"There are no travelers in this land...
...only servants of the Dark Lord."
- Faramir, The Two Towers, The Lord of the Rings
LOTR: Battle Report - SBG Ilithien Attack
This week again saw Craig and I pit Mordor against Gondor in an epic 750 point battle. For a scenario we chose to look the Mordor held Ilithien region. Craig brought Boromir, Faramir, Damrod as well as warriors of Minas Tirith and Rangers of Ilithien.
My Mordor army was also themed with Shelob venturing out in serach of sweeter meat, escorted by Gorbag and his Morgul Rats and a rabble of orcs and warg riders.
In this latest LotR SBG battle report from East Grinstead Wargamers the battle raged on for nearly three hours, but who was victories... Gondor or Mordor?
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| LotR: Ilithien Battle field |
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| LotR: Damrod in ruins |
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| LotR: Boromir and Warriors of Minas Tirith enter the field |
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| LotR: Ilithien Rangers |
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| LotR: Mordor Host of Orcs and Warg |
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| LotR: Mordor Army |
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| LotR: Shelob and Gorbag ready to attack |
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| LotR: Warg Banner Bearer and Captain lead the Mordor attack |
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| LotR: Mordor War Band of Orcs |
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| LotR: Gorbags War band |
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| LotR: Gorbags Morgul Rats |
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| LotR: Shelobs eyes Boromir |
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| LotR: The Pieces are set... |
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| LotR: Mordor Archers start volley fire |
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| LotR: Warg riders with bows advance and fire |
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| LotR: Mordor Rabble |
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| LotR: Warg Rider Killed |
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| LotR: Gorbag not so brave |
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| LotR: Boromir Leads the Gondor Advance to meet the Mordor Warg Riders |
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| LotR: Gondor Troops |
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| LotR: Ilithien Rangers Volley Fire |
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| LotR: The armies edge closer |
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| LotR: Mordor Crash in to the flank of Gondor, but they manage to form a shield wall |
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| LotR: Shelob, having lost priority is blocked by a very brave warrior of Minas Tirith |
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| LotR: Gondor take heavy losses |
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| LotR: Mordor Infantry arrives and the orcs provide support to the warg riders |
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| LotR: Warg bows hide in the ruins picking off Gondor... or not as they don't seem to be able to hit anything other than the wall! |
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| LotR: Gorbag arrives on the left flank as Gondor struggle to hold |
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| LotR: Boromir and his warriors join the fight |
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| LotR: both Mordor and Gondor take casualties |
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| LotR: Boromir sends warriors to face the warg bows, but the replace the wall as pin cushions |
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| LotR: Mordor Orcs (who forgot to advance) still provide volley fire |
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| LotR: Mordors warg riders are dwindling fast and cant keep loosing priority |
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| LotR: With two Warriors bowed own the warg riders feel invincible... |
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| LotR: Both Gondor and Mordor are taking heavy losses |
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| LotR: Mordor Shaman casts transfix on Boromir and his is stuck |
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| LotR: Mordor Volley fire still has minimal hits and takes no more casualties |
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| LotR: Warg riders eye up Boromir and fancy their chances! |
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| LotR: And in they charge... fools! (one even fell off his warg) |
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| LotR: Gondor's flank finally falls |
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| LotR: Mordor try to mop up. |
With no more time left, we added the casualties... Gondor had lost over half of its force, Mordor a third - but the scenario was to reduce the opponent to a quarter of it's starting size and as neither of us successfully completed it we decided to call it a draw.
I hoped you enjoyed the battle report - please join the site and get up dates on more to come soon.
To see my fully Painted Armies please visit this blog:
LotR / WotR Dwarf Army (UPDATED)
LotR / WotR - Moria / Misty Mountains army
LoTR/ WotR Angmar Army
LoTR / WotR Huge Mordor Army
LoTR / WotR Isengard Army
We are about to start playing LOTR SBG - both skirmish battles and walk through the books/films each Monday night and WotR on club nights.
We welcome anyone interested in playing Lotr SBG, WotR or any warhammer/40K battle - why not let us know so that we can arrange some starter battles, like the one above, or if you/your club want to challenge us. We have all the LOTR SBG figures and LOTR scenery from the Mines of Moria to the siege of Helms Deep ready and waiting.
Feel free to email us to come along or arrange a game.
East Grinstead War Gaming club
Sussex
To see my fully Painted Armies please visit this blog:
LotR / WotR Dwarf Army (UPDATED)
LotR / WotR - Moria / Misty Mountains army
East Grinstead War Gaming club
Sussex
Nice report, I enjoyed that. :)
ReplyDeleteThanks - keep an eye out for other reports as well as the new Hobbit reports :-)
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