We tried out two scenarios today from the Two Towers book. The first was Let's Hunt some Orc, and the 3 heroes failed to reach the edge of the board. The second was this battle.............

The Isengard side had two objectives;
1) Kill Theodred
2) Get at least one troop on the Rohan side of the river at the end of turn 15

The Rohan force wins if they can prevent both of these objectives from happening

I took on the Rohan forces, i deployed fairly near the river and moved closer to the edge on my first turn (a mistake i think)



The Isengard force makes it way through the ford



Both sides are exchanging missile fire






Outriders charge forward and knock the uruk-hai scouts to the ground


Theodred hangs around behind his troops


A few odd results with one rohan warrior able to force the Troll back hehe



Vrasku gets involved in the combat. Erkenbrand fails to turn up on turn 5 and 6. Theodred charges the uruk-hai scouts


The troll thins down the Rohan numbers (including Theordred) but the Isengard force is broken


On turn 7 Erkenbrand appears from the east


Most of the Isengard force flees when the Riders of Rohan appear




As soon as the troll is cut down the rest of the uruk-hai flee. The game ends in a draw because Theodred was killed


In conclusion..... For this scenario i think i should have kept Theodred away from the fighting for much longer. I got bored of him hanging around at the back.
The other thing i could have changed was the location of where i engaged the enemy, i could have moved up to the middle of the ford. I felt as though i did get an advantage by letting him just pass through the ford, because he was bottle-necked and had a narrow frontage.

Nice Troll!

Great easy to follow battler rep. The figures are very well painted!

Awesome battle report. Thanks for sharing with us!

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Simple and fun battle report! I like that people are still playing scenarios from the journey books.

I've played this scenario. We found it dull and massively loaded against Evil, given the tight timescales. For 'balance' I'm sure that there was a rule forcing Theodred to charge the enemy whenever possible, so we dedicated three models to block him in and prevent charging!

I'm pleased that you got a good game out of it because we didn't in a couple of attempts.

yes there are rules for that, 1st theodred cannot be move further away from a certaint distance from the ford, 2nd hes on rages and will dare to attack the 1st thing that shows up on his path.

For this battle you really need some defence 6 uruks and alot more berserkers, their sheer amoutn of attacks should be able to chop down rohan infantry along being extremely sturdy to absorv blows.

Still very nice game indeed

Thanks for sharing and well done.

[quote="typhoon2"]I've played this scenario. We found it dull and massively loaded against Evil, given the tight timescales. For 'balance' I'm sure that there was a rule forcing Theodred to charge the enemy whenever possible, so we dedicated three models to block him in and prevent charging!


Hi Typhoon 2,

I like the Theodred mitigation strategy! I am sorry that you didn't like the scenario, I suspect that it has been heavily weighted to give the outcome of the book, by which Theodred is killed, but he has died nobly repulsing the forces of Saruman.