A smaller battle this week - the tournament has passed, Timmy went 3 wins and 4 losses, and the need to practice Rohan tactics has gone. His next army will be Mirkwood, and the Halls of Thranduil, before that full goal is reached there is the Mirkwood Rangers Legendary Legion along the way. 27 rangers led by Legolas, Tauriel and a Captain are capable of firing 30 arrows a turn - the only tactic here is to run as fast as we can into combat. Any CCTV footage at the start of the journey to the games club will show me get in the car with the army in a box, get out and go back in the house, get in the car, start the car, switch off the car, get back in the house and finally set off - it occurred to me that strength 3 arrows against defence 4 hunter orcs would be devastating - i could literally lose them all in the first turn, so back into the house to swap the hunters and their two attacks for the Gundabad orcs, only one attack but decked in plate armour at defence 6 - strength 3 arrows would need a 6 to wound us. Back in the car, back out of the car - if i was taking gundabad orcs i needed a gundabad captain not Fimbul from the hunters - only one would do - Bolg.
Of the 700 points wed be playing for this smaller game - i had 500 wrapped up in azog, bolg and a troll leaving just 200 for the rest - i chose 12 gundabad warriors and 4 warg riders with hunters on - i need something to keep up with bolg and azog so they dont arrive on the front line on their own.
In the picture Timmy has used his Sentinels who play mind altering music, and if the target fails a courage test (and these are orcs with no courage) then he gets to move them as he wishes (a reason i didnt take the troll brute that stomps on anything it touches, including my own forces if timmy controls it) - Bolg and Azog under the little wood had 2 warg riders each as escort - Timmy has managed to push two 10 inch to the right under the trolls club, and one back 10 inch you can see at the bottom - exposing Azog and the white ward to the elven archery.
The guy on the surfboard there with Azog, is a Bolg stand in, its Fimbul, but thats actually the size of Bolgs base meaning he can get into combat with a lot of guys at once if need be
And heres the evil elves. The dice in the back is just over half of the dice hell be rolling to shoot!! The scenario is seize the prize - get to the green jewel, roll to dig it up and then get it off the enemies half of the table
After a couple of turns were pretty much set up to try and steal the jewel, the only casualty has been the White Warg so azog under the yellow tree is on foot with everyone else. The thing about the legendary legion is if they get in that wood, they suffer no movement penalty, they can shoot out of it with no penalty, and if theyre defeated in it automatically get a ward save of 6 to stay alive like azogs beserkers. We didnt play it to this rule, but decided after, the troll would have just been able to stomp through the hedge as it is he walks around like the tiny little orcs surrounding him
Bolg is still on his warg and goes round the back
Its not often i get this feeling, but with the girly elves a mere strength 3, needing 6s to wound me, and me needing 4s to wound them were going through them like a knife through butter. Azog is taking down 2-3 elves a turn and so is Bolg. Bolg has a special rule that when hes killed 2 he causes terror, when he kills 5 he is a harbinger of evil causing -1 to courage rolls near him and after 10 he is a legendary hero and all kinds of things happen then - he killed 14 in this game! In this turn Tauriel has managed to kill my orc carrying the prize, stole it and is now heading south to my table edge as quick as she can
Because Timmy has used all his might trying to shoot and wound Azog and Bolg and outpace my forces he has none left to counter my heroic moves which allow me to catch Tauriel with the troll, deft and bendy she maybe but shes not surviving a club to the face off old lumpy here
A turn or two later and youll notice from the picture theres no elves left - Tauriel died, her captain died and Azog and Bolg in a true representation of Jacksons vision ripped Legolas apart between them - total wipeout of the Elves, victory to the glorious forces of Azog