The GREAT BATTLE of our time

I began to look for suitable scenarios that suited the Minas Tirith siege theme, with the idea in mind to use ABSOLUTELY EVERY MINIATURE I had available…

Of course none of the published scenarios fit exactly what I needed, but I found in a couple of Lotr books some clues:

• EVERY siege scenario had, at least, a defender with HALF the points of the attacker.
• EVERY siege scenario had, at most, an attacker with THREE TIMES the points of the defender.

So I went for something in between. I wanted to use my whole light side army, and planned to use like two-three times my dark side army. I used the old rules from the books I had so there was no real rules about companies or something like that… we just used points, that’s all. So the points for my light side were about 3,800 and so I needed between 7,000 and 9,000 dark side points. I had not enough miniatures for such a number of points so I chose a different approach.

I found a couple of scenarios that threw the dark side miniatures in “waves”, one after another, and so i thought it was a good idea to include that rules in our game.

Finally, the result was (combining the ideas of several scenarios) that the dark side, to obtain a victory, had the mission to place, over the wall or inside the fortress, at least 10 miniatures. Meanwhile, the light side mission was to prevent this, forcing the attackers to flee.

To allow the dark side to have the amounts of points needed, three waves of the miniatures were going to appear I planned that only orcish troops were going to be included in second and third wave. To give some emotion to the game, I wanted some light side minis to be on the floor of the battlefield, not behind the walls, so I decided that, when at least 45 dark side minis were killed, a fat group of rohirrim accompanied by some dwarf rangers would appear from a random side of the battlefield. If the light side was able to kill at least 140 miniatures (roughly half the total of dark side minis), the game was finished, and the glorious luminous elves and humans would declare their superiority over orcs and monsters…