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As we were walking out of Return of the King, I told my wife I wanted a FW war mammoth. Fortunately, that got shot down. This was also long before the mamuk was even on the horizon...

 ExNoctemNacimur wrote:




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Do you think they'll make the Dwarf Warriors as well? I'd buy a few of them as well

The dwarves were very interesting designs in the movie, If they made models of them, I would also be interested in them.

12thRonin wrote:
You do know that WotR is where alot of the hated rules in 8th edition came from, right?

I am really rusty rules-wise, I only played until the actual WotR rules came out back when the game still was a very simple skirmish and picking Minas Tirith meant an auto-win.

War of the Ring and the SBG have pretty different rules. The SBG is a pretty good ruleset. War of the Ring is the opposite.

12thRonin wrote:
You do know that WotR is where alot of the hated rules in 8th edition came from, right?

yeah but it did fit in Wotr much more then fantasy, which was always about careful movement and whatnot
now it and 40k are so similar that I feel no point in playing 40k since I dislike the various colours of marines and broken mat ward armies

nkelsch wrote:

 ExNoctemNacimur wrote:




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Do you think they'll make the Dwarf Warriors as well? I'd buy a few of them as well

The dwarves were very interesting designs in the movie, If they made models of them, I would also be interested in them.

There are pics of new dwarf warrior models in the back of the Hobbit rulebook.

 ExNoctemNacimur wrote:
I've just seen the movie.

Now I'm compelled to buy tons of Hunter Orcs, regardless of prices.

This is why GW makes money from this stuff - guys who have seen the movie will buy their stuff.

I saw the movie today and loved it, it was better than I expected. Still won't buy the models though because I feel they're overpriced.

Wow! At first how was much on the side of the OP, but these models are huge! Not very detailed, but still!
Considering you get 3 of them, its not that bad of a price... but for a game a very few people will play?
Kind of a bad marketing shot on them... But hey, its GW: nice models, nice game and provides us with a wonderful hobby while praying satan and stealing from their grannys purses.
Not the first time, not the last if you ask me

Well, it seems someone is taking advantage of GW's arrogance.

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
Well, it seems someone is taking advantage of GW's arrogance.

Hahaha, great find. It simply shows how ridiculous the new prices are.

inb4 Testify saying GW's set of planks has a way higher quality, superior artsy design and even is too cheap anyway given its outstanding value!

How dare someone make wooden plank terrain and not charge the world for it!!!!!!!!!

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
How dare someone make wooden plank terrain and not charge the world for it!!!!!!!!!

If GW should ever spot the balsa planks we made for our table, I'm expecting them to sue me right on the spot for copying their idea.

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
Well, it seems someone is taking advantage of GW's arrogance.

Angry Badger has nice affordable terrain. But everything is out of stock and his blog ends 2010. Anyone knows if he is still in business?

 Sigvatr wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
How dare someone make wooden plank terrain and not charge the world for it!!!!!!!!!

If GW should ever spot the balsa planks we made for our table, I'm expecting them to sue me right on the spot for copying their idea.

Dear gods the base of Lord Chunky my Bloat Thrall looks like it was based on goblin town-its actually ment to be a pier over a marsh but...........

GW seem to place far too high a value on the quality of their plastics. A plastic Fellowship is £30 on their site, the same set as in the Moria game. They were great plastics in the starter game, but when you buy a separate release you expect better, like the original metal Fellowship, which was a lovely set and has some real quality for a LotR collector or gamer. The plastics are simply inferior, yet GW take them out the starter set and charge premium on them, now costing more than the original metals. It's just disappointing that they sell the inferior plastic fellowship in place of the metal one. Though if they priced the metal fellowship today in the manner they have the White Council then it would be nearly £100. That probably shows just how utterly absurd their pricing structure has become.

 Kroothawk wrote:

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
Well, it seems someone is taking advantage of GW's arrogance.

Angry Badger has nice affordable terrain. But everything is out of stock and his blog ends 2010. Anyone knows if he is still in business?

Actually, the blog is unrelated. I know the guy behind the company--he was at SoCal Smackdown--and he is just getting his website up and running.

He came up with the name at the convention, unaware that someone else had already used it.

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
I would love to see Reaper, Mantic or AoW release an "Adventuring Fellowship" set with a halfling and a bunch of dwarves who happen to look like hobos. Then I want to see them price it at about 1/3 the price of the GW set. That would make my day.

coughcough*hint-hint*cough

Why not just get them from Mithril? They have been making LotR figures for 25 years or so, and have a good range to choose from.

http://www.mithril.ie/

Pretty sure Mithril isn't cheaper than GW

Edit: I stand corrected, you can get a boxed set of the Fellowship for 30 Euro. Gosh, GW really has gone the far side of reason.

I've been avoiding reading this thread or looking at the GW models until after I saw the movie (even though I know The Hobbit story, I wanted to see what they did fresh instead of looking at a lot of movie merchandise and comments online first).

Now I've seen the movie and looked at some of the models, yeah, the pricing is pretty bad, but they're also some pretty nice looking models, especially for plastics and really the prices aren't much worse than what I've come to expect from GW. There's certainly some miniatures in there that I wouldn't mind getting just for the sake of painting up and putting on display.


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 Dawnbringer wrote:
Pretty sure Mithril isn't cheaper than GW

Edit: I stand corrected, you can get a boxed set of the Fellowship for 30 Euro. Gosh, GW really has gone the far side of reason.

Depends where you live. In the US, the price difference isn't massive between Mithril and GW, GW in Europe is massively overpriced though. The mithril site is pretty hard to navigate, but the images I saw it doesn't look nearly as high quality as the GW stuff.