Lord of the Rings Campaign: Ambush in Ithilien

Next game in our campaign. Time to get the big beasties out with not one but two Mumaks!

As the forces of evil I had command of the two nellies, whilst General Ballroom had a ragtag assortment of Rangers and heroes to try and stop my stately swaying progress across the board.

A screen of Haradrim screened the beasties

One of them got a head start because I won the last game.

Pretty soon arrows were flying everywhere. With faitly negligible effect on the big beasties it has to be said. In return fire from the howdahs was whittling away Gondor's finest.

At about this point General B. ralised he'd made a horrendous stuff up of both his deployment and his shooting tactics.

He tried to change tack and hurled plentiful fire at the Haradrim commanding the might Mumaks.

But it was to no avail - the big grey monsters lumbered on.

Brave Haradrim spearmen  took on some heroes - with no real hope of success,but it did stop them shooting.

Meanwhile more of their comrades were dealing with other rangers.

The hobbits were hanging around making sure not to get killed.

And whilst the rangers were cutting down a few of their opponents it was all too little, too late as both Mumakil strolled unharmed off the board. 

A weird and slightly predictable game. The Mumaks seem almost impossible to hurt and so just wandered across the board unmolested.

General B. realised there were far better tactics and deployment he should have made use of. We haven't p;played for a while and anyway are old and infirm and find it difficult to remember lots of detailed rules. However for this scenario to work he really needed to take advantage of some of the special skills and rules for his troops.

So we decided that ebcause it looked so good and we'd really not got the most out of it the answer is to play it all over again in a few weeks time. That'll hopefully be much closer and less of a procession.