Troll Hunt (a game of Warlords of Erewhon)

 Troll Hunt

A Warlords of Erewhon scenario using our Old School fantasy figures.

Great fun today as I drove down to my friend Chris's house for a game of Warlords of Erewhon (WoE). We opted to play 1,000 pts per side as we now both have quite large forces. As Chris was host he dreamed up the scenario, a 'troll hunt' which promised to be both fun and chaos. This is what he came up with...A troll hunt in Oddlestane Valley, a well known lair for trolls. The idea was that troll fat can be used in various ways such as lubricating chariot wheels and our rival goblin and orc warbands were trying to hunt some trolls. A few counters were distributed across the board and a quick d6 score of 4+ would reveal a troll which would then fight whoever had caused it to emerge from it's lair. 

Chris deployed his Orcs on the left whilst my Goblins deployed on the right side. 

The green counters represent potential troll lairs. 

A goblin chariot in search of some troll grease!

...and so is an Orc chariot.

Both models were playing their first game and we both needed to read up on the rules concerning chariots. 

They proved to be quite tough. 

Goblin guard battle it out with a troll they found...the troll won!

NOTE: Chris had made his own order dice with easy to read symbols. 

Orc Warlord Hagar Sheol and his unit claims the first troll kill.

Elsewhere the goblins had managed to locate and kill a couple of trolls too. 

Both chariots ended up dragging troll corpses behind them. 

The Orc war chariot claims a second troll. 

The two chariots ended up in battle and fought two rounds of melee but without a winner as chariots proved to be tough to wound. 

Goblins take on another troll. 

Elsewhere various goblin and orc units clashed with the goblins getting the better of the orcs (but only just). Having also killed two trolls each when we decided to halt the game as we were running out of time the goblins scraped a minor victory by about 20 points. 

We hadn't played WoE for a while so we were a bit rusty with the rules but the game is fast playing so we did manage 5 turns. 

Thanks to Chris for hosting, the game was great fun and left us wanting to play more games.