Corruption Of The Greenwood = This scenario requires 2 Mirkwood captains and 20! Mirkwood rangers who are facing off against castellans of Dol Guldur and a variety of spiders, wargs and bats.The Gathering Evil = Having founded Dol Guldur the Necromancer must defend his fortress from a band of Mirkwood rangers who are scouting out the fortress, in this scenario the elves are trying to get models of the evil players board edge while the evil player is again trying to kill enough of the elves to stop this.The Founding of Dol Guldur = This scenario is a great intro into the campaign, it sets the Necromancer and 12 orcs against a small group of woodsmen ( warriors of Rohan in essence ) with the objective being to to either wipe out all the woodsmen or kill the Necromancer.The book contains 13 scenarios which ill run through in a sec, but there are a few things that they all have in common that I think is great, first of if you use the participants listed on the scenarios then you really do not need that many models, I believe the largest amount you will need on either side is 26 models which is an issue I’ve had with the other books that require you to have a lot more models.Īlso each of the scenarios has an introduction page that describes the mission and gives you an idea of the narrative of the scenario, these little bits are most certainly worth a read especially if you like doing dramatic readings like I do.Īnyways lets start talking about the scenarios. However it wasn’t until Radagast the brown discovered a foul sickness that was killing the wildlife of Mirkwood that he ventured to Dol Guldur in search of answers, after being attacked by the Witch King he sought the aid of Gandalf the grey, who together discovered the true identity of the Necromancer.Īfter being captured by the Necromancer aka Sauron the white council jumped into action and rescued their ally and lady Galadriel banished Sauron back to Mordor. Thranduil, the great elven king of Mirkwood then ordered his forces to repel these creatures.
This section describes Sauron’s defeat at the hands of Isildur, which forced his essence from his mortal being who then as a spectral form attacked the Greenwood or what is more commonly known as Mirkwood, gathering strength while also keeping his identity a secret Sauron created the Hill of sorcery aka Dol Guldur.Īfterwards his presence attracted all manner of foul creatures such as giant spiders and orcs, these dark forces then began to attack any who lived within the forest of Mirkwood, most notably the Elves.