Lord of the Rings Campaign: Ambush at Amon Hen

The battered and bloodied remains of the Fellowship have arrived at Amon Hen, only to be attacked by Uruk Hai trackers led by Lurtz himself!

Can Mr Frodo make it to the boats, will Lurtz ensure Sean Boromir endures the typical fate of characters played by Sean Bean?

We played this game back in January as a one-off, so it was going to be interesting to see what happened in the rematch, especially with a depleted Fellowship.

Gimli came a running from the corner as Uruk archers surrounded Aragorn and the Ringbearer

The rest of the Uruks had cornered Boromir.

With Lurtz, lurking, ready to administer the coup-de-grace.

Aragorn was soon dispatching Sauruman's finest.

Whilst the noose tightened on the hero of Gondor.

Eventually Boromir was bundled

Merry meanwhile was initially successful in fending off Uruks.

Gimli was burning through Might in a succession of heroic combats.

On the far side of the board Sam, who had been hiding in the woods was grabbed firmly by the Uruks.

Aragorn emerged from the woods to find a firing squad of Uruks.

He laughed as their puny arrows whizzed by.

But a seemingly endless tide of Uruks was coming.

Gimli and Strider were soon engulfed.

Eventually sheer weight of numbers saw them both dragged down.

Lurtz and the Urks roared their triumph as they made off with all three hobbits.

A great fun game that was quite close until Aragorn's luck finally ran out.

However a review of the rules revealed a serious bookkeeping error. We'd forgotten that the Fellowship had had a nice warm bath and a cup of tea with Galadriel after the last game and so should have had their full reserves of Might Will  Fate and Wounds.

In the grand scheme of the campaign it probably makes little difference - this is the last appearance of Gimii, Merry and Aragorn until the final battle, so given we've played this scenario twice we may well decide just to move on to the next scenario, but make sure Sam and Frodo are "topped up" with their full stats.