Pictured Scenario Battles ~ Update 7/28/13

[TheSparkleInYourWater]

This is a batlle from a couple of weeks ago, a reenactment of Helm's Deep, Lord of The Heroscapes. We played on peterparkerh's helm's deep map.
We played it all as one big map instead of split in to 4, we also modified the map by...1. Fixing the destroyed wall. 2. Adding movement blockers at the top of the wall. 3. Adding a side door on the keep. and 4. We added some extra terrain here and there.

We used our own set of rules as well...

Spoiler Alert!

Special Rules
1. We played this as a 2 on 1 game, though it could have been done 1 on 1, or 2 on 2 easy enough as well. The castle side starts the game with +8 initiative and +1 defense. We placed the glyphs on the wall to represent this, though nobody needed to occupy them for them to be in effect.

2. The orc side was the side with 2 players, they both got a set of order markers (of different colors to help tell them apart) that they could place on any army card of their choice. So all 8 order markers could be placed on the same card if they chose.

3. The castle player (me) only recieved 1 set of order markers but the X was used as turn 4. So a round gave the castle 12 turns and the invaders 18. This was done, because obviously the castle has a big advantage, but also to give the attacking army more of a massive swarm feel, which worked out very nicely. For 1 on 1 the attacking player would have just recieved two sets of order markers, for 2 on 2, each of the attacking players would have recieved 2 order markers with both of the castle players using their X as turn 4.

4. The orc players had marvel glyphs that represented Explosives and A Battering Ram. Only single spaced figures could carry them and had their move reduced to a maximum of 4 when doing so. Once 2 explosives Glyphs were placed under the Wall (we had a 2 wall section wide part of the wall slightly elevated above the ground to designate where the glyphs could be placed) they could then bring in the third glyph or the "torch". If the figure carrying the torch reached the explosive's they would roll the D20, if they rolled a 6 or higher a designated wall section would be blown up, the figure who was carrying the torch would be destroyed and figures on top of the wall would have to roll for falling/explosion damage. If they fell in water they would only roll for explosion damage. So why would you leave people on that part of the wall then? the answer....

5. When/if the wall was destroyed the castle side would have to have at least 4 figures on top of the section. For each figure less than that the orc side would get to remove 1 order marker from the castle sides army cards at the beginning of the next round. So not having any figures on top would mean losing 4 turns. Not good.

6. If the wall was destroyed the Castle would lose their +1 defense and +8 initiative bonuses. We had these glyphs placed on the part of the wall that could explode for visual ease in keeping track of it and knowing that as long as the wall remained so did the bonus.

7. If two glyphs were carried up to the door a battering ram could be built. The battering ram required 2 figures to operate, these 2 figures could combine their attack into one. So two attacking orcs using the battering ram would get an attack of 6. The door would not recieve any auto shields against the battering ram and could only roll defense against it if there were 2 figures on the other side. For every wound the door took with a battering ram a D20 was rolled, if a 19 or 20 a figure behind the door would take 1 wound.

8. If the door was destroyed the orcs would gain a +8 initiative glyph. If the wall and door were destroyed the castle side would lose their X order marker as a usable 4. The orcs were only given 2 glyphs so they had to choose to go for the wall or door first, the glyphs were returned once a task was finished, but it was set up to encourage destroying the wall first.

9. I added on a little side door on the castle for a special rule. Once a game you could toss Gimli from this spot, and jump with one unique hero. You''d then roll the D20 for up to two figures per guy that jumped, if you rolled 6 or higher the figure would be knocked off the ledge and have to roll for falling damage.

10. The castle side also started with 3 +4 move treasure glyphs that could be used at any time. This was to help the main hero cast if they needed to fall back. The orcs were given 2 healing treasure glyphs, 2 +1 defense treasure glyphs, and 2 one-time use +3 defense treasure glyphs. These were assigned to heroes at the beginning of the game.

11. The riders of rohan had a designated start zone where they would arrive, we didn't have any set rule when they would come, we just went on feel. Once they did arrive the orcs would lose their +8 initiative and the riders would be granted a set of their own order markers (the X not counting as 4).

12. This was a rule that peterparkerh came up with and we really liked it. At the end of each round the orc side would roll 1 die for each squad figure that was destroyed that round. If they rolled a shield he'd be placed back on to the battle field in the front lines. If not he was gone for good.

