Lord of The Rings battle with Lords&Servants rules

[seldon]

Last Sunday we had a fun game with Lord&Servants rules by Dadi e Piombo.

Gondorian infantry supported by a few Rohirrim were facing Mordor and Isengard orcs



There were three table objectives and controlling them contributed to the enemy breaking point.

Gondorian troops were mostly veteran well armed troops and the Rohirrim were expert horse archers.

The Uruk were the tougher orcs with the ferocious rule and heavy armor, while the standard orcs benefited from the warband rule allowing better mobility.





The main force of gondorian infantry quickly advanced to face the theat among the castle ruins, while the rohirrim supported by one unit with mixed weapons moved on the outside flank





Soon the battle was in full swing. The Rohirrims had managed to eliminate the uruk crossbowmen but were now in a tough spot facing pikes.

Inside the ruins while one unit of gondorian swordsmen defended an objective another unit was trying to hold a force of uruks and mordor orcs







The rules are interesting in that units can be fluid, they can break into smaller subrgoups and even models can act individually, and this happens very often once the melee starts and formations get disorganized

Towards the end, despite the uruks being able to rout the Rohan horsemen, the toll taken by missile fire mede it difficult for them to gather strength to push the gondorian troops away from the outer objective.. while inside the ruins gondorian veterans managed to hold just long enough for the forces of evil to break. but it was a very close call..










Fun game !

[Treebeard]

Lovely game

[Commander Carnage]

Great looking game, I really like the orcs. Nice work.

[Argonor]

Always a pleasure to see multi-purposed minis 

Who makes that castle, please?

[seldon]

Thanks guys..

Sorry I have no clue who makes the castle.. I bought it at Descarte Games in Paris over 20 years ago and just recently painted it... In this game I combined it with some also old terrain pieces of a ruined church to appear as fallen down wall  ( I need to do proper pieces for this )...
The castle is on the smaller side, but as a small border fortress for the non too large GW LoTR minis it serves a purpose ...

cheers
Francisco

[Argonor]

Sorry I have no clue who makes the castle.. I bought it at Descarte Games in Paris over 20 years ago and just recently painted it...

Probably long OOP, then, anyway 

Thanks.

[Charlie_]

Nice!

What about the ruined church, do you know who made that?

[eilif]

Great looking battle.
I'm hoarding LoTR figures in the hope that when my son is old enough he'll have interest enough to play battles like this. The small castle really is well-suited for an engagement like this.

[seldon]

The church is also pretty old. Don't remember the company, it is resin, came in black boxes. There was also a very small stone fort ( smaller than the church ).

Although I don't remember the company I have seen it around on other posts.. look at this...

http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=85900.0

first picture, behind the goblins and behind the river ... there it is..

Maybe the author of that post remembers !

cheers
Francisco