LotR SBG: Survival Mode

SouthernDunedain · **Posted:** Fri Jan 10, 2014 11:08 pm

So someone requested I post my rules for the survival mode I made last August during a mega battle with muppetslayer and knighty. It is fun to play but we were kinda making it up as we went along. I have refined it slightly for you lovely people and would love to work on it more with feedback.

I was in the process of adding weapon emplacements (bolt throwers etc), I'll see if I can find that snippet in my notebook.

So take a look and let me know what you think. You can even play it solo if you wish but 3 players is the optimum number.

slayeroftrolls · **Posted:** Sat Jan 11, 2014 12:32 am

Fantastic! Great work! So many alternative ways of playing coming around now! First the RPG and now this! Cheers southerndunedain!

JamesR · **Posted:** Sat Jan 11, 2014 4:21 am

Looks quite fun. I'll have to try it out Monday once I'm free

KnightyKnight · **Posted:** Sat Jan 11, 2014 10:22 am

Fond memories of playing this little game

can't wait to try it again!

Llewelyn · **Posted:** Sat Jan 11, 2014 11:05 am

Thanks for posting this I will be playing this

Llewelyn · **Posted:** Sat Jan 11, 2014 11:14 am

Could you add some kind of lvl system?

Zarathustra Suicuine · **Joined:** Sun Nov 17, 2013 7:24 pm **Posts:** 183

Looks good, would love to try it out sometime.

Bronf · **Joined:** Fri Dec 07, 2012 12:40 pm **Posts:** 297

hmm i looked at it and im kinda confused on the gear costs it seems a bit hard to tell what costs what in some things. eg: elf bow/ elf 2 h blade i cant tell the cost is it 5 or 10 and when i see the shield and bow i cant see a cost at all :/ can u fix it please?

edit: nvm my word doc was being stupid on me. all fine now

Galadrin · **Posted:** Fri Jan 17, 2014 2:50 am

Will check it out too

Bronf · **Joined:** Fri Dec 07, 2012 12:40 pm **Posts:** 297

SouthernDunedain wrote:

So someone requested I post my rules for the survival mode I made last August during a mega battle with muppetslayer and knighty. It is fun to play but we were kinda making it up as we went along. I have refined it slightly for you lovely people and would love to work on it more with feedback.

I was in the process of adding weapon emplacements (bolt throwers etc), I'll see if I can find that snippet in my notebook.

So take a look and let me know what you think. You can even play it solo if you wish but 3 players is the optimum number.

just want to build upon your senario a bit because it kinda had a few holes to it eg: table size. so heres a modifed version of this just because i felt it needed to be build a little more.

SouthernDunedain · **Posted:** Tue May 20, 2014 3:55 pm

Appreciate it, this was a spur of the moment thing and tbh, table size doesnt really matter. We have played it on 2 bits of goblin town and on a 2x2 square board and it works fine on either. Just scale up the enemies.

LordElrond · **Posted:** Tue May 20, 2014 8:09 pm

Shouldn't heavy armour be 5pts, as RotNs already have armour?
GBHL channel should play this definitely!

Bronf · **Joined:** Fri Dec 07, 2012 12:40 pm **Posts:** 297

LordElrond wrote:

Shouldn't heavy armour be 5pts, as RotNs already have armour?
GBHL channel should play this definitely!

funny thing i was thinking about that when i was in the shower today lol.

SouthernDunedain · **Posted:** Wed May 21, 2014 4:11 pm

LordElrond wrote:

Shouldn't heavy armour be 5pts, as RotNs already have armour?
GBHL channel should play this definitely!

I'll put the idea to them at Throne of Skulls.

Frêrin · **Joined:** Tue Apr 08, 2014 1:50 pm **Posts:** 272

Maybe I didn't read cearfully but what warriors/elites are included in the Waves? It makes a difference if you are fighting moria goblins and prowlers or uruk-hais and berserkers

Sir Richard · **Posted:** Fri May 23, 2014 9:41 am

I will certainly be trying this out; the next time my friends come over and think it's a good idea to do a 3-man free-for-all, we will do this instead! Thx SD!

Bronf · **Joined:** Fri Dec 07, 2012 12:40 pm **Posts:** 297

i did a test run with me and 1 other person and it diden't seem to me it was a survival at all :/ (well we were just fighting moria goblins) kill points to be used to modify rolls kills the game in my experience and we diden't even use a single barrier. and for elites we just used the best troops the book your using. eg: bowmen prowlers. gadabad goblins and some two handed prowler's. so ya some of my change's killed the game in some way back to rewriting when i feel like it

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SouthernDunedain · **Posted:** Thu May 29, 2014 8:13 pm

you're playing it wrong then

if it is too easy then add in more enemies. Also, play it on a smaller board, then it gets tough.

Bronf · **Joined:** Fri Dec 07, 2012 12:40 pm **Posts:** 297

it was just the kill point that made it to easy.

NarsilReforged · **Joined:** Sun Sep 22, 2013 11:13 am **Posts:** 316

What about Elladan & Elrohir and Murin & Drar? Can you count them as too heroes each costing 70 or 75 points or one model costing 140 or 150 points?

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