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A new front has been opened up in the Realm of Life, within the Scabrous Sprawl. The Stormcast Eternals are trying to wipe out the Skaven there, but Archaon has his own plans for the region…



The Story So Far
The Stormcasts, despite their numbers, had become well and truly mired in the Scabrous Sprawl, with the Skaven fighting them to a standstill. Weeks, and then months passed. Billions of Skaven died, but they were always replaced by new generations of hordes pouring from the breeding decks of the parasite engines.

More Stormhosts were committed to fight them, and so the war continued. One parasite engine had been destroyed, but the battle had cost too many Stormcasts and could not be repeated.

Battles started to spring up around fresh geomantic nodes that lay across the Scabrous Sprawl. If the Stormcasts could capture and cleanse them, they could begin breaking the hold of Chaos on the region. However, the Skaven had their designs for the geomantic nodes too. The Stormcasts blasted the nodes with lightning, while parasite engines tore them up to consume their energies. The land bucked and stirred under this continuous attack.

Something very powerful was being disturbed.

Behemat was the World Titan, a Godbeast Star Gargant of colossal proportions, in deep slumber beneath the Scabrous Sprawl. Archaon had commanded the Skaven to corrupt the geomantic nodes in a bid to turn the Godbeast to his own purpose, as he had with Ignax in the Realm of Fire.

From far away on the other side of the Realm of Life, Alarielle felt what was happening and sent a message to the Stormcasts – they must stop Archaon waking Behemat and, if they failed… they would have to destroy it.

The Stormcasts redoubled their efforts to cleanse the geomantic nodes, even as Verminlord Gnawsoul commanded his Skaven to fortify them. All around their armies, the land split and broke apart as Behemat stirred, swallowing whole forces and burying huge parasite engines.



For the full report and more piccies: https://ttgamingdiary.wordpress.com/2016/11/15/battle-report-the-shattering/