Here are the armies we used

Castle Army
Knights of Weston x4
Roman Archers x5
Aubrien Archers x1
Acolarh as Haldir
Migol Ironwill as Gimli
Thorgrimm as King Theoden
Syvarris as Legolas
Custom figure as Aragorn
Defenders of the Crown x3 (custom crossbowmen)
Brandis Skyhunter (He was going to be Haldir, but we just left him in since he's one of the few DnD figures we own and nobody has used him yet. Spoiler: He never had an order marker placed on him)
Sir Denrick (he was going to be aragorn, along with alastair, but we just left him on, alastair was not left on however)

The Riders of Rohan reinforcements consisted of
Templar x3
Sir Dupuis
Custom Gandalf
Custom King Oliver (allows you to take a turn with 2 large knight army cards)

Here's a quick summary of the custom Aragorn and Crossbowmen

Aragorn- 6 move, 5 life, 4 attack and defense, 1 range. He has 2 powers but one of them "Heir to The Throne" never came into play so we'll skip that. His other power is "Engaging Strike"-after moving and before attacking roll the D20 for every small or medium enemy figure that you engaged this turn. If you roll 15 or higher that figure recieves 1 wound. A reverse engagement strike.

Crossbowmen- 3 man common squad, Range 5, Move 5, Attack 3, Defense 4. Their powers are Melee weakness- they roll 2 less defense against adjacent figures, and Oliver's orders- instead of moving you may move a Valiant Hero that you control and then attack with up to 3 Crossbowmen who are within 3 clear sight spaces of that hero. This power is a big power to Concan, as the crossbowmen's class are knights.

Invading Orc Army
Heavy Gruts x4
Blade Gruts x5
Marro Drones x8
Arrow Gruts x5
Swog Rider x6
Nerak
Ornak
Custom orc champion just for this game. - He was basically a heavy grut with 5 life and champion status, also offered the standard +1 attack/defense to adjacent orcs. We placed wounds on the heavy grut card to keep track of him, since we don't actually have a card.
Plus they got their roll a shield revival rule.

Also we use a custom version of the blade gruts, they're the exact same except they have scatter, only it works after one of them is destroyed by an attack not just attacked. They have a 10 point increase on their card as well, but that didn't really matter in this game.

If I had to play this again I'd leave the armies the same except remove Brandis Skyhunter and Denrick from the castle side.

Figure Placement
I set the figures up a week before we got to play, I just did it the way they were in the movie and the rest was spread out random so that their was a good balance. I didn't set them up with strategy as my focus.

Pictures
Never taken pictures of a heroscape game before, so we definitely could have done a better job. I don't even have a picture of the before the battle started, but I may get it on here sometime. The pictures look good, just could have taken some at better times I think. Hope you enjoy my first attempt anyway.

HELMS DEEP BATTLE

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Here are the figures we used for the heroes. From left to right...
King Theoden, Legolas, Aragorn, Gimli, and Haldir.
Even though we used Migol's card for Gimli we used this dwarf since he looked more like him.



Here is one of the early rounds of the game. Those yellow glyphs the orcs are carrying are explosives to place under the wall. I lost 1 elf archer of 3 to an attack and then frenzied 3 times in a row with the other 2, 8 attacks with height and I only killed 1 guy. Legolas averaged about .35 kills per attack, it was looking pretty bad on my part. The only saving grace was they kept failing to bring back the few guys I did kill at the end of the round with their "roll a shield revival".



The orcs were making a strong push on the left, they'd climbed the ladders and killed the guys at the top. That's Aragorn standing on the far left of the wall at the top of the ladder, he managed to clear out the 2 guys that had breached the wall, and a third one that was on the top of the ladder. Legolas had taken 2 wounds already (with 4 life), Gimili was hurt.
You can see that where the water goes under the wall 1 bomb had been put into position. Another orc was carrying the other bomb a few spaces away, with the torch waiting on the front lines.



A victim of Aragorn falls off the wall and knocks a marro drone upside down on his way up the ladder. Aragorn had taken a bit of damage, but was holding strong, and had racked up more kills than anyone for my army at this point. Meanwhile, Legolas continued to miss every thing, but did manage to kill an orc carrying the second bomb and slow them down for a moment.


