90 minutes Lurtz and two Amon Hen games

Yesterday, the next two games of our Quest of the Ringbearer campaign took place. 

My opponent's Uruk-hai were painted by him, I just added my captain with the two-handed axe and my 90 minute Lurtz to the force. 

It turned out that my opponent’s Lurtz figure was nowhere to be found, so just after work I painted one of my many Lurtz poses in a record-breaking 90 minutes!

Unfortunately, the figure had already been primed and poorly stripped, so there were still lots of thick layers of paint on it... I thought it was going to be a disaster, but you can salvage a lot with the final edge highlights.

And then things really got serious!

Unfortunately, the fellowship were unable to secure victory in the first two scenarios (Amon Hen is split into four games in the campaign).

In the first, Frodo has to escape whilst Aragorn holds off the frenzied horde. But just before the end, Frodo was overpowered… Gimli and Legolas arrived too late to help.

And in the second game, Boromir had to protect Merry and Pippin from being kidnapped by the Uruk-hai, which also failed. I think I used the wrong tactics here!

The games were still a great deal of fun, though, and I’m looking forward to the last two games at Amon Hen.