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First encounter with man-thing; A new Expeditionary force 1st battle
Topic Started: 24th July 2004 - 03:55 AM (285 Views)
Warlock Rageaganish
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I used to be schizophrenic, BUT WE'RE OKAY NOW!

This is the first battle report of Warlock Rageaganish in my new campaign, sadly a minor victory for the Empire... Sigh... Enjoy!

From: Rathole-on-the-surface-wood.
28th, month of the beetle,


To : Ikit Claw, Chief Warlock of Clan Skryre

My most omnipotent lord, this is my first report on the surface investigation campaign that you ordered me to do near the southwestern tunnel.
Took us eight foodstops to reach the surface, two more than escounted, the new warp lightning cannon, your most omnubious and ingenious contraption to this day, was unable to go through some lower ceilling room of the tunnel, we had to dig-dig our way to the surface, which caused the delay, I must apologyse on my knee for that.

The surrounding area of the mountainous entrance to our dark-dark domain is made mostly of forest, it will be good-good for gathering the most needed wood for the next war machine fabrication process that you will desing! Yes-yes!

Scouted the forest for 3 foodstop in the eastern and northern direction without finding anything worth telling on this report.

However, scouting on the western part of the forest have found a small-small man-thing settlement. We captured most of them, mostly females and young offsprings, the male where not to be found, we should have looked for them more....yeeesssss...

The next day, the Eshin scout that you, most magnificient ruler, hired detected a war procession of man-thing. It seemed that the male of the settlement found out about our raid and lead the man-thing warband back into our just-claimed wood in search of their female. Fool!

We launched a pre-emptive surprise-surprise attack on the warband. I must observe that the man-thing are well organized when it come to battle, their formation are thight and their weapon shiny-shiny. But at first, they reacted to slow...

I must here praise the viciousness off the hired Eshin scout party. Their hidden position allowed them to strike a surprise-surprise attack on the less-well-prepaired settlement men and their poisoned blade made short work of these troublemaker, yes-yes! Then, the Eshin clan runner jumped onto the flank of one and then a second of the man-thing warmachine, a short, black-powder powered thing-shooter which shoot high in the air a projectile that explode when it hit-hit the ground. The man-thing operathing these desings where not very skillfull, most of them deviated and missed their target, hitting at best a rank of slave. The Eshins cleaved the man-thing to pieces before to charge their next targets. Truly, the Clan Eshin gutter runner are a terrible force to reckon with, I must say that their efficiency amazed me, but in the end, their recklessnesssss proved to be there undoing.



Our own Clan Skryre troops did not fare as well as the Eshins runner, our most trusted Jezzails found their target at a great distance, but I regret not bringning more of them for the man-thing where numerous indeed! Our Warp Lightning Cannon did an even poorer job, there seem to be a problem with the warp energy fluctuator, it does not fluctuate! The Warp Lightning should have been magnificient, instead, the only thing it did was curl the mustaches of the man-thing, but despite this setback, I was able to save the contraption from the battlefield and, I hope-hope, repair it after the battle. The only exeption to the disarray of our creation where our newly created Ratling Gun which proved their efficiency, when they worked. The rain proved to be fatal to one of the machine which exploded when the pump malfunctioned, all of the other machine were thus modified anew to be unaffected by water, we thus hope to maintain these safe. I found out that the Warp deamon that I builded following your instruction was a powerful thing indeed while I blasted to smithereens a squad of crazed man-thing who flailed themselves with chains! I am truly in your debt for lending me these plan my master!

After the initial choc, the man-thing started to reassemble themselves and finaly showed some opposition. The warmachine-thing scored a strong-strong hit on our squad of Stormvermin after hitting, no, simply having squash the slave that the Stormvermin pushed forward. The cowardly captain Pipskwek runned away from the battle with most of his remaining forces in tow. After the battle, his banner bearer, Freepeek, slaughtered that fool who cost us the day. I am now appointing Freepeek as the new leader of the Stormvermin, I hope-hope that he will prove to be more than his former leader...

After the cowarly run of the Vermin, I saw that we had lost our momentum, our remaining forces started to exale the musk of fear, so I just ordered our retreat, there was nothing to gain by losing to much forces for a pack of man-thing ruins. I personally saved the Warp Lightning Cannon from the battlefield, knowing that the lost of such an extraordinary weapon, the only one we have, will in the end prove to be desastrous to our conquest. In the end, the battle was won by the man-things, but the only thing that we really losed were 3 jezzails, 2 ratling, and the surprisingly efficient scout of the Eshin Clan. I already took care of the reassembly of our clan weaponry using the rich-rich ore of the mountain, it shall be complete in a couple of days, but we are in need of warpstone to power them.

With Your Highness approval, I would require another squad of Eshin Gutter Runner to replace the one that was lost in the momentum of the battle, along with the required warpstone to power our weapon. Of course, if you see fit to send me other specialised troop from the other ruling clan, I would use them with the greatest pleasure...

Our investigation campaign will be pursued after this minor setback, we shall now be more prepared in front of the man-things. We have learned many-many things today. Yes-yes!!

Your obedient underling,
Rageaganish
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really enjoy the letter format good job!
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Yes great format and hopeful the dice shall be better! :ph43r:
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