"Age of Sigmar Battle Report - Clash of Titans" Topic

We are halting our tour of the Mortal Realms briefly, and this time going back in time to a far off period of history for a titanic confrontation. Here, we will be asking ourselves the deep, moral question; Archaon versus Nagash – who is best?

The Story So Far
Before Sigmar unleashed his Stormcast Eternals upon the Mortal Realms, Nagash, Supreme Lord of the Undead, rose from Shyish to reclaim his domain from the forces of Chaos. He had been banished there long ago by Archaon after the Battle of Black Skies, his armies of the dead bound into the Cage of Bones, a Chaos fortress built to extend mastery over the Realm of Death.

When Nagash returned, he unbound the magicks holding his undead warriors in check and the Cage of Bones fell in a single night. Forewarned by his Gaunt Summoners of this turn, Archaon was already marching at the head of a vast host to battle Nagash.

Nagash's horde of the dead ploughed into the forces of Chaos as soon as they emerged from the Forlorn Wells Realmgate, and the two armies smashed against one another as they fought past the Towers of Torment and Bonekey Keep to the foot of the Cage of Bones.

Archaon knew only he had the power to face Nagash and so he confronted the Supreme Lord of the Undead, Everchosen against God.

For the full report and more piccies (as well as who won!): link

When I read the victory conditions at first I thought "why even have all the other stuff on the table if it doesn't matter." Which is where you got to in the end.

I wonder if the game would play better if the combatants did affect the battle somehow. What if you had each unit that was destroyed or that destroyed an enemy unit give bonuses to or penalize the champion.

Something like Chaos destroys 3 undead units, Undeath destroys 2 Chaos units: net +1 something to Arachaon?

Like a +1 to hit or to wound or both.

Or even make it a major victory if both champion and followers win, minor victory if just the champion wins.

Then you could even determine the victor in each round of combat between the two champions and have that give bonuses to the warriors in some way, like a +1 to their battleshock tests or something.

I don't know how exactly you would determine who won the combat, perhaps who inflicted more wounds on the other or something.

That would tie the results of the general fighting more to the combat in the middle and avoid the conclusion at which you arrived.

Also everything looks fantastic, especially the mutalith vortex beast. That has been on my shopping list for some time now but I've been too distracted by 30K for the last 6 months or so. With the Tzeentch book out I'll have to take another look at that. Of course I'll need a box of Kairic acolytes first, and probably some enlightened tzaangors and . . .