The forces of Good: 32 High Elves, 32 Wood Elves, 24 Dwarf Warriors, Balin, and Balin's Guard.
Balin and Balin's Guard..tough little guys that held their own for Good...
The forces of Evil, minus an Orc unit we forgot to put out until right after we started...Tons of Uruk Hai, Colton's newly completed Warg Riders, some Goblins, a Mordor Troll, and one Ring Wraith...
My son, Colton, being very serious about how he wanted the goblin and orc archers to move...
Colton's Warg Riders lead the charge!!
The objective was to occupy and defend the Elven Shrine in the middle of the table...The narrow passages it created on either side made for a lot of close combat...
Some of the dwarves and elves head for the shrine, while the archers wait patiently for the enemy to come into range...
The Wargs attempt what was almost a suicidal charge...
Three of the Wargs were cut down by the archers almost immediately...
The Uruk Hai forming up their battle line...
On the other side of the battle, my Wood Elves and High Elves dash for the back entrance to the shrine, and the archers prepare for the onslaught of orcs and Uruk Hai...
Back on the far side, the battle is in full heat, with the Wargs attacking the closest forces of Good..
My High Elves began a barrage of arrows that turned out to be almost completely ineffective. Apparently my elves have been taking archery practice with Gimli instead of Legolas...
The boys have their best game faces on!!
The Uruk Hai come crashing into the elves and dwarves for some fierce hand to hand...
On my side, the orcs and that fierce Mordor Troll clash with my front line of High Elves...
The troll was a monster, twice killing three of my elves at once! Before the end of the game, though, they had inflicted 2 of the necessary 3 wounds to kill him...
One decent shot of the battle in it's entirety..
Unfortunately, after 3 1/2 hours we had to call it quits. Looking at the casualties piles (which were large) we judged it a draw. However, as far as the objective went, the forces of Good were definitely in control of the shrine...
A great time for everybody! Really excited to see my two young nephews very into the game with a good working knowledge of the rule system already!
Looks like a TON of fun! And oh my goodness look at all those photos! I can never remember to take pictures. Very impressive.
ReplyDeleteHAHA, you forgot that our elven archers which were "patiently" waiting kept backing up =D But, it was a ton of fun, and I wish I had my own camera too...
ReplyDeleteBelieve it or not, I intended to mention that just for Joel...but I honestly forgot! It was really late when I did this post...just wasn't thinking clearly!
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