Blotz Dark Age Watchtower

After our first game of Ruckus, I wanted to use my other LOTR figures with the rules too. I own a small force of Rohirrim, but I needed some terrain pieces with verticality to fully utilise the potential of the rules.

The first thing that came to my mind was of course a Rohan style watchtower, which I have thought about scratch-building before. I googled for some ideas, and came across Blotz's Dark Age Watchtower.

The kit itself is not expensive, but shipping was a bit high, but a recent sale they had made me bite bullet.

The kit is built almost 'as is'. I beveled the edges of the base, and made some cuts on the MDF to give the timber a less regular appearance.

The genius of their design is that they made the distinctive horse-head finials a part of the roof piece (which lifts off) rather than the columns, which made it easier to access the cabin of the tower, as well as allow the gamer to perhaps build a different roof for a non-Rohan force.