Starting the KIngs of War Campaign and a bit of Lord of the Rings.

Today Chris and I started our much anticipated 15mm Kings of War Campaign, my goblins bravely taking on his ogres. Starting with a 500 point clash where Chris had to get his ogres to capture goblins slaves and my goblins had to stop him. We placed four counters/bases of small goblins around the village in the centre of the table. Here is how it played out...
 

Clash at Stiltz.               Jan 2020.

Hostilities between the Goblins and Ogres commenced early in the year when an ogre raiding party surged north and attacked the small goblin hamlet of Stiltz, which lies just a few miles south of Azgarheim. Expecting easy prey, the ogres advanced swiftly to try and capture as many goblin slaves as they could. By chance, Banga, a goblin wizard was close by, scouting the border area with his own force of brave goblins and trolls. 

Banga sent forward his goblin fleabag sniffs to try and get round the enemy flanks only to be hit hard by the ogre Warlock, Grik n Grak. In the centre the trolls quickly gathered some of the young goblins to safety and the Goblin Fleabag riders rode around the other flank.

Sadly some Ogre Braves captured a group of poor goblins so the Fleabag riders charged in and after a few rounds of combat routed them and freed the goblins. By now the fleabag sniffs had been routed as Grik n Grak blasted them away with his enhanced boomstick (there is a joke in there some where???) and drain life spell. Banga was caught hiding a couple of times so could not get line of sight to counter the Warlocks magic (I had positioned Banga very poorly). 

The kindly trolls were charged in the flank by the Ogre Warriors and were soundly beaten, allowing the Ogre Warriors to capture more goblins. Banga himself then suffered the pain of Grik n Grak's boomstick leaving the ogres victorious. The ogres had managed to grab two bases/tokens of goblins and the other two had run off- a clear ogre victory. 

Next we played our first small game of the Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game for some time. My brave band of Elves of Lothlorien proved to be a complete group of failures hardly able to hit a thing either in missile fire or melee. 

Chris's Mordor Orcs proved to be quite tough and comfortably overcame the elves. The aim of the game was to try and get back to the opposing edge of the table. With both of my warbands tied up with the larger of Chris's he was able to easily break through on my right. Another victory for Chris but with both of us wanting to play again soon.