounds in return and causes none.

"Time to spring the trap" cried Horus

Plague monks charge the hounds, which flee


Horus orders the gutter runner in first then his unit and then the wizards ubit in the rear.


Red clan engages Goretooths unit


As the slaves facing the minotaur unit rally!!  That never happens


The wizards clan rat unit fails the rear charge


The last beast chariot dies from warp-lightning spell.
Red eyes challanges Horus to combat, which he runs to the back of the unit.
Red eye kills all the gutter runners and a few gores die to the clan rat unit, Red eye breaks and gets away from Green clan.

The centigors lose combat but hold, as does gorethooths unit.

Once again the Minotaurs charge the slaves


The hounds fail to rally


Red eys hides in the woods, trying to get the stargate up and running.


The centigors break the slaves and run them down. Goretooths beastherd unit breaks and get run down.


Some minor moves on my part and the game ends with a massacre for the Skaven hoard!!

Few other minor pics,