Lord of the Rings Campaign - Plateau of Gorgoroth

Mr Frodo and Samwise are nearly at the end of their Quest - they just need to sneak past an Orc army on the march.

General B. was all prepared, so we set up and went for it. The Orcs have to keep moving across the board - if the hobbits are within 6" of the hobbits at the end of a turn they can *spot* them on a 6. The hobbits have to exit the board inside 10 turns.

The Orc overseer cracks the whip to start the march

A couple of undersized Orcs seem to be slighly out of the march...

Like an open square the Orcs race across the board.

At this point the hobbits doubled back and then simply strolled off the board without detection. I#d not thought things through and had overextended making for an easy win for General B.

So we decided to have another go.

This time the Orc column was more dispersed and the front soon encountered the small recruits.

But noticed nothing amiss at first.

The hobbits held their breath and sneaked on.

 

Tipppy-toeing past the blisfully unaware Orcs.

Four attempts to roll a six, none successful and so the hobbits got away agin.

We were a little unsatisfied with this scenario by this stage.

General B. thought he could work out how to win with Orcs, so we swapped sides.

The orcs spread much more widely across the board ad the hobbits hugged the sides.

Sam and Frodo paused to discuss tactics.

Fortifying brew was helping the Orcs. Allegedly.

In the end the hobbits had to sneak through the centre of the formation.

Four more attempts, no sixes Hobbits 3 - Mordor 0

Looking at it it seems the best the Orcs can hope for is four or five attempts to roll a 6 (unless the hobbit player completely stuffs up). So basically that's the game. Can you roll a 6 on 4 or 5 dice? If so the Orcs are likely to win if not then it's an easy hobbit win.

Bit rubbish really.

This joins Shelob and Watcher in the Water in the Top Three Rubbish Scenarios list. Probably number 3 as at least no-one had to buy an expensive, hard to find poorly cast, pig-to-put-together not very nice model to play this one.

Anyway it's on to the denouement next time - can Frodo melt his ring?