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Thane Morgan18 Feb 2004 4:16 p.m. PST

I don't have the larger magics sorted out yet, but the main troops and characters are there. Feedback is greatly desired - we've not played with the heros yet, just leaders, and while the game runs well with the lack of magic, those heroes.... damn. Tough bastards, every one of them.

Thane Morgan18 Feb 2004 4:18 p.m. PST

Oh yeah, some linkage might be nice. HTML and MS Word versions are here: http://www.thanesgames.com/aoasupport/aoasupportmain.html

John Leahy Sponsoring Member of TMP18 Feb 2004 4:55 p.m. PST

Go Thane, Go Thane!

Thanks,

John

cubeblue18 Feb 2004 6:43 p.m. PST

Nice, I'll get to work giving these some test runs this weekend.

Revenant19 Feb 2004 7:58 a.m. PST

Excellent!

Rev

Strider21 Feb 2004 5:05 a.m. PST

Thax Thane I am looking them over now

Thane Morgan01 Mar 2004 10:09 a.m. PST

We played a huge game, 12000 points per side between orcs, uruks and goblins vs elves, wood elves and Rohan. That was about 300 good models vs about 600 evil. It lasted about 3 hours, and felt great as we played it. Everything ran smoothly. there is some discussion about the death howl ability of the wraith king, we are trying it where it is used in the morale phase instead of the missile phase. This allows everything a chance to fight, a general principle in AoA, though it may not be entirely appropriate in LotR.

The elves are NASTY in this system. They broke block after block of orcs and uruks. The orcs hurt quite a few units of elves, but not nearly as many as we would have hoped. Essentially, we pushed into the elf and rohan army until they almost snapped, but ended up breaking completely just before they did.

If you put your nazgul on fell beasts, be certain that you protect them from eagles, by using several extra fell beasts. We are debating how good the beasts should be, they may need a few more attacks to make them as brutals as they were in the movie. We lost both wraiths in our battle, though they both did good things in the process. I'm debating on whether to allow their morale penalties to stack up or not.

The extremely powerful heroes worked out just fine. They were hard to kill, but not impossible.

We got pictures, I'm going to put them up as brief battle report this week.

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