My brother was up our neck of the woods so popped over for a quick Battle Company game. He used my Far Harad troops and I used my new Dwarves. My son rolled dice for me and the first roll was for scenario - Claim the Treasure!
Tricky one as I'm slower, but pretty solid. We each had eight figures so it could really go either way.
We played on the ash wastelands board and set up a river down the middle with two main crossings as well as a whole heap of ruins, rocky outcrops and the like.
On the north side of the board, the Mahud King on War Camel charged right into battle, taking out two of my dwarves and leaving just two archers, though I did manage to remove his camel!
Then at the other river crossing my Vault Warden team and Boggle charged across to clash in the centre of the river! There was a bit of back and forth here and I took out one of his guys.
He then sprinted away from my guys there to bring his whole force to bear on the other crossing. This was a bold move, but unfortunately the dice rolled my way, he managed to roll a two to wound almost every time! In the end my other dwarves caught up and sandwiched him with dwarven shields. If he'd killed just one of my dwarves before the reinforcements arrived he'd probably have won the game, but that's the way the dice roll sometimes!
At the end of the match all of my dwarves made full recoveries, Boggle gained an extra point of fight value, Brynmor gained an extra point of might and two more dwarves with shields joined the company.
With quite a few casualties the injuries rolls were actually pretty lucky, two miss next games and the rest made full recoveries. With the influence saved from last time we got one more camel upgrade and a warrior with shield.
All done and dusted including finding the guys, setting up the board, playing the game and doing the post-match stuff in under an hour. Battle companies are so great for quick games!
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