Battle Record - Middle Earth - The Deeping Wall #MESBG 04/08/26

Afternoon #Warhammer Community we've been playing MESBG again. We'd set up the board for the Shed of the Year pictures, so it would be rude not to have a game.

This was the battle of the Deeping Wall scenario. With Orcs coming on from each end and some engineers trying to get to the wall to blow it up.

I'm not sure if Otty had played this before but it soon became apparent there were some gameplay issues with the width of the battlements.

For the most part you could have two abreast, but some areas where staircases were it was an absolute bottle neck.

Which meant Pikes were literally doubly useful. But even so it led to a lot of congestion on the wall with very few Rohirrim holding off the press of orcs.

This allowed the archers to concentrate fire on the Engineers.

And eventually Legolas started to take toll for their attempts to blow up the wall.

As the Engineers got closer we started to lose the Berserkers holding the flaming brands.

You can see just how spread out the Rohan forces are on the wall, holding back the Orcs at each end,

More shots at the Engineers

Every model that died could come on from the ladders. 

Although there were some breakthrough's onto the battlements, they were often beaten back.

As the Engineers reached the foot of the wall we realised the drainage gate was in the wrong place for the mission. And the Engineers realised they'd lost all the Berserkers to light the explosives.

The battle atop the wall continued. 

But we still couldn't breach the line either end.

Archers continued to shoot at the Engineers, with only reinforcements on the ladders obscuring these vital targets. Each engineer needed to make a moral check and then it was something like a 5 or 6 to blow up the charge to win.

But I think Otty managed to achieve his objective and win the game.

We played on a bit after the game had finished and the Engineers finally found a spark to blow up the wall, but too little too late

Even box cars felt like a cruel jest that it had came after the game had been called.

Lessons learned, but it looks awesome.

I think some additional wooden walkways might be added eventually. I don't know if they'll be detachable though - so we don't end up tipping the advantage the other way round. But a full day of gaming with these guys - WOOT!