Prior to battle, Azhag would lay out his plan of attack, speaking in a decidedly un-Orcy voice heavy with the weight of centuries, then bellow at his ladz to get moving. The power of the Crown allowed Azhag to destroy the rival Warbosses and ensure the loyalty of his followers. When Azhag put the crown on, Nagash's spirit began to dominate the Orc's crude, uncomplicated psyche, and from then on, Azhag's primal power was combined with Nagash's tactical genius and arcane fury. But this was no simple trinket: this was the Crown of Sorcery, an ancient artifact of the Great Necromancer, Nagash, and the ancient Liche's insidious spirit still clung to the artifact. Azhag the SlaughtererĪn already powerful warlord who ruled over a great many tribes in the Badlands, Azhag's tale truly began after he unearthed an ancient magic crown in the ruined city of Todtheim. It is not known if Gorbad survived the encounter. The remnants of Gorbad's tribe were ambushed and defeated on their way home by a Dwarf army under the King of Karaz-a-Karak.

Eventually, the lack of progress and Gorbad's injury took their toll on morale, and the army disintegrated. Gorbad unleashed Wyverns upon the city, who threw the defenders into disarray but were ultimately repelled without achieving their main objective, which was to destroy the city gates. At the fortress of Altdorf, the Waaagh! was kept at bay outside the city walls. Gorbad's army conquered the territories of Solland and Wissenland, but Gorbad himself was wounded in the fighting. The tribe marched through Black Fire Pass to attack the Empire under the Emperor Sigismund. Gorbad Ironclaw and his tribe, the Ironclaw Orcs, absorbed the Broken Tooth tribe along with the local Goblin and Night Goblin tribes, to create a massive force of Greenskin warriors. Gorbad Ironclaw, atop his vicious boar Gnarla, was the mightiest Warlord that ever lived (in the warhammer fantasy universe).

These stories center around the formation of WAAAGH!s and the resulting campaigns. Orcs & Goblins contains a number of short stories that provide an illustrative fictional history of the Orcs in the Warhammer Fantasy universe.

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