Tonight we played the "Rescue" mission from the Mirkwood scenarios with a few twists. Amy used 20 Mirkwood elves, Legolas, Tauriel and Radagast on Sleigh. I had Spider Queen and 17 Mirkwood spiders (Was using my giant spider conversions, so the bases were a little smaller).
We decided that the elven force had decided to venture out from their tree castle to remove the nest of spiders by neutralizing the Queen. The Spider Queen sensed the threat and called back her broodlings (the reinforcements).
So turn one, because of my tiny board, radgast cast channelled terrifying aura and charged into an unsuspecting spider, Sebastian killing him on double sixes...
Elven shooting was pretty terrible with them only causing a few wounds.
But Legolas shot the spider queen and wounded her with his auto hit.. 1 VP to the elves!
Turn two saw Radgast try to Immobilize the Spider Queen who resisted but was still charged and slaughtered by radagast and the hedgehog....
There were lots of casualties on both sides, bits of spiders and elves littered the woods.
Turn three saw the Spiders broken with the Elves 2 models away from being broken.
By turn four there were no spiders left, they either ran off or were killed by the Elves. 3 VP's and a win to the Elves!
Spiders caught the elves very quickly with the small board size, but the elves caused horrific casualties on them in combat, their numbers and higher fight helping to win fights. When the spiders did win though an elf always died.
Radagast is very nasty on Sleigh! 5 attacks and Sebastian attack on the charge.. knock the opponent down and its then 12 attacks in total... channeled terrifying aura stops him being counter charged too. Immobilise tougher opponents and renew to heal his wounds.
|
None of it's painted yet but we have a few pieces of scenery and some trees. Nothing fancy but hope to improve on it soon!