The Death of Gimil. Gimli descended halfway down the ladder to get a big attack off on the orc Flagbearer, bringing him down after two attacks. Gimli had good attack rolls, but his defense was poor, he was actually killed by an arrow grut and fell off the ladder, the other orcs were just looking. Legolas died around this time as well, but luckily was saved by Haldir's "Tree of the Home Leaf Aura", so he still had 2 wounds on him. The orcs attempted to bring the torch to the 2 bombs in position under the wall, but rolled a 4 on the D20. Legolas then shot him down, forcing the torch to start back on the front lines.


The wall was destroyed shortly after gimli's death, despite a couple close calls. 3 archers died in the explosion, and one survived, falling into water. Aragorn was close to being caught in the explosion. Knights and crossbowmen awaited behind the wall. The heroes army had now lost their +1 defense glyph and +8 initiative glyph. The heroes still had killed very few enemies, and the orcs had set up a good range pod of arrow gruts and swog riders to pelt the wall with, and had made big advancements on all of the ladders.



Another pic right after the wall was destroyed. In the bottom you can see the little side door where aragorn and gimli jumped out of in the movie, with a glyph of brandar to represent that I still had "the jump" action in my arsenal.


Another picture from the same time, zoomed in a bit.


A few turns after the wall had been destroyed, notice the drones carrying the battering ram up the walkway and knights coming down the ladders to meet the enemies. The heroes actually pulled off some of their most devastating attack turns here killing lots of enemies.


Yet another picture right after the wall was destroyed. We should have spread these out better I guess. The bottom right corner is part of the arrow grut pod they had setup. Luckily I had just the right amount of figures on the wall when it exploded and didn't lose any order markers. 3 romans died though.



Aragorn charges down with a couple of knights to engage the hordes of enemies. He and those two knights were part of some of the stronger attacks I'd had during the game this far, but I was now missing my defense and initiative and was much more vulnerable to attacks myself. Not to mention the big hole in the wall that exposed lots of my troops.


With only two lives left, the orc side focused on taking Aragorn out. With a couple of tricks up his sleeve though he might just hold on to fall back to the main keep.


Legolas tried to give ranged support to Aragorn, but as you can see he was also trying to slow the battering ram advance down, and had orcs climbing up the walls with only a screen of 1 defense archers to protect him. I misplaced 1 order marker, hoping Aragorn could survive 1 more turn while I brought in crossbowmen to help him. Unfortunatly Aragorn was killed after that. The roman archer in the pick died too, so did Legolas for a second time soon after, but he was once again saved by Haldir's "Tree of The Home Leaf Aura".
If Legolas hadn't been saved two times I'd be hurting a lot more here, despite most of his attacks being noodle shots, he was getting a little better and absorbed a lot of attacks.


The battering ram was brought out and knights behind the door were the only reason I was still getting defense on it. The first couple of battering ram attacks were pretty weak only putting 2 wounds on the door. A few figures operating the battering ram were killed, but quickly replaced. The next ram attack put 6 wounds on the door and killed two knights behind it, leaving the door with 2 life and no defense, the next ram attack brought it down.



Here is a pic right after Haldir had been killed. There was only one crossbowmen still alive by the water, who was soon killed off. That roman archer on the stair way survived 3 attacks before going down. Legolas had retreated in to the keep and had taken a spot giving him extreme height on the swog rider/arrow grut pod taking out a few swog riders. More knights (their numbers running low) were being sent out of the main keep to help slow the enemies.


Even though the door was already busted down, I took the last chance to jump King Theoden out of the side wall. He knocked two figures off the ledge, 1 survived but was immediately shot by a crossbomen 20 levels up and killed. More drones were there to engage him and a knight came out to aid the King. In this pic you can see what's left of the arrow grut pod and see that the evil hoarde made a mis-calculation by not having more troops ready to advance up the walkway. Legolas is positioned two places over from the flag.


One of my favorite pics. King Theoden and two knights charged down the walkway, killing 3 guys in addition to the 2 that had been knocked over the ledge. The swog rider and the 3 arrow gruts in this picture were all killed by the king and his two men as well. All of this was done with only 1 life remaining on King Theoden as he suffered 3 wounds from arrow gruts when he first jumped onto the walkway, before Legolas had crippled their set-up a great deal. Things were still looking pretty bad for the heroes, once the king's charge would end, there would be little left. A few knights and archers were trying to hold on on the wall but were being overwhelmed. Until the dawn of the 3rd day....

Spoiler Alert!

