Hello all! I finally got my local gaming friends to move down in scale from 28 or 25mm to 10mm in order to recreate what we always have tried to emulate, the great wars of the jewels in Tolkien's Silmarillion.
After checking out different rule sets, we opted for Warmaster Ancients/Medieval, since our perception of the First Age is low-magic. We needed a stable rule set to add monsters and heroes to.
With age, we move towards scenario-driven gaming, and so far we have created rules and army lists up until the fourth battle, which we tried out last week.
It was a 1000 point battle, where the scenario rewarded the Evil player for exiting units through the enemy's deployment zone and penalized the Evil player for any troops left in the Evil half of the table at the end of the battle.
The battle was, as always, fun and it all came down to Fingolfin's glorious charge with Veterans against Glaurung the Golden. One more hit scored and the Dragon would have been wounded and through scenario-specific rules very likely to flee the battle to lick his wounds. One more save made and the Veterans would have survived, making it possible for Fingolfin to flee the jaws of the Dragon in the Good player's turn. Alas, it was Morgoth's day, and there was much sorrow in the Elven Realms.
The Silmarillion project is a joint effort, rules-wise, scenario-wise, painting-and-collecting-wise, and I have the luxury of having two great painters and terrain-builders with me in this. We co-collect and help each other filling out gaps in the different armies.
Sample armies:
MORGOTH
Orc General
Werewolf
3 Orc Captains
Young Glaurung the Golden
Armoured Orcs
3 Orc Warbands
Black Wolves
Wolf Riders
Orc Archers
2 x Orc Scouts
FORCES OF HITHLUM
Fingolfin
Leader
2 Captains
Noldor Chivalry
Noldor Nobles on Foot
Noldor Hardened Veterans
Noldor Warriors
3 x Rangers
2 x Light Cavalry
Some pictures:
I intend to use this thread to post paint progress and pictures of battles.
Cheers,
Fredmans
