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Waaagh! Azhag

April 2011·p. 31

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Azhag’s sentient crown makes his invasion a struggle between Orc brutality and Nagash’s calculating influence. The article highlights the three-cohort attack and summoned dead at Butcher’s Hill, followed by Azhag’s defeat at Osterwald against Werner von Kriegstadt and two Steam Tanks. These contrasting battles offer ways to recreate both the Waaagh!’s tactical ingenuity and its final collapse.

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