"And only the heathen Kings, under the domination of the Dark Power, did thus, slaying themselves in pride and despair, murdering their kin to ease their own death."
- Gandalf the White, The Lord of the Rings
This weeks battle saw SouthernDunedain and Muppetslayer from the onering forum attend the club.
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| The Hobbit Strategy Battle Game Rule Book |
The battle was 1000pts per side with Muppetslayer commanding the evil side of Harad. The Harad army was led by the Betrayer with support from Suladan the Serpant Lord, 12 Harad Abrakhan Guard, 12 Watchers of Karna and a shade for good measure - this part of the army was to face me (dwarves).
The second half of Harad had The Golden king of Harad lead another 12 Harad Abrakhan Guard, 12 Watchers of Karna, task master and a shade - this was a very impressive, all metal army!
SouthernDunedain fielded the Galadhrim - with Thranduil, Rumil, Galadhrim warriors, Guards of the Galdhrim Court, two banners, Storm Caller and a few wood elves for good measure.
My Dwarven army was led by Gimli with 12 Khazad Guards, Floi Stonehand the Loremaster of Moria with Dwarf warriors 6 with two handed axes and 6 with shields, the flank of my army had a captain, banner and 12 Dwarf Kinband warriors.
THe battle was fought on the snow board (having agreed dwarves v goblins), but the Harad just had to be used and the desert board was already in full swing of 40K.
The dice was rolled and the scenario was set, "To the Death"....
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| Hobbit SBG - Harad v Elves and Dwarves |
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| Hobbit SBG - Elves and Harad advance |
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| Hobbit SBG - Harad March on Gimli and the Dwarven army |
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| Hobbit SBG - Floi and the Dwarf warriors make slow progress across the snow |
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| Hobbit SBG - Harad Abrakhan Guard look huge against the small Dwarves |
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| Hobbit SBG - Suladan and the Betrayer steady the Abrakhan Guard and the Watchers of Karna |
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| Hobbit SBG - Harad Army impressively advance and shoot at the Dwarves |
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| Hobbit SBG - The Golden King of Harad orders the advance and the Task Master sets the army into action |
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| Hobbit SBG - Gimli Son of Gloin leads the deadly Khazad Guards to meet the Betrayer and the Harad Army |
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| Hobbit SBG - Dwarf warriors and Khazad Guard push forward |
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| Hobbit SBG - Floi |
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| Hobbit SBG - Dwarf Army |
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| Hobbit SBG - Galadhrim Army look towards Harad and the Golden King |
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| Hobbit SBG - Elves and Harad engage - fighting is tough and the shade just out of view is proving its worth and allows Harad to get the better of the elves |
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| Hobbit SBG - Elven Command push forward |
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| Hobbit SBG - Dwarven legs take an age to cross the field and still have not engaged the enemy who are still shooting at the Dwarves to try to whittle them down... (dwarves with shields!) |
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| Hobbit SBG - Floi tries negating the Shade... |
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| Hobbit SBG - Harad finally hit and kill a dwarf who had stopped to do his boot laces up! |
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| Hobbit SBG - Finally the Khazad Guard and Abrakhan Guard meet and fighting |
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| Hobbit SBG - The remaining Dwarf army waits to support the Khazad Guard |
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| Hobbit SBG - The Elves are fighting it out, let down by the poor bow fire they are struggling to beat the Harad army with the shade... "Rolled a 6, but you still can't win!" |
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| Hobbit SBG - Gimli and Suladan meet in the first fight with Gimli transfixed by the Betrayer I had to roll a nifty 6 to save a wound and his life! |
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| Hobbit SBG - The first round between Harad and the Dwarves is more like a game of slap as neither side take many loses |
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| Hobbit SBG - The Elves on the other hand are being punished by the shade |
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| Hobbit SBG - Finally Floi stops the Shade and the Dwarves start hitting to kill on the Abrakhan Guard |
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| Hobbit SBG - It's looking like a close call with Harad and the Elves, even the Golden King pushes the advance and Harad swamp the out numbered Galadhrim |
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| Hobbit SBG - The cold may have started to affect the Harad army |
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| Hobbit SBG - The Dwarves are now dominating the Harad army and are taking very few casualties, they simply are refused to die |
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| Hobbit SBG - Gimli now has his sights set on the Betrayer and uses his last Will point to stop him from successfully casting Transfix again... |
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| Hobbit SBG - Floi targets the Shade while the Khazad Guard mop up |
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| Hobbit SBG - Rumil and Thranduil are in the thick of it, desperately trying not to loose |
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| Hobbit SBG - Rumil and Thranduil are slain and the Elves look unlikely to last another round |
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| Hobbit SBG - The Khazad Guard seem unstoppable as they plough through the Harad lines and pour around the flanks killing all in their path |
With no more time left the battle ended.
We added up the casualties... Harad were broken having lost over half of their force and loosing Suladan, the Elves lost Rumil and Thranduil so the final score was 7-4 - Victory for the forces of good (Harad claimed it was the unexpected snow that put them off!).
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 The Hobbit SBG, 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/Hobbit SBG figures and LOTR scenery from the Mines of Moria to the siege of Helms Deep, snow fields to desert boards ready and waiting.
Why not join our watch list for updates and look out for Easters weekend battle event... two days of fighting in the ruins of Osgiliath, Helms Deep and Far Harad, you cannot afford to miss it.
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
I have found the Shade to really be worth its points helping evil battlelines! Must admit I wouldnt have themed it with Harad though! But allying is freely possible in the game...
ReplyDeleteClever use of Floi to nullify the Shade.
Surprised Thranduil went down. I would expected his Natures Wrath to have knocked the evil battleline flying? Then with a bunch of prone 'trapped' models the good guys could have got ahead here?
Hi Scott
ReplyDeleteIt was a really fun game with two experienced players. I loved the theme of Harad, but the elves were simply disappointing, although there has to be a balance between heros, banners and troops... They were out numbered from the start.
All-in-all a good and fun game!
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DeleteI am guessing you used the new Hobbit rules... how did you find them, in terms of new heroic actions, monsters, spells and weapon abilities...?
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ReplyDeleteYes we did play the new Hobbit rules - the core rules are very much the same - there are a few changes here and there and a few bits added and few bits removed - which changed how we used our armies (no volley fire for example).
We didn't get a chance to use monsters, but maybe during the next battle we will! I will update the next battle report and comment on the flow with the new rules...
Your Welcome - look out for more uploads this week end, finally finished my Cirith Ungul army and there will be battle report from Dol Guldor, as well as some scenery updates on the Escape from Goblin Town...
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