Chapter 5: A Dark Forest

After the slaughter at the beach head, I ordered the Lothern Sea Guard to start building our outpost 'Oriour Dakthai', meaning Blood Claw in remembrance of the blood the Legion has spilled on this beach.

In front of us was a dark forest that needed to be explored in order to secure our Oriour Dakthai. It was surpricingly quiet in the forest that even the Shadow Warriors grew uneasy and then suddenly a loud roar when we saw Beastmen running through a clearing in the forest, straight towards us!

At the beginning I silenced all noices around me and looked inward...then I saw their leader in my mind with glittering armour, I knew what I had to do and asked the High Magic wind to come to my aid, it whispered back "Vaul's Unmaking". Excelent, that will single out their leader.
I then quickly ordered the troops around, mainly the Ellyrian Reavers to go with Sealandir to hide behind a ruined fence. Only the lesser Beastmen with bows noticed them but they were quickly put down.
Spells upon spells were being cast by me on their Beastlord but to no avail... Cursing my so called succes upon obtaining the perfect spell for the situation, I tried to blast the main Beastmen unit with Soul Quench. It was dispelled by my enemy. My magic is failing me...

The Shadow Warriors were having diffilculties with the second group of lesser Beastmen and were then silenced.
The sudden feel of despair I felt because of the loss of the previous battle came up. I wanted to run but I heard the Lothern Sea Champion yelling his orders to his unit to put the beasts down and I saw their succes and my hope grew.

We were moving around the battlefield a lot that I noticed the ruined fence behind us. The Champion saw me looking aswell and ordered our troops towards it.
The next couple of minutes were chaotic. Beastmen were heading our way but after some casualties...they fled.
Our unit stood still after that, waiting for them to return but they never came back. I decided to return back to Oriour Dakthai for some well deserved rest and replenishments.




Second battle of the Fantasy Campaign with 500 pts High Elves vs. Michiel Vlag 500 pts Beastmen.
Result: Victory, Lothern Sea Guard regiment of Renown +1 xp.
General: Survived and gained +2 xp.