Hello All,
Just got back from Fall In which was last weekend, so figure I will follow my usual trend and upload a couple of reports. First one will be a report on the tournament I played on, the second other random stuff.
This year I decided to change things up and play in the lord of the rings tournament. I posted my army previously but it was:
Denethor
Irolas
Hurin
Pippin
Bolt Thrower
A few Warriors
And some citadel guard
Meant to be a fun theme list based on the citadel defenders of Minas Tirith.
The tournament was well attended with 24 players, so had 4 rounds.
Round 1, vs Rohan in Lords of Battle:
Here is the set up for game 1. Had to fight a very elite list of Rohan with lots of characters. Unfortunately I decided to split up my guys a bit to much.
Theoden and his guys charge the left making a mess. Eomer and Durnhelm charge right. Second mistake starting to close to the center so they could charge straight off.
Sadly I kept loosing the roll for iniat8ve and kept loosing the heroux moves, d9 got charged allot. Plus they had the big banner guy bringing back might.
So it was a quick loss for me but still interesting. My theme list wasn't quite competing thou.
Game 2, vs Angmar in Heirloom of Ages Past
Here's the set up for the second game. In this one there are 6 objectives, when you get to 1 you roll a Devon a 6 it's the objective, else its removed.
Angmar got it pretty fast with their orcs, or maybe goblins I forget, in the top left. So o started that way while the spiders and Wargs tried to delay Hurin.
Most of the got cleared up pretty fast leaving the queen.
One force delayed my guys while the guy with the loot ran to a second
Cutting down lots of enemies but not breaking through, spider coming to help out, but it was wounded by Hurin.
More chasing.
The spider made it but got killed.
I was breaking through and getting closer, but the goblins started climbing things and jumping off to end the scenario a bit faster.
In the end I broke them but a shaman was their to cast fury and keep them around. So I couldn't get the loot in time.
Game 3, vs Rohan in Contest of Champions:
Here's the set up for game 3. At this point I realized that table assignments were based on tournament rankings. So I would need victories to get out of the desert. Not keen on this to be honest. Anyway this game was against another Roham force, conest of champions this time. So Denethor has to fight a duel. ..
Turn 1 they charge in and immediately kill Denethor so that is bad. My line holds thou and I kill a couple of guys with the bolt thrower.
Next turn is a bit of a mess. But they get the charge again. Hurin is the next target. But I am hitting back. My biw guys are doing particularly well for whatever reason. Also they kill poor pippin!
Flanking force coming around now as the numbers dwindle. The sons of Erol in the red cloaks are tough characters and do allot of damage. Seemed like I might just be able to turn the tide.
But now I am getting out numbered so it all falls apart.
Rohan mops up.
So another loss, but closer this time, and turned into a fun game actually. Even thou Denethor immediately went down there was still a fight.
Game 4, vs Harradrim in Hold Ground:
Well once more to the losers table hah. Here is the start of the final game. This one has warbands coming on from the edges and who ever holds the center wins basically. I was facing a small group of Isengard and a Mumak!
Most forces arrived 9n time but Hurin was late. It ended up that Pippin was between the Mumal and the bolt thrower so he will have to slow it down.
Every one heads to the middle. The bolt thrower managed around on the mumak.
Next turn pippin got trampled sadly. But he managed to lure the Mumal away giving the bolt throwerc1 more shot.
It missed thou. On the good side Hurin and his guys showed up and Irolas was getting close to the center.
Next turn the Mumal charged the bolt thrower crew, and Denethir engaged the Isengard force. So I should be free to take the center for a bit. My big concern is that stumpy will come trample all my guys!
Second turn if fighting and the crew dies. But Denethor is doing alright with help close.
Hurin steps up to slow the now free Mumak!
He and some of his pals repeatedly charge, my plan is to just tie the Mumak up but they are doing wounds. So long as I can keep priority and charge it is going well. But as soon as the Mumal gets to trample I am likely done.
In the north the fighting is going pretty well. We are more or less even on kills but they are not getting any closer to the center which has to be held.
The back and forth continues, stompy wins 1 round of combat and kills few citadel guards, but I am getting the charges in, so Hurin 8s doing good work. My force was broken now, but only a few guys ran.
Finally Hurin kills the Mumak! This broke the evil force as well. At this point we were out of time. But I still had a single citadel guard holding the ground so it was a win for me!
Was allot of fun fighting the Mumak.
After that we had a set up for favorite army I tried to take pictures of them all.
The googly eyed spiders and galadriels elves were the winners. I got some good comments well. I ended up just above last place, but won my own Mumak in the raffle!
In the end this tournament was perhaps I bit more competitive focused then I expected, at least compared to the last one here. But it was allot of fun never the less. Particularly liked fighting the Mumak and second Rohan force.
Thanks,
Mike
