"More will come" Legions The Battle of the Five Armies Option 5: The Ancient Enemies

The Ancient Enemies

The enemy of my enemy is also my enemy

 Army List

Thranduil with Heavy Armour (Elk, Circlet, Sword)

Feren with Heavy Armour (Horse)

Mirkwood Captain (Swap Glaive for Spear and Shield….free)

Mirkwood Elves (Elf Bow, Elven-made Glaive, Spear, Shield, Banner)

Dain Ironfoot (War Boar)

Iron Hills Captain (Goat, Mattock)

Iron Hills Warrior (Mattock, Xbow, Spear, Banner)

Iron Hills Goat Rider (Mattock, Banner)

Iron Hills Chariot (Captain)

You leave Elkvis alone!

Additional Rules

Thranduil and Dain must both be taken.

Elf models may only be lead by Elf Heroes and Dwarf models may only be lead by Dwarf Heroes.

Two majestic idiots going brrrr

Special Rules

Ancient Enemies

Elf and Dwarf models may still make Shooting attacks if the only friendly models that might be hit are Dwarf and Elf models respectively, contrary to the usual rules concerning Good Armies not risking their own models. Banners and Heroic actions called by Elf or Dwarf Heroes will only affect friendly models of the same Race. This Legion does not count as broken unless both constituent Dwarf and Elf parts are individually broken. Your opponent must Wound/Kill both Thranduil and Dain to earn Victory Points for Leader Kills.

Shoot into combat! What are the odds you'll kill a D8 dwarf?

“The Hordes of Hell are upon us!”

If all Dwarf models are deployed before all Elf models, the controlling player may elect to re-deploy any Dwarf warbands once each. In the case of scenarios where a roll is made to determine deployment, Dwarf warbands may instead choose to reroll their result. Additionally, Infantry Elf models may perform a Leap test over any Dwarf models currently benefitting from Shieldwall. On the result of a 2+ this Leap may be made directly into Combat.

These rules should really help you to get the "jump" on enemy warbands in the first turn and bring down any numerical advantage they might have.

A Clash of Kings

Keep track of the number of kills caused by Thranduil and Dain. If, at the start of a turn, either model has the same or fewer kills compared to the other, they will count as a 6” banner to their Race and also apply the following effects for the rest of the turn:

Thranduil: May call a Heroic Shoot/Accuracy without spending Might. Friendly Elf models within 3” gain +1 to Wound rolls.
Dain: Gains Master of Battle. Friendly Dwarf models within 3” may reroll 1s and 2s for their Wound rolls.

Thranduil gets to enjoy the +1 to Wound for once so long as Dain goes on the rampage, and being two-handed burly rerolling 1/2s he'll be going full goblin mode!

Mighty Steeds

As long as either the War Boar or the Elk remains on the field this Legion will count as having a banner for the purposes of scoring Victory Points.

 

When Dain mounted on his War Boar charges into combat against a man-sized model he may roll a D6. On a 3+ the controlling player may move the charged model and one other enemy model in base contact with the charged model 1” in any direction and continue moving. If the model cannot be moved then it will be knocked Prone instead. (Treat as Barging)

The Swine breaks the Line

When Thranduil mounted on his Elk charges into combat apply the Impale rule (War Camel) at S5. When charging whilst mounted, instead of making normal Strikes after winning a Combat, Thranduil may make a single strike against all enemies in base contact.

"I freed their miserable heads from their wretched shoulders"

EXAMPLE LIST

Thranduil Elk Circlet Sword

6 Mirkwood Elves Bow

12 Mirkwood Elves Glaives

Dain War Boar

9 IH Dwarves with Shield

9 IH Dwarves with Shield, Spear

750pts 38 models 6Might+MoB