The Hunt for Vandus Hammerhands Head

[DestructionKev]

Hi Guys, i want to share with you a narative game which my brother, a friend of us and me had last week. 
Our friend wrote a whole Battleplan with special rules to play it. It was amazing and soo much fun. We took some pics and want to share them

 

"The Opening": 

Vandus Hammerhand and his Hammers of Sigmar defense a well-fortified position in the middle of a battlefield against the countles enemies of the Stormcast. They choose to stay there in the middle, because of the tactical advantage of their position. 

There's a bloodthirsty horde of Beasts of Chaos which follow the bloody ways of Khorne. They are led by a mighty Doombull which carries the Banner of his choosen God on his back. He is the one who want to claim the Head of Vandus to show his pure dedication to Khorne. 

And on the other side of the battlefield gathers a group of Ogors riding their mighty beasts. Led by a Frostlord on his Stonhorn, they are hungry and want to devour the next comming thing in their way. The Frostlord himself wants to claim the Head of Vandus to hang it on his belt, so he can show everyone how strong he is. 

 

"The Fight": 

First the Ogors on their migthy Stonehorns and Mournfangs charged into battle to break the line in the Stormcast defense. There were some Liberators in first line, backed up by Judicators in second line and some Sequitors in third line.  They had to take a hard hit.  
The charge of the Ogors was brutal and devastating for the Stormcasts. 
Meanwhile on the other side the Beasts of Chaos run into the lines of Stormcast with a good amount of impact, after the Shamas used their wild magic to  strenghten their bigger members of the herd. A bunch of Bullgors and a giant Ghorgon are a fearsome foe, but the light of Sigmar shielded the brave Stormcast.

Then the Stormcast strikes back. A Lord Arcanum on a Gryphcharger casted the Everblaze-Comet into the Bestigor invaders to decimate their numbers. Vandus Hammerhand guarded himself with some Celestar Ballistas and a Lord Ordinater on his high ground position. After the Commet stroke down, a volley of shots from the Ballistas and Judicators hailed over the Ogors and Beasts of Chaos. Two groups of Evocators empowerd themself and joined the battle. In the frontlines the Liberators and Sequitors fight for every inch with the big Bullgors and the even bigger Stonehorns from the Ogors. 

Slowly the attacking factions strenght weakening. The Stormcast stand their ground bravely and doesn't step back. After an other hit from the Ogors the line just looked like it would break, but one of the Evocater groups steped inside the gap and hold the line. 
At the other side of the battle, a giant Ghorgon tried to face off against the second group of the Evocators and even he blow out some seriuos hits, he was struck down. The Bullgors which are outrageously fighting against the Liberators and Sequitors hit a whole in the line and are able to kill some of the Judicators in the back. 
The fight goes back and forth, but neither the Ogors nor the Beasts of Chaos are able to weakening the Bravery of the Stormcast. And after the third volley of the Ballistas and the Judicators, some mighty spells from the Lord Arcanum which couldn't be banned by the Shamans from the Beasts of Chaos, the attackers are seriously hurt. It was that hard that they decide to take their loss for this round of the battle and retreat back to their camps outside of the valley where the battle took place. They want to regenerate and gather their strenght for a new attack.

 

"The Aftermath": 

Now, after the brutal fight was over and none of the attackers claimed the Head of Vandus for themself, the Stormcast are ensured to deffend their position. But the rage of the Beasts of Chaos and the hunger of the Ogors are growing. so maybe there will be a harder hitting Force to encounter next time. 

 

 

 

I hope you stay tuned for the second Round. We are allready planing the Conditions, etc. 

 

 

 

 

 

[Skreech Verminking]

That’s one fantastic battlereport mate!

I really enjoyed reading it a lot😁

[Fairbanks]

I have two demands:

1. If Vandus is slain, you chop his head off the model.

2. Whatever model kills him gets it put on the model somewhere.

[Sttufe]

On 3/25/2020 at 5:10 AM, Fairbanks said:

I have two demands:

1. If Vandus is slain, you chop his head off the model.

2. Whatever model kills him gets it put on the model somewhere.

Agreed, although I will forgive you if you don't because of cost, however then you could put him in as an ally in your Nighthaunt army, a headless SCE who is angry at his followers for no protecting him!