Mordor vs Minas Tirith: MESBG Battle Companies report

Past friday at the club, me and Noshi decided to play Battle Companies again, and duke it out over the lands of Middle Earth.

I had made two warbands of sworn enemies, so the opponents would be Minas Tirith for Noshi, and Mordor for me.

We set up a table making use of the excellent club Fantasy terrain, which Jo build for actually Frostgrave, and settled on the scenario: Hold the Line.  The numbers of the Orcs would be required to try and hold back the plate armour of Gondor as they race to the other side of the table.

The Orcs deployed in the centre, and as I had priority, the lines swooped open to cover any possible arrivals of Minas Tirith soldiers along the length of the table edge.

And forward they came, moving slowly on the board.  The forces of Mordor where required to split off, never a good idea per se, to try and stop all but one Gondorian from ever reaching the other side.

My archers jumped down from their vantage point, but one didn't make the best of landings...

The Minas Tirith warriors started to make a larger push along one side of the board, but sending enough men through the centre and over the other flank to win the game with should I ignore them...

And then the bands clashed in furious melee.  Blows where swung and dodged, but then the first Mordor orc went down.  Unfortunatly one of the double handers, who had the better chance to wound the heavy plated warriors.

The Gondorians, taking priority, break off from the combat and swoop around the mausoleum in order to make a run for the table edge.  And laying down a spearman as they went with a well aimed arrow...

Breaking loose, the orcs are caught in various small hand to hand battles on the board, and are unable to put in a decent pursuit it seems... though we did manage to finally take down our first enemy, an archer.

Only to have a sergeant bite the dust moments later...

The orcs where now broken, and in the resulting movement, only a single spearorc remained steadfast, all the rest fleeing the board.  There was no way he would pass more courage checks anyways and stop BOTH Minas Tirith men broken through, so Noshi claimed the win.

Okay, so numbers vs plate make it hard for the numbers.  You really need to get those double handers in, and try to open the tincans of Minas Tirith with those weapons, supported by others to circumvent the negative duel modifier...  In the end, my band was broken for the price of only taking down 2 Gondorians, so that's a heavy loss to say the least.

But come back tomorrow, for another battle report of Battle Companies as we switched sides...