[Call of Warhammer - Rage of the Dark Gods 1.6] The End Times

[AdmiralThrawn]

Ill tidings seem to come daily from Reikland. The Empire seems hard-pressed to stem the onslaught of greenskins and Chaos. In the south however, things are still looking up. Here, the Knights of Origio march to war!

After a spectacular series of victories by Wissenland, Count Marius pledged to capitalize on the success by launching his own campaign into Sylvania. At the head of a mighty host, the Knights of Origio stuck the first blow, taking a river fort guarding the entrance to the blighted province.



The cursed walls of Fort Bracher were left only moderately guarded by the green hordes, but within them dwelled the dreaded Black Orcs, each worth ten men of Averland, if not more. For this, Count Marius himself took a relief army and brought it to aid in the fight. The battle was hard-won, but in the end the golden flag of averland flew above the fort.



To the south, raids were launched into the disputed lands of the Border Princes. Akendorf was sacked yet again, and the Orcs within slaughtered. The rebels in Broskova suffered a similar fate, though their doom was brought about by the need for the Count to intimidate his nobles and convince them to commit more troops.





All in all, the Southern Front sees victory after victory! We must now hope that the northern front can hold long enough for these triumphs to matter...

[paladinbob123]

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[AdmiralThrawn]

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[General Dragon.]

Reikland up!
https://www.sendspace.com/file/dewxe9

https://imgur.com/a/ZOyUGKj

[Mergor]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachmen...senland_34.sav

[Ramble12]

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ycn...ew?usp=sharing

Nordland

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Vaj...ew?usp=sharing

[Captain Melon]

Retook Hagendorf with OWs.

[paladinbob123]

Count Elect of Ostland saw the enomous buildup of chaos around his previous capital city at Wolfvenburg , and knew there was little he could do against such numbers, but one chaos army had taken and occupied Wandergart, and it was in this vein with the small ostland navy that he swung his force that were aboard the fleet ,around to attack this isolated stronghold of the eastern chaotic armies.



The grandmaster of the bull likewise bought up his knights and the forces at Wurzen marching them down the coastal road, where the two forces joined on firm land and marched upon the unsuspecting city of wandergart , as the chaos warriors jeered from the walls looking forward to show their prowess in battle. Flags and banners waved in the wind as the two armies deployed side by side surrounding the city ,whilst most of the troop readied itself as battalions to counterattack any chaos warriors that tried to attempt a sally. A few of the local citizenry escaped the city and told of tremendous suffering of the people inside, where even some empire soldiers had converted themself to heretics to escape death at the hands of chaos. Such vile actions infuriated, Valmir and he allowed to spread in the army, the priests of Sigmar who gave long speaches about the depravity of Chaos , that is was not what it seemed , and indeed that corruption would destroy them at the end, which boosted morale and fired up the troops, who all called for the heretics to burn,as they trooped primed themself for combat.

The cannon made shortwork of the gate and gatehouse , and a surprising number of chaos warriors fell on the gate, to the explosions that rent stone and sent it flying backwards into the city from blows from the iron shot of the cannon.



"Come my children!" , shouted Count Valmir , "Leave no heretic alive", he screamed, before drawing his sword and running into the city alongside his own men, the elderly man,some said he was not quite in his own mind gave him a sense of invincibility in his madness and his men picked up on the vibe and rain alongside him , seemingly sharing his madness. A group of Bloodcrushers of Khorne with some Chaos warriors held the entrance into the city, amongst the rubble of the gatehouse, and the empire troops screaming their madness ,hate and pain attacked them en-mass. The bloodcrushers of Khorne small in number, killed men left right and centre, but the numbers just kept coming , until one, then two , then more of the evil chaotic things were dragged to floor and hammered into oblivion by many blows.



One significant fight was between a mighty Chaos warriors in his massive armour and the grandmaster of the Bull fought [both where equally sizable warriors].The Chaos warrior heft a mighty blow with its strangely marked two handed sword, but the grandmaster took the hit with his mighty axe, a treasure forged from two captured axes from a beastlord. With the blow of the sword caught in the axe, he let the axe drop slightly taking the weight out of the blow and then twisted, the blade caught in the curved shape of the axe. The Chaos warrior called out in alarm as his arm was caused to rotate in a fashion not suitable for a arm joint [as he was still holding the rotating blade],and he resisted it for a while ,his chaos infected limbs strengthened beyond a mortal mans, but even he had to release the weapon. It was at this time, that the Old Grandmaster leapt from his horse using the weight of his whole body , transferring it to a two handed blow with his axe , ripping though armour and tearing half of the neck of the chaos warrior out, as it sighed once, and collapsed to the ground. Men all around seeing the combat flooded into the city taking heart at the sigh of a mere man felling a chaos warrior and other heroic deeds where done that day, although not all were recorded.

