Friday, December 17, 2004

 

Miniatures Project Update

Oh my god it's halfway to the convention and I haven't even playtested this once yet! Panic!

I do at least have a rough order of battle. I don't have it in front of me, but it looks something like this:

Evil side: 45 Uruk-Hai (one-third each with pikes, sword & shield, and bow or crossbow), 1 Uruk-Hai Captain (using Lurtz's figure and stats), 3 or 4 Warg Riders, and 1 Warg Rider Captain (using Sharku's figure and stats).

Good side: 18 Riders of Rohan (with whatever weapons are on the figures I have), Eomer on horseback, Gandalf the White on his horse Shadowfax.

I might be forgetting something, but the two sides will have equal points.

Gandalf will arrive as a reinforcement later in the game. The Evil side wants to stop Gandalf from meeting Eomer and bringing reinforcements to Helms Deep. The Good side wants to get out alive, so they can help Theoden.

Thankfully, I already had 75% of the necessary figures full painted two months ago. I am currently painting two Gandalf the White figures (one on Shadowfax, one on foot) and nine Uruk archers and crossbowmen. I will also need to paint at least 5 Uruk pikemen and six Riders of Rohan. Maybe some terrain too. With two months to go, it should be fine, but I can't slack off any.

More importantly, I need to sit down and try playing this scenario solitaire and develop it some more. That's always a challenge in our apartment, which doesn't have any 4 foot square flat spot to set up toy soldiers. But I will find a way.

One week before Dundracon, the Shield Gaming Conference will take place in the same hotel. It's a small convention dedicated to historical miniatures wargaming. This will be its second year, and from the web page, it sounds like it will be bigger this year. I plan to attend, even though I don't have any historical figures in my collection...that might change when I arrive, of course...

Jefferson 3:02 PM

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