Stormfiends VS Bloodthrister - Skaven vs Demons - 2500pts

The scouts had been right, he could feel the pull of the warpstone meteorite, it must be large. As his personal entourage approached, the walls of reality seemed to twist, until ahead near the crash sight the veil was piereced and out poured a demonic host. His horde was large and he had time to array them for battle, time enough to bully his lackey's.

When Drew and I was arranging this game, we got talking about what other games he has lined up, he mentioned he was using his demons in a 40k game, and I asked him if he would bring them to our fantasy game as I have never fought against that army before, he agreed.

Skaven Army

Grey seer on screaming  bell, with fencer blades, earthing rod, Dragon bane gem and Skalm

Fell blade Warlord with shield.

Chieftain BSB 4++

3 units of 50 slaves with Mus.

50 Stormvermin, full command.

2 units of 9 gutter runners, poison and slings.

1 Warp Lightning Cannon

2 units of 3 Storm Fiends
 2 rattling cannons and 1 wind laucher
 1 ginder fist, 1 doomflayer gauntlets and 1 with shock gauntlets.

2 rat darts

Verminious horde.

Demon army

Kur'gath Plaguefather
Bloodthirster
Herald of Nurgle, locus of Contagion, on palanquin.
Masque of Slanesh
35 Bloodletters, standard and musican
20 Plague bearers, standard and musician.
3 Bloodcrushers, champion.
5 flesh hounds.

Skulls for the skull throne!

Blood for the blood God!

      I was very impressed with the new Bloodthirter model, and the great paint job Drew had done to it, so I snapped a few quick pictures to show it off, for him.

Magic

Demons - Curse of the leper

Skaven - Warp Lightning, Howling warpgale, Death frenzy, Scorch

Depolyment

Field of battle.

Demons left to right - Fleshhounds, Bloodthrister, Bloodcrusher, Bloodletters, Plaguebearers, Kur'gath, Masque of Slannesh.

Skaven left to right - Ratdart, Slaves, Slaves, Stormvermin and Bell, Slaves, StormFiends, Ratdart, Warp Lightning Cannon.

"Fool-idiot, there will be no malfunctions this time, or your head will be forfeit." Grey Seer Kye Snarled at him, Engineer Drew knew when to keep his snout down. "No-no, most benevolent of seer's all will be well with the cannon." The last malfunction had looked supicous, though nothing had been proven, and no link lead back to the canny engineer, the grey seer was a suspicious one.

Demon Turn 1

The Demons rush forward, to get at the rats as soon as possible. Masque of Slannesh runs for the skaven cannon. Bloodthrister flies over the impassable rocks to get on the skaven flank.

Demons attack.

Demons reign of chaos, is the Storm of fire it hits the Plague bearers, gutter runners, left slave unit, both rat darts and the Storm Fiends.

Storm of fire, sweeps the battlefield.

After 4 of their number drop, one unit of gutter runners get spooked and flee the field.

1 claw of gutter runners flee.

"Most wise engineer, I have got-taken the bolt's you asked for" The first year warplock held the offending bolt's in an out stretched paw. "as you asked no-one saw-heard me." A wide toothy grin spread across his master's snout, no longer low, deft claws drew and fired a pistol before understanding could register on the apprentice's face.

Skaven Turn 1

Slaves are pushed forward. Bells holds back a little, let the slaves die for a while first. Fiends turn and take aim on the Masque of Slannesh. Rat darts move to intercept the flesh hounds in the left flank, and the Masque on the right.

Horde advances.

Bell rings and the unholy noise pushes the bell forward another 5 inches (right where it had tried to hold it back from). The seer, realising his unit will be charged, works the stormvermin into a death frenzy, and calls forth a warp gale to hold back the large angry demon on his left.

Bell lurches forward

*CLANG* The unholy clamour of his bell was off note Grey seer Kye noticed on the first ring. As his bodyguard lurched forward, the grey seer was already scrambling across the scaffolding to see why it had rang off note. 

He need not have worried about the Bloodthirster, the cannon crew had similar concerns and put a blast through him, and a flesh hound behind him.

Bloodthirster dies.

Gutter runners skirted up behind Kur'gath and unleash their strongest poison apon him. Doing 5 wounds.

Poison is potent

Storm Fiends with their rattling cannons unleash death on the Masque of Slannesh, banishing him/her back to the warp.

Hot warp lead, shreds the Masque.

Demons Turn 2

Charge! Bloodletters assualt the Bell. Crushers charge the slaves. Flesh hounds attack the rat dart.

Khrone demands Skulls!

Kur'gath casts Curse of the leper on the bloodlettets to their obvious disgust. He also shoots at the gutter runners, kills 3, the rest panic away from him. Flesh hounds eat the giant rats.