The riders of Rohan arrive. I still didn't feel that confident as the Templar can go down pretty easily. I now had a second set of order markers granted, one for the riders and one for the keep army.


I used two of "Gandalf's" powers right off the bat. They are both once per game powers. "A wizard is never late" granted me an automatic win for intiative and "Wizards first rule" allowed me to remove 1 order marker from an opponents card. I lucked out and got one of my opponent's number 1 order marker. The result of all of this was not pretty for the orcs.


I killed 11 figures in two turns and only lost one rider. The castle wall was still over ran by the orcs, killing off more troops up there. Legolas became the MVP for the keep at this stage every attack he made was felt, after the Templars charge the orcs couldn't afford to lose their men on the walls. They decided that the most important thing they could do now was kill Legolas. They reached him once had good attacks, but Legolas' defense was even better. Legolas had suffered another wound earlier and had 1 life remaining, so he couldin't afford a slip up. Legolas then shot down the orcs that were engaging him.



In all of the chaos of the templars charging I realized that the blade gruts hadn't been scattering. We went back and counted how many had been killed. 9. So the blade gruts would get to scatter up to 36 spaces for two of them. One scattered all the way up the walkway and into the keep to engage Legolas. The other scattered up to engage Theoden. A few other's scattered a few spaces. Of course, we then somehow skipped my two turns and the orcs got 4 turns in a row. They killed King Theoden on this turn, I placed his spirit on Legolas just to try and keep him alive.


King Theoden's spirit didn't work and Legolas died during the great Scatter/Skip2Turns debacle of Helm's Deep. We would have undone this, but since they forgot to scatter it could have really stopped the templars charge up. I also had the two extra hero's brandis and denrick. When the templars arrived we also stopped giving the orcs their roll a die for each figure killed that round deal. We mainly did this because my opponents had other plans and were already running a little late.

So if I re-did anything about the way we played this battle I would have left out the two extra heroes on the good guys side, and not have stopped with the bring back figures deal. If we would have kept it chances were it would have netted them an extra 15 figures. But letting them scatter straight into my castle (30 spaces) and skipping two of my turns pretty much balanced that out I think.


After Legolas and Theoden were killed and the wall had been completely secured by the orcs they took to trying to overthrow the keep, while their remaining buddies on the field got plowed down. This picture is of the final surviving Heavy Grut who's trying to take down the crossbomen on the ladder who'd survived around 3-4 attacks. He failed to kill him and was then shot down. The figures laying on their sides were other figures that were killed around this time, left in the pic for effect.


Here's a pic of all of the survivors. 4 crossbomen (3 in a squad). 3 knights (4 in a squad). 4 Templar (3 in a squad). 3 roman archers (3 in a squad). The wizard, two templar heroes at full life, and Sir Denrick with one wound (caused on the last turn of the game by jumping off the wall, he was one of the extra heroes that was originally going to be Aragorn).

Really fun game. Took 4 1/2 to 5 hours. Played on two days over the course of 3.

At the beginning of the game, it felt like the castle was really being swarmed, once the the game actually started if felt like the few kills I was getting weren't going to be worth much, as more and more guys were getting up the wall. When the wall blew up I knew I was going to lose a lot of men and did. A couple moments of "I can turn this around" happened but then you'd realize they got reinforcements and your numbers are dwindling. Then once the Templar came it felt like it would be close, after one turn it felt like the Orcs were the ones hanging on for a break. After 1 more turn it felt like the orcs were running for their lives.

Bonus Pic.

Spoiler Alert!

This didn't actually happen, but Gimli can dream.

Hope you enjoyed. If so I'll strongly consider putting up another big game with lots of special rules. Of course, I probably won't be able to play another one until Thanksgiving/Christmas time. The next one won't be LoTR themed, I'm thinking Utgar forces invading the Jungles of Aquilla, with some cool special rules.

[Onacara]

Bonus pic is awesome!!!

[TheSparkleInYourWater]

Originally Posted by Onacara

Bonus pic is awesome!!!

Thanks, that was one of the few that I took myself. I was a little dissapointed at

Spoiler Alert!

gimli's early demise and not getting to toss him out of the keep, so this made things better.

[ABOMINATION]

Great battle, I had fun reading it!

[Dad_Scaper]

Excellent battle report. Bonus points for the Lincoln Log battering ram.

