FOTR campaign... now up to the Dwarrowdelf

cooper101183 · **Posted:** Tue Apr 22, 2014 12:59 am

The Weathertop model is absolutely epic!!! My own plans are now Kaput, back to the drawing board.

jscottbowman · **Posted:** Tue Apr 22, 2014 10:29 pm

Finally got round to playing the Hounds of Sauron over Easter...

A brutal game!

http://scottswargaming.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-hounds-of-sauron-lotr-hobbit-battle.html

Thanks for looking!

jscottbowman · **Posted:** Tue Apr 22, 2014 10:30 pm

cooper101183 wrote:

The Weathertop model is absolutely epic!!! My own plans are now Kaput, back to the drawing board.

LOL! Many thanks ! :-)

Paboook · **Joined:** Sun Feb 05, 2012 8:41 pm **Posts:** 172

Oh my, poor Frodo

Another great BR, thank you Scott!

Frêrin · **Joined:** Tue Apr 08, 2014 1:50 pm **Posts:** 272

What about this tactic for the felowship:
The Hobbits stay in the circle of the tall models protecting them Gandalf blast as many wargs down as he could, Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli and Boromir each try to charge two wargs and Gandalf take another (blastet) warg himself. If they win a battle they don't try to slay the wargs, if they loose the wargs aren't able to slay and the next turn Aragorn calls a heroic move and Gandalf tries to blast the wargs, who won their fight. Of cause it won't work all the time but you have a good chance to fight at at least some wargs who are blastet to the ground.

jscottbowman · **Posted:** Sat Apr 26, 2014 9:50 pm

Frêrin wrote:

What about this tactic for the felowship:
The Hobbits stay in the circle of the tall models protecting them Gandalf blast as many wargs down as he could, Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli and Boromir each try to charge two wargs and Gandalf take another (blastet) warg himself. If they win a battle they don't try to slay the wargs, if they loose the wargs aren't able to slay and the next turn Aragorn calls a heroic move and Gandalf tries to blast the wargs, who won their fight. Of cause it won't work all the time but you have a good chance to fight at at least some wargs who are blastet to the ground.

Yes you may have a point...

The difficulties found were that, the pocket held for the most part if the heroes won all their fights, but problems occured if they lost, and once forced to move sideways an inch, and the wargs then won priority they were through the gap and at the hobbits... but yes I guess Aragorns free might each turn to call heroic move could have minimised this... Relying on Gandalf to sorcerous blast is a not so easy with the 5+ casting roll...but agree it could have helped when it worked...

Batman of The Shire · **Posted:** Sun Apr 27, 2014 3:32 am

Awesome battle report yet again!

jscottbowman · **Posted:** Tue Jul 01, 2014 12:01 am

A more storied battle report this time...

More on blog...
http://scottswargaming.blogspot.co.nz/2014/07/the-watcher-in-water-lotrhobbit-storied.html

Hope you enjoy it :-)

I've now got to finish making Balin's tomb so next report will be a bit of wait I'm afraid... please check my WIP thread for updates...
http://www.one-ring.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=50&t=28710

Thanks for looking :-)

Sticky Fingersss · **Joined:** Sat Oct 09, 2010 11:20 am **Posts:** 1776

Fun report! I like how you comment on the different scenario twerks made so it won't end in a minute!

Celevue · **Posted:** Tue Jul 01, 2014 8:56 am

Great report & terrain! Fully competitive playing of a scenarios is, indeed, ill-suited for the spirit of the campaign. Sometimes playing feels like trying to find the fine balance between too easy and deadly, so that the games would be challenging but not insurmountable in the long run.

jscottbowman · **Posted:** Wed Jul 02, 2014 8:08 pm

Not a battle report as such, just setting the scene...

Couple more pics and chat on blog...
http://scottswargaming.blogspot.co.nz/2014/07/the-dwarrowdelf-great-dwarven-city-of.html

Thanks again to Celevue for heads up on the pillars...

Sticky Fingersss · **Joined:** Sat Oct 09, 2010 11:20 am **Posts:** 1776

Such an epic scale! Can't wait to see more!

jscottbowman · **Posted:** Thu Jul 03, 2014 4:15 am

Celevue wrote:

Great report & terrain! Fully competitive playing of a scenarios is, indeed, ill-suited for the spirit of the campaign. Sometimes playing feels like trying to find the fine balance between too easy and deadly, so that the games would be challenging but not insurmountable in the long run.

Many Thanks Celevue :-)

Yes I couldn't agree more, there is certainly a careful balance required to get the movie events to play out as desired!

I think if I had eaten half the Fellowship with the Watcher, I may have had a sulky young man to deal with ! ;-)

Oh and thanks again for your inspiration to up my game with terrain creation - its been most fun!

Oldman Willow · **Posted:** Fri Jul 04, 2014 11:56 am

Very nice!

a Hobbit · **Posted:** Sat May 16, 2015 8:32 pm

So, how is the campaign going?

jscottbowman · **Posted:** Sun May 17, 2015 11:49 pm

Stalled a bit I'm afraid - I still need to build Balins tomb to advance things...

FOTR campaign... now up to the Dwarrowdelf

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