Fleshhounds dine on giant rat.

Bloodcrushers kill many slaves, but there are still many more. Death frenzied stormvermin kill 5 Letters, and lose 7 of their own. Grey seer takes a wound.

Main Melee

Skaven Turn 2

Storm Fiends tunnel up behind the Demon lines, they see Kur'gath is wounded and go in for the kill, Mr Fellblade, can also see a Charge path at Kur'hath if he goes alone. But once out in the open losses his nerve, a and stumbles to a standstill.

Mr Fellblade, caught out in the open.

Now at the top of the scaffold Grey seer Kye could see the problem, the bolts where gone, the axle out of line another ring would snap it completely, the rat orge ringer was already pulling it back, no time to warn the others,the grey seer did the only thing he could do, save his own hide....

BOOM! The Bell rolls triple six and explodes with Apocalyptic Doom!!!

Mushroom cloud!

The skaven casualties are massive!

Two thirds of my infantry dead in one explosion.

Windlaucher, scatter of target and hits Mr Fellblade.

Treacherous fiends.

But the Rattling cannons are effective and decimate the Plaguebearers

Shredded bearers

In combat, the Stormfiends do one wound to Kur'gath, he attempts to kill the fiend with the doomflayer gauntlets does 3 wounds, stormfiends lose combat but hold their ground.

Storm Fiends assault the Demon leader.

Bloodletters slaughter most of the remaining stormvermin, but the rats flee the combat, out running the Bloodletters.

Flee!

With the poison wind clearing around him, the first thing Mr Fellblade see is the stormvermin running, he panics himself and runs. As do the unengaged slaves.

And me, Flee!

Bloodcrushers break the slaves, but lose one of their own in the ensuing panic.

A cornered rat bites back.

Demons Turn 3

Bloodletter chase away the Stormvermin, then redirect and also chase away the slaves.

Stop running away we want combat.

Bloodcrusher chases away the other fleeing slave unit.

Cowards! Stand and fight me.

Reign of chaos calls another unit of plaguebearers to the field.

Storm Fiends finally kill the plaguefather. They reform the face the Heralds back.

Skaven Turn 3

Combat Fiends charge the Herald of Nurgle in the rear. Cannon shoots at the last bloodcrusher, but fails to do enough wounds to kill it.

That the best you can do?

Rattling cannons rip into the Bloodletters, while the Herald of Nurgle slaps one of the Combat fiends.

Fiends assault.

Combat fiends lose combat, and are chased down.

Papa Nurgle will be pleased.

Mr Fellblade is killed by his own fell blade.

Dam you fellblade, he almost escaped.

Shooty fiends flee after seeing their combat friends fiends broken from combat.

Fleeing fiends.

Demon Turn 4

BloodLetters charge the fleeing fiends and push them to the very table corner. This panics the giant rats set up to stall the Plaguebearers.

why won't anyone fight us?

Clearing the way for the nurgle Plague bearers to charge the cannon.

We bring Nurgles rot to your cannon.

And kill warp lighting cannons crew, and smash the war machine.

Glorious Rot!

Skaven Turn 4

With nothing but the fiends left on the table, and them about to flee of I am ready to shake hands when............ The Fiends rally!!! Going down fighting!

Here is where we make our stand!

Demon Turn 5 

The summoned plaguebearers, flush from their victory against the cannon, turn and charge the fiends, stand and shoot takes most and the rest of the nurgle filth is bludgeoned and stomped in combat.
All the khrone demons are out of charge range, so they speed as quickly as possible to encircle the Stormfiends!

Dakka Dakka!

Skaven Turn 5 

Shuffle and shoot. 7 bloodletters die in a hail of warp lead.

Eat warp bullets Demons.

Demon Turn 6

Khrone charge! Bloodletters are out of range. Stand and shoot kills 2 and a half flesh hounds. Bloodcrusher charges but can't close the gap.

No bad puppy!

Fiends deal out 2 wounds, win combat but the last hound hold.

I said sit!

Skaven Turn 6 

Stuck in combat, the fiends are unable to shoot. So they kill the last hound in combat.

Naughty puppy.

Demon victory!

What a game, the bell exploding turn 2 was unexpected, but made for a fun game fighting a rear guard action. 

As the remnants of the skaven horde filtered back into the underdark, Engineer Drew was there to take charge, slaves where re chained, stormvermins loyalties where brought, and the Grey Seers name was spoken like a curse. So far the coup had been successful, now gathered before Engineer Drew, the clanrats and stormvermin listened as the engineer told them how only he could lead them from such a disaster. Unseen a grey clad figure entered the cavern. Fur singed of on side of his face, a single word escapes his snout in a hiss "Traitor!" Black lightning Arc's across the cavern......