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High Exemplar Kreoss and the Vanguard of the Flame battle-group clash with Kommander Sorscha and the Pride of the Motherland, for control of the Temple of the Red Skull...

Forces:

KHADOR



Sorscha
Decimator
Juggernaut
Man-o-War Shocktroopers (5)





MENOTH



Kreoss
Vanquisher
Crusader
Repenter
Exemplar Cinerators



TURN ONE



The forces square off, and Khador wins the first turn. Khador advances to the temple perimeter... setting up to claim the Temple of the Red Skull for the glory of the Motherland!!!

The Juggernaut, the Decimator and the Shocktroopers run forward and ready to repel any attack...



Menoth moves forward and prepares to burn the infidels from Khador with the righteous fires of Menoth's wrath!!!



Kreoss casts Defender's ward while the Menoth troops charge forward into the Temple's perimeter. Sorscha casts fog of war to obscure the pride of the Motherland, and takes up a defensive position behind the temple's crumbling walls...

TURN TWO

Khador repositions, and the Shocktroopers crowd into the narrow corridors to deny the Menoth forces the advantage of greater numbers... the Juggernaut and Decimate move forward ready to smash the Religious right into the dust...



Menoth moves into the temple and positions themselves for battle...



Kreoss casts defender's ward and Lamentation.

TURN THREE

The Khador troops survey the situation and do not like the match up as it stands... the Juggernaut and the Shocktroopers swap positions, with the 'Naut squaring up against the Conerators and the Shocktroopers squaring up against the Repenter...



The shocktroopers fire, but only manager 4 damage... The Decimator fires and scores a solid hit on the Crusader, doing 8 points of damage to the Crusader's body.



The Menoth Vanquisher moves into the Temple floor and fires it's Flame belcher into the flank fo the Shocktroopers, killing one and setting 4 ablaze!



The Repenter fires it's Flamethrower into the Blazing Shocktroopers, but fails to damage them as the flames flickers and dies upon the red hot armor of Khador's Finest.



Kreoss moves forward and activates Menoth's Wrath, knocking the Khador's finest to the ground!!!



TURN FOUR

Khador's finest return to thier feet as the Menoth troops fall upon them, the Decmator fires its Dozer cannon and kills a cinerator... Sorcha casts Fog of War and fires her Hand Cannon, but fails to hit...

the Repenter charges the shocktroopers beating them with it's warflail, but failing to kill.

The Vanquisher see's Sorscha is now exposed and picks its way through the temple's dias and runs forward to close the distance, while the Crusader charges the Juggernaut, the flames of its inferno mace cripples the 'Naut's open fist and a good potion of it's body...



TURN FIVE

The Juggernaut beats the Crusader senseless, but fails to wreck it, the Decimator charges the Cinerators hoping to take a few out quickly... and kills 2





The Shocktroopers easily dispatch the Repenter and wheel to face the Oncoming Vanquisher, damaging it lightly...



The Decimator attacks and the ripsaw spews blood and sinew into the air as 2 more Cinerators and eviscerated.



The Crusader wrecks the Juggernaut, and limps forward still battle ready, and joins the Vanquisher in facing the Shocktroopers...



Kreoss moves forward to better make use of his spells Lamentation, Cleansing fire and Defender's ward.



TURN SIX

The Crusader and the Decimator are both wrecked this Turn, but not before the Decimator kills off the last of the Cinerators before being burned out of existence by Kreoss.

The Vanquisher uses it's Thresher attack to wipe out the remaining Shocktroopers...

Sorscha is now alone, and facing a weakend but functional Warjack and the burning righteous wrath of Kreoss, who makes use of Lamentation and Defenders wrath on both the Menoth Models left.



Sorcha has no choice and she will not be denied victory no matter the obstacle. She charge forward repeatedly bashing the Vanquisher using her years of training and critically freezes the Vanquisher. Kreoss moves into charge range and burns Sorscha for 13 damage, wounding her greatly.



TURN SEVEN

Sorscha buries Frostfang into the cortex of the Vanquisher wrecking it and makes use of Wind Rush to move out of the charge range of Kreoss, and behind the crumbling walls of the temple, buying her the precious seconds she needs to forge victory from the fires of defeat.



Kreoss will not be denied his prey and Defenders wrath and Lamentation will make sure that the power magic of Sorscha will be rendered useless against the Purity of Menoth's chosen... he moves around the corner to give chase!



[b]TURN EIGHT: Warcasters Square off!!! [b]

With a howl that would make the venting stream of a Kodiak green with envy...SORSCHA CHARGES!!!



Kreoss dodges, and Sorscha feints, missing her first hit, but as Kreoss smiles with the victory to come, Sorscha swings Frostfang in a punishing arc and buries the spiked hammer into the chest of Kreoss CRITICAL HIT!! Kreoss tastes the cold winds of the Motherland as Frostfang is buried in his chest, crushing his heart and sending him to his maker.

KHADOR VOCTORY!!!

Khador takes the win, and control of the Temple of the Red Skull... but was the cost worth it?




Overall it was an epic game!! It was my 5th game and Frank's 3rd, so we both learned alot, and had a great time into the wee hours of the morning!

Nice report, it looked like Sorcha was on the ropes there at the end. Good pics too.

Awesome game, but one question.

No Sorscha feat? Would have made killing Kreoss a ton easier.

Still, fantastic report. Great to see painted models too.

Cryonicleech wrote:Awesome game, but one question.

No Sorscha feat? Would have made killing Kreoss a ton easier.

Still, fantastic report. Great to see painted models too.

Yeah, I was holding it (Her feat) back as a last minute failsafe, since Lamentation made freezing grip a no go, but once he rounded the corner, and I knew I would be doing the charging, only the dice could beat me at that point, so I didn't need it in the end.

That was awesome!

nice report

New to the whole warmachines game. Trying to learn a little strategy and see how the game is played before I pick a faction. I gave this one a quick scroll-through to see the layout. It's a darn shame that half the pictures are broken for me. I'll just have to imagine it in my head.

Also, in my mind, whenever I read "temple of the red skull" I substituted "shrine of the silver monkey". Just thought you might want to know.