Pirazzo's revenge!!! (Battle report)

After Pirazzo and his legion returned back home to Tilea, Pirazzo could not stop thinking about an encounter that took place in the deep jungles of Lustria. A band of Skaven looted a valuable treasure , the Crystal skull, from a temple and ran away with it leaving many of the Tilean men to die under the jungle canopy. After many nights filled with nightmares Pirazzo went to the paymasters to ask for advice. They have heard rumors about a small warband of Skavens lurking about. Furious Pirazzo gathered some mercenaries at the local tavern and went on his bloody quest to revenge his fallen men and to obtain information about the whereabouts of the Crystal skull.

The skaven warband that had been lurking about were none other than the soldiers of Mawg's Entwined, a skaven clan that originally was a part of Hellpit's clan Moulder but had parted a while back creating their own clan. The Mawg clan were now searching for a new settlement and a group of them were ambushed by Pirazzo in the woods outside of Tilea.

Armies:

 Mawg's entwined warband (skaven Hell Pit)

Master Moulder: Mawg

2 packs of throtlings

1 pack of giant rats

1 mutated rat ogre

Pirazzo's new legion (dogs of war)

10 Pirazzo's lost legion

9 pikemen

Deployment:

Turn 1: Pirazzo ordered his men to open fire upon the skaven throtlings but the bolts from the crossbows did not manage to cause the horrible creatures any harm.

Mawg screamed at his rabid troops as his whip cracked. The warband rushed against the human soldiers.

Turn 2: As the skaven came closer another volley of bolts rained upon the skaven ranks and some of the foul ratmen fell dead to the ground.

Mawg's throtlings neared the pikemen who on the sight of the horrific creatures gave in to their fear and started fleeing.

Turn 3: Pirazzo could see in the corner of his eye the hired pikemen fleeing "those cowardly, unworthy no goods, never again will I hire men from Otto Fatman" he cursed. Taking the matter in his own hands he charged furiously down the hill bellowing "Taste steel vermin demons!!!". Mawg sees the Tilean captain slaying his soldiers and order his troops to flee.

Mawg's whip cracks and he gnarls an order to the huge rat creature "Go kill kill all human thingzss" the hideous beast directly turns around while the rest of the warbands runs off to safety.

Turn 4: Pirazzo maneuvers his men to take position if any of the ratmen would tun back.

The two headed rat ogre runs towards the regiment roaring with saliva drippings from its mouths.

Turn 5: "Fire at will!" order Pirazzo and crossbow bolts start to fly against the huge beast.

 But the creature wont fall, the damaged beast continuous to approach the regiment, still roaring. More and more bolts hits the creatures entwined fleshy body. "Embrace!" screams Pirazzo as the great rat ogre smashes into the wall of pikes. Vast amounts of blood and mutated entrails were dripping and falling down on the ground before the lifeless body heavily fell down on the ground.

Aftermath: No ratmen had been left alive so no information about where the Crystal skull where could be obtain. But Pirazzo had also something else on his mind, that merchant Otto was going to pay for hiring him such useless soldiers.

When Mawg felt he was in safe distance from the battle he ordered some of the stronger of his throtlings to go back and drag back the rat ogre. If the beast could not be revived some of his body parts surely could be used to enhance some other of his beasts.

Battle fought: 2015-03-28

//Karl and Jimi played the game