Lord of the Rings Three Player Game

Another of our irregular games with my friend and his son. Not So Young N is now quite the expert on the rules with a lovely scenery collection too. I fear we have moved on from the original purpose of us giving him a chance to play the game to him indulging his father and I with a chance to natter and drink coffee whilst he canters to an easy victory. Either way its a fun few hours of rolling dice.

The Easterlings were out in force

I'd taken Wargs and Orcs. And Orcs ON Wargs.

The Easterling cavalry went after the Gondorians

My cavalry raced through the ruins

Before bumping in to some rather tough opposition.

As the Gondorians, showing a firmer grasp of tactics and the rules in general, formed a shieldwall

The Orcs were struggling to keep up. Combined arms you say? Never heard of it mate.

The heavily armoured troops meanwhile were grinding each other down.

A bold charge by the Warg riders

The Easterlings were beating the other Orcs

The remaining Orc fooot had also been wiped out, with just the Shaman leading an...ahem..."charmed" life

The Wargs unsurprisingly came off worst

The Orcs dead and my courage tests wreaking havoc the Easterlings began a march toward the Gondorians.

The Shaman ran off and tried some magic. Which didn't work.

The Easterlings were milling about.

Eventually the clash came and despite the Dragon knight wreaking havoc the Easterlings were running out of men.

The other Gondorian forces began to close the trap

Soon after this Courage tests and a few more casualties saw the Easterlings too flee the table and Gondor was triumphant!

Lion Rampant War of the Roses

Once more to General B.'s for some more Wars of the Roses gaming.

Taxmen had arrived in Ilkestoyne. 

Hearing this Kerbye rallied his men, hoping to seize the taxmen's loot from under Ballroom's nose.

Once more the Percy Archers joined Kerbye and his retainers

The Irish Mercenaries too were pressed into service

They were eager to hunt down a taxman or two

The Percy bill took up position on a hill overlooking Ilkestoyne

A taxman was spotted on the road out of town

Whilst a taxwoman raced across a nearby hill

The Irish raced forward

And the bill advanced more steadily

Kerbye's Scouts grabbed the hapless taxman

As the Irish closed in on his female associate.

And the Percy bow claimed another tax collector

Ballroom and his men decided to intervene

His archers soon lined a fence

Whilst their fellows raced through the streets of Ilkestoyne to grab another taxwoman

The Scouts had retreated to the woods but turned to shoot at the Ballroom arches

In turn they advanced on the scouts

Ballroom's men took another taxman into "protective custody"

Kerbye himself was galloping back and forth exhorting his men.

On the hill the Percy archers delayed their withdrawal

And exchanged ineffective bow shots with their Ballrrom opposite numbers

Ballroom's knights closed on the archers on the hill

Kerbye and Ballrooom fought out another duel

Honour satisfied they both retired unhurt

The Percy archery proved devastating and the knight's charge faltered

The Northumbrians taunted their opponents

Kerbye succumbed to a rush of blood and charged into Ballroom's retainers 

He was duly cut down and with that the battle soon drew to a close with Ballroom in possession of most of the tax collectors and, more importantly their taxes!

A great fun game - expert archers are brutal in these games and so they were again in this one.

We experimented with a Random Boast Generation system. Each of us was dealt three cards each with one of the boasts from the rulebook on. Players *must* keep at least one and may keep up to 3 points worth of boasts

These were the two I settled on

A few bonus phone pictures: