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We come to it at last, the great restock of our time. Today, GW have put the first of the re-releases up, with a promise from the recent Warhammerfest that these releases are going to be rather frequent. In this thread I'll do me best keep a compiled list of everything that's come back in one place.

Releases by date

21/05/16:
Boromir Foot and Mounted
https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Armoured-Boromir-Foot-Mounted

Gothmog Foot and Mounted:
https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Gothmog-Foot-Mounted

Kingdoms of Men Sourcebook
https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/The-Lord-of-the-Rings-Kingdoms-of-Men-EN
Mordor Sourcebook:
https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/The-Lord-of-the-Rings-Mordor-EN

11/06/16
Fallen Realms
https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/The-Lord-of-the-Rings-The-Fallen-Realms-EN

Saurman and Grima
https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Saruman-and-Grima

Osgiliath Ruins
https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Ruins-of-Osgiliath

Free Peoples
https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/The-Lord-of-the-Rings-The-Free-Peoples-EN

Scouring of the Shire:
https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Scouring-of-the-Shire

01/07/16
Moria and Angmar sourcebook:
https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/The-Lord-of-the-Rings-Moria-Angmar-EN

09/07/16
Shade:
https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/shade-2016

23/08/16
Girion, Lord of Dale:
https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Girion-Lord-of-Dale

Captain of Dale:
https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Captain-of-Dale

Saw this on Fb:-

Ouch, that's bad luck!

This is exciting, if only people around here actually played LotR I would be really pumped!

 ZergSmasher wrote:
This is exciting, if only people around here actually played LotR I would be really pumped!

It might well get a shot in the arm with all the new/re releases, so maybe other people will take it up

None of them come up on the US store for me. Maybe at 1:00pm EST when the new releases go up?


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Also, for what its worth, any game can build a community if a passionate player puts in some hustle. I was able to build a local SBG community from zero players, to seven, and a whole other club is only about an hour-and-a-half drive away. :-)

LOTR SBG even more so. easy to pick up, cheap, everybody knows the setting and people always say it's the best ruleset by GW. I feel that sometimes dividing the factions into evil and good can be an incentive to build another force or just react to someone else's pre-existing army. And because everyone knows the setting they all have their favorite faction, commander or battle - same can't be said about every tabletop game.

Of course the LOTR trilogy is made of booooks instead of some one paragraph fluff item but i've never heard of anyone trying their hardest to re-enact the war of armageddon or norse invasion on pre-empire kingdoms. Then again each and every battle in LOTR is pivotal to the setting unlike in "there is only war" type setting. Just saying that people have got a passion and opinions on a complete different level when it comes to LOTR. On a side note, Tolkien's conflicting memos often spark debate too (and passionate arguments).

I'm so hyped right now.

I got the email and got rather excited to see models back on sale ! I look forward to the all the re releases they will be doing in the future.

Certainly is an exciting time for us lotr fans

Yay! Armoured Boromir is one of the minis that I really wanted to have but could never find.

For what its worth... he kept going in and out of stock throughout the day, yesterday, on the US store.

They may have under-estimated demand. :-p

I'm glad I got mine!

That was quick.

I wonder how many they printed?

Mine is on its way to me as of this morning

I don't play LoTR By I am happy GW is taking the route and re-releasing these figs and books.

Maybe one day I will dig into all of this. It looks like a lot of fun and I love the movies.

 Snoopdeville3 wrote:
I don't play LoTR By I am happy GW is taking the route and re-releasing these figs and books.

Maybe one day I will dig into all of this. It looks like a lot of fun and I love the movies.

Its worth a go for sure. The best part of LOTR is the entry cost. It doesn't take much to get into this game, a character or 2 and a box or 2 of guys and youre playing. Even then you can go with one hero and one box and you are gaming. If you are interested in goblin town which isn't a very diverse army but defiantly an effective one, the starter box is for you. It will give you a good amount of goblins with all the characters, the rule book, and all the dwarf heros from erebor. So picking up the starter+2 boxes of erebor dwarves and you now have 2 decent sized armies for less than $200. The game mechanics are very simple to learn. The rules are written so they have layers. Lots of extra rules can be left out without hurting game play to start with and simplify the game so as to making the system ultra easy without making it dumb. Once you get more accustomed to the game play you can add the extra rules which are not very difficult themselves but add tons to the game making it much more intricate. The combinations of units, abilities, heroic actions, etc can build powerful armies that are cohesive as one.

This is the game that AoS wishes it was. I highly recommend hitting it up!

 thekingofkings wrote:
This is the game that AoS wishes it was. I highly recommend hitting it up!

I know a lot of people (including me) were hoping that AoS would be based on the SBG rules but no such luck.

 mdauben wrote:

 thekingofkings wrote:
This is the game that AoS wishes it was. I highly recommend hitting it up!

I know a lot of people (including me) were hoping that AoS would be based on the SBG rules but no such luck.

Well it definitely had shades of that.... with rolling for "first go" priority per game turn, and lean core rules. They clearly considered SBG... they just did it as a half-measure.


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You know... God help me, but I just realized if GW drip feeds out-of-print models back to the website every couple of weeks, I may legit end up owning every single SBG item, in due time.

I'm hooked in a way I have never been with a miniatures game system.

