It was catch up time in the Battle Companies campaign again so I brought out the B team again, You may remember on their first foray they found Leigh's Hobbits quite a handful (see earlier post). This time I played Kenny and his Easterlings and Alan with his Men of Gondor.
Kenny has had a difficult start to the campaign and was down to 4 men against which I was able to muster 7. Find the relic has a string of 5 objective markers across the centre line of the table 4 of which are dummies and one of which is the relic. 4 were in the open with 1 on a hill to my right.
Both sides charged forward and fought over the central objectives. I detached one spearman to look at those on my left. We battered backwards and forwards with a couple of casualties on both sides and soon discovered that the relic had to be the one on the hill. Once again I had a spare spearman to detach and pick it up. The Easterlings were now down to 2 men and had no chance of getting to the relic. I decided the best option was to pull back and make for my baseline. I didn't realise that one of my opponents figures had a leg wound which made pursuit virtually impossible so I was able to claim the win.
Kenny does not have a copy of Battle Companies which is currently out of print so had 4 battles worth influence points and experience to spend. He is now in better shape with 6 figures and some upgrades which is good.
My second game was against Alan who managed to beat Rory whilst myself and Kenny were battling it out, giving him an impressive 4 wins out of 4. I was facing 10 figures against my 8 and I drew the task of assassinating his leader. Instead of the camp we used a fantasy graveyard which made an interesting setting. I snuck up on the camp but the alarm was raised almost immediately and very quickly I lost 3 elves to no men. Now outnumbered 2 to 1 I didn't fancy my chances of winning at all, particularly as the Gondor leader was taking no risks and had not engaged at all. Two more casualties on my side and that was the game up.
I am actually not at all sure how I won from such a dire position other than fantastic dice rolling! The spearman on the right forced his way in killing 3 and other battles went my way. Suddenly the Gondorians were broken and had to start making courage rolls. I lost one elf but a failed courage test meant that I had 4 onto 3. The Gondor Captain took a hit and then failed his fate save and I had somehow won! I was also lucky in the reinforcement rolls getting a knight and another spearman (the B team is spearman heavy) .
So I now have 2 strong warbands both of which have played 5 games and are 10 strong. Our next meeting is intended to be an all in affair so the A team will make an appearance but as usual if anyone can't make it I will have the B team ready to take to the field again.
Kenny has had a difficult start to the campaign and was down to 4 men against which I was able to muster 7. Find the relic has a string of 5 objective markers across the centre line of the table 4 of which are dummies and one of which is the relic. 4 were in the open with 1 on a hill to my right.
Both sides charged forward and fought over the central objectives. I detached one spearman to look at those on my left. We battered backwards and forwards with a couple of casualties on both sides and soon discovered that the relic had to be the one on the hill. Once again I had a spare spearman to detach and pick it up. The Easterlings were now down to 2 men and had no chance of getting to the relic. I decided the best option was to pull back and make for my baseline. I didn't realise that one of my opponents figures had a leg wound which made pursuit virtually impossible so I was able to claim the win.
Kenny does not have a copy of Battle Companies which is currently out of print so had 4 battles worth influence points and experience to spend. He is now in better shape with 6 figures and some upgrades which is good.
My second game was against Alan who managed to beat Rory whilst myself and Kenny were battling it out, giving him an impressive 4 wins out of 4. I was facing 10 figures against my 8 and I drew the task of assassinating his leader. Instead of the camp we used a fantasy graveyard which made an interesting setting. I snuck up on the camp but the alarm was raised almost immediately and very quickly I lost 3 elves to no men. Now outnumbered 2 to 1 I didn't fancy my chances of winning at all, particularly as the Gondor leader was taking no risks and had not engaged at all. Two more casualties on my side and that was the game up.
I am actually not at all sure how I won from such a dire position other than fantastic dice rolling! The spearman on the right forced his way in killing 3 and other battles went my way. Suddenly the Gondorians were broken and had to start making courage rolls. I lost one elf but a failed courage test meant that I had 4 onto 3. The Gondor Captain took a hit and then failed his fate save and I had somehow won! I was also lucky in the reinforcement rolls getting a knight and another spearman (the B team is spearman heavy) .
So I now have 2 strong warbands both of which have played 5 games and are 10 strong. Our next meeting is intended to be an all in affair so the A team will make an appearance but as usual if anyone can't make it I will have the B team ready to take to the field again.
Rules played 22 New 9
Places played 9 New 0
Places played 9 New 0
Good batrep Dave, campaign is definitely hotting up. My game against Alan was a win for my Arnor company not Gondor btw.
ReplyDeleteSorry Rory - well done
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