LOTR battle with zombies, played on 26th April 2026

 

The Battle for the Hills.

Evil side:

Right to left flank:

Jonathan with zombies and Haradrim contingent

 Patrick Uruk-hai pikemen and heavy infantry,

 Steven: orcs with battle trolls

and Alberik orcs, halve trolls and wargs

Good side:

Right to left flank:

Ronny with Rohan riders and dwarf riders, with dwarf and Rohn infantry

Peter with Gondorian infantry and Numenoreans (heavy elite)

Dirk  (me)with Elves, part form Lothlórien and part of Rivendell

3 players on each side had drawn cards they could use as spells one spending a "flag" rolled command die.

I had painted zombie figures for Jonathan from a board game he has.

He asked if these figures could be used in a LOTR game, and we did.

He could activate the zombies with an I or flag, and once on the move they wouldn't stop.

His wolf zombies were threated as cavalry so activated with a C or flag.

Zombies do not have strong "hitting power" so one die per 4 figures and for the wolves one per 2 figures. and an extra die for abominations.

One "unit" of runners going 30cm, others 20cm.

But!!:

•  zombies doe not recieve moral blows, so flags against them are ignored.
• arrows have no effect.
• When zombies inflict casualties, these deaths will join them!!

Objective of the game: controle of the middle hill and one of the hills on either flank at the end of the game.

The abominations

Zombie monk

Halve troll with orcs

Ronny made the misake to move his cavalry to far in turn one and was charges by the wargs with no option of counter charge.

The dwarf and Rohan cavalry was hit hard. Also the use of spells by Alberik gave him more momentum.

The strongest units of the Good side were crippled

The massive battle troll

In the centre, the Gondarians had taken the hill with their bowmen, keeping at bay the Uruk-hai pikemen and orcs and battle troll. 

But hte orcs and uruk-Hai kept coming and the Gondorians started to loose ground.

The elves were in for a chock. 

The zombies had taken the hill and the elves attacks were unsuccessfull with losses, rsulting in hte zombie units getting stronger! Impossible to stop the waves of zombies, with on top of that spells of the necromancer weakening the elves resistance.  With the zombie wolves also joining in,  and the Haradrins also, the good left flank had no hope of success.

Now all the three hills were fermly into the hands of the Evil side, and no reserves left on the Good Side/ Clear Evil victory