Earliest I can do this is the weekend
Earliest I can do this is the weekend
Defeated few chas armies
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With the Count elect still be held against his will, due to his mind fallen to despair and doubt, the command of Ostlands forces were taken by his cousin, the grandmaster of the Bull , Leopold von Raukov, who was not short on character nor toleration of fools or stupid last stands..
He revolted against the idea of wasting Good men for the last stand of the capital and ordered it evacuated with a order, telling the mercenary army to retreat southwards to the river, which the mercenary commander was eager to comply with, taking most of the dwarfven warriors , there with him [although at great protest] as the city was left totally empty. Leopold knew the initiative lay with the chaos armies approaching from the east, with a army and a half, and mercilessly approaching from the north with more than six armies. Good news there was from the north, as a couple of chaos armies had been broken in the northern coastline, as they were probably unused to the cold weather and ground conditions and he made a slight grimace of a smile, which frightened the younger commanders near him.
"Come my lads!.....I will not have these northeners getting all the glory , this day!... Bring around the ships, its time to sally across the river, and make some honour and victories for ourselfs! Let it not be said , that the men of Ostland , sat idle, whilst their lands were aflame!" , he shouted to the men , in heavy booming voice.
The men indeed were a little down, seeing land after land of the ostland state , again being swallowed by the forces of chaos whilst the emperor and his allies withdrew to behind the western bank of the wolfs run river, and they marched with spirits renewed to the ships which were docked nearby at the chance of fighting against the foes of humanity and actually acheiving a much sought after victory.
After a few days of sailing they neared the town of Grunwald, once a Talabecland town of note, currently occupied by over 2000 greenskins. It took a day to land the men, equipment, and supplies ready for the assault of this town, and the cannons were carefully positioned , given some protection with some bags of sand and bails of hay, and the ammunition was prepared for the next day. Men actually sang old war songs that night, passed down form other ostland armies as the veterans retold old victories and wars giving men courage for the new day.
The day of battle seemed to come all to soon, and the cannon wasted no time ,opened fire at dawn, making shortwork of the walls, and using a exploding shells began to shell the defenders within with impunity. Fully half of the greenskins unused to receiving fire without a response,sallied and ran at full pelt towards the ostland lines, but crossbows, bullets, bows were ready for them , laying down such a sheet of firepower, that the greenskins charge faltered, and then the cannons re-targeted the charge, tearing great gouges of greenskins bodies and flesh into the air, breaking others into small pieces and shattering them into the wind. Faced with the onslaught, the greenskin charge first faltered, stalled, and then broke, forcing them flee for their lives back into the town.
"For Sigmar!", cried the one eyed man , lifting a giant doubled bladed axe high in the sky so all can see, "Fleking green skins! Kill em all!" , he cried before leading a charge of his knights, leaving the rest of the men , to decide their own actions. Seeing the knights start to ride down the retreat greenskins, the rest of the men , gave a hearty cheer, and many of the companies of men, lifting their own banners high, leapt forward after the Grandmaster of the Bull inspired by his actions, eager to meet the battle at his side, and were loath not to let him fight alone....as the rest of the men followed....
Smoke, and carnage , were the main sights to see after the battle was done, as greenskins were found, scattered and splattered all around, ...some killed from the ever dangerous artillery which killed a fair few before the battle had even begun, and others were broken from the surge of angry & desperate troops of the grandmaster as he lead them to victory.
Turn to Talabecland
"War is the continuation of politics by other means." - Carl von Clausewitz
The men of talabecland , were eager to cross the river particularly when it was clear that the orks had moved towards the western borders for the moment , leaving them some elements to possibly strike at for a temporary victory of sorts and to provide their own people hope, for a time. Nearby the local people of Hochland, lent them their small fishing vessels , and together with some of the larger fighting vessels of the talabecland fleet, they sailed eastwards up river, reaching the distant town of Borkum, which now had spent most of its time under orkish captivity, pulling the fleet of little ships up near the shore, whilst 4 small and nimble men were disembarked, as they silently sneaked forward to the town just a way of the shore, in the distance, with a few lights still marking it out in the dark.
Whilst they sneaked forward, the rest of the men, slowly disembarked in the night, certainly a feat of military history, keeping packs armour and weapons silent,the took up rough positions, and sneaked as close as they dared and waiting in silence.
Two hours before the dawn, a light was waved once, over the gate, waved again, and then it was shuttered and slowly winked out of existence, and the mass of men , silently crept towards the gate, keeping things as quiet as they could , approaching the gates, whilst opened, slowly and quietly as the men of talabecland entered the settlement, slowly breaking into small fighting companies to seek out the sleeping orks, and remove their presence from this world. The work was stealthy done, and most of the orks were down before they could mount a effective defense, and only the last bunch of orks had any real fight in them causing the attackers some small amounts of losses as they retook this town.
turn to league of ostermark
https://www.dropbox.com/s/q4d7vuoc5c...rk_32.sav?dl=0
"War is the continuation of politics by other means." - Carl von Clausewitz
League of Ostermark [subbed]
1 orcish spy near the river killed by assasination...
