I’ll save you the effort of scrolling back up to our list that’s a quarter of our army. In the first turn we lost 14 models to shooting.
We again deployed as far forward as we could, and again our opponents deployed back to play to their (poisoned arrow) strengths. The first turn saw the Avenger Bolt Thrower claim a fate point from Shagrat, and in return our Orc archers claimed a fate point off Aragorn who used his Horse Lord rule to save his horse. Our opponents deployed back to give their bolt thrower a good couple of turns to make an impact. We deployed as close to the enemy as we could with our Orcs and Uruks intermingled to capitalise on our legendary legion bonus, and planned to surge forward as fast as possible. The other half of the force was Rohan containing Dernhelm, Gamling with the Royal Standard and Haleth (remember kids: when proxying make sure you point out your proxy models to your opponent at the start of the game). Along with a cadre of warriors there was also an Avenger Bolt Thrower. When the primary victory points for a scenario are determined by comparing your leaders kills against your opponent’s leaders the last thing you want to have opposing you is Aragorn, King Elessar, but that’s what we ended up facing.