Thanks for sharing, Sparkle.

[Fen_Hydra]

Great report! The pictures are really nice.

[CapnRedChops]

Awesome!

CRC

[iceman3317]

Woot go Gimli!! To bad he died early.

[TheSparkleInYourWater]

After a 9 month hiatus we came back to play another LoTR campaign. This time it was peterparkerh's Mines of Moria. I know, we played these out of order. We only added a few of our own rules this time.

1. The game was played 2 on 1 so the fellowship side was given 2 sets of order markers, with the only stipulation that they couldn't have 2 same numbered order markers placed on the same army card. I played the bad guys in this game.

2. I added 1 treasure glyph on each stage for the heroes to go after.

3. I added 1 level, where Boromir is attacked and killed by the river in the movie.

MINES OF MORIA CAMPAIGN

Spoiler Alert!

The Fellowship. They received a +1 defense bonus as long as all member were alive.
A custom wizard as Gandalf
Brandis as Legolas
Thorgrimm as Boromir
Mogrimm as Gimli
Tandros as Aragorn
1 squad of goblins as the hobbits. They were given +1 defense and 5 lives to be shared.

Speak D20 and enter.

Sucess on the first attempt, the door is open. Gimli jumps in the water for some reason to attack a hydra.

I was feeling pretty confident that I would be able to dismantle the Fellowship at this point, so I didn't set my priorities early on. Instead I manuevered around and attacked Gimli with height, we forgot about Combat Challenge.

The second hydra is cut off by a hobbit. Who deals 3 wounds to him as he calls out "Frodoooo!"
After realizing our mistake of overlooking combat challenge the attacks are redirected to Aragorn who racks up several wounds.

Gimli finished off the hydra before Aragorn is defeated. The other 1 life hydra went down soon after and the fellowship clears all wounds and moves on to the next level with their defense bonus in tact.

Looking over the Cave trolls shoulder after the orcs have battle rushed through the door.

Several orcs go down as the cave troll makes his way through, his sights set on Legolas. Aragorn takes a wound.

Giving up on Legolas he makes his way back to attack Aragorn and Gimli who are both remaining healthy. Mean while Boromir is taking a beating and half dead.

I was feeling like taking a chance. Boromir has 1 life remaining and Tandros has taken several wounds. The cave troll gos ape on everyone killing several of his own orcs and rolling weak attacks against Aragorn and Gimli. He rolls a decent 3 skull against 1 life Boromir, but it's defended.

2 more attacks against Boromir, he blocks the first, then the second. Another 3 skull roll. The fellowship defense bonus depends on his survival.

Legolas moves up and shoots one of the last 2 orcs. He misses and they get two more attacks against Boromir, but they're both blocked! An orc is killed.


The last orc attacks and kills Boromir, the fellowship is broken and they all turn in disbelief. Gandalf takes out the last orc.

We played the Balrog stage with a little twist. Instead of starting the Balrog out right, we gave 1 round until it's arrival and added some orc archers. The fellowship (now with no bonus defense +1) didn't need to kill the balrog, only escape.

Three hobbits make it out, but one goes down. Sam.

The Balrog arrives and Gandalf moves in to block him off while the other heroes continue making their way out. Gandalf had picked up the Scarab of Invulnerability and used it to survive some extra Balrog offense.

Aragorn had escaped, Gandalf only had 2 life remaining. I thought it was impossible for him to get away, but they used the 2 3 om combo to trick me at the end of the round. There other 3 om got gimli out and it came down to an initiative roll. If they won it, Gandalf got out, if not the Balrog would get one final chance to take him out.

He did not win initiative.

Ambushed near the river!

The orcs focus on Legolas, even though I should have focused more on the weakened hobbits at this point.

Aragorn comes to his rescue, cleaving his way into action. But more orcs continue to pile in.

Legolas finally falls, but only 2 orcs remain out of the 7 or 8 that attacked.

Meanwhile in another place, Gimli has been seeing his own share of action. The orc captain was just used as an orc champion with the same powers/stats as the others, but with 5 lives.

Pippin bites the dust, while the rest of the heroes are tied up.

Realizing that the campaign states the heroes lose if all the hobbits die, and realizing that I wasn't going to be able to make a full sweep, I send my last 2 orcs and their bossman towards the ruins where the last 2 hobbits are hiding out. Gimli brings the hammer down on bossman, taking out his remaining 3 lives.

