I need to do a lot of painting for most of the scenarios from the recentish Rise of Angmar supplement -- new heroes, many Warriors of Arnor and Carn Dum, etc.

But I already had the models ready for the Fall of Minas Ithil, so I decided to give it a go. Check it out at http://davetownsend.org/Battles/LotR-20250311/ if you're interested to see how it went.

Nice battle report. Your changing the scenario as given in the book was a good balance of a game and gaming the system. It's hard to make a game fair and realistic in the LOTR world.

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Thanks, Mapper.

There are a lot of good-to-great GW narrative scenarios. But some of them seem so broken that I wonder if they were playtested at all. I've heard the books get edited down sometimes by marketing or whoever and rules disappear that way, which could also be the source of problems.

When the scenario is based on the "history", there's not a lot of leeway the designers have, as the participants and goals are set in stone. But GW had more or less free rein with the Rise of Angmar scenarios, which makes me a bit less forgiving when things are obviously broken.

Let's hope the other scenarios are better, or at least as easily fixed. Stay tuned!

Nice battle report!

I generally dislike returning models each turn, but couple this with no turn limit and no objective incentive and it seems like it would be a major boring slog to play through. I think a turn limit would indeed be a sensible solution and it seems like that made for a nice scenario. I really like the terrain as well.

Do you have any more scenarios lined up for playing?

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Thanks!

I've been prepping for the Earnur scenario, which uses pretty much the same modelsand board layout as Fall of Minas Ithil. I've got Earnur all painted, but I thought the terrain was a little thin so I'm working up some more Gondor ruins, and repainting the white buildings from oh-so-long-ago to use the same color scheme as the more recent buildings. I'm hoping that will help with the photography, where the white tends to overexpose the shot.

Life is a bit hectic but I hope to knock that out in the next couple of weeks.

Farther along, I've got a dozen Warriors of Carn Dûm about 40% painted, and hope to finish them up soon-ish for the next Angmar scenario after that.