On the Saturday of 23.01.2021 we played pitched battle – four players, four armies – each army value was up to 1500 points. So we played two on two. On the good side was my Empire and Kislev and Piotrek’s High Elves, on the bad side were two armies of Beastmens – lead by Marian and Marcin.
Good armies can have variety of reasons to join they forces against evil side – in this case it could be High Elves looking for they ancient treasures or artefacts left in the Old World, when they had colonies centuries ago. Empire and Kislev force where send to check what they are doing – with no conflict or almost in, they realize that common enemy want also check what is hidden inside old elven ruins.
My Empire and Kislev. 
Piotrek’s High Elves. 
Marian’s Beastmen horde. 
Marcin’s Beastmen horde. 
All forces deployed. 
View from left flank. The Beastmen started game. 
Hard, slow move with add of some magic. Turn of good side. 
Knight’s Panthers hold out against charge of two chariots. 
Pursuing fleeing chariot. 
Winged Lancers and Dragon Princes lowering they lances and charging enemy chariot, crashing gors at the end. 
Right flank wasn’t great sight for Beastmens. Many of them fled seeing horseback warriors behing they backs. 
Knights Panther with a real support of elven chariot managed to break beastmen gor unit. 
Long line of Ungol horse archers tried to shoot down minotaurs. 
In last turn Cygor charged handgunners, spawns held Knights Panthers, but the battle was over. 
Final look on the field of glory from left flank.
Summary:
– first big battle in 2021, wish more such battles.
– need to read again 7th Rulebook, as we still had some doubts and still have.
– we played on Marian’s board on Marcin’s improvised table with my terrains (photos below).
– first time my mortar did something to someone and not exploded. Cannon was more succesfull than ever.
– my roster was almost the same as in previous games.
– first time I used Lore of Shadows and those spells are really nice (4 and 5 are my favourites) – first Total Power from a long time (three 6’s).
tancreddebeauville
Mirek Space 
Pffft I think you meant to write Noble and Heroic Beastmen vs the alliance of evil 😁
When someone want’s to eat you it cannot be noble :-D. Btw, is beastmen ambush used by some ppl?
In 8th, it’s rare for players to use beastmen ambush as its rubbish due to the random nature and especially compared to the rule book ambush. Also with primal fury being so key to the army, putting units of Gor outside of the general/bsb’s range significantly reduces their effectiveness and with their average LD of 7 risks them running straight off the board if panicked. You might see it occasionally used with lots of small units of Ungor where the cost is insignificant or if someone takes kazak one eye, as he allows rerolls to ambush.
But in case of 7th edition it’s useful or not? We played 7th :-). I guess that 7th is final edition of WFB for me. Played 8th and it’s not for me. I think that small units used in ambush sometimes can be good choice, as they can finish off enemy artillery and spread chaos on the rear.
I have to admit I skipped 7th edition almost entirely due to real life reasons (although I still have all the books and I really liked many of the tweaks made to the ruleset from 6th). I can’t remember how Beastmen ambush compared to other ambush rules in that edition. I suppose it’s that random table edge roll that puts me off though it is definitely more useful in pre-8th because of the chance to get flank/rear attacks and the strength in that too.
It’s funny, because I played mostly in 5th and 6th and then stopped playing. In Netherlandes in 2009 I bought rulebook for 7th edition. Before AoS bought some more Bretonnians and started again playing :-).