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Kings of Dale

Galadriel

Good starts by inflicting casualties through heavy archery fire whilst Gandalf casts a channeled Terror effect on himself . Evil responded by moving closer . The next turn evil was able to win the initiative and charge in to contact . The Mouth of Sauron cast fear as he closed in scattering the Rohan shield wall and closing in supported by his orcs who cornered Gandalf . Several though failed their courage roll so MoS was left somewhat exposed. This allowed Legolas to attack him and he was defeated and killed immediately despite his high defence! Also Gandalf was able to drive off his attackers any way .

Meanwhile Gimli was able to push forward but struggled to inflict wounds and Eomer and Aragorn had the same problems with low wound rolls.

Frodo and Sam on the mount doom board did manage to keep moving despite attempts at exhaustion with good courage rolls . Gollum attacked but was driven back by Sam with Sting keeping Frodo safe . Corruption also failed to halt their progress .

Back to the Black Gate our heroes held back the tide of orcs . A great sorcerous blast from Gandalf allowed Legolas and his supports to inflict more kills . Gimli kept pushing back the orcs as did Aragorn with all the remaining orc captains soon falling to their deadly blades .

However the Mordor Troll closed in on Eomer and using Rend was able to reduce him to his last would by winning the duel roll on his higher fight due to a great heroic Strike roll . However he then had to use all his will to resist an immobilise from Gandalf. He was then surrounded as his orcs fell away and so the two warriors faced off again with no might or fate or will remaining !

With time running out and with little sign that Evil could kill all the heroes at the black gate right now we concentrated on the one ring at the precipice above the lava .

Frodo had some might left and won all the tied rolls in succession to break free of the influence of the one ring. Gollum attacked again but once more Sam was at hand to keep Frodo safe just and he then cast the ring into the lava below .

So finally the one ring was destroyed and after all their travails throughout our campaign Good were ultimately victorious.

So our quest of the ring bearer campaign reaches its end with the final scenario.

Can Frodo destroy the ring whilst our heroes distract Sauron at the black gate?

Two captains painted with contrast paints . I went for brown to make them stand out amongst the troops rather than red to fit in with the unit.

First off Frodo and Sam need to cross the Great Plain of Gorgoroth.

This was quite a funny scenario. Link got his hobbits straight across the board whilst my Orcs spurred on the by the whip of their Taskmaster completely ignored them by failing to roll a six. Victor for Good!

Next we played three rounds of King of Tokyo and I even won two rounds!

Finally we set up the final scenario in our quest of the ring bearer campaign. I turns out this is quite a big one fought over two boards!

Behold mount doom!

Locked down again 😦

Not able to play face to face due to the fuel crisis we played online. A great gaming session of The Crew in which we made it to Mission 37. Not far to go now. Some good challenges there for us to overcome even when we press the wrong button!

A hill for exo planetary games.

Its an alien hill and my first attempt with carving foam. Next time maybe more slope but wanted the top flat for rocks and figures.

Painted up an MDF sci fi armoury complete with lights.

Based on a grim, dark planet and ravaged by the hostile toxic elements the armoury is suitably heavily weathered and rusted.

It comes complete with lights.

A hill for our grim dark sci fi games .

Tainted Grail

Back to board games again .

Our first meet up since lockdown . We played Tainted Grail. We had not played before but went in full for the first scenario using 4 players . Phil hosted. Mike, Michael and Bruce joined in. The first scenario is quite a gentle start so you can learn the rules and especially the card play for encounters so we focused on those with the three player settings. Went well and the app was a nice addition with the voice actors. Hopefully we can play again some time and be stricter on our second play through .

Then we played a great new dice game that Mike brought along which Michael won .

Was great to see everyone again!