I just posted on my blog a run down for a battle I played at the start of the month, so I thought I'd throw a teaser in here for anyone who wanted to check it out. If you want to read the entire thing, here's the direct link for today's post with the battle report:
http://imaginarywars.wordpress.com/2011/08/17/not-lightly-does-one-battle-the-elves-of-lorien/ .
The battle was against my friend, who was playing his army (Galadhrim) for the first time...though he
has played the game two or three times previously--that and he's also a die-hard 40k player--so it was less a game of me teaching him how to play and more a game of him (and me!) coming to grips with his new army.
For my part, I was playing an Angmar force that was more Orc-heavy than it was spirit heavy.
Here's the opening paragraphs from the battle report:
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After rolling our mission and with the two armies coming to grips being from Angmar and Lothlorien, I liked thinking that the story behind this battle was that the evil minions of Angmar descended upon Galadriel and Celeborn as they led a complement of their Galadhrim through the Weather Hills–probably journeying to the Elven Havens of Lindon. Why the Galadhrim would travel from Lothlorien (just south of the eastern entrance of Moria) to the Grey Havens on the western coast of Middle Earth by way of the Weather Hills (just north of Weathertop) is anyone’s guess. Who knows what lured the Elves of Lorien into the empty lands that were once the Dunedain’s kingdom of Arnor?
Before the game started, we rolled ‘Battle for the Pass’ for the game’s set up and ‘Seize the High Ground’ for its mission. This meant our objective was a ‘high point’ in the center of the table, and we were playing length-wise down the table—a board that had hills touching each table edge but nothing in the table’s center apart from some moveable rough terrain with some broken columns. So the game was less the fight for a hill in the middle of a mountain pass and more a fight for a rough patch of ground in the middle of a hilly causeway–possibly through some low mountains or tall foothills.
(I was going to just cut-and-paste the whole thing here, but there's enough pictures that I thought it would be easier this way.)
(Say....posting a topic that asks guys to go to my blog isn't against the rules, is it? If it
is against the rules, just let me know and throw the whole battle report up here--I'm not trying to cause any trouble by doing it this way.)
Thanks for checking it out!
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I'm going to go and read it now. I saw it pop up in my blogroll and had been looking forward to reading it.
