More Middle-Earth HOTT

By popular request we got out Geoff's 15mm Middle-Earth armies again last night. This time there were four of us, so we ran a 72AP game but with two 36AP forces on each side. As you might imagine what we really got were two disconnected 36AP games. But they were still fun.

Geoff and Peter were the forces of Evil. Peter used a Mordor army whilst Geoff had Haradrim. Geoff was faced by Dave using Rohan, whilst I match Peter with the army of Gondor.

Rohan faces the Hardrim. Naturally the boys from the South have some Mumakil. Rohan were supported by Gandalf and Treebeard to make up for it.

Mumakil vs a very retro Treebeard.

It took a while for Gondor and Mordor to get stuck into each other. On the right there you can see a paladin element representing some Mearas super-horses.

They were rapidly squished by some trolls. The trolls were now rather excited to find themselves in the midst of the very vulnerable knights of Gondor.

The knights ganged up on the trolls. They got squished as flat as the horses.

Rohan and Harad were still fighting it out n the other side of the field.

I was left facing trolls with Imrahil, my knight general. He continued the 'Getting Squished' theme, and that was Gondor's army broken and running for the hills.

Of course things could still go badly for the forces of Evil, as Geoff rolled his fifth '1' in a row.

Gondor's troops were slowly departing the battlefield, but in the distance you can see Gandalf about to have a go at Sauron's stronghold. If enough of Gondor's troops could hang about until Gandalf had a chance to attack it then maybe Good would prevail.

They didn't. The feckless Gondorians ran away en masse  before Gandalf could do his stuff, and Evil prevailed.

Good game though.