Even as the winter frost still thaws, the armies of the Border Princes have clashed.

The lands belonging to the Empire have been under threat. With the Elector returned to Stirland, is has been up to the Church of Sigmar to take control of the fragmented population and sort out the defence of the realm. However it seems the clergy are slow to learn the ways of war. They have been defeated by a force of Slaanesh creatures to the east, and more worryingly by a Wood Elf army who now control part of the northern road from Freihafen. The Phoenix Tower is rumoured to be nearby - do the Wood Elves seek to capture this?

The Wood Elves have continued in their quest to expand the Caledonian over the Border Princes. To the north they have encorached upon Karak Izor, after the massacre of a Dwarf commander unused to the fierce fighting that rages in these lands, and have recently flushed out a Skaven force emerging from hidden tunnels. The Tomb King forces of the Madritte Pyramid are almost entirely surrounded by the expanding forest, but it seems the Elves' first target are the Bretonnians. The city of Lestanne is greatly pressed, and Elven forces are amassing on the ciry borders. The Bretonnians are unsure if they can raise sufficient force, and have sent out a word for aid to anyone who can listen. But will anyone answer their call?

To the south west, the fabled creatures of the Achaes forest are vey much alive and active, raiding numerous villages on the forest's borders and dragging the entire populations back to their lairs. If the beasts and spirits decide to leave their forest and attack the rest of the Border Princes then may Sigmar have mercy on us all!

It seems the Prince of Kassos, whose lands lie perilously close to the Achaes, has recruited his foreign warriors just in time. Arriving in strange ships, somehow avoiding the Dark Elf raiders that patrol most of the cost, the forces have been swift to subjugate some of the villages outlying Kassos - though so far the villages' militia have managed to repulse these attacks in a series of skirmishes. It seems the mercenary warriors can bring more strength to the battlefield - it has been reported that they attacked an Elven envoy and his forces that were bothering the Prince of Kassos. It can only be a matter of time before the prince turns his attentions, and his mercenary army, to the city of Thessos to the north.