Once the city had been taken the heretic men of chaos dropped their weapons and sort to hide themselfs within the population, but they gleefully pointed each and everyone out, where they were put to death , [as well as perhaps a few other people, some of the city used the opportunity to takeout long grudges and vengeance to their rivals taking advantage of the panic]



Turn to Talabecland [i shall do tommorow]

[paladinbob123]

Count Siegfried looked at the overall map of the empire and perhaps knew this might be it for the empire, for the attacks of the orks and from the forces of chaos had not reached the zenith of what they could do & what they could bring, neither had the leader of the Waaagh nor the leader of the Chaos forces appeared , but yet the empire was already on its knees'. With the ork's still occupying most of Talabecland, Stirland and the League of Ostermark, they now proceeded to push northwestwards crossing the river Reik, with the Capital of the empire itself, Altdolf, to their southeast,well within their reach in the emperor's own state, Reikland. But with the additional struggle of the empire , holding back the Chaos forces, which had surged to now at least 8 full armies of chaos marshaled at Wolfvenburg, against only 4 armies of Middenheim and 2 armies of Reikland and one of Talabecland to stop them, the situation was ever darker...for each of the armies of Chaos and ork's where exponentially stronger than any one army of the empire.


[green -orks push [green dots-centre of orks power}, red area - chaos push [red dots centre of chaos power] ]

It would mean the empire would have to find many more armies to beat the invaders and do it in such a way that they would have a army left, to retake ground lost, and rebuild before the next waves arrived , and such a thing was unlikely indeed. Count Siegfried rolled up the marked map, looking grim and keeping the news from his own men, for fear that despair would eat at them, if they knew the true situation of the empire.


league of ostermark[subbed]

placed under the temporary command of Talabecland to hold the fort, and secure the lower crossing point at Wolfs run river





The eastern orks assault moving slowly westwards into the last pockets of stirlands settlements had halted..whether by luck, providence, or perhaps even Averlands counterattack in the southeast, the people of Stirland knew not, and with the ork's battle groups above them to the north moving forward, it provided opportunity for them to recapture orkish ground, so they struck Kemperbad with a quckly made scratch taskforce , storming the city which was lightly held after the 2 spies had done their work of opening the gate before the attack





turn to averland
https://www.dropbox.com/s/dkhahkpmgq...d_34a.sav?dl=0

[AdmiralThrawn]

Count Marius grinned in satisfaction at the thousands of slain Orks littering the field of battle before him. True, he had lost a great many men himself, but the battle was won. The Orks had tried to regain the river crossing and they had been driven back with sword cannon. Now their armies in Sylvania were scattered.

Scattered, but not defeated. Despite their losses the Orks still possessed close to six full armies in Sylvania, all told, and more were arriving every day. Even though Count Marius could charge in and kill a great many Orks, his armies would inevitably be surrounded and slaughtered. Still, not all was lost. Reinforcements were arriving from Averland every day. Given that, the Count ordered his already outnumbered forces to split. Sir John Tirvald took his knights east, along the south bank of the river, killing Orks as he went. To the north, Count Marius raided and sacked the Ork camps on Fang Island. With these victories, the Count had his forces dig in, taking an aggressive position for future attacks.





Orks up!

PS: Can the GM clear my save so others can coordinate with it? Thanks!

[paladinbob123]

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[paladinbob123]

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[General Dragon.]

