The GREAT BATTLE of our time
Third and last session. 8 hours long.
“It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.” - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
As we said in the last entry, the time had come for the reinforcements to arrive, it was finally going to happen. Therefore, knowing that the battle was going to get complicated, we decided to meet soon on a Sunday for a last, longer session, in which we could end the battle. So we got together soon, around 11 in the morning. We kept on playing until noon, when my wife called us for a wonderful seafood paella that she cooked. After finishing the red wine and the coffee (and lengthening the after-dinner like lazy hobbits) we resumed the game… we didn’t know it was going to last until 10 pm…
TURNS 10 and 11
But first things first. The Rohirrim were entering the battle and all I could do was seeing how they came from EVERYWHERE accompanied by that irritating dwarf rangers… yes DWARF and RANGERS… (my two favourite knightmares toghether on each single mini…)
Reinforcements from the light side get into the fray quickly, while dark side ones are too far...On the right flank, the last barrow-wight was slain, completely surrounded by elves and the remains of gondorian cavalry. Anyway it was completely impossible to survive the attack that came across the border of the table: the rohirrim cavalry appeared, and with a swift move across the small settlement, they tried to reach the easterling and Khand archers from behind!!
Arise now, arise, Riders of Théoden! Dire deeds awake: dark is it eastward. Let horse be bridled, horn be sounded! Forth Eorlingas! Arise, arise, Riders of Théoden! Fell deeds awake: fire and slaughter! Spear shall be shaken, shield be splintered, a sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises! Ride now, ride now! Ride to Gondor!On the left flank the goblins, that had finally killed the last human ranger, found a bothersome replacement in the form of rohirrim and dwarf rangers. Again the slow pace of their advance toward the walls slowed, it seems that, for now, they were not going anywhere.
Meanwhile, in the center of the battle, the Mordor army had lost momentum. The elves and the Arnor warriors had made a counterattack, destroying the remnants of the cavalry and advancing to meet the trolls again. Despite the efforts, the uruk-hai army, which had finally slit the throat of the last dwarf captain, was steadily advancing, followed by the siege tower and the orcs, so it was only a matter of time to kill all light side soldiers outside the walls…
The cavalry, which pretended to be the spearhead of the central attack, was finally surrounded and sacrificed...Regarding the shooting phases, the most important highlight was that the light side lost most of its archers on the main tower, and even some soldiers from the left tower had been wiped by the catapult, including some dwarf rangers and the elven archers that hid behind the walls (see Out of turn sequence: The fate of Melian.)
It was a hard time for the human bowmen...
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