USH'S LORD OF THE RINGS GAME PART 4- The Hunt in the Hills

Oooh that IS tricky in MERP as a good roll tends to leave them bleeding to death. Animists handy!

I am happy with the rush plan. Probably my buiggest question is whether Talin is attempting to hie. He HAS Stalk/Hide but not high. On the other hand, he's the slowest runner if he stays back.

Lets have Talin hide with us as well. If I cast Shade, it grants a bonus of 40 to everyone within a 100 foot radius.
And if they do all charge, I am going to hang back and not get killed.

Sounds like a plan!

Lacharon, too, will hang back and give fire-cover, if we have to charge.

Ok, well, looks like we are in! Palidan, you spend two power points to make that happen, and suddenly you all have 40 to Stalk Hide!

Here are your results:

Palidan: 118

Lacharon: 131, and that is without the Shade as you are away from the others. Good going!

Menelacar: 86.

Talin: 73

Over a hundred is best, but Shade means this is no disaster. You are in place!

Lacharon, you can currently see one outlying sentry and four Dunlendings within the camp. They are all in sight of each other. What is your shot at?

I'll first try to take out the sentry. Maybe I'll get lucky, definitely more likely to shoot at the approaching ones again.

Here goes!

Good start- Lacharon rolls a 93 for a 25E; however, the wound rolls low and even with the E critical bonus it is 'only' an arm wound. That arm is going to be useless but it is not a one shot kill. He cries out and the others are alerted!

Now, unless you take a turn to reload, Lacharon, you fire at a penalty. You also have a range penalty right now if you fire at those in the camp.

How many turns are they away?

'A few' is the best I can give you.

Actually thats good! He's basically out of the fight, but not dead. We can interrogate him.

I would fire at the camp, and try to draw them out. You don't need to hit, or even kill them. Just make them come after you so we can spring the ambush.

Then Lacharon will take a turn to reload, let them come a bit closer then fire on the one nearest to him (besides the one he already wounded)

Exciting stuff!

Talin lays low, taking advantage of Palidan's magic since he is normally not one for staying hidden.

Ok, so by the next turn, six Dunlendings have emerged from the camp and are running towards Lacharon. Actually, unarmoured they are moving pretty fast...

Next turn and they are halfway towards him! Lacharon fires... but 04 is a total miss!

Hmm, Lacharon is looking pretty isolated...

I can see it already. Lacharon is going to set the record for shortest appearance of a character in your LOTR RPG.

SAVE ME GUYS.

Is retreat a feasible option for me? Otherwise I'll this time do a quick reload and fire to the closest guy.

'Retreat' implies careful order. 'Run like heck' is an option.

I'll keep that option in mind if my friends don't jump out and kill them this turn.

Just for clarity, the Dunlendings are not past our hidden people yet?

Yea, lets jump out and kill them.
I'll fire at one of the six with my bow. Although it will probably be quite ineffective.

Yep, Talin is going full battle axe and hacking down a Dunlending.

Menelacar yells 'FOR GONDOR!' as he launches himself at a surprised Dunlending.