Reikland up!
https://www.sendspace.com/file/mjbm3z

Grimgor pushed forward his great horde of WAAAGGHHHH armies, gazing his sight on the great city of Altdorf and how it is so close to secure his "grand prize".
https://imgur.com/L6DVfyb
Meanwhile the Green Tide tried to push throught the fortifications Averland put up, but alas the greenskins were routed.
https://imgur.com/nmMthPY
https://imgur.com/hrdjBZF

The hordes of chaos stopped in Ostland as, they were ever so sure about their victory the forces of Chaos were ordered to wait for their Great Champion, Archeon the Everchosen to arrive, before once and for all sweeping down the mere mortals of the Empire. Archeon's presence is getting felt closer and closer everyday, as his warhost slowly arrives into Empire Lands.
Chaos actions:
https://imgur.com/s51bUNR
https://imgur.com/KqE2hgi
https://imgur.com/Mv7ywfD


However a small glimmer of light shined upon the Empire! Valten, the Chosen of Sigmar and heralded to be the rebirth of the divine warrior-god arrived supported by warpriests of sigmar and ulric led by Luthos Huss, while also accompanied with a great renowned witch hunter company and some of the greatest mages of the Bright Wizard college. Moreover the Kingdom of Bretonnia hearing the disasters and fearing the "End Times", sent an army of questing knights to help their fellow brethrens, the empire of men. Their army is arriving from the west into the lands of Reiklands in the coming days.

[Mergor]

Likely doing tomorrow/a day after.

*I meant saturday Although expect some good results;D

[Mergor]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachmen...senland_35.sav

RP in a week ;D

[Ramble12]

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TJ7...ew?usp=sharing

Hochland

A great day for the Empire of Men! The Orcish Warleader is dead:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-ho...ew?usp=sharing,
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LW2...ew?usp=sharing,
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Oct...ew?usp=sharing,
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1v0E...ew?usp=sharing

[paladinbob123]

the save says Hochland but it is actually nordland...so although ramble paged me, i will refer this to captain melon

[Captain Melon]

Ostland up

[paladinbob123]

done all my turns...will post it tommorow..as got a few battles and RP

[paladinbob123]

Grimgor Ironhide was dead...or that was the tale that was spun in the empire...whether it was his tremendous lust for combat that had lead him astray or whether he had been lured away from the multitudes of the horde, looking for magical treasure to make himself stronger, [perhaps spun from empire spies], it was hard to say, but he had separated himself from the main horde that now approached Altdorf. The son of the count elect of Hochland , Godwin had pounced at the chance, leading his own force against the mighty ork warboss and a sequence of battles began, leading to a running battle that ran on for days. Orks and men of the empire died, but ever more reinforcements from Plitterdorf and Count Eusebius arrived combining with their own troops eventually surrounding the warboss .



Such a fight was not easy as Grimgor had never lost a battle and perhaps this hubris was a deciding factor as most of the great orks , da immortals began to fall [Grimgors bodyguard] until Grimgor could stand it no longer, roaring out battle crys he joined the fight, laying waste to humans here and there, some decapitated by his great axe as it slid though solid plate armour as if cutting though paper. Others he hurled away , smashed by the great orks free failing arm, a blow which could incapacitate. . Slowly the humans cut the majoriy of the orks at great loss , until only a small band stood around Grimgor which was completely encircled by the human troops of the empire,as the orks still hurled insults the empire troops rushed in . Grimgor was seen falling down , bought down , by the tens or perhaps even a hundred human troops who hurled themselfs upon his person , desperate to bring down the greak ork, and finally his great frame, fell, only seen as a great human blob covering a giant mass as if to make a giant out of human moving bodies, as the weight of the bodies bore him to the ground. The body twisted and groaned a few times, as the empire troops still stamped and stabbed, [as the rest of the orks around them fell] until none of the orks breathed at all.

Exhausted by this great battle, Hochland held their banner high, and retreated to their camp , calling all their allies to come with them to commemorate the victory with a feast of meat and beer, for a heros feast to celebrate, but in their victory celebrations they did little to check on the great ork warlord and his famous weapon. It was only later in the morning when they came to organise and burn the dead , that they saw the great ork and his famous weapon was missing. Grimgor Ironhide as far as the men of the empire was corncerned was dead, and whether some of his loyal followers had claimed the body in the night ,or whether the great ork had feigned death and crawled away none could say , but the spell of the orkish waaaagh had began to break as Grimgor's spirit of invincibility had been broken.

In the west following the supposed death of Grimgor the forces of the empire had engaged the great orks army stacks of doom that marched on Altdorf in a famous week long battle , breaking the orks forces, in a great and bloody sequence of battles sending the orkish remnants back across the river teaching them not to push to deep into the lands of men. As for the rest of the horde, most were dumbfounded as the deep divisions of tribal conflict began to resurface without the commanding presence of Grimgor, and most looked to their own gains and didnt seem to act in a unified fashion.

