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Messia · **Posted:** Fri Feb 20, 2009 5:40 pm

Those Rohan soldiers look very nice! It seems though that this is getting like fantasy with the musician, captain + standard bearer. I do like the idea of the musician guy though, lets hope they introduce rules for musicians (if they haven't already, since I've been gone.)

Corsair · **Posted:** Fri Feb 20, 2009 6:12 pm

they had better have rules for them in strategy battle game too.

preferably not the same as the mordor orc drummer, that would be stupid.

Messia · **Posted:** Fri Feb 20, 2009 6:45 pm

Corsair wrote:

they had better have rules for them in strategy battle game too.

preferably not the same as the mordor orc drummer, that would be stupid.

How does that work? Would be nice if they had rules for musicians, that offered bonuses on par with standard bearers.

gaarew · **Posted:** Fri Feb 20, 2009 6:49 pm

Messia wrote:

How does that work?

He hits the drum with the drumstick...

In the SBG, the Orc Drummer allows certain models to move faster.

In the WotR, musicians allow nearby companies to move faster.

As Musicians, they do not allow re-rolling of dice to win fights.

Azure Rathalos · **Posted:** Fri Feb 20, 2009 7:59 pm

Someone asked if the new ents are all the same, well, they are how you make them! the new ents are a multi part plastic kit with differant arms and fases, also I hear you get some dead orcs in there too! Hope that helps

(they look ok in the flesh, or bark lol)

I'm looking forward to WotR, but I already have a large collection, so its not difficult for me to make an army on a large scale.

People who are new to it however could find it very hard to amass the numbers required (let alone paint them!)

BilboOfTheWhiteTower · **Posted:** Fri Feb 20, 2009 9:20 pm

Ent

Army of the Dead

Isengard Command

Minas Tirith Command

Morannon Command

Rohan Command

Sons of Eorl

Grey Company

Halbarad

Amarthadan · **Posted:** Sat Feb 21, 2009 5:42 pm

Hmm, now that I see them...Grey Company models are a dissapointment, but all the rest is still cool.
Also, the ent looks alot better in real life.^^

Rueben

silvani · **Posted:** Sat Feb 21, 2009 7:45 pm

i wish there were some goblins... that be real cool.

gaarew · **Posted:** Sat Feb 21, 2009 7:47 pm

silvani wrote:

i wish there were some goblins... that be real cool.

There is. The Goblin Shaman.

:-D

silvani · **Posted:** Sun Feb 22, 2009 5:07 pm

gaarew wrote:

silvani wrote:

i wish there were some goblins... that be real cool.

There is. The Goblin Shaman.

Realy? I am excited.

gaarew · **Posted:** Sun Feb 22, 2009 5:13 pm

Yeah, there's a pic of him (and his Bat swarm) on page 5 of this thread.

:-D

NumenoreanLord · **Posted:** Mon Feb 23, 2009 12:47 pm

Two more pictures:

Joansean · **Joined:** Mon Feb 19, 2007 12:23 pm **Posts:** 760

I love the orc the rohan commander is holding - trying to clasp the Commandersneck, whilst he is being strangled. Very nice detail there.

BilboOfTheWhiteTower · **Posted:** Mon Feb 23, 2009 3:54 pm

I really like the dwarf!

Corsair · **Posted:** Mon Feb 23, 2009 4:24 pm

the hasharin looks quite cool IMO

I like the more dramaic pose.

DarkWind · **Posted:** Mon Feb 23, 2009 4:41 pm

The tree on halbarad's flag is positively terrible. I hope it's the painter and not the sculptor who made a balls of that!

The leftmost GC Ranger is very nice, the others are average. The stars on the MT commander look terrible, the other minis are fine except for for the the tree on the MT banner (Not as bad as Halbarad's though) and of course that rolled up paper thingy they call an Ent.

Mouth-of-Sauron · **Joined:** Tue Nov 20, 2007 8:14 pm **Posts:** 544

Y are one hellawa Critic I must say... :roll:

DarkWind

King Dain Ironfoot · **Posted:** Mon Feb 23, 2009 5:12 pm

I can't say I hate anything here! The stars on the Minas Tirith Captain do look out of place, but they could easily be filed off, no?

The Ent looks decent when it's painted silvery-grey. At this point I'm just hoping they don't make it the same price as the metal one like they did with the plastic Troll and Balrog! Like seriously, what's the point then?!

FirieloftheHavens · **Joined:** Mon Sep 08, 2008 8:53 pm **Posts:** 21

hmmm... they're nice models are alright. Still, I can't see a WoMT blowing a horn, its fine with Rohan because they're more rustic and generally less shiny but the Warriors of Minas Tirith should really have a silver trumpet (though a conversion should not be difficult). And it seems GW still can't make their minds up about Rangers of the North, they've already got models for Rangers and Dunedain (thouroughly misleading since the Dunedain of the North make up the rangers, apart from their womenfolk, and so here are exactly the same, and their are also plenty of other pure-blooded Dunedain elsewhere, like Gondor). Now they've made the "Grey Company" which are just the same thing again and a new Halbarad (third time, though at least this one has Arwen's banner).

The name "Son's of Eorl" is highly inappropriate if they are a generic Rohirrim troop type who rode with Eorl into Gondor, as he was only 20 (or thereabouts, perhaps youger, as it says in Unfinished Tales) and his troops certainly would not have seen him as a father. If they represent Eorl's actual children or a regiment founded well into his kingship of Calenardhon (Rohan) then the great model speaks for itself.

But having said all that they are almost all really good models with a lot of fine sculpting - they are not at all WHish which is what I feared and although I am foremost a scenario gamer and don't intend to play War of the Ring, I fully expect to buy a few command sets for ordinary games. :-D

DarkWind · **Posted:** Mon Feb 23, 2009 6:35 pm

Mouth-of-Sauron wrote:

Y are one hellawa Critic I must say... :roll:

DarkWind

Don't get me wrong, some of the minis are very nice, but overall GW's standard ain't as good as the 2002-04 era. They seem rushed or something...

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