Warhammer Underworlds Battlereport: Skaeth's Wild Hunt vs Fomoroid Crusher - Desecration

 Time for the second confrontation between noble Skaeth and his Wild Hunt against the savage Fomoroid Crusher in scenario 2 of A Crushing Terror.

And this is kind of the hardest one if you read the battleplans, as you face a ferocious beast out to toss objectives at your head, inspiring along the way.

And with all his special abilities, it won't be easy to do the needed 12 damage swiftly... or will it?  Especially as the Crusher has Breaker in his activations, dealing an automatic 3 damage to an adjacent enemy and as such almost autokilling every Kurnothi...

 

 

So the Wild Hunt deployed, circling the mighty Crusher, as their opening hand was drawn.

The Crusher immediatly goes into action, charging Lighaen, but misses the nimble little cat completely.

In retaliation, Sheoch strikes the beast for 2 damage.

But the little beasts luck ran out, as the Breaker action immediatly smashes it down, and I salvaged an upgrade card for him.  In these scenario's, as no glory can be scored, upgrades are given automatically after a fighter's activation.

Skaeth thunders across the battlefield, his hooves impacting on the back of the Fomoroid and doing two points of damage, and giving him the Shield Slash upgrade.

Sheoch in the meantime is smacked down by the lumbering giant.

Karthean joins the fray, in an effort to keep Skaeth alive, and wounds the beast for yet another two, taking it down to 4 wounds remaining and getting an upgrade as well.

 

Which he won't have much joy from, as he is taken out by the brute next.

In the final activation of the first round, Althaen shoots another wound off the tally from the beast.

And so with the first round ending, the beast already suffered 7 hits out of his 10, as he keeps getting locked in combat to prevent it from inspiring.

The power cards are replenished for the second round as Skaeth inspires himself.

 

The Breaker attack hits the leader for 3 damage, but as he has 4 wounds, he has that one chance to make a difference as I salvage some more power cards.

And he attacks with his Shield Slash, scoring that important Critical Hit to allow him to do the full three damage, as the Crusher can't defend against a crit and a success.

With a load roar, the Crusher topples and the Sylvaneth are victorious!

So that is the second game of the three scenarios ran with the Wild Hunt, and I must say it went amazingly swift.  But now onwards to the finale, where the monster will be inspired, and a LOT more dangerous!