Path to Glory - Ravaged Coast: Along the Crumbling Coast

Filled with fury and buoyed by their recent success against the Soulblights, the Blood Siblinghood of the Slaughter-Gut-Pile Bloodbound Horde, led by their warlord, Goretim the Reddish, hate-marched through the last pass in the Adamantine Chain of mountains to gain the Hateful Shores - along the Ravaged Coast of Aqshy. They began their search for a route to Hel's Claw, where rumours suggested there was a trove of Emberstone beyond imagining! 

As they rounded another headland, they found another force blocking their way... it was the hated Soulblights... AGAIN... and the Duchess Mircalla was leading them!? Was there no way they could bring a final end to these cursed Soulblights!?

Khorne give us strength and fury... 

The Soulblights seemed to be content with collecting up Emberstone along the coast 

There were many clusters of the crystals, imbued with magical energy of the realm! 

The Bloodreavers fought a flight of Fellbats over one such hoard... but the fell bats picked it up and quickly swooped away! 

Enraged by this action, the Korgorath decided to smash apart one of the Cursed Sepulchres... 

Bloodbound Horde holding their line... 

The Soulblights drew closer as they finished collecting up the Emberstone clusters. 

The Blood Warriors joined the Korgorath in trying to dismantle the Cursed Sepulchre

A pair of Hex-Gorger Skulls were summoned and sent forth to harass and slow the advance of the Soulblights. 

The Vengorian Lord swooped in and attacked the Blood Warriors at the Cursed Sepulchre.

Goretim advanced on the Cursed Sepulchre and the cowardly Vengorial Lord fled, fresh in it's tiny mind were the memories of the beating the Khorne Lord had laid upon them in their last encounter... 

Enraged by the destruction of their Cursed Sepulchre, the Vengorian Lord charged back in assaulting the Blood Warriors... 

At this point, the Bloodbound had collected up what Emberstone they could and decided to cede the field of "battle" to the Soulblights... they would have to find another way around the Headland to find the route to Hel's Claw! 

For our second game on Friday afternoon, Orion and I opted for a Hateful Shores Battleplan - as one of us (ME!) had won a Gnaw's Edge Battleplan (The first game we played Friday afternoon!). We rolled the Along the Crumbling Coast Battleplan. 

It seemed pretty clear from the get-go that there was no way I'd win that scenario... and trying to do so would just mean my force would be utterly destroyed again... AGAIN... and they just can't take any more battering. I have a unit that is a game or two away from being utterly destroyed. Six of the eight units have at least one Battle Scar - permanent disabilities sustained from continually being removed as casualties game after game after game. I think half of those six now have two or more Battlescars...? 

So the Bloodbound Horde held on to ONE objective and tried to collect up the nearby Emberstone Clusters and hold on to them and survived and hoped I'd roll well for extra shards in the end game (for Hateful Shores battleplans the an EXTRA D3 shard are rewarded - so the winner get D3+3 and the loser gets 2D3... unfortunately I rolled two ones and thus gained a total of four Emberstone Shards - two for losing and another two I collected off the field of battle... Orion gained NINE!!! 

The campaign could be Over in a few more games, at this point. To win the campaign you have to win the Hel's Claw Battleplan. To play the Hel's Claw battle plan, both opponents have to have won a Hateful Shores Battleplan (Orion has done that!) - but to play a Hateful Shores Battleplan, you have to have won (or have an opponent that has won) a Gnaw's Edge Battleplan... and I'm the only one in the league who has done that... So it could be conceivably over in two games - if someone played a Hateful Shores battleplan against me and then the winner of that game took on Orion for the battle of Hel's Claw...