" A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship."
J. R. R. Tolkien - The Lord Of The Rings
Catch the Pidgeon
So after a few weeks without a battle, Rick and I got together this weekend so that he could test his Harad army out... He has had some success with this army, but is building the army to test the best use of Harad. I fancied playing an Ent army, but with Rick wanting to practice this scenario, I opted for The Grey Company - led by Arathorn.
Rick set the battlefield up before I arrived for our 750 point battle...
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| The Hobbit SBG battlefield |
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| The Centre Piece! |
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| Rick's Harad Army |
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| Umbar contingent |
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| Harad deployment |
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| The Grey Company deploy on one side of the board |
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| With a small contingent ready to make the dash with the message on the other side of the board |
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| Halbarad views the Harad Army |
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| Arathorn calms the troops |
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| My Rangers of the North heroic march across the table |
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| Rick splits his force to close the gap on my messengers |
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| Heroic march... heroic march, but the fell beast is closing in! |
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| The Shadow Lord leaves his troops behind to try to intercept the rangers |
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| Meanwhile 1/2 of Ricks army move behind a ridge to evade the Grey company bow fire |
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| Unable to see the Harad army, I am forced to move |
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| My army waits for the Harad troops to approach |
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| A clumsy move sees the Shadow Lord jump on the messenger, with no support |
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| Ricks troops run up behind |
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| Rick checks the bow distance of the rangers |
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| Meanwhile, having killed the messenger the Shadow Lord fights the remaining rangers |
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| While the Umbar Corsair Reavers assist the Wraith |
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| Time for the Grey Company to start to move together |
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| My Arnor rangers with Halbarad, shuffle to their right |
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| The Shadow Lord, moves away to allow his troops to mop up the rangers |
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| The rangers fight for their lives |
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| But there is no stopping the Harad on slaught |
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| Fight to the death |
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| The Shadow Lord regroups with his troops to discount my bow fire |
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| The other 1/2 of Harad continue to hide behind the hill |
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| A brave stand, but the rangers are killed |
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| CHARGE! Harad break cover and charge at the Rangers |
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| Despite the huge number of shots, the Shadow Lords special ability is preventing and arrows from hitting |
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| Return fire kills a few rangers |
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| Malbeth is positioned to help save some wounds |
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| No targets to shoot the Harad Hoard advance |
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| A Reaver follows behind and gives the rangers a decent target... and lots of in the ways |
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| Harad reach the rangers flank |
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| Fighting on the flank, the rangers continue to target the Fell beast |
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| The Shadow Lord starts to take wounds |
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| Full volley at the Wraith! |
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| And he its enough to kill him! Time to mop up... |
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| The Harad King pushes the flanking forward |
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| The rangers are at risk of losing the flank |
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| The lines clash and fighting begins |
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| With everything to play for, my Ranger s of the North use everything to win the fight |
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| Malbeth continues to save the day and the rangers surround Harad |
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| The Harad flank seems to have fallen |
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| and the rangers push towards the Harad messenger |
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| The messenger falls |
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| The last of the Harad army push forward to swing the battle into their favour |
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| but hey are quickly over run |
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| Hasharin fights to the death |
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| The Harad dorce is dwindling, whilst the rangers are being saved by Malbeth |
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| The Hasharin finally falls |
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| The Grey Company push forward |
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| Arathorn finally joins the fight |
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| and heroic fights to kill more Harad |
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With Harad broken, the game ends, victory to
The Grey Company |
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| Man of the Match: Malbeth the Seerer, his ability again was worth every penny |
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