A Sword Day: Preparation
Hello all, things have died down since Nova, I have been able to just sit back and paint a bunch. And that is exactly what I have done. I have knocked out a little project. I started it out by painting my old Bandobras Took model I have had lying around for awhile. I then painted some more hobbit militia and a horn blower for my Battle of the Greenfields army project. The issue was, I didn't have a single ranger model. So after scrounging around I found a few sets of the old grey company miniatures and bought 9 of those old sculpts and to add some variety picked up 12 rangers of middle earth to throw in the mix. After painting a few of those rangers, I pulled out my three hunters Aragorn model from my bits box and painted him up. I was so happy with him and the 2 rangers of the north I had already painted that I immediately decided to run the Grey Company instead of my Battle of the Greenfields at our next event. After having a great showing this year and securing the number one spot in our league, I knew I wanted to bring a list that was just fun. This list fit perfectly into that build. I then got to painting the rest along with my really old Legolas from the original three hunters set. I pulled out my Glorfindel and Erestor pack that I had converted into the elven twins and tidied them up and added some free hand work to them. After painting them up I got a few games in with them before promptly putting them in there case and slowly painting the last few rangers over the last 3 weeks before the event.
In the games I got in I shocked myself by handedly beating a army of the White Hand in lead from the front through pulling a nasty disengage play to take out all of his Crebain in that one turn. I then just used my fight 4 to slowly walk through all of his wildmen and orcs (I used all of my bow fire to take out his uruks). I decided to test something out and blew all 3 of Legolas's might in a turn to take out an orc and the banner in contact with him to remove it after my rangers had taken out the uruk and other orc in base contact with it. It was risky but ended up paying dividends. I was able to run through the army and secure the win. Game two I got in with the list was against a rangers of Mirkwood in hold ground. I deployed and Aragorn, the twins, and 5 rangers came in on one board half and the rest of my army of my remaining 5 rangers and Legolas came in on the other. The rangers of Mirkwood force all came in on the side with Aragorn and the twins. To put it short through a crazy sequence of events, chained heroics, I managed to board wipe the list with just over half of my army. My rangers really turned on killing both Fili and taking Legolas down to 1 wound no fate. The next game was a super interesting game against wood elf Lothorien. Blinding light and elven cloaks with 10 shots to rival mine did not look fun. I did my classic spread myself across my board half and proceeded to kite. I set it up so i could have shots in weird situations while he couldn't. I set up with terrain everywhere and got target priority and eventually the consistency of Legolas's 1 shot just took out enough archers and later the galadhrim guards that I killed all of the models but Celeborn and 2 elves in breakthrough. I then got a game in versus the Depths of Moria in storm the camp, shot 3 wounds off the balrog, then in combat took him down to one wound before he took out 3 rangers then Legolas finally hit the 3+ to get the wound in with all 3 might to kill the balrog. I then proceeded to walk through his goblin force yet sadly lost my camp as I had come to far out into order to catch the balrog in a position in some terrain and never made it back and was one turn from having a ranger enter his camp.
To sum it up I have had a blast in every game leading up to this event so let us see how it plays out when we get down there!
Look for a series on every game and my results this weekend as I travel down to College Station for our final GT of the year!
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