Kharadrons sweep into Carmin

In the 6th year of the Kharadron expedition to the Realm of Permenia, Admiral Gromrik Aetherstrider finally made moves to begin the expansion of the sphere of influence of his fleet. Endorsed by the Council of New Quemara, Gromrik’s sky patrols began scouting out the broad valleys of Carmin, cataloguing resources and making contact where possible with roving nomadic human tribes. Many of these were converted to the cause of the emerging nation of Quemara, and behind the duardin came caravans of men from Vinduhr, eager to settle and civilise these new lands.

It was on one of these scouting patrols that Gromrik faced his second test of arms, as one afternoon as the small fleet made camp for the night, scouting forces detected that just over the hills to the north, a herd of beasts had Also made their camp, and were preparing to attack the assembled dwarfs. 

Gromrik assembled his men around the camp, while keeping his frigate in the sky with fresh troops, the gunhauler moved forward to snipe what it could. Unfortunately the sailors on board got a little too close, and the ensuing Bullgor charge, led by a mighty doom bull, put an end to the duardin sky vessel. Worse still, a horde of Bestigors suddenly appeared from the woods, charging the Kharadron camp and wiping out the defenders. 

Now Gromrik was in trouble. He had intended to use his remaining force to eliminate the beast camp, but quickly he redeployed to defend his camp. Landing his arkanauts and endrinriggers close to the charging beasts, their combined gunfire obliterated the bestigors. The few survivors fleeing rapidly. But Gromrik still needed to deal with a very angry doom bull and his retinue. 

Gromrik’s endrinriggers stood their ground as the leader of the bray herd charged, while a second throng of bestigors, certain of victory, stopped short of the camp to cheer on their mighty leader.  However the doom bull’s attacks miraculously glanced off the metal armour worn by the riggers as they dodged and weaved, landing telling blows in response. Dumbfounded at this turn of events the rest of the beastmen were even more shocked as Gromrik’s second company of arkanauts emerged from the bushes. With a deafening noise the entire Kharadron army opened fire on them, wiping them and their accompanying spawn from the battlefield, as the endrinriggers finished off a very perplexed doom bull.

A cheer went up as the beasts were driven from the field. Gromrik had secured dominance over the plains of Carmin, and the tale of how his army had won against overwhelming odds grew with each retelling, eventually establishing itself as a victory of a mere handful of duardin over an entire army of beastmen. In reality the battle had been relatively small, and Gromrik had been incredibly fortunate. In any case, the victory secured Carmin for New Quemara, and boosted the prestige and morale of the new alliance.