I played a game of Hobbit with my brother a couple of days ago. The scenario was The Breakthrough, which is the first scenario of the Hobbit boxed set. The Good side consists of Óin, Glóin, Fíli and Kíli and on the Evil side there are twelve goblins and a captain. The dwarves are trying to break through the goblins to escape and the goblins are trying to prevent that. The board consists of a few walkways and no model can go outside them, so there is a natural choke point on the narrow bridge between the platforms. My plan was to let Glóin with his great fighting skills lead the assault, let Fíli and Kíli alternate as his sidekick and have Óin hanging behind, healing the wounded.



The dwarves overran the goblin forward guard quickly and tried to get as far over the bridge as possible before the main force of the goblins would intercept them. With Glóin leading the charge goblins were tossed left and right as the dwarves pressed on through the endless horde (the goblins had a reinforcement rule which allowed them to bring casualties as reinforcements back on the table). The bridge was narrow and only two dwarves could fight side by side so the progress was slow and eventually the dwarves started running out of Might points. Then I forgot to use Óin's healing skills to heal Glóin and suddenly the toughest fighter of the good side was down.


Fíli and Kíli were able to press through the goblins to the final platform, but it was already clear that the goblins would surround the three remaining dwarves. With a couple of good rolls from the goblins, also Fíli fell and the goblins won the game.

Even though I lost, it was great to play again. It had been months since the previous game.