Journal of the quest to the
island of Agor
Entry 1 – Arrival at the Island
of Agor
A few months ago,
the King was told that a merchant fleet of one of his vassals accidentally came
across the island of Agor They found the armour of Conratt de Grantrue during a
brief sweep of the island, who was a famous knight favoured by the Lady greatly
and who went there to search for reliquaes. Signs of greenskin presence were
discovered as well.
So it happened
that Godefroy Tirras, who already had his time with greenskins, was standing on
the deck of his flagship approaching the coast of that island, leading a
campaign to claim the reliquaes which Conratt de Grantrue was looking for. The
armour was declared a reliquae and was aboard one of the ships, to boost the
morale of the troops.
Besides the
glorious warships of the bretonnian lords, some lowly barques joined the fleet,
with commoners on board, attracted by the presence of the newly declared
reliquae, and undoubtedly, also by the prospect of fame and fortune. Many lords
did not welcome their presence among the host of such a noble quest, but Godefroy
Tirras knew well how to make use of them. And he also knew that he would need
to, as there were reports of other fleets approaching the island of Agor.
Entry 2 – Battle against ratmen
When we landed, Godefroy
Tirras sent a group of Pegasus Knights to scout the direction to the center of
the island. They reported presence of a small group of ratmen.
No sooner was
Godefroy Tirras apprised of this fact than he set of with some of our units to
meet them head on.
The swarm started
moving ahead, so Godefroy Tirras ordered a brigade of Grail Pilgrims carrying
the Reliquae into the small wood in the center of the battlefield, sent brigade
of Grail Knights and Squires to flank the skaven from the right, Pegasus
knights to flang them from the left and kept his men-at-atms and a unit of
Knights in reserves. Grail Pilgrims were meant to be the bait to lure the
filthy beasts to the open ground, where our cavalry would easily destroy them.
This strategy
appeared to be working well, as the skaven forces drew closer to the forest,
but then they stopped in a defendable position between a hill on their left
side and a different forest keeping their right flank safe from our cavalry.
As the ratmen
stopped their advance, Godefroy Tirras sent flanking cavalry brigade forward
and ordered them to keep behind the abandoned farm. Men-at-arms and the
remaining Knights moved behind the forest in order to remain out of range of
the infamous skaven warp lightning cannons.
Then,
unexpectadly, the skaven forces have split into two smaller forces one of which
remaind by the forest and the other one moved to the top of the hill.
Edouart Lamben,
one of the Bretonnian high-born liege lords urged Godefroy Tirras to exploit
the division of ratmen forces and order his cavalry to charge, insisting on his
cavalry being able to reduce the paltry rats to pulped meat under the hoofs of
their horses. And so Godefroy Tirras did and ordered a full scale charge on the
right wing, flanking the skaven from the right whilst fixing the center in
combat, hoping to create enough confusion to make the skaven start killing each
other while trying to escape their inevitable doom. However, despite using the
magical properties of the Orb of Majesty, brigade of Grail Pilgrims fell behind
and did not make it in time for the fight.
But when Edouart
Lamben started his glorious charge, assuming the point of the hedge formation
himself, on his pegassus, the promise to destroy the skaven scum, which made to
Godefroy Tirras, turned out to be overconfident. The ratmen took a good
defensive position and were using the higher ground to their advantage. Cavalry
charge lost some of its momentum on the way up the slope and the crushing
impact to the packed mass of furred bodies was turned into a rather even
combat. As the mighty knights and their squires lost speed, they retreated and
were pusruit by the surprisingly swift mass of skaven with a unit of rat ogres
in front.
The fight did not
go well on in the center of the battlefield either and the unit of knigts was
repeled by the skaven formation.
And then, the
foul ratmen took an initiative and started to surround our noble lords by the
dozens.
And Edouart
Lamben made a brave last stand with the rest of the Grail Knights in order to
buy some time for Godefroy Tirras and the rest of the stike force.
When both, Grail
Knights and Knights were wiped out, as well as the squires and most of the
Grail Pilgrims, Godefroy Tirrase took hold of the mighty reliquae and retreated
with the rest of the army in order to regroup.
Because of the
unfinished disembarkation and the hasty attack, we had to retreat back to the
port and the city which Godefroy Tirras decided to use as a capitol for this
quest and had to leave everything to those filthy skaven servants of chaos.
But our nobles
will be avenged!
