Sunday, 6 April 2025

The fords of Isen

 

Saruman has at last shown his hand and the hordes of uruks march south from Isengard to invade Rohan. On the other side of the Isen Theodred, Théoden's son still guards the ford across the river, but grieve news arrive when a second force of uruks with warg riders in the vanguard is sighted to the north. The men of Rohan must stand firm and guard the pass or the realm will be devastated by fire and sword
The first half of the Isengard army loses no time and launched a full assault on the ford 
While in the plains Théodred marshals his men against the second incoming army
A mix of orcs mounted on wargs and uruks that came into the battlefield eager for blood
Soon the evil creatures pounce on the first rank of defenders
Felling many a rohirrim with their cruel axes and swords
While on the river the uruk chieftain has almost wiped out all defenders
Grimbold and Théodred come to the rescue of the Rohan infantry, pushing back the uruks with a last minute charge and the banner bonus

But the fall of the ford the rohirrim must beat a hasty retreat first to Edoras and then to Helm's Deep

Monday, 31 March 2025

Father versus son

 

Recently  I've started playing Jedi:Survivor, the latest videogame release based in the Star Wars universe, and I decided to bring out my legion stuff for a battle between rebels and imperials set some time after The Empire Strikes Back
In the first turn the imperials advanced in the centre and left flank, concentrating fire on the rebel AT-RT
And blowing it up in the second turn
Vader meanwhile had been advancing steadily behind some ruins, springing an ambush on a rebel squad that was killed to a man
While John Williams music played on the background the rebels launched an offensive push by the right, decimating a squad of stormtroopers
And taking down the scout bikes with Bo-Katan and her mandos
Who fell subsequently to the sith lord's blade
In a desperate attempt to turn the tide of the battle Luke charged his father, both heroes trading blows during the rest of the game
But it was all over for the Rebellion when the imperials came out of cover and wiped out the last pockets of resistance with overwhelming firepower
Standing tall the AT-ST was the imperial MVP of the game, slaughtering rebles left and right thanks to its formidable armament and crew/comms cards
The last rebel standing was Luke, left with one wound remaining on the last turn

Saturday, 29 March 2025

The temple of Kara

 

After their last defeat the amazons came back with a vengeance, and took the fight to the hated lizardmen on the ruins of the Temple of Kara
Under heavy rain that made shooting hard priestess Chel and her girls hug cover and move forwards

Locking in place a saurus and a skink with a spell
While on the other side of the pyramid amazons and skinks play cat and mouse unwilling of exposing themselves to a charge by the enemy
At last Chel gives the order and the slithering tribe moves to the attack, three women charging the foe covered by arrows and sunstaff blasts

The priestess taking potshots at any lizard that gets within range of her staff
Meanwhile the enemy warband's leader has climbed the pyramid only to find a swarm of spiders

Having dispatched the lizardmen hiding behind a bush Chel and the girls them move to attack the skinks

Some of the diminutive lizardmen charge, but the amazons prove too tough for them


Having frozen all skinks with her spell the priestess joins the melee to finish them off

Surrounded the small creatures do their best
But the combination of magic blades and female ferocity proves to be their undoing


Behind them the missile girls keep the saurus distracted with arrow volleys
Provoking a final charge
Answered in time by the rest of the warband
One by one the hulking lizardmen are cut down

Killed by the mystical blades of the amazons
And to finish up the game the last lizard is bound up
And sacrificed to the godess on top of the pyramid!