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Got to have some weakness to avoid otherwise free bonuses. What you are willing to give away to not just be all ranger list with free bonuses?

Ll's are mistake to begin with catering to power gaming min maxers who don't care about fluff

tneva82 wrote:
Got to have some weakness to avoid otherwise free bonuses. What you are willing to give away to not just be all ranger list with free bonuses?

Ll's are mistake to begin with catering to power gaming min maxers who don't care about fluff

You say that while arguing against fluff.

Faramir is already mandatory. Nobody will argue against that. There's a set number of Ranger heroes: 5.
Faramir is Valour, Damrod is Fortitude, the last 3 are all Minor.

It wouldn't be a big deal if Faramir were optional but made Frodo, Sam and Smeagol mandatory when taken...but there's 4 mandatory heroes.

tneva82 wrote:
Got to have some weakness to avoid otherwise free bonuses. What you are willing to give away to not just be all ranger list with free bonuses?

Ll's are mistake to begin with catering to power gaming min maxers who don't care about fluff

Rangers were operating with out the Hobbits cramping their style for a while before they picked them up.

So, no Countdown add today?

 VictorVonTzeentch wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:
Yawn. Still having a requirement of Frodo, Sam, and Smeagol in the Ranger Legion is bleh.

Yeah that sort of destroyed my interest in building a Ranger list. I mean with friends at home, not an issue. But if I feel like being in a store, meh.

In certain missions that LL was too much powerful, they had to nerf it.

There's other ways than just throwing three mandatory characters that aren't even a big part of that setup's story arc!

Lets give this lil lumpy man a facelift....

Plastic Imrahil would be amazing.

ugh, I would love a plastic Ibrahim... almost as much much as plastic Dol Amroth infantry!

Makes the lack of a plastic triple brother pack all the more daft!

Well, Lorien is the obvious focal point, but then you've got Moria, Fangorn and Dol Goldur on the periphery. So who knows.

The first one was Rivendell. Now Lorien.

Elveses.

 Kanluwen wrote:
The first one was Rivendell. Now Lorien.

Elveses.

Filthy Elvises... we hates 'em, we do!

Rivendell > Moria > Lorien

Part of the RIng Bearers route >>> Movie Trilogy

And about to go live. Just in the pre-show reel.

I know they’ve said not to expect our relating to the Amazon show, but part of me reckons they’re dirty fibbers…

Last preview tease was "an hour before..." and had Minas Tirith shown. The preorder article yesterday teased terrain as part of today's preview.

So, rumour was correct. Wasn't expecting Damrod and Madril however, nice.

I hope the terrain gets a separate release but it will probably be the same cost to buy the boxset anyway.

Ha! The tactical ruins on the rangers heroes are optional. Nice touch

The three are gorgeous, not sure about the wargs face at that angle, but the rest of Gothmog is great.

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Of bloody course Faramir and Friends get plastics as I'm finishing up painting my metals.

 Kanluwen wrote:
Of bloody course Faramir and Friends get plastics as I'm finishing up painting my metals.

Look at it this way, at least it proves me wrong about secondary characters never getting plastic.

Wow, the four battlehost boxes are pretty pointless with these old plastic warriors. The secondhand market is flooded with them. You get them basically for free.

Holy hell that Glorfindel!


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Bago wrote:
Wow, the four battlehost boxes are pretty pointless with these old plastic warriors. The secondhand market is flooded with them. You get them basically for free.

Depends on the price and they're not as easy to find these days as you think they are.

Someone's a bit keen on WHC already.

Flatout annoying that they do not seem to get why it's a problem for some people with these Forge World releases.

Physically painful seeing those outdated High Elf models with that shiny new Elrond.

Elrond and banner bearer in plastic. Damn, these look good

A lot of Last Alliance teasing in that stream.

Assuming I heard correctly and this new set is priced around or slightly above the current one, I'm just not sure I see the appeal. For customers or for them trying to draw more people into the game. I know they've gone away from the "loss leader" box sets, in favor of "no loss" box sets, but I don't know that the appeal is there for mostly old models, some pretty generic terrain, and then five new hero sculpts.

Been looking for an excuse to restart my Minas Tirith so I'll probably grab that big box. The smaller boxes also seem pretty neeto.