My daughter and I played the next scenario from the Scourging of the Shire. She took the hobbits again. She had 2 hobbit bowmen and 3 hobbit militia to hold off my 10 ruffians. I had to exit 6 of my ruffians off the Tookland edge of the playing area. To help her she had 24 booby traps. I took counters from Keltis the Oracle to represent them. She had 4 pits, 4 snares, 4 trip lines, and 12 dummies. Anytime I moved within an inch of the counters, I set them off.
I did a pretty good job of setting off the booby traps. Unfortunately for Kathryn, the traps were not very effective. I also believe she needed to set them up more densely to create some kind of kill zone. She was effective at predicting the path I would take. I rarely encountered dummies.
It took a while for us the close. I mostly gave up bow shots for movement. Kathryn got a few shots in, but usually missed or did not hurt me. Her militia was too weak to stand up to my mass of forces. I engaged them in 2:1 and 3:1. My superior Fight skill meant I usually won. In 2-3 turns her militia was dead. Kathryn finally got in two kills with her bowmen before I charged them. I killed one of my own with a bow shot that went wild. Then I simply overwhelmed her bowmen with my ruffians.
For more pictures, see my blog.
http://parhoon-naval-yards.blogspot.com/2011/09/touble-on-border.html
