I made this army for local warhammer campaign (I hope guys that I play with don't send spies to this page ;) Territories:

2 villages

Forest (just wait till I assemble 2 more chariots... muhahaha)

UNIT 1

Lord Leprox Littlepox (chaos steed, lance, armor of meteoric iron); Character - 336

7 centaurs (lances, 2 hand weapons, standard); Regiment - 200
TOTAL: 536
USE: Hard hitting unit (well, it is hard hitting in 1500 game) used for flanking. Note that Leprox has 1+ save and movement of 8, combined with lances it translates into devastating charge.

UNIT 2

Chaos Champion (h. armor, helberd); Character - 96

19 beastmen (standard); - Regiment - 200
TOTAL: 296
USE: Can you tell that I looove beastmen? Don't leave home without 50 or so... Hopefully one of the three units will manage to cross the board without infighting (well, with Ld 9 that won't be much of a problem :)

UNIT 3

Chaos Champion (h. armor, second hand weapon); Character - 95

19 beastmen (standard); - Regiment - 200
TOTAL: 295

UNIT 4

Chaos sorcerer (second hand weapon); Character - 85

19 beastmen (standard, musician); - Regiment - 210
TOTAL: 295

UNIT 5

5 harpies; Regiment - 75
TOTAL: 75
USE: Your mission, which you will accept because you have no choice, is to seek and engage enemy warmachine, stop dangerous enemy chargers, etc. or (and) die in process.

GRAND TOTAL: 1497

Battle 1

In first battle I faced a warband of my most hated adversary - Tzeentch, Lord of Change. Battle to determine the possesion of the prized piece of terrain - Bridge - lasted 5 turns. I fielded army listed above, and his horde looked something like this:

General on a disc with Flail of Skulls

Sorcerer on a disc

5 dragon ogres

20 beastmen with helberds and standard

20 beastmen with aditional hand weapons and standard

beastman chariot

The luck changed sides many times during the battle, now on the side of the Plague Lord's minions (with shining moment when Leprox and centaurs charged and ran down 5 dragon ogres on first turn *evil grin*); and then on the side of Lord of Many Faces (with lowest moment of the battle: when Leprox charged and challenged Tzeentchian Lord and then proceeded to roll 1, 2, 2, 3, and 3 to hit - he was then defeated, rolled 11 on leadership and rode off into the sunset). In the centre of the battlefield vicious battle was fought between regiments of beastmen (40 Tzaangor + chariot against almost 60 Pestigor). In a bloodbath that ensued no mercy was given or expected and few survived to tell the tale. One regiment of my Pestigor earned their name (and +2 elite status) by capturing 2 standards (from both enemy regiments) and so the Doomblight Herd was born. In the end Lord Leprox rode from the battlefield with his head held high (and few dents in his armor). 9:8 victory for Nurgle, minimal perhaps, but any victory over the Most Hated One is sweet...

SPOILS OF WAR:

Bridge, terrain piece which gave me 30 aditional points to spend on warband (why the Hel did I roll 3 on 2d6?).

Doomblight Herd, +2 elite regiment.

Battle 2

In the second battle Leprox allied with a skaven army against the unlikely alliance of Khorne and Orc host. Battle lasted 5 turns. My army was same as one above except 30 extra points allowed me to buy aditional beastman for unit with sorcerer, and equip Doomblight Herd with aditional hand weapons.

My Skaven ally's army consisted of (as far as I remember):

General in a unit with around 30 stormvermin

Doomwheel

Vermin Lord daemon

around 25 plague monks + 8 plague censer bearers

8 gutter runners

Orc army looked something like this:

General on wyvern

around 30 orc boyz with standard

36 night goblins with double handed weapons and Bad Moon banner and 3 fanatics

6 squigs + 4 squig herder teams

2 squig hoppers

a giant

level 1 gobbo shaman

level 4 gobbo shaman

Khorne host contained:

General on juggernaut

20 beastmen with standard and 3rd level beastman shaman

8 chaos warriors with standard and champion

dragon ogre

Battle was a fairly bloody one with most of the Khorne's Warband decimated - only his general survived (of course) and big chunk of Orc and Goblin allies fled or was destroyed. The battle ended in a sure victory for alliance of Nurgle and Skaven (gotta love those Plague Monks ;) - 10+:6. We gave up 6 points, and our opponents at least 10 - we stopped counting when we realized that we won.

HIGHLIGHTS:
Damn Doomwheel went out of control in the first round and caused havoc on the left flank for the reminder of the battle. Lord Leprox challenged and killed Orc general (Widowmaker or something like that was his name) and ran down his wyvern. Censer bearers wiped out unit of chaos warriors like they were candy... unfortunatelly they also managed to kill each other in the process. Two little squig hoppers had a field day, killing way over 200 points of our troops (not bad for what they cost).

Lesson I learned: no one stands in a way of a frenzied Khorne Lord on juggernaut, you just let them have their way and don't piss them off even more.

Thing Khorngor shaman should have known before comming to the field: you do not cast doombolt on the Verminlord who is 6 inches away and expect to live for long.

SPOILS OF WAR:

Treasure Hoard - which will give me 5 aditional magic items of any value, in a campaign where there is usually 1 or 2 magic items per side this is a clear advantage... than again, how much magic can you get with 1,530 points? Ah, I missed my chaos armor... now I can have it back :)

Leprox Littlepox earned his first feat, making him +1 veteran character.

As a winning general, I rolled Victorious Troops on a victory bonus table (I forgot to do that last battle).

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