Mighty Empires - Gronbef-Afor - Orcish realm - Log entry 2

 

The Empires expand!

This session the Chaos Dwarves starved the defenders of Altenburg into another desperate sally to drive off the besiegers, the Orcs expanded their empire to the river discovering several Orc hill forts/towers making their river line extremely well defended.

Chaos Dwarves pushed up to the damaged settlement, whilst the General tried in vain to move the Bullcentaurs and artillery forward.

The Empire began their push across the river with their many Handgunners and Crossbows in support. Leading the charge was the Steam tank that I foolishly charged with my Bullcentaurs losing 4 rounds of combat before a lucky turn lead to its demise.

Once the Steam tank was destroyed the big block of ranged infantry moved forward and unloaded into the Bullcentaurs, the Hobgoblin wolf riders failed their charge this turn.

Finally with all the Handgunners in initiative range the Chaos Dwarves, Bullcentaurs and Hobgoblin wolf riders carved apart the Empire ranged infantry as the Halberdiers tried to rush forward and get a flank charge but failed their final move and were stuck watching the slaughter.

The campaign turn ended with expanded empires and much bigger tax revenues this turn, with the empires almost in contact I expect to see a larger incursion of Orcs across the river.