Rohan vs Last Alliance: Tame the Beast MESBG Battle Companies BatRep

Somewhere in the Westfold, cattle are being slaughtered by an unknown horror.  As the Rohirrim set out to investigate, they soon find that it is a Cave Troll that wanders their lands.  They know they don`t have much hope to defeat it, when suddenly they see black clad warriors and their golden armoured allies appear on the horizon.  A band of the Last Alliance is clearly on the hunt for the beast as well...

After last weeks victory for my Rohan warriors, we decided to play a second, more special scenario: the one with the Cave Troll. In this scenario, not only do you have to kill the troll, you must see that your opponent doesn`t steal your hard work and snatch victory...

As such, we fielded the same bands from last report, Noshi commanding the Last Alliance while I had the Rohirrim under my command...

With the troll deployed in the centre, Noshi opted for the safe route and deployed against her edge.  Knowing I had lousy missile power anyways, the brave men of Rohan went for the more agressive approach and deployed closer, even though that meant the beast would come my way...

Swiftly the mighty beast plowed in the green line, and I began the fight for desperation.  Courageously, all Rohan troops charged in, but the Throwing spears failed to wound the beast, and the first to fall was my captain who had led the charge by example...

Suddenly an elven arrow wizzed past my archer hero.  The Last Alliance attacked the men of Rohan, eager to get all the glory for themselves!  In return, one of the human arrows found it`s mark however, and an elven swordsman fell to the ground.

Besieged now on two sides, the Rohirrim fought in desperation, caught between an anvil and a hammering troll... but they managed to take a single wound of the beast at last.

While one of the men of Numenor was felled, so was another Rohan warrior and I was down to taking break tests.  My archer failed and took the safe route, as the troll smashed another warrior down, leaving only me hero archer on the table now.

Being now the closest, the Troll started it,s assault on the Numenorians, taking one out.  Seeing enough carnage, my last model also fled the table now.

The troll dispatched all that opposed him, and started the hunt now for M16, that infamous Elven archer of Noshi.  I could only hope he would get to it and grant me a draw...

But alas, true to it`s name, it took the elf two turns, and two shots (though the second one used up her Might) and the beast fell down to the floor, an arrow sticking out of it`s throat...

The Last Alliance had overcome the mighty monster they had been hunting in the first place, and grabbed a victory for Noshi!