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Hello everyone!

Lord of the Rings has always been one of the loves of my life and i am on the verge of buying a few models and trying the game out. I dont know the rules yet or have any experience with the game.
I plan for a minas tirith army with Boromir at the helm, fun but competitive (if it can be done).
Could you please post a sample armylist for a 500 point game?

Limitations are that Boromir of the white tower must be in the list and only pure minas tirith soldiers or rangers(no dol amroth etc.)


Thank you !

Here is a list, note that this doesn't incude any point changes that the new source books might have made(Don't have them yet)

Warband 1

Boromir of the White Tower (Banner of Minas Tirith) 225 pts
6 Warriors of Minas Tirith (shields) 48 pts
6 Warriors of Minas Tirith (shields and spears) 54 pts

Warband 2

Captain of Gondor (Shield and bow) 60 pts
4 Guard of the Fountain Court (shields) 44 pts
8 Warriors of Minas Tirith (Bows) 64 pts

495 pts


Boromir of the White Tower is the best hero in the game next to Aragorn(and he has more starting Might pts)

Thanks for the quick reply!

I notice all infantry. Are knights no good? Is the banner on Boromir essential?

The Banner isn't needed, but it is very good to have.

Knights are good, but this is a little low on the point scale to fit them in. Gondor has good heavy infantry so they need a solid base before expanding.

at 750 you could easily have some knights in the list.

of course, Knights of Minas Tirith are often outclassed by their mounted counterparts. Warg Riders are so numerous that they can just surround them, Morgul knights are flat out better...

A 750 list would be as follows


Warband 1

Boromir of the White Tower (Banner of Minas Tirith) 225 pts
6 Warriors of Minas Tirith (shields) 48 pts
6 Warriors of Minas Tirith (shields and spears) 54 pts

Warband 2

Captain of Gondor (Shield and bow) 60 pts
4 Guard of the Fountain Court (shields) 44 pts
8 Warriors of Minas Tirith (Bows) 64 pts

Warband 3

Captain of Gondor (Shield, lance, horse) 70 pts
11 Knights of Minas Tirith(1 with banner) 179 pts

744 pts


This might be too much Cavelry, but it would catch many opponents off guard.

Again, I'm not sure of the points as the new books probably changed things. This is out of the little rule book.

Thanks again!

I'll keep it at 500 for now..
If i take the banner out (and a couple of soldiers), is the avenger bolt thrower worth it??

It's a good addition for taking out things like Trolls and Ringwraths(which can show up at this level)

I would still get a banner of some kind in on a regular guy. The rerolls are invaluable.

Sorry to be a pain but the bows need to be 33% per warband now, so you'd have to re-jig them.

Sad that you dont do Dol Amroth..
Imrahil is awsome.

Ok, what would be a similar "new" list?
If we also included Dol Amroth?

ok, with that stupid new 33% bows per warband restriction(RAGE!!!)

750 list

Warband 1
Boromir (shield) 180 pts
4 Warriors of Minas Tirith (Shields) 32 pts
4 Citadel Guard (Spears) 36 pts
4 Citidel Guard (Longbows) 40 pts

Warband 2
Captain of Gondor (Shield, Bow) 60 pts
4 Warriors of Minas Tirith (Shields) 32 pts
4 Warriors of Minas Tirith (Shields and Spears) 36 pts
3 Citadel Guard (longbows) 30 pts
1 Warrior of Minas Tirith (banner) 32 pts

Warband 3
Captain of Dol Amroth (Lance and Armored horse) 75 pts
4 Knights of Dol Amroth (Lance and Armored horse) 76 pts
Knight of Dol Amroth (Armored Horse and banner) 48 pts
7 Man at Arms of Dol Amroth (Pikes) 63 pts


740 pts total



This will give you 2 Heroes on foot to lead your force.

You will have 8 dudes with Shields to sit on the front line, 8 dudes with spears to support them(4 of whom have a higher fight value and won't flee the table as long as Boromir is alive), 7 Pikemen to add even more support, and the obligatory Banner.

Then for ranged attacks you have 1 hero and 7 Citadel Guard with Elven Bow equivilents.

And for the Cavelry wing we have 5 Knights of Dol Amroth and a Captain of Dol Amroth and they have their own Banner to help them.

The bow limit isn't per Warband but per alliance. It's there to stop you from taking lots of cheap Hobbits and then spamming really good archers elsewhere.

So, if you had 3 Warbands of 12 each from Gondor you could have one of those Warbands be nothing but Rangers and the other two Warbands would need to be without bows. If that army allied a Rohan army then the Rohan section would need to adhere to its bow limit regardless of how many Warbands it actually had.

Ah apologies then, it seems that I have misunderstood