Mordor Troll Chieftain

   Finally I have finished my eighth and last Troll! This one is a Chieftain, ready to lead my other three Mordor Trolls on the battlefield against the Good forces.

The Chieftain

   I used all the remaining spare parts I had from my previous trolls and not only these. As you can see the Chieftain has a Cave troll's hammer, a Dead warrior's shield, a basket and a horn from a Warhammer miniature, I think.

  I removed the hands of the Trolls from both, the Mordor club and the Isengard spear. Then, I used half of the spear and I stuck on it a part of the rim of the Mordor drum. You can see below in red cycles the parts I mean.

   I hung the helmet, the basket, the horn and the heads on the chain belt. 

   I used shades of brown for the troll's clothes but when I finished I realized that the beige fabrics and trousers reminded me "pyjamas"! My wife called him "Potato"! Never mind!   

   I took the first and the last photo with my new camera. I think I will use this one from now on.

And a seasonal photo of our cat. Happy holidays!

   That's it for today! Stay tuned for more!

Flemish Mercenaries

   The Flemish mercenaries were famous heavy foot spearmen. Gripping Beast has a very nice group of such heavy infantrymen, which consists of eight metallic miniatures. The below "Flems" are not the original GB warriors. They are really good plastic Norman infantry miniatures of Conquest  Games. 

The eight Flems 

   That's it for today! Stay tuned for more!

The Razing of High Water 3

   This is the third time we chose to play the scenario "The Razing of High Water" and this time we had a dragon among the evil force! Actually this time we followed the proposal of the sourcebook and we deployed the recommended participants of the scenario. 

The battlefield

   The objectives were five, the four buildings and the passage of the river next to the dice. The winner was the one who controlled at least three. 

   Below you can see the good force, the dwarves. The force consisted of a dwarf king, a dwarf captain, Murin and Drar, 3 khazad guards, 21 dwarf warriors: 7 with bows, 7 with shields, 6 with two-handed weapons and 1 with banner, and a ballista.

Dwarf captain, Drar, Murin and the miniature of Dain as a dwarf king.

   The evil force consisted of a Dragon, a Moria goblin captain, the warg chieftain, 6 wargs, 18 Moria goblins: 6 with spears, 6 with bows and 6 with shields. 

Goblins and wargs

The dragon

The evil right flank

and the left flank.

The dwarves

1st objective: done!

2nd objective: done! 

The fight for the 3rd objective

At this point ballista killed three wargs with just one shot!

Dwarf king and his followers fight against the dragon.

   Unsurprisingly the dragon with 4 attacks and Fight 7 is undefeated. To slain the dwarf king during their first fight phase was really a surprise though! 

Dragon's roll of dice that killed the dwarf king.

During the next turn the dragon attacked the dwarf archers,

wargs attacked Murin and the ballista,

while dwarf captain and the khazad guards attacked the goblins.

Goblin captain and his supporting warrior were not so lucky as the dragon!

Dwarves' efforts to continue the fight were futile. Dragon controlled the 3rd objective, the river passage

and the wargs and the goblins dominated the rest of the battlefield.

   It was a well balanced battle till the forth turn when the dwarf king died and this time we really enjoyed playing the specific scenario. 

   That's it for today! Stay tuned for more!