Not that this maybe the right place to post this, but...
During a quiet moment at work doodling some sketches of gondorian buildings I could make, musing on the buildings from PC game Battle for MiddleEarth, I was thinking about the walled farms.
I had just read the first chapter of Return of the King, where Pippin describes looking out from the walls of Minas Tirith, over the Pelennor, with its "low walled farms, barns and byres."
And then an idea struck me, thinking of walled farms put me in mind of the farm buildings in the Battle of Waterloo; La Haye Saint, Hougemont etc etc.
A scenario could be based loosely on the battle of Waterloo;
The Gondorians are the "Allied" defenders of the farms having fallen back from the Rammas, with the pursuing orcs as the "French".
Gondorians would typically field WOMT, Osgiliath Vets, Rangers, maybe an Avenger or two? Not sure about trebuchets?
Evil forces a mix of Orcs, Trolls, Haradrim and Easterlings
Scenario could be one of many possibilities.
1.Gondorians hold out as long as possible
2.Gondorians make a fighting withdrawal?
3. Maybe ths is just the first wave of orcs, and can be repulsed, with reinforcements arriving from MT?
4. Perhaps reinforcements could come from the flank; Rohan as the "Prussians"
The game could be for SBG, which would probably focus directly on the fight for one farm
Or for WOTR, where the three farms could be depicted, with the ridge behind held by the Gondorians.
I would have to make the walled farms with lift off lids, to allow skirmish style troop placement within.
Just thinking out loud at this point...
...I always had a thing for the Retreat from the Rammas, yet it is not often covered in too much detail.
It would be an excuse to make 3 farms anyway
