Another almost definitively non-competitive game down the store. There was supposed to be a 1K WOTR tournament, which would have been an interesting challenge for my .5K. Fortunately I managed to talk my opponent into playing 750, so I only needed to borrow three companies of Morannons, a couple of upgrade characters, and a Troll. My opponent had three main problems: 1) he’d never actually played before 2) he had to put together a scratch force using whatever he could find in the store cases and 3) he asked to me help write his list.
I suppose I could have come up with something slightly more competitive than a single-character list, but to be honest I was a little perturbed by the volume of enemy cavalry that was clearly going to be on the table. I also wasn’t entirely aware of quite how green he was. And, you know, I haven’t been in the most understanding frame of mind lately.
So, off we went. He stuck a small infantry unit on the left and in the centre, with some archers between them, and loaded up the right flank with two units of Swan knights and some regular knights (his other knights went on the extreme left). Not liking the look of all the enemy cavalry I refused that flank, put the Orcs and Troll in the centre, and the Morgul knights on the left.
Well, suffice to say that he didn’t have enough Might and never managed to get a cavalry charge off, while I was able to pick on and clobber his units one by one (my startling ability to roll stalled charges notwithstanding) – the Gondorian morale was a little bit shaky, too, given their lack of and characters upgrades. The Morannon Orcs punched well above their weight due to my repeatedly casting Strength from Corruption on them and then rolling very well for it – in two successive fights I had Str 8, enough to slaughter even cavalry. Probably best not to get too fixated on that, though. The only real thought that occurs to me is to get banners for my knight units as well as the additional Morannons that are now pretty much a sure thing (provided I can scrape the cash together with things being as they are.)
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