Well it's been a while since I've posted on here. Mostly due to Christmas distractions and getting back into school. But I finally got time to play a battle this weekend and I figured its about time I posted it up.
Me and Alex had a 400pt king of the hill? (i cant remember the right name) game this weekend. He decided to bring vrashku and an Uruk captain with heavy armour and shield along with about 20uruks. Much to his surprise I decided to bring my newly aquired goblins to oppose him. My army was all of the evil contents from EFGT.
The board was about 3 by 5 feet, with a (sort of) forest on my right flank, goblin town platform in the middle (servin as our hill) with a hole of doom surrounding it (if you steeped in it you died, the only reason for this was to make the 4 ramps the only way onto the platform) and off to the left were some rocky outcrops.
I deployed the gobling king and 12 gibbos right on te objective with the goblin cpt and his men on the left side of the platform and grinnah on the right side with his men. Finally I placed the scribe in my back corner of the forested area.
Alex placed his men in formation at the edge of the platform ready to move up and take the platform.
On the first turn the goblin king charged the Uruk captain and his companions did their best to follow suit. The flanking goblins ran up the sides of the platform as fast as they could, while avoiding the gaping hole. The scribe chittered and chattered and called up 4 of his companions to ambush the Uruk-hai from behind. In combat, the goblin king smashed his club down at the Uruk cpt but only scraped him(fate saved the wound).
Oh and in the shoot phase his xbows took a toll as they should, but not enough to counter the amount of the scribe brought on.
The second turn went much the same, the flanking goblins kept up their advance while the goblin king and his men were once again locked in combat with the Uruk-hai attempting to get onto the platform. By now they only had the one ramp available to them, as the rest had been cut off. Once again 4 goblins appeared behind the uruks practically surrounding them. However the xbows once again did some damage and the Uruk cpt actually managed to win his fight and almost hurt the GK though it was saved due to his massive girth.
Combat was finally joined on all of the uruks flanks and although the goblins had the advantage many of the fights did not go their way. (Thanks to me forgetting the chittering hords rule for that turn and the higher fight value, he was quite happy to hold that advantage for once) however the goblin king inspired his soldiers and turned the Uruk cpt into jelly. With his death the remaining uruks began to rally around the base of the platform by the ramp. The goblin reinforcements kept on appearing and the goblin king kept up his advance. After another turn of brutal combat, the uruks were broken and the game ended.
I have to say, I though I had that game in the bag with my deployment and reinforcements and the GK early exploits. But once the rest of my goblins reached combat...I was disappointed at how many fights I lost. Though i suppose that's because I'm used to elves. But after a lot of biteing and clawing I finally managed to kill enough enemies to finish the game. Having said that I think I'll stick with my elves for now.
Well that's it for now, I think im going to post up the all hero list I'm using in my local GW hobbit campaign that's starting soon. But not right now
Anyway, that's all for now
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) battles with this community. The hopes of this thread is that we will get feedback on our army compositions, and how to improve our tactics. I will post up the results of our battles here among with key moments. On the rare occasion that I have enough time I'll write up a full battle report, but this will probably be rare. 
come and get me....
. To add to the terror a Balrog decided to show up and have some fun along with saruman and a to of orcs, uruks and trolls! On the good side Gil-Galad and a warband of his elite guard took to battle along with some wood elves, dwarves and two Gandalfs!(I just said that they were the blue wizards..... 
a bit of a stretch but there were a lot of new players, so why not let them have their favorite characters on the field? 
. Following that he headed of down a hallway to help some of his comrades with some pike supported blocking Uruk-hai. On the right flank another band of orcs and a troll appeared. The troll went to engage some wood elves, but because he had had too many Christmas cookies he couldn't fit through any of the passageways, and then got into a snowball/boulder/throwing dagger fight with the elves(delaying them,though they managed to dispose of him rather easily. Back in the center of the board, the good side managed to wound the Balrog 3 times, but the combat was pretty much even. (a ton of elves some dwarves and men along with gandalf (the second) ) further along Gil-Galad was working his way through the blocking Uruk-hai at a steady pace. But not fast enough. In the final turn he managed to call a heroic fight and cut through two rows of uruks, but a cave troll and about 20inches of ground stood in his way and victory. The following turn the haradhrim ran off the board(cowards) and won the game.
. The first game was the three trolls scenario, well needless to say with the list I had I totally dominated them, Gil-Galad and Glorfinndel made short wort of them with help from Legolas,Haldir and Thranduil adding some arrows to the trolls faces. Funny enough, Rúmil didn't show up until turn 4 and then spent the rest of the game running into the fray, though his rule did come in handy near the end of the game. Poor trolls, it wasn't the sun that got them this time. 