AAR: Lord of the Rings: Large Home Game.

     A Saturday ago, Kalissa and I hosted a rather large Lord of the Rings game at our house. It has been a while, since we had a large crowd of gamers. It was nice to see considering that most of our gaming area was a plague of commission work. And it is completely back to that now!
    However, everyone that came over was to run a 400 point list or close to it. There were no heroes allowed. And as an after thought, monsters should have been banned too. I still do not think my Mordor troll had that much of an impact. I only killed two people the whole game. My warg riders did most of the work. The teams were four versus four. The Evil side had Easterlings, Uruk-hai, Mordor Orcs, and the Undead (Aragorn had yet to talk to them!) The Good had three armies of Rohan and some Iron Dwarves.
    The game went through about 14 turns with the Evil rolling awesome. I believe that Ray's Easterlings were only doing well, because they were not all painted. He had a ridiculous number of sixes rolled. The whole game was really run. Even the members of the Good side had fun. We will probably do this again, since it had been a while. Do mind the fact that these pictures below are not in order. Enjoy!

Lord of the Rings: Narrative Campaign: Scenario One

   These are photos of the recent round of Battle Companies games. As a group of quite a few players, we have started on the narrative campaign with mission one. Everyone got to survive the Ruffians who wanted the information about the treasure we are suppose to be seeking. It is made to be fairly easy for the most part, unless you play the Ruffians like I did prolonging the game. I, also, took the liberty of facing off with the Ruffians with my Orc Company at it full strength. I almost lost that one. 

    Anyway, it looks like there is enough people playing that Kalissa and I might actually see a campaign all the way through. Normally, a group of gamers start on a campaign, and then, it fazes out in a week. Of course, this happens with four to five people. We are looking at 12 people. Hopefully, there will be more postings to come. Enjoy!

Lord of the Rings: Battle Companies: Wargs, Orcs, and Elves...... Oh My!

      The following post is about last Saturday's Lord of the Rings games. Obviously, the binge of the Lord of the Rings continues. There are two more days of these games planned out in advance. However, in this case, I wanted to play against my wife's new army of Elves that I had painted the night before. Of course, I outnumbered her in the my ridiculous way. Some might say in the Battle Companies games that this would a "dick move." However, before I am labelled in such a fashion, I wanted to inform you want I have learned in the outnumber factor of these types of Lord of the Rings games. I month ago, I had my Orc company reduced down to something to the tune of 55 points. Even my wife, objected to me playing certain people based on the massacre statis I would most likely receive. I am happy that she cared so deeply, but I really was not that worried about it. I lost my leader in the next game as expected. Then, I played against my wife where I ended up winning and gaining some serious company changes. In other words, with my ten influence points and my rare good rolling, my Orc company became "Badass!"
     Kalissa's Rivendell Elves Company started with five models versus my Warg Rider/Urakai Company. It was fourteen figures to five. I can't remember the points. However, the extra influence points after the end of the game losing gave Kalissa ten Elves. Not bad! I am not sure what she has gained since then. I played another game where I lost one Orc perminentally. Sadly, it was due to drowning. Yes, I caused it! Anyway, these are some of those game shots. Enjoy!