Lord of the Ring Skirmish Game

[Phil Portway]

Dave & I went round Harry's last night & watch Dave throw more ones any one could in one evening

The scenario was to get Theoden off the other end of the table (no time limit), and for the Forces of Evil to capture or kill him. He had 36 Rohan which would test at half strength for morale, and another Character. The Easterlings had 6 Kataphrakts, 5 Archers, 5 Warriors & a Captain with two 13 man units (with Captains) of Haradrim.

We used the LotR rules

All of the Army of Evil were all freshly painted, so I did not rate our success, but......

Harry the Harad, deploy his units blocking the way to the bridge, the Easterlings entered the table turn 1 and the Rohan started on table. Casualties -(face down are dead, face up are stunned)

Turn 1










Harry lost 2 men on turn one from archery


Turn 2
Rohan advance


As do the Easterlings






Turn 3
Easterlings are almost in the fray


Rohan cavalry charge a couple of isolated Harad left of the monoliths (made by Dave)


The Rohan only managed to push the Harad back.


The rest of the Rohan push towards the center


Turn 5






The Rohan try & finish of the couple of Harad


They kill one and knock the other three down


Turn 6


The Easterlings now can charge in




Two dead Rohan


Securing the bridge


More downed Harad, by spears this time


Turn 7
The Forces of Evil charge in along it's line






Another Harad bites the dust


as do more Rohan, fall




Turn 8
The Rohan are close to a Morale and will need reinforcements very soon


More casualties for both sides




Rohan 2iC being attacked


Turn 9
Rohan lost about 6 men form Morale this turn so we decide to role for reserves for Rohan D6 of figures appear (4)


All the Rohan are in melee, the  Easterling warriors come and secure the northern end of the bridge.


At this point, my camera was full,  but the Rohan took 4 more casualties and Theoden failed his own morale, so was captured.

Win to the Forces of Evil

[Codsticker]

Good to see a game of LoTR being played- one of my favourite systems. I was hoping that AoS would have borrowed more from it.