the great race

garmenhord · **Posted:** Fri Nov 11, 2011 9:00 am

I was thinking about a scenario... I was watching my rohan riders on my shelve and got this following idea:
A race between the cavalry. The map will be a long small piece of terrain. The first one over the finish wins. The road will have roadblocks, ... to make it harder for the riders.
-Evil can attack other cavalry because they are brutal (Good forces can fight back but cannot attack).
-Evil likes to cheat so in luck with a certain dice number on every turn 2 archers or other warrios on foot can jump forward from their hidden layer and try to hinder one of the players.
-There is no alliance between any of the riders - they all got one goal = to win.

There should be some extra rules maybe for the forces of good...
Maybe the winged nazgul and the eagles can play some kind of judge in the sky to see if everything goes fair... Except that the nazgul like to cheat. Eagles should prevent this...
Any idea's to make this better?

Elros of Numenor · **Posted:** Fri Nov 11, 2011 12:31 pm

allow the riders to throw stuff at each other. :-D

if you make this, and then playtest it and it works, maybe make options for evil cavalry races too.

Hilbert · **Joined:** Mon Jun 06, 2011 7:07 am **Posts:** 2088

Very intresting... Good ideas for judges

Mighty.Uruk!!! · **Joined:** Thu Jul 07, 2011 5:58 pm **Posts:** 236

interesting idea!
i agree with elros's idea of allowing riders to throw stuff at each other

GothmogtheWerewolf · **Posted:** Fri Nov 11, 2011 11:27 pm

That sounds fun, garmenhorde, i agree with the above; also, why not have banana skins on the race track?

TheBucklandBrewer · **Posted:** Sat Nov 12, 2011 8:05 am

Looking forward how you'll work this out.

Years ago I started making up rules for a chariot-race, which turned out into an entire supplement-idea (basic rules with lots of complicated expansions etc). Maybe this will inspire me to pick it up again

Good luck mate!

Sacrilege83 · **Posted:** Sat Nov 12, 2011 8:18 am

First there was Blood Bowl for Warhammer, now there's Horse Racing Grand Prix for Lotr. Have them shoot red & green shells at each other.

garmenhord · **Posted:** Sat Nov 12, 2011 7:22 pm

Well dunno if i will get so far to work it out - I wanted to share the idea - it sounded fun to me. Glad u guys like it, feel free to work it out. Do want to try it out someday but i don't think that will be soon.

Draugluin · **Posted:** Sat Nov 12, 2011 8:01 pm

You could have Legolas be the Ref for one side and Vrasku be the ref for the other. If an evil player cheats, Legolas can shoot him, if a good player cheats, Vrasku can shoot him. maybe also have Gandalf and Saruman. This sounds like a fun idea if the rules get figured out right.

garmenhord · **Posted:** Sat Nov 12, 2011 8:06 pm

that last part is the hard part :-D

I am not good at that stuff

Sticky Fingersss · **Joined:** Sat Oct 09, 2010 11:20 am **Posts:** 1776

Sounds interesting, but you must put enough things in the way to force them to fight sometimes to avoid a whole game of just movement.

Wah Wing · **Posted:** Tue Nov 15, 2011 3:05 am

How about the Good guys can throw mud like a Throwing weapon. Except if it wounds, the rider is blinded to a certain point. Maybe make up a chart for that.
I'm sure the Good guys can have some tricks up their sleeves. Maybe throw a basket of snakes at an opponent to scare the horse.
Just a few ideas. Hope to see more!

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