Greeting y'all. I think this is the first time I have ever posted a fantasy battle report ever, anywhere. So the first time has to be a good one! Be warned, your adventure will be filled with dozens of pictures, breaking the borders of common size decency!

This is a 2500 pts game against a friendly player's lizardmen. A very nice army, finally a person who tries lizzies without slann temple bunker, and from what I have seen simply enjoyable to play against while not crippeling itself. I do not have his full list but this is roughly what I know:

Old blood
carnosaur
piranha blade
blood statuette of spite
light armour
a 1+ save, possibly due to enchanted shield

lvl 2 skink priest
lore of heavens: Iceshard Blizzard, Harmonic convergence

Skink chieftain, stegadon warspear, blowpipe
riding a young stegadon

4 x 12 skink skirmishers with blowpipes ( yes, 48 skink skirmishers! )

15 saurus with handweapons
full command

18 saurus with spears
full command

3 terradons

3 kroxigors

5 chameleon skinks

2 salamanders

ancient stegadon
giant blowpipes

And here is my list. It's my standard all-comers list:
King Ferrun Ironhand
Dwarf lord
• Great weapon
• Shieldbearers
• Master rune of spite
• Rune of Stone
• Master rune of steel
• Rune of resistance
301 pts

Godri Thunderhammer
Thane
• Battle standard
• Master rune of gromril
• Rune of cleaving
• Rune of might
160 pts

Skalf Swiftaxe
Thane
• Rune of fury
• Rune of snorri spangelhelm
• Rune of cleaving
• Rune of Stone
• Pistol
• Shield
147 pts

Thorrin Dragonforge
Runesmith
• Rune of spellbreaking
• Master rune of balance
• Shield
147 pts

Core:
24 Dwarf warriors
• Shields
• Full command 241 pts

20 Longbeards
• Shields
• Full command
• Rune of determination
• Rune of battle 310 pts

10 thunderers
• Shields 150 pts

10 quarrelers
• Shields 120 pts

Special:
Bolt thrower
• Engineer
• Brace of pistols 65 pts

Cannon
• Rune of forging
• Rune of burning
• Engineer 145 pts

23 Hammerers
• Shields
• Full command
• Master rune of grungni 379 pts

15 Miners
• Full command
• Steam drill 215 pts

Rare:
Organ gun
120 pts

2500 pts

An overview while setting up:

We are playing the battleline scenario, and while I won the roll to go first ( and I would usually take first turn to shoot some more ) I decided to let the lizardmen go first. We had more than enough time for one long and complete battle and to get to turn 6 where I could use that last turn to take some points. The skink priest has Iceshard blizzard and harmonic convergence. Not the best spells really, but then again heavens has never been a good lore. At least it's better than the 7th edition one.

My deployment. The middle, and right flank. From below to above: Warriors with runesmith and BSB, hammerers with lord, organ gun, quarrelers, thunderers in the building.

And here my left flank ( bolt thrower in the corner, longbeards on the hill next to the building with thunderers ) , and an overview of the lizardmen. On the picture it's noted where what is. The skink chieftain with stegadon warspear is on the stegadon next to the carnosaur. The skink priest is hanging around the kroxigors ( forgot to mention him on the picture )

Lizardmen, turn 1. Initial advance.The lizardmen advance on all sides, and the terradons, after their vanguard, drop rocks on the longbeards. Failing almost all saves, 4 longbeards die.
Magic is uneventful, because the winds of magic roll double 1, of which I steal a dice with the master rune of balance 😛 The salamanders manage to eat 2 skinks, and fire only a few inches.

The chameleons ( they're so sneaky I did not have them on the overview picture ) threaten the cannon. I feared for "old bella's" safety, but their darts only kill a single crewmember.

Dwarfs, turn 1. Marching forth
It's time to settle things on the edge of an axe! The hammerers and warriors stalwartly march forward, and the longbeards shuffle into the range of the master rune of grungni. There's no sense in leaving such protection when there are 36 skinks with blowpipes only a move away!

