Battles in Middle Earth : Dragon Rampant

Having been busy over the holidays we were looking for some easy pick up games. Dragon Rampant rules are perfect for this and our Middle Earth/Lord of the Rings collections are easy to create an army list of any particular size. So what follows is two separate evenings gaming.

First up my Mordor Orcs took on a contingent of Elves, we used the scenario straight from the Lion Rampant rule book where one side is attempting to burn a number of designated objectives, whilst the other rushes forward to defend.

In this case Elves are looking to put my Mordor Orcs to the sword

Berserkers have been left to guard the loot

swords men run forward as both forces attempt to get to the centre as quickly as possible

The Mordor force as fast moving warg riders

But what is this the Elves have persuaded an ent to join their force

Warg riders chase down the flank

Thump thump.......they have an armoured troll !

The elves have wizardess with them

The elves prepare to receive the troll charge

But it changes direction and crashes into the ent.....

The elves manage to set the first objective on fire

But are ambushed when they attempt a second

Fearce fighting has reduced both forces and the Orcs have their eye on the she-elf !

But she runs for her life !

We managed to then play the same scenario the other way round, the wargs charging is as quickly as possible

The troll got his revenge on the she-elf

Before being hacked down by the elves

Two fun games but we came to the conclusion that actually burning all the objectives would be almost impossible. The dungeon then saw another Middle Earth adventure with a much larger game. Here a huge horde of Mordor Orcs were up against the well disciplined Gondorian Army. We used a slightly modified version of Dragon Rampant rules, roughly speaking we had about 60 points each.

The Gondor army, predominantly infantry with a couple of units of heavy cavalry

The Horde

 Infantry advance past the fallen head of one of the old kings of Gondor

Rangers advance past an abandoned temple

The clash of steel gets closer.........

Heavy cavalry crash in on the Left flank

The cavalry are impetuous so quickly become exhausted and worn out

Around the temple the Gondorian force use long range attacks, the cavalry in the background are redeploying 

Faramir, despite charging in looses his nerve and flees the field 🙁

The horde have brought a troll, which has been stuck in the woods but eventually it breaks free to charge

The cavalry have redeployed 

My photos seem to run out here, but the troll was eventually chased off and although it had cost them dear the Gondor army held the field just 

Another good game with quite a few troops on the table...I think we might see some more Middle Earth soon 🙂