Battle for the Dark Keep (aka Fracas in the Forest)

Game Setup: Four Players. Free for all. 3000pts.

Each General starts with a piece of a Relic (1/5) and a Tzeech prince in the Dark Keep has the 5th. Each General attempts to take the relics from the other generals (by killing their asses dead) and destroy the demon. Each piece of the "demon heart" relic gives the owner a power boost, determined randomly. Highest points wins the game and gets the Emperor of slaughter trophy.

The Players

Iron Will
Playing "Tyrion's War-Host of Flame and Ruin" High Elves aka "The Intyrion Decorators"






Brandon "Teh Sex"
Playing 'Orions Wild Hunt' Wood Elves Forest Spirit Army







Lawrence "The Law"
Playing "The Black Hand of Ghar'Vallis" Dark Elves







Mark "The Angry Grandma"
Playing "Sigvald's Acolytes" Chaos Army

Turn 1

Turn Start

Demon attempts to throw some spells at us (randomly determined) Nothing goes off. All four players pool dice to dispell the "Sinking Earth" spell.

Iron Will: Wood elves move up. Dragon Mages throw some buffing spells on the units. Flaming Sword of Ruin and Courage of Anaria on Battlefield. Also drain magic. Fuck. Beefed up our

Bradon: He has just one unit of the field. All the others in reserve. They move into a forest.

Lawrence: All units move forward. No spells cast.

Mark: Chaos Moves Forward. Attempts to target Tyrion with a spell. Does not go off. Turns one of his figs into a hero with Chaos Magic.

Over All Demon Turn: He cast Chaos Compass Twice. Moved a Chaos Giant and Morthkai from the Dark Elves a few inches around the board.

Turn End

demons and dragons! AHOY!

Where the hell did they go?

Turn 2

This Turn

Iron Will: Kills the Chaos Giant with a Nasty Spell. Tyrion Blocks the stairway up the keep.
Brandon: Deploys all but one of his units around the other armies from the thick forests.
Lawrence: Charges the Treeman Ancient with Witches and he flees. Dark Elves Move Forward. Mothkai moves onto the tower and casts spells at the demon. He dispells all.
Mark: Units move up. Cast's a spell at Hydra that fails. Chaos Spawn charges Treemen and they tie out. Demon Princess and Tzeech Mage move onto the tower.

Demon Overall Turns: Casts some huge spells. Blows up a few dark elf sorceresses (fuuucck) and messes up the dragon a bit. Locked in combat with Morthkai.

Turn 3

Turn 3

Bill: Moves the Dragon onto the Demons tower. Rotated the Phoenix Guard to face the dryads. White Lions turn to wade into the warriors of Chaos.

Brandon: Dances his General and his unit around the Chaos from behind. Moves his Spirit Riders behind the Dark Elf Corsairs. Treemen still fight with the Chaos Spawn.

Lawrence: Morthkai gets defeated by the blade of Tzeech and her Pegasus flees. Cold One Knights charge and tear through the Chaos Trolls and Throg. Hydra bears down on a Chaos Mage. He survives and flees the combat.

Mark: Rallies his fleeing Mage. Charges Chaos Warriors into the White Lions. Attempts to throw spells at the Tower Demon and fails. Combat ensues.

Demons Overall Turn: Kills The Demon Princess. Destroys two harpies that charged it. Kills the Mage of Tzeech. No spells go off.

Turn 4

End of Turn:

Iron Will: Tryion Storms the castle and KILLS THE DEMON. +750 pts for the Intyrion Decorators. White Lions clash with the chaos troops. They flee. Shoots into the Black Guard.

Brandon: Charges into the Chaos Warriors with Tree Men. They push on, but Chaos holds it ground. This is not the last Chaos unit on the field, plus one Mage. Treeman charges the Dark Elf Corsairs. The Assassin pops out and cuts him to pieces. Spirit Riders charge into another units of Corsairs. Assassin pops out and cuts them to pieces.

Lawrence: Black Guard Charge and wipe out half of the High Elf shadow guard. Hydra Charges and beast-masters kill the mage. Cold Ones and General move towards the castle. I'm coming for you Tyrion!

Mark: His final unit reforms and fights hard against the Treemen. His general takes rank and cuts one down. The unit takes out a few trees over all. Trees holds.

Demons Last Turn: Cut's down the Sun Dragon. Then karks it.

Turn 5

End of the turn

Iron Will: Moved His Mage and Warriors forward and targeted the Cold One Knights for some fire damage. Began decent of the tower with Lord Tyrion, after his victory over the demon. White Lions clean up the las of the dryads in that corner.

Brandon: Evades combat with the Tree Ancient and hits the Corsairs with a heavy artillery of branchy doom. Treemen fail out to the Chaos Chosen and move to the edge of the board. SO CLOSE. Magic Phase proves worthless. Dark Elves have no casters left but still dispell a devastating Wild Hunt spell with double 6's. WHAT LUCK! Orion pushes forward in pursuit of another piece of the relic.

Lawrence: Cold Ones move away from Orion, And General Ghar'Vallis begins his climb to take Tyrion out, and claim his 2 relic pieces. Corsairs turn and shoot at the treeman. It works about as well as shooting a tree should. Hydra pushes up and finishes the wounded Chaos Mage, and the horse he rode in on. Fire breath proves fatal to another treeman. The Pegasus flies around confused without his rider. Black Guard chase the Shadow Guard to no effect.

Mark: The Chaos Chosen and the Army General fight valiantly against the tree men, but are finished off by the charging hydra.

Demon is .... still dead.