To that end, Count Valmir heard tales of orkish raiders pushing ontowards Borkum which had only recently been recaptured by the forces of Talabecland, and not one to sit idle whilst there was a enemy which was well within his reach to attack , he used the nearby fleet to transfer his troops from the north bank to the south , and they marched upon the ork army.



Dawn the next day, saw the armies of Valmir , Count Elect of what was left of Ostland, and his son , Wolfgang assemble with what was left of the army of Ostland & some of the dwarfs recruited at Wolfvenburg moved to confront a ork warband leader called Grom, together the two sides were near equal in numbers [the orks outnumbering the humans by 200 or so] but the empire troops had the quality and experience of troop numbers , and most of the ork ranks had been filled with goblins to bring the numbers up. The battle immediately moved in the empires advantage as the unexperienced orkish commander sent most of his goblins into a headlong charge into the centre of the human ranks...which allowed the rest of the empire troops to draw up on the flanks as they ground the goblins into submission and death. The flanks soon began to cut into the goblin armys flanks , and the crushing and persistent push of the human advance eventually broke the goblins grip on the battle, with fear spreading thoughtout their ranks, they fled in panic, and most fell to the pursing humans who were furious in their anger. After the battle, apart from around two hundred casualties of dead and perhaps wounded, the goblin army suffered two thousand killed, and the rest fled southwards to Bechafen.



The army of Ostland now split as Wolfgangs portion took to camp for a week to recover but Count Valmir pushed on , knowing that the orks had another battlecommand south of the town of Borkum and he was eager to end the threat quickly whilst momentum was with the armies of men. Later that day, his army discovered the second orkish force, and they both squared up for battle both sides being around equal in size.

Both sides just stood opposite each other for some time , just hurling insults , neither side wishing to lose any advantages of defence, but both sides had underestimated another unlooked for armygroup as, the grandmaster of the Bull, Leopold von Raukou arrived with his knights and some forces of Ostland having crossed the river [using the fleets] during the night...{he had been sent north to free Emsk from the forces of Chaos hoping to pincer the Chaos incursion into Ostland] .
The sudden arrival of this new force on the orkish flank, led them to change the position of their forces, leading to confusion as the orkish forces didnt handle battle field maneuvers very well, as they fell about into fighting each other as each clan tried to shift into new ground to defend.

In the confusion both empire forces charged , and swept the orkish army from the battlefield, as the fight turned into a three way fight of orks both fighting orks of different clans and the men of ostland killing orks in the confusion and morass of battle. Short and sweet the confusion proved invaluable as the men of ostland, broke the embattled orks hurling them from the field in a state of flight as they too, fled towards Bechafen.



Valmir brought down his sword, which was covered with orkish ichor that dripped from it , handling it to a assistant to clean, his old face, beaming in a smile , as his days of youth and glory had been relived in this short battle, exhortation filled him at his second victoy , and he slapped the backs of his fellow countrymen , his morale and happyness rekindled. It was only when the giant Grandmaster had pushed forward thought the thrall of troops that surrounded the captains of Ostland, with a thunderous bleak look on his face that Valmirs smile began to vanish.

"What has happened?..... to fill you with such a grim face ....even for you, my friend?" , enquired Valmir still trying to keep some optimism, as he was given a horn cup filled with vodka

"I came from the north, my lord, and report my efforts to regain Emsk .....have failed", replied the grandmaster.
"Failed?" , asked Valmir taking a gulp of the vodka.

"yes" , replied the grandmaster, his face taking on a concerned look as his brows grew deeper and more pronounced , if such a thing was possible, "Two armies of Chaos Chosen warriors of foot&horse, with foul sorcerers had arrived from the east , dragging two hell cannons with them, .......and at their front of the chaos column.....a leader , a giant figure that many called the three eyed king or the everchosen of chaos."

The grandmaster spat on the floor , cursing the name of the man that was a previously a templar from nordland , that had been turned to become the everchosen of chaos but he looked grimly at the Count of Ostland and shook him by the shoulders.



"Its time to leave Ostland , sire...! Archeon is here with his chosen , the east is doomed" , growled Leopold , as the old man Valmir coughed out a mouthful of vodka over his nearby retinue.


{scouts report}
Turn to Talabecland[later today]