Lost initiative and Aragorn cleans up the last two.

The survivors. Gimli, Frodo, Merry, and Aragorn.

For the next one, I thought I'd try a predict the victor battle.

This is an official scenario map. The Stand at The Wellspring of Obsession.
This map was a 3 vs 1 battle. I was the 1, my goal to survive until the end of round 7. When we were picking out armies I accidentally read the points for the 2 vs 1 game, and my opponents refused to put back their 650 pt. armies for the appropriate 350. So I just increased my army to make up the difference and extended the round limit that I had to survive.

My defending army started with the range glyph, initiative glyph, healing glyph, and attack glyph. I had
Raelin
Syvarris
Zelrig
Greenscales x2
Repulsors x2
Snipers x3
Sentinels x3

You should be able to see most of my opponent's army. They used a few customs of mine. Royal Jacket wasp that bond with Sujoah, some ants and a couple heroes. And a big fat turtle, you'll see lots more of him. Atlaga boosted minions.

[sixthflagbearer]

I will go with Sparkle . I think Zelrig will play a big role. Also the range glyph.

[TheSparkleInYourWater]

The votes are 1-0 in my favor. Well at least someone is with me.

Stand at The Wellspring of Obsession

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3 armies amass to overthrow my army that sets upon the hill. They have 12 rounds to do it. The waters are enchancted, any figure standing on a sparkly water space rolls 1 additional attack/defense die.

1 of my opponents armies. He bunches his romans aside the turtle, who grants figures a bonus like a moving Jungle Bush.

He sets up his warlord in the back lines, with a personal squad of bodyguards.

Another shot, before the battle begins. My second opponent had an insect army, and my third a Kyrie army. Atlaga takes a safe hiding place behind the ruins to boost the Minions.

My insect opponent, with Beetle Butter (The beetle in the foreground) in the backlines. Beetle Butter boost insects D20/Move.

My armey, preparing for the onslaught. I set up the repulsors as to force my opponents into engagement with them, like a line of barbed wire.

I send out Zelrig at the get go, while claiming the attack, range, and initiative glyph with greenscale warriors. Zelrig blast away at the minions as they try to spread out.

Sujoah comes in with a solid attack and rolls for poison. A 20 proves fatal to Zelrig. Beetle Butters assistance wasn't needed. My next order marker was useless on the greenscales without Big Z.

The Minions push on along with Sujoah on the far right. Sujoah's wasp buddies take up offense on the opposite side of the hill with the aid of Roman archers, taking out most of the Repulsors.

The Turtle advances slow and steady, ready to plunge into the water.

A minion had infiltrated through the hills defenses and killed a Sniper, but my next turn of boosted Deadly shot attacks of 3 dice take the Minion and Sujoah down.

Taelord looks on in the distance "Dang". My opponents were getting creamed now, the minions offensive had been stopped, Sujoah was gone, most of the wasp were killed, and now I was starting to take down the Romans. I felt bad that I'd taken such a 'cheap' army of Sentinels (boosted with Raelin, though Raelin was mandatory for the scenario) and Snipers boosted with range/attack glyphs.) We decided to let each of my 3 opponent's roll the D20 and multiply the result by 10 which would be the number of points that they could draft. Drafted figures had to be placed in the Wellspring as that's where they were 'summoned' from. My opponents roll a 14, 8, and 18 for 400 pts. of reinforcements. They choose Braxas, Black Wyrmlings x2, Deadeye Dan, and DW 7000.

The new units have been summoned and the turtle has taken up position at the bottom of the hill.

The Black Wyrmlings come in fast and hard, taking out 1 Sentinel before both being annihilated.

In comes the Queen for revenge. She Acid Breaths 3 Sentinels of Jandar, batting a 1.000 She moves further up the hill after taking 6 wounds and aims 3 more times, missing all 3, dropping her average down to .500

Facepalm, dragon style. The snipers finish Braxas off.

Then real tragedy strikes, as the famed Turtle bites the dust. He doesn't have a dramatic death, most are unaware he even died. One Roman Archer realizes what's happened however and dies of grief (Plus a Sniper shot him in the head). In the midst of all of this death, Deathwalker 7000 goes down before detonating himself at the bottom of the hill. All hope has been lost for the attacking army, but my opponent who was controlling the Deathwalker 7000 (and the romans/turtle) insist that they could have won, if Deathwalker had lived to set off his explosion. SO I say let's see.

