Battle Report - Battle Companies!

Hello All,

The new Lord of the Rings book is in! Battle Companies let's you play so small fast games that let's your team grow. Kind of like a frostgrave type thing I guess. Anyway figured we should give it a go.

I decided to try out the mordor company which has a few orcs, Serge went for Thranduils hall.

I set up a more wood type table, with a spider nest and pile of slulls to show it's a bad forest. First mission is to capture some weapons in the middle. It is random what edge every guy arrives on, but it wored out that the eleven were all North and West, and tge Orcs South and East.

With more guys I thought I had to get there first, then when the Elves kill me to take over I will still be in control at the end.

Orcs getting close to the goodies. Starting to get bow fire now. Some how an Orc manages to tag an elf!

Orcs in charge of the weapons,  but my bow hero has gone down.

The Elves rush in to try and get the loot.

Furious fighting, but it is not going well for the Elves, lots of casualties not good for them. Being really brave the Orc heroes keep an eye on the goodies.

Sadly the Elves break leaving the Orcs with the win! After rolling for injuries the bow armed orc hero took an arm wound so he can't shoot anymore!  Crap and the other misses a game. One Elfe missed a game as well. Reenforcements for the orcs was another bow warrior!

Game 2:

For game 2 we had to find which point wad a relic, then get it off from the enemies side, not easy.

This time the Elves race for the items. The Orcs have had to spread out which can be bad.

Perhaps as a sign of things to come, but the new Orc with bow brough down an Elf! Sadly ghe Elf ranger was not impressed by that and killed him as well.

The Elves uncover all the possible relics and get nothing, leaving the 2 on the edges. The Orcs find it on the west side and start carrying it with some 2 handed weapon guys. Sadly the third orc has am arrow in his belly.

The Orcs with the loot run for freedom as the Elves close in, and the other orcs now baldy out of position run after.

Realizing they will be getting cut off the Orcs wit the relic pull back to try a different route. The Elves try to keep up pressure with arrows.

Cat and mouse game continues, trying to use woods to stay safe from the arrows of doom. Hoping the other guys can tie up the orcs whole these guys run!

This us going ok but the arrows are taking there toll.

Almost there just run!!!

So close I can taste the victory. The Orcs are rolling courage tests to stick around.  With an abysmal courage of 2 they are mostly doing it. Next turn they get with in one move of the edge. But dye to a miscalclarion the Elves can get both guys and they die. The Orcs route so it's a draw.

Not to bad on injuries. That heroic bow guy got killed and another guy has an old battle wound.  The Elves have an Old Wound as well now, and the Ranger got even better at arrow murder  (reroll 1S to wound).
 My group gained another shield guy and the Elves got another archer which is just painful!

Battle Companies was pretty fun will have to give it another go some time.

Thanks;
Mike