Stirland [subbed]
stirland spies finally locate and report on the two orkish concentrations...provoing that the orkish threat is not broken , nor finished merely sleeping as it gathers its strenght...for now
Averland up
https://www.dropbox.com/s/qim0rwidzx...nd_32.sav?dl=0
"War is the continuation of politics by other means." - Carl von Clausewitz
"Moov along you gits" shouted the Orc overseeing the vast column of goblins entering the ruined fort on the banks of the River Aver. Gazing around in fright, they saw arrayed across the fort's grounds in almost a perverse dance, the bloody corpses of thousands of greenskins. Every five feet the walls were blasted in by cannons, and the Goblins needed to spend days just burying the corpses.
Finally, after a week of work, the fort was once again ready for battle. The walls were patched up and the goblins in the garrison were beginning to find some sort of courage. Then, one night, a commotion was heard at the nearby fords. Scouts were sent out and never returned. All night the goblins cowered in their fort listening to the sounds of saws and hammers outside the walls. Then, finally, as dawn broke the bombardment began. By dusk every single goblin lay dead, with the comrades they left guarding Hornau soon to follow them.
Orcs up!
bump
"War is the continuation of politics by other means." - Carl von Clausewitz
Got several turns on me right now, so I will be finishing this either today in the evening/night or tomorrow at one point.
"The Dragon is wise, a sage among the ignorant. He knows not all that glitters is gold."
Reikland up!
https://www.sendspace.com/file/encitg
https://imgur.com/sb3cKpv
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Also took Wolfenburg and sank the Nordland fleet, but somehow Ii forgot to make pictures. (Only realized when I was editing them.) Both were with overwhelming forces of mine defeating really low amount of forces, so if no one minds I won't reload to make them.
"The Dragon is wise, a sage among the ignorant. He knows not all that glitters is gold."
Done this week, I am swarmed with online university work
Absolutely huge turn. I feel like we either win or lose this hotseat this turn, so further extension needed to talk to others.
Reminder sent
Proudly under the patronage of General Brewster of the Imperial House of Hader
Proud patron of 4zumi, Akar, CommodusIV ,Swaeft and Peaman
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FuX...ew?usp=sharing
Nordland
6 Orcish stacks defeated:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/12GW...ew?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Lob...ew?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DEF...ew?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dzo...ew?usp=sharing
Retook Hargendorf with OWs
Ostland up
The situation in what was left of Ostland was dire, and with the forces of Chaos fast approaching the defences which were uncertain whether they had enough strength to hold against another assault of chaos armies..
The count of Ostland with pitful forces still left mustered a brief countertattack on the Town of Wurzen which had been attacked by Chaos forces that had perhaps pushed on to far forward , eager in their haste to reap the bounties of untouched Ostland settlements and had broken open the defences with their chaos hell cannon..but the Count had responded with a full army of golden clad mercenaries at his back mounting a river coastal assault using the cannons onboard the ships to break walls and make a path for the troops to attack, and with the aid of vengeance of dwarfs who sung hymns of forging as they struck down the chaos warriors , reclaiming the town..for the moment.
The men of Talabecland again shifted the weight of their troops back westwards having the river blocked by a hochland vessel and preventing the counterattack they had planned to mount with hochland perhaps on kislev, and had to settle to waiting aboard ship near the river near Herzig . South of the river they had to report movement of a few orkish armies but none seemed to have the massive ork artillery that all feared.They did however see a massive orkish buildup near the reikland border, giving all fears that if that battlegroup pushed against the last bastion of hope for the empire, that all might be lost.
The last few dregs of the men of Ostermark where brought together at the orders of the emperor and the old count looked at the pitiful number of men he could just about band togather..they all filed into the fort near the river at the edge of the river to give their lives trying to buy the empire, a little more time. The old Count wiped a tear from his eyes, knowing this would be his last battle, but at they very least his son was safe[for the moment] sent away to the west, in the pretense of getting him to bring back reinforcements that had never existed....
As the young prince rode over the hill , he looked down to see a disparing sight of the town of Reiksbogg where the sembleme of a town existed, barely visible as a human settlement and certainly without the massive military areas he was hoping to see...even worse, was that the bay below it was swarming with chaos sailing vessels and flagships, and perhaps now this Son of Ostermark knew there was nowhere to run too anymore...
there was perhaps a slight positive note as the ostermark assassin sunk his dagger in a converted chaos supporter who was acting as a spy observing the defences being built on the river , wolfs run , which would not be able to report back to his masters..
There was more bad news from stirland , as after the recent Averland offensive last season, the orks decided to advance westwards towards the last living areas of stirland, in the wake of their advance of 4 armies [2 with artillery] the stirland forces deserted Potting and started to concentrate the last of their forces to defend their last real remaining stronghold at Flensburg, as Volgen to the north was far to weakly defended, and could not be held against the mass of orks nearby and was sure to full against any pressure..
Turn to Averland
https://www.dropbox.com/s/5gqlygo9wo...nd_33.sav?dl=0
Last edited by paladinbob123; April 19, 2020 at 08:34 AM.
"War is the continuation of politics by other means." - Carl von Clausewitz