His next order marker was indeed on DW7, he moves him up the hill into position to blow away the rest of the defenders from where Braxas had done damage earlier. Engaged with 3 Sentinels and 1 Sniper he rolls to explode...2! Everyone lives! Except for the DW7.

The rest of the troops are demoralized by DW7000, and decide to retreat from the field, forfeiting the game. Sparkle is the winner, congratulations on the prediction sixthflagbearer!

The next battle is another official scenario-Siege of the Valledon Fortress.
Read over the rules, look over the armies, and predict the victor!

Spoiler Alert!

MASTER GAME – Siege of the Valledonn Fortress
Required Sets: Master Set, Thaelenk Tundra, & Fortress of the
Archkyrie (3 Players)
With the Imperial Staff of Valledonn safely in hand, a new
Army commands Valledonn Fortress. With barely enough time
to build a makeshift door, two Armies simultaneously arrive
outside the walls prepared for an all-out seige. Both Armies
have been bitter enemies in past battles, but have warily
agreed to storm the castle together and divide the spoils of
war. What they have not agreed upon is which Army will
command Valledonn Fortress when it falls – only one Army
may control the Imperial Staff of Valledonn.

Goal:

Players 1 & 2 must take control the Imperial Staff of
Valledonn and take command of Valledonn
Fortress. Player 3
must defend the fortress and maintain control of the Imperial
Staff of Valledonn.

Setup:
Player 3 may place the Glyph of Brandar (Imperial
Staff of Valledonn) on any orange start space and place a
figure on it. Once placed, the Glyph of Brandar does not move. The door is a crude makeshift door that starts in the closed position with 6 wounds on it's army card.

3 Players
Players 1 & 2 each draft or bring pre-made 550 pt armies.
Player 3 drafts or brings pre-made 400 pt. army.

Special Rules:
Players 1 & 2 are considered friendly to each other at the start of the game for movement purposes, but may end this tentative agreement at any time by attacking each other to win the game. When a players figure occupies the glyph of Brandar, that player may use the 'X' order marker to take a fourth turn after all players have taken their third turn. The Glyph of Brandar also protects that players entire army from the Curse of Valledon.
The Curse of Valledon affects all players figures who are inside the fortress, who are not protected by the Staff of Valledonn. At the end of each round, starting with the player that took the last turn, affected players take turns rolling the D20. Players must roll the D20 once for each of their affected figures, if a 1-4 is rolled, that figure receives 1 wound.

Victory
Only 1 player can win. Player 1 or 2 immediately wins if he gains control of the Glyph of Brandar and is the only player occupying the fortress. At the end of round 6 and any subsequent round, player 3 has control of the glyph of brandar and is the only player occupying the fortress, he immediately wins. At the end of the 9th round, the player who occupies the glyph of brandar wins regardless of who occupies any space in the fortress. If no player has won the game at the end of the 9th round, the spirit of the great Valledonn Wizard appears and casts a deadly spell over the entire battlefield. Each player must take turns rolling the D20. If the player rolls a 1-10 he must destroy 1 figure from his army. Players continue taking turns rolling the D20 until only one player is left. The last player alive wins the game.

This game would see me and my Kyrie Flying opponent from the last battle The Kyrie Kruiser, laying siege to my other opponent from the last battle, the roman commander DW7 Master Blaster in control of the castle.
Our armies.
Sparkle's Army
Mezzodemons x3
Blue Wyrmling x2
Black Wyrmling x2
Jotun
Kyrie Kruiser's Army
Krug
Ice Giant
Shurrak
Torin
DW7 Master Blaster's Castle Army
4th mass. x4
Sgt. Drake Alexander RotV

Let's see if we can't double our prediction numbers from last battle.

Only 1 of these 3 players can claim victory, even though The Kyrie Kruiser and Sparkle begin the game with an alliance. Place your bets. Remember the door starts with 6 wounds.

[sixthflagbearer]

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It says that "Player 3 may place the Glyph of Brandar (Imperial
Staff of Valledonn) on any orange start space and place a
figure on it."

Can it be placed on the top of the wall? If so, then Kyrie Kruiser's army can't reach it.

Anyway, I will go with DW7 Master Blaster. 4 attacks of 4 with 5 defense is just sick (although Torin could pose a problem).