Matthew Ochs's Fantasy Results

Tonight the damned legions of the Tilean Underworld found the gates of their lair under seige by the raiding parties of the vile Dark Eldar. After receiving urgent summons by his most trusted servants, Hypnos and Thanatos, the dread lord Hades rushed back to defend his stronghold with an honor guard of Black Knight heavy cavalry. Alas, the master of the ancient dead returned too late, only in time to see the strewn carcasses of his necromancer retainers, his loyal hound Cerberus, and a mountain of bones.

Hades did exact his vengeance upon the hag witch beseiging his fortress, but it was his fate to then fall prey to the poisoned blades of her dark cohorts.

Though the day was bloody (in the case of skeletons, dusty) the massed ranks of the undead poured forth from their cavernous home in an exorable tide pushing back the invaders and securing both the broken form of their lord and the gates to their stronghold, thus ensuring the day was won.


Vampire Counts 1750pts vs. Ryan's Dark Elves in a stronghold defense scenario: victory.

The vanguards rode out across the blasted wastes of the frozen north. Hades' II loyal minions Hypnos II and Thanatos II (the younger siblings of their retired and deceased bretheren) promising an artifact of incredible potency. As outrider hexwraiths and Hades' II hound Cerberus crested a rise, a vast horde of beastmen appeared amongst the frozen bluffs and crystal forests. Bounding into action Cerberus tore apart a scout party of Ungor raiders and the hexwraiths moved into flanking positions on a regiment of minotaurs. Hades II spurred his hellsteed into action and soared over the horde's heads landing in their rear to cast his withering gaze. Ever the loyal fiends, Hypnos and Thanatos stood amongst the clattering throng of skeleton warriors chanting cantrips and projecting death magic across the battle field.

The battle rang with the sounds of panicked bleats and pounding hoofbeats. After the ice settled two black knight skeletons lay unhorsed amidst the entire bloody horde of the beastmen. The day was to be the undeads'.

Result: massacre victory 2250 victory points

Survivor rolls: Hades II 8, Thanatos II 18, Hypnos II 3

Hades, still smarting from his untimely defeat at the hands of the ogres, issued a bloody challenge to his nemesis and charged headlong into the fray.

After quickly rolling both ogre flanks, it was a matter of staving off the inevitable hammer blow from the massive ogre horde. Though rank upon rank of skeletons succumbed (and a banshee or two), the vampire's forces claimed the day!