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Every year, Centaur and I try to do some kind of scenario thing - in recent years, we've played through Fantasy Fellowships, the Scouring of the Shire, and a custom campaign through all the Osgiliath missions. Today, we're starting this year's campaign, which will be playing through the scenarios related to Helm's Deep from the War in Rohan supplement. We'll be using the new profiles, but we won't be altering the scenario participants to make legal Matched Play lists (it just doesn't work for Good this time around). We'll also be showing off the amazing terrain from Conquest Creations' Kingdom of Saxonia, Volume II - Jacob has really outdone himself and boy was making the terrain a ton easier than before!
The Walls of Helm's Deep (War in Rohan, p. 26)
We're using the actual scenario participants in this scenario:
- Forces of Good: Mostly The Defenders of Helm's Deep
- Aragorn - Strider with armor
- Legolas Greenleaf with armor
- Gimli, Son of Gloin
- Haldir with Elf bow and heavy armor
- Aldor
- Haleth, Son of Hama
- 8 Warriors of Rohan with shields
- 8 Warriors of Rohan with shields and throwing spears
- 8 Warriors of Rohan with bows
- 4 Galadhrim Warriors
- 4 Galadhrim Warriors with shields and spears
- 4 Galadhrim Warriors with Elf bows
- Forces of Evil: The Assault Upon Helm's Deep
- 4 Uruk-Hai Captains
- 10 Uruk-Hai Warriors with shields
- 10 Uruk-Hai Warriors with pikes
- 12 Uruk-Hai Berserkers
- 5 Siege Ladders
W
The board is a 24"x48" setup (though we have an extra foot of space behind Centaur's lines that he's not going to use) - the actual scenario is played on a 4x4 table, which means my guys are twice as packed in as they would normally be . . . repositioning is basically impossible:
Turn 1: Priority Good
Heroic Moves with Captains #2 and #3 (1/2M each)
Aldor's amazing shot . . . that wasn't
Haldir (1/3M), Legolas (1/3M), 2 Warriors of Rohan, and 2 Elves killed 5 guys with bows
Kill count: Legolas 1, Gimli 0
Turn 2: Priority tied, Evil
Aldor boosted his wounding roll and killed a crossbow! (1/1M)
Kill count: Legolas 1, Gimli 0
Turn 3: Priority Evil, given to Good
Darn
Haleth kills a berserker with his bow, Legolas kills a pikeman
Warrior of Rohan wounded a Berserker, but it was saved on a 6
3 crossbows hit Aragorn, but they all bounced off the wall
Aldor wins, guy stays atop
Kill count: Legolas 2, Gimli 0
Turn 4: Priority Good
Pushed over two of the ladders, Uruks put things back up and are ready to fight
Haldir kills a pike (2/3M), Legolas (2/3M) wounds Captain #4, fate save (1/1F); crossbow wounds Haleth (1/2H)
Aragorn declares a free Heroic Combat, wins (2/3M), kills
Aragorn gets 1 attack through and kills his foe, Gimli kills, Aldor won and got everyone to fall off (dead Berserker, wound on Captain #4), even losses otherwise
Kill count: Legolas 2, Gimli 1
Turn 5: Priority Evil
The wall is breached!
A Warior of Rohan kills a shield guy with a bow
Gimli = Heroic Combat, kills - then gets 2 wounds against Captain #3, fate save (1/1F, 1/2H)
Captain on the far side loses, fate fail (1/1F, 1/2H)
Aldor dies . . . horribly and finally
Kill count: Legolas 2, Gimli 2
Turn 6: Priority Evil
A
Crossbow killed an Elf bowman, Haleth kills a crossbow (1/1M), Warrior of Rohan killed a shield guy, Legolas killed Captain #4 (3/3M)
Gimli wins, gets everything through, kills Captain #3
Kill count: Legolas 3, Gimli 3
Turn 7: Priority Evil
Warrior of Rohan kills a crossbow
Captain #1 draws the combat (2/2M), loses, dies
Gimli kills a pikeman, Aragorn kills a berserker
Kill count: Legolas 3, Gimli 4
Turn 8: Priority Evil
Aragorn declares a free heroic move - Aragorn fails to knock over the ladder, but Gimli gets his!
Crossbow wounds Haldir (1/2H), Haldir kills 2 pikemen, Elf kills a shield guy
A
Kill count: Legolas 3, Gimli 4
Turn 9: Priority Evil
Aragorn calls a free heroic move, Gimli got a 1 to knock over the ladder
Elf and Rohan guy kill 2 Uruks
Captain #2 wins (2/2M), 3-high though!
Kill count: Legolas 3, Gimli 4
Turn 10: Priority Good
A
Gimli and 2 Rohan bowmen kill 3 guys, Legolas used Pinpoint Shot to kill a pikeman (3/3M)
A
Kill count: Legolas 4, Gimli 5
Turn 11: Priority Good
A
A
Kill count: Legolas 4, Gimli 6
Turn 12: Priority Evil
Failed to knock it over on a 1 - NOOOO!!!!!
Kill count: Legolas 4, Gimli 6
Conclusion
A
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