WoTR Epic Battle at Sunshine - January 17th

UPDATE 12/26
I have confirmed the date of January 17th with Joel.
Move to Find a Game and Sticky

The Mass Battle event is confirmed!
12:30 pm
Confirmation and discussion thread here:

https://splinterfaction.forumotion.com/battle-orders-f52/big-game-january-17th-t2721.htm

Evil -
Joe w/ Mordor
Luis w/ Misty Mountains
Mike's Hermana - Harad
Dave (mirkweasel) w/ Harad
Tom w/ Angmar
Bill w/ Misty Mountains

Good -
Rob w/ Elves
Oscar w/ Dwarves
Mike - Gondor
Juan w/ Dwarves
Dan w/ Gondor
Eric w/ Rohan

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At the fantasy tournement this past Sunday Joel asked me to organize a WoTR event for January. Right now I'd like to aim for Sunday, January 17th.

We can play in the usual 3 round tournement

However, with the WoTR 'Ard Boyz set for February, Dan and I thought it might be fun to have an alternative type of event. Something in the appoc, mass battle, siege setting. We have alot of table space, terrain, and room to setup a large, day long, mega battle in the corner if everyone likes the idea.

Leave some feedback here as to what would interest you and if you plan to attend on Jan 17th. Once I get some feedback I'll post the offical details in the Find-A-Game section.

Hope you can make it!

I'm in! By that time I should have the Minas Tirith castle from Jerry. So we can use that to siege upon...Pelenor fields sound good ?

We talked about a recreation setting, but that is also dependent on who plays and what armies they bring.

We definately will go good vs. evil

We definatly will be terrain heavy. Something that involves all pathfinder rules.

Some sort of siege option is most definately in play. Maybe a capture the flag.

I saw Eddy on Sunday, but that was before Joel asked me about this. Can you see if he's interested. Maybe check with Oscar too.

Frantic, I will bring the castle items this Friday and I have siege towers!

JerryB

You should come play Jerry. Games are good to keep the stress down.

jerryb wrote:Frantic, I will bring the castle items this Friday and I have siege towers!

JerryB

Sooooooo... I guess youve quit playing LotR Jerry.

As I said with Bill earlier, I'm down for a more "mega battle" style event. Penalor Fields sounds pretty fantastic to me, but any particular event could work!

Hell, I think it'd be fun to play like a "re-claiming Osgiliath" after Penalor Fields, with Rohan and everybody involved!

I plotted out a couple of board layout options last night.

One is designed for a free for all objective based game. (based off of 9k point WH game I played with Garry, Erik, and Ronnie).

The other is designed for a massive pitch battle as teams with a capture the flag flair.

How about a historical re-enactment? To me those are the best.

JerryB

The re-enactments are very dependent on specific troops.

We have such a mix of players and troops, not sure if a re-enactment will fit with who comes by to play.

We can make a loose re-enactment. As long as certain armies are present it should be fine. I like the idea of 2 teams and a mass battle better than a FFA regardless of what we do.

I am in for sure I have about 1,500 or elves then another 500 of heroes and some Rohan

Possible as a way to mix the siege and CTF we could do a one flag thing. Where one team has the castle and must defend the flag while the other team's objective is to remove it from the castle and bring it to there "side." To make it a little more fluffy possibly an artifact or "the ring" have Frodo be the objective

It's a possibility, and can work for whichever side has less points.

I like it.

i'm down, i'll bring my dwarfs of siegeforge

Warbird wrote:I am in for sure I have about 1,500 or elves then another 500 of heroes and some Rohan

Possible as a way to mix the siege and CTF we could do a one flag thing. Where one team has the castle and must defend the flag while the other team's objective is to remove it from the castle and bring it to there "side." To make it a little more fluffy possibly an artifact or "the ring" have Frodo be the objective

The capture the flag scenario I plotted out actually fits this design pretty well.

hmm, i'll see if i can get me a Misty Mountain force ready by this date.

You guys mind if i proxy bunch of my Goblin stuff for Misty Mountain figs ? i have pretty much eveyrthing i need in my NG force to create a Misty Mountain army i just gotta change the bases.

Hehe, oh Luis oh Luis.

I don't care.

Luis, I've got tons of Goblins and a few other things if you want to borrow them.

Thanks bud, i'll see if i can get me a working force by then, if not i'll take you up on the offer and burrow some of them.

Beg, borrow, or proxy - this is all for fun and anyone is welcome

Awsone, cause i have everything to even bring Stone Giants and a Drake !

El Gigante version for Lord of the Ring !! The shadow of his Sombrero shall spell doom for Minas Tirith and the lands of Men !

Does Dave check these forums? If not, someone with his number should try to reach him. His army complete with mumak and chariots of fire would be a nice addition.

I saw Tom yesterday and I believe I mentioned it to him. He has to see about getting off of work though. More info to follow.

Any word from Eddie, Oscar, and/or Joseph?