Also, if the Mahud on camels come back in stock, I will single handedly run them back out of stock. :-p

NewTruthNeomaxim wrote:

 mdauben wrote:

 thekingofkings wrote:
This is the game that AoS wishes it was. I highly recommend hitting it up!

I know a lot of people (including me) were hoping that AoS would be based on the SBG rules but no such luck.

Well it definitely had shades of that.... with rolling for "first go" priority per game turn, and lean core rules. They clearly considered SBG... they just did it as a half-measure.


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You know... God help me, but I just realized if GW drip feeds out-of-print models back to the website every couple of weeks, I may legit end up owning every single SBG item, in due time.

I'm hooked in a way I have never been with a miniatures game system.

Also, if the Mahud on camels come back in stock, I will single handedly run them back out of stock. :-p

Mahud raider is in stock...he's on a camel lol

Yeah, the Mahud are still in production, it's the King that is OOP and goes for silly prices on Ebay... which is why I think he may well be in line for a re-release alongside the Fallen Realms book, as I can't think of any other OOP character sets from those lists... maybe Dalymir, is he still around?

I meant Harad, but you all know what I meant anyway. :-) I don't know how I missed some of those items on GW direct. Now the old dilemma... save money for returning OOP models, or buy existing items i've wanted? :-p

 Paradigm wrote:
Yeah, the Mahud are still in production, it's the King that is OOP and goes for silly prices on Ebay... which is why I think he may well be in line for a re-release alongside the Fallen Realms book, as I can't think of any other OOP character sets from those lists... maybe Dalymir, is he still around?

The Hasharin is still missing for the Haradrim.

In the US store now for anyone who needs their precious!

https://www.games-workshop.com/en-US/The-Hobbit?N=102353+4294967072&Nu=product.repositoryId&qty=96&sorting=rec&view=table&categoryId=cat410002-flat

 namiel wrote:

 Snoopdeville3 wrote:
I don't play LoTR By I am happy GW is taking the route and re-releasing these figs and books.

Maybe one day I will dig into all of this. It looks like a lot of fun and I love the movies.

Its worth a go for sure. The best part of LOTR is the entry cost. It doesn't take much to get into this game, a character or 2 and a box or 2 of guys and youre playing. Even then you can go with one hero and one box and you are gaming. If you are interested in goblin town which isn't a very diverse army but defiantly an effective one, the starter box is for you. It will give you a good amount of goblins with all the characters, the rule book, and all the dwarf heros from erebor. So picking up the starter+2 boxes of erebor dwarves and you now have 2 decent sized armies for less than $200. The game mechanics are very simple to learn. The rules are written so they have layers. Lots of extra rules can be left out without hurting game play to start with and simplify the game so as to making the system ultra easy without making it dumb. Once you get more accustomed to the game play you can add the extra rules which are not very difficult themselves but add tons to the game making it much more intricate. The combinations of units, abilities, heroic actions, etc can build powerful armies that are cohesive as one.

Good to know thanks!

 chiefbigredman wrote:
Mahud raider is in stock...he's on a camel lol

The Mahud Raider was never OOP, unless it was dropped just recently? The one they need to get back is the Mahud King. That's one of those blisters that's selling for $80-100 on eBay.

 Paradigm wrote:
I can't think of any other OOP character sets from those lists... maybe Dalymir, is he still around?

Dalymire the Fleetmaster is OOP, as are the Corsair Captain and Bosun figures.

 Ghaz wrote:

The Hasharin is still missing for the Haradrim.

When they bring him back, I really hope they bring back this pose:


The other pose with the single knife is both easy to find second hand and IMO inferior looking to this pose.

Fallen Realms has a lot of missing units.

Mahud King and Mahud w/ Blowpipes are out of production.

Khandish Chieftain and Cavalry are out of production.

Haradrim Hasharin is out of production, as well as Serpent Riders and Serpent Guard.

Feral Uruk-Hai are out of production. Sharku ft and mtd is out of production. Mauhur's Marauders command is out of production. Dunlending command and Dunlending Warriors w/ bows are out of production. Wildmen of Dunland are out of production.

Corsair Captain, Bosun, and Dalmyr are out of production.

Yeah, I'm desparately waiting for Khand chieftain on Chariot to come back... been looking after that guy for years but didn't want to pay 60€ for him on ebay

I began re-purchasing and painting Minas Tirith stuff after years of being away from the hobby and I stumbled across news of the state of Middle-Earth stuff with GW. It seems I've got back in at the best time in years! Exciting indeed. Already snapped up the Gothmog re-release - all I could find on eBay was the older model which I'm not a big fan of.

Excited for what will be next.

I was hopping something would come out this week, but it seems no such luck. Need both the Free Peoples and Fallen Realms books to ocme back as I want to build up Elf and Haradrim armies.

 Imateria wrote:
I was hopping something would come out this week, but it seems no such luck. Need both the Free Peoples and Fallen Realms books to ocme back as I want to build up Elf and Haradrim armies.

I don't think the preorder/releases come out until 12 (not sure what time zone tho) so I think you might still have a chance! I'm waiting for fallen realms aswell!

Actually the site gets updated around 1:00pm EST, so we still have just over an hour (and sometimes its another fifteen or twenty minutes delayed) until we know for sure.

I do suspect this week or next will be the Fallen Kingdoms book, and Sarumon w/Grima. :-)