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We played through one turn of this very complex card driven game. Lancaster remained as King but York was in a powerful position heading into Turn 2. Certainly felt we knew what the game involved by the end!

Spectre. Bruce’s bran new game. Phil won as Raoul the Traitor.

Darryl won this time round being the most successful emperor.

Campaign two scenarios four and five.

Burning of the Mirkwood

This scenario seemed impossible for the elves. We even allowed only one roll per tree per turn to bring a tree down. With the orcs having troops that move faster and the greater numbers we wondered what they could do otherwise.

The finale. The battle under the trees. The good side are even awarded Grimbeorn as a result of their previous victories.

This was a tough scenario for the elves. A victory for evil in the second campaign of defence of the north.

Next will be campaign one as I am busily painting up some black dragon warriors and have some proxy Rhunish war drakes on order.

Razgush has readied his horde and is burning the edge of the fair green wood. he means to destroy five great trees and to set the whole forest aflame .

Can Tauriel and her small elite force of elves stop them ! ?

Rome ! Civil war and barbaric hordes.

Phil , Bruce , Mike and Darryl.

Mike and Bruce suffered from barbarians and minor kings . Phil and Darryl dealt with the northern tribes especially benefiting from limes in Pannonia and Gallia for Phil .

Then Mike attacked Britannia so Phil stole Hispania . Finally Phil made the move on italia becoming the first emperor and grabbing the extra victory points just before the end .

Bruce Red . Mike blue. Phil Green and Darryl yellow. We played Britannia . It was fun to get the old board game out again . Green did well because of the Welsh despite losing both the Jutes and the Caledonians from attacks by Red .

We stopped at turn 13 and green was in the lead by then.

Mike brought round his Legendary game. We played as characters from the tv series . First time round we solved the clues but lost just before the big reveal when an event caused my character to kill Mike’s.

Second attempt we got completely wiped out without achieving anything useful and then my character died all of a sudden in one attack .

Bruce came round and we played through three scenarios from the new scenario book for the MESBG. Campaign Two. Mainly because we wanted to use Elves and Beornings for the Good Team after the hobbits had such a hard time previously. Also because I am behind in painting up the crazy new Easterling figures from GW which are needed for Campaign 1.

These scenarios track the endeavours of Razgush (my team) as he attempts to stop the Elves of Mirkwood from sending aid to their allies in the other campaigns.

First Scenario the Escape of Gollum.

Gollum is being held prisoner by the Elves of Mirkwood. A party of rangers are attacked by Orcs and Gollum sees his chance to get away!

Outcome:

Gollum escaped. Victory for Evil. Very close scenario.

Second Scenario: Denizens of Evil.

Outcome:

Razgush and his cowardly orcs become spider food. Victory for Good. Not that close. Evil could hardly charge the Terror causing Spiders never mind get a hit on the Queen.

Third Scenario: The Attack on the Beornings.

The evil Orcs have attacked a group of Beornings mustering in a clearing. Grimbeorn however is enraged by this and races to the rescue.

Outcome: A close scenario. Evil managed to get Good down to 4 Beornings with 1 wound each but the Bear form Grimbeorn literally wiped the floor with them before they could achieve the final kill. Victory for Good.

Review: Fantastic fun. Great scenarios with lots of theme and mainly well balanced. Recommended. Next time the Elves of Mirkwood come out to fight Razgush and his army.