The Watchtower of Dol Guldur : LOTR

My iPad has been broken and the replacement has not arrived yet so limited blogging at the moment. This means I am behind and I have a couple of games to catch up on. So will try and get some blogging in over the next few days, first up a Lord of the Rings game, I had been re watching the Hobbit whilst painting so decided to run a scenario inspired on the film.

The Watchtower of Dol Guldur has a series ward spells protecting it, the Elves led by Elrond and the dark forces of the Necromancer have been despatched to capture the secrets held inside. The special rules for this scenario means that each side can only have one unit or character inside the protected area at one time and the force controlling the tower when one side hits 50% will be the victor.

The dark forces include Orcs, warg riders, a black knight and a troll

Elrond is supported by an elite force of Elven warriors and a small group of Dunedain 

Elrond also has Glorfindel, the spell protected area around the watchtower is marked by the obvious brown/grey board

Dark forces advance and spread out they heavily outnumber the elves but are much less resilient

The troll eyes up glorfindel

and wildly charges into crush him

The wargs are facing off with Elrond in the protected zone whilst the Necromancer fire spells and fire balls

The troll has pushed Glorfindel back but is then peppered by arrows

On the other flank the black knight has been seriously wounded and is repeatedly pushed back failing his morale check

The Eleven warriors make short work of the troll hacking him down

The archers prove very effective as you would expect

The final lone warg is soon despatched

But then more heavily armoured orcs charge forward......numbers are starting to count

Weakened Elrond has to withdraw in the face of the onslaught

But it is too late the Elf Lord is cut down by a fire ball spell

Seeking revenge the remaining elves charge towards the Necromancer

Whilst the Dunedain move in to capture the tower

At this point the dark forces reached 50% and the Necromancer evaporated into a dark cloud of dust drifting away on the wind, the good guys have won but it was a close run thing.

A fun scenario although the dark forces did seem to fail an awful lot of morale checks, the rules were Dragon Rampant and the magic cast by Elrond and the Necromancer gave just enough interest with out it becoming too powerful. I think perhaps another LOTR scenario not too far in the future....perhaps with Gandalf ?