Games Workshop - Middle Earth Strategy Battle Game: The Lord Of The Rings - Isengard Battlehost

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However, for the reasons we talked about earlier, I still think the Battlehost is such good value that you’d be better off just shelving the other models until you feel like playing a different list – so we’ll be branching off from list 1. As with Saruman and Gandalf (spoiler alert), the Witch-King gets a subset of his original spells (only Transfix, Compel, and Black Dart - all with their normal 12" range and cast on a 3+, 4+, and 5+ respectively, per the usual). Join the ranks of the fallen Istari Saruman, one of the most powerful Wizards in Middle-earth, as he personally leads the Isengard Battlehost of Uruk-hai Scouts and Uruk-hai Warriors, followed by his faithful minion, Gríma Wormtongue. I think the idea was to find the lowest-common-denominator spells and avoid too many unique ones, so I can see it (but don't agree with it). The Battlehost also includes a free PDF guide, Quickstart Rules, featuring simplified ground rules and scenarios, and a PDF Quickstart Booklet with miniature profiles, so you can start playing easily.

This force consists of 48 plastic Citadel miniatures, usable in games of the Middle-earth™ Strategy Game. This is one of the cheapest expansions to the battleforce, because the Witch King (tooled up here to murder enemy heroes and break lines) is so pricy. Getting Started (9) Goblin-Town (5) Goblins (73) Gondor (36) Gondor At War (13) Guest Post (3) Gundabad (8) Harad (23) Heroes (68) Heroic Actions (28) Heroic Strike (9) High Elves (40) Hobbying (4) Homebrew Factions (9) In Defense Of (39) Informative (508) Iron Hills (8) Isengard (121) Khand (4) Khazad-Dum (8) Lake-Town (10) Last Month on TMAT.They do have a series of pretty interesting smaller forces, like Ugluk’s Scouts, Wolves of Isengard or the Dunlendings, but nothing that ties the disparate parts of the army list together. Disclaimer: I’ve recommended Wildmen and Dunlending Warriors, but it must be said that these boxes are absolutely terrible value. Perhaps this was a bit uninspired - and before anyone asks, I'm planning to get both a Minas Tirith battlehost and a Rohan battlehost in the coming year (I need the Gandalf blister for Pippin - and an updated Gandalf model - for Fantasy Fellowships, I need another blister of Knights for scenario/conversion work, I need the new Eomer to handle weapon restrictions for both the Men of the West LL and every other time I'd use Eomer, and since my additional Battle for Pelennor Fields box set wasn't purchased in time, I need more Rohan guys for Fantasy Fellowship missions too). Will the Riders of Rohan and the Army of the Dead arrive in time to aid the White city of Gondor against the Dark Lord of Mordor and his orc hordes? These miniatures are supplied unpainted and require assembly – we recommend using Citadel Plastic Glue and Citadel Colour paints.

I choose Gandalf over Boromir every time, but in this one case, I think Boromir be a great addition. probably more of a nightmare for your opponent because now he can't boost dueling rolls against a swarm of Uruks without burning through 2 Might points). The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.Mordor have one of the biggest model ranges in Lord of the Rings, and it naturally pairs with the new starter set to give you more than 700 points, needing only some characters to give a legal army.

It uses the Assault Upon Helm’s Deep Legendary Legion from War in Rohan, and in particular the Isengard Hordes rule to expand the warbands heroes can lead by six models to make the force legal.

Optional Extras: Thrydan Wolfsbane is the obvious omission here and he is absolutely worth picking up, especially if you plan to eventually run the Dunland LL. Orc bows, 8 bows, and 12 bows), more supporting weapons than everyone else (10 pikes), and lots of models who can shield (18), this army's got it all.

You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. For a pure Isengard force from the LOTR Armies book, obvious additions are characters, monsters, missile troops and cavalry. This simplification of war gear choices is actually very good and since there aren't any points values associated with these profiles, it makes it easy to "just get going. Because riders can lose their horses and get replaced by foot models, you will want to keep six of your foot models to use for this.We’ve used all the Uruk Scouts we own in this list, so if we want to go beyond 700pts, you’d need another box of Scouts or Orcs. This list is worth taking for a spin if you’ve just dipped your toe in to the game and bought your first battlehost. It’s an infantry force designed to rush forward and put a demolition charge into the enemy shieldwall. The Legendary Legions pivot out of this core quite nicely but tend to be more purchase-heavy, so it’s really a case of picking your poison – or just keep accumulating enough models that you can run them all! Unlike all the other boxes, these guys have no cavalry, but their greater weight of numbers means they're unlikely to have 1 Uruk charged by 1 cavalry model very often.