The cannon has proven it's worth with all the D6 wounds glory it can muster! A single shot, hoping to weaken the stegadon, manages to bring down the entire beast with crew and all by doing 6 wounds! Bones and flesh shatter as the stegadon collapses and it's crew and howdah are torn asunder. In a display of elegant acrobatics the skink chieftain manages to jump off the dying beast and avoid being crushed.

The shooting phase sees the chameleons turned into a streak of blood on the virgin snow as the organ gun turns around and promptly rolls 10 shots. It might be overkill, but certainly is effective. The thunderers manage to pick off a few saurus and the quarrelers and bolt thrower, pretty much as predicted, fail miserably.

end of the turn:

Lizardmen, turn 2. It's raining darts!.Skinks and saurus move into position. 24 skinks surround the bolt thrower, while the skink chieftain joins some other skinks. Skinks and the ancient stegadon swoop around the right flank, and the lizardmen centre marches forward with the salamanders in front.

The magic phase is without merit as yet again the winds of magic do not reward the old one's favored servant, and the skink priest fails to cast anything.
The shooting phase starts with a hail of darts descending on the bolt thrower, poisoning the crew nearly twice over. Grungni over their weapon and Valaya over their souls.
The warriors seem to be in for a painful barrage but miraculously manage to survive the hit from a salamanders template with only one death.

Dwarfs, turn 2. Charge!
A good turn in which I manage to get off a charge and the miners show. The other units move into position and shooting goes rather well.

The warriors charge the salamanders, grargh!

Meanwhile the miners show up behind

In the shooting phase my organ gun kills all 3 terradons, and the cannon, proving it's worth for the final time, bring down the ancient stegadon to a single wound!
The combat phase, despite some crappy saverolling ( I failed them all and 3 warriors died ) I managed to scare away the salamanders and overrun into the saurus behind them.

Lizardmen, turn 3. Close and personal
The saurus and carnosaur charge my hammerers, however the carnosaur rolls abominaly low and fails the charge, moving a mere 3 inches. The salamanders fail to rally and keep fleeing. Kroxigors reform to look at my arrived miners. The skinks move up the hill and on the right flank the stegadon and skinks move closer within shooting range. The skink priest finally gets a spell of and succesfully casts harmonic convergence on the saurus in combat with warriors, which I fail to dispell. The shooting phase strikes a great blow against me, with the demise of both the organ gun and the cannon by dozens of poinsonous darts! Such a fiendish act will surely be punished before the night falls!
The combat phase favours me more, with the hammerers soundly beating their saurus opponents, and the warriors defeating theirs. The saurus facing the hammerers flee, but the other ones hold. I retrain the hammerers and reform them, facing skinks and behind that the carnosaur.

Dwarfs, turn 3. They came from below...with pickaxes and steamdrills!
Some well placed manoeuvres and lucky rolls get me into combat. My miners, who came up a turn ago, charge the salamanders, who are still fleeing so automatically have to declare a flee reaction. Because they declare a flee reaction my miners can choose to redirect their charge. I pass the required ld test, and declare a fresh charge on the kroxigors, which I narrowly manage to make.

On the other side my hammerers, who had restrained from pursuing the saurus, charge into the helpless skinks ( with the skink chieftain ) and the skinks choose to hold. My longbeards swiftly reform and move the other way to try and take down the wounded ancient stegadon. The quarrelers also reform to face the stegadon.

In combat my hammerers kill a score of skinks. The skink chieftain challenges, and the challenge is accepted by the hammerer champion hoping to claim the underdog VP bonus. The champion survives the skink's attacks, but only does 1 in return. Close but no sigar. Regardless, the skinks are beaten and run down.

On the other side the warriors beat the saurus again, but they hold.

The miners on the other hand are very succesfull and kill 2 kroxigors, suffering 3 casualties to their great weapons and another one gets kicked in the face by the single stomp. The lone kroxigor breaks and flees, and runs to the other side of the building while the miners fail to catch him.