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This probably doesn't count as news, but I was perusing the Adepticon Event List and there is a Battle Companies tourney at 24/40, a Friendly Doubles event at 35/60 and a Grand Tourney at 59/60. That's some solid attendance numbers!

Compare that to a Conquest event at 14/16, a KoW Clash of Kings tourney at 19/50 with numerous casual KoW events at about 1/4th signups, and a Song of Ice and Fire tournament at 15/64 with a few Demo events and team tournies at various levels of attendance. Seemed pretty wild to me that the Middle Earth game is smoking all of those (at least in terms of attendance at one of America's biggest gaming events, possibly biggest?) other non-AoS fantasy games listed above at a comfortable margin.

I never really got into this game, and generally skip over Warcom and White Dwarf articles in favor of the games that I enjoy, and in my silly (but time/space restricted) bias I never stopped to think that they are making this content for a dedicated and loyal player base. I always thought they were putting in the motions because they had the IP and had to do something with it. Lo and behold the game looks to be in a great spot.

Another MTO coming up:

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2022/01/20/defend-the-north-with-classic-made-to-order-heroes-from-middle-earth/

I get the theme is to go with Defence of the North, but Haldir's elves again? I'm surprised they don't just become a range item at this point.

Galadriel who i'm certain we had last time as well.

Captain of Dale who should actually be a permanent item. But a full warband of the old metal Easterlings and Goblins is very cool however.

The metal goblins were in a previous MTO as well.

There are still some rare models which we haven’t seen yet so shame they are repeating some quite frequently.

Dale Captain isn't a surprise, but the lack of Grimhammer Captain makes me think it'll just be Iron Hills units in the list.

Metal Easterlings was a surprise, but no Mounted Warpriest?

Haldir's Elves(tm) must sell pretty well to keep coming back, but I remember them being very popular even back in the day.

I expect the war-priest will get re-relased when the rest of the Easterling stuff goes up for order. Bring the range back up to full again.

Haldir's elves have always been popular, but this is what, the fourth time now?

Will these be metal or finecast?

The material they were released in orignially. So everything here should be metal.

 Inquisitor Gideon wrote:
The material they were released in orignially. So everything here should be metal.

Save the Dale Captain I suspect, GW had gone finecast before any of the Hobbit stuff came out.

Oof. That's a big load of things I want. Barring the Galadriel, which I got last time, everything there is stuff I want.
I neglected to get any of the metal elves the last 2 times they went up for MTO and I can never find any at a reasonable price, despite how common they are.

Did the Made-to-Order with Attack at Weathertop, Ambush at Amon Hen, The Battle at Khazad-dûm etc. happen already or are we waiting for that one too?

I believe we are still waiting for they one (unless I missed it entirely).

jullevi wrote:
Did the Made-to-Order with Attack at Weathertop, Ambush at Amon Hen, The Battle at Khazad-dûm etc. happen already or are we waiting for that one too?

Not yet. That article said next year (this year), but not when specifically. This one actually says Feb.

I picked up that Galadriel last time around; probably my favorite Galadriel for actually gaming with as it looks more like how she would appear in a battle (in her "war aspect" form).

I'll definitely grab some of those Easterlings, if only because they actually have the correct ratio of pikes to swords (unlike the plastic box that has it reversed for some reason). Of course, if the price is completely ridiculous I'll give it a miss though. I like the Haldir's Elves models, but if I want Galadhrim models I'll probably just stick with the plastic ones (which look pretty good TBH). The Goblins are tempting if only because the plastic ones have aged so poorly; again depending on price I might grab a set.

Personally i don't actually have much of an issue with the plastic goblins. They still paint up rather nicely with a little effort put into them.

Plastic goblins are alright, but the metal ones make for great captains. Thats how I use mine anyway. Very little risk of mistaking them for other models. And more variety in posing. Win-win, basically.

 Tyr13 wrote:
Plastic goblins are alright, but the metal ones make for great captains. Thats how I use mine anyway. Very little risk of mistaking them for other models. And more variety in posing. Win-win, basically.

That is exactly how I use mine. They make great captain models.

More Easterling characters.

A Not!Captain and the head War-Priest which shouldn't really surprise anyone.



Defence of the North sure is taking it's sweet time.

I'm actually kinda in love with that priests helmet. But lets' just have the emperor and book and release the stuff.

Very nice looking sculpts. Personally would have preferred a new sculpt for the generic Dragon Knight that loses the bath robe, but I'll not be saying no to these.

Also, between these two and the as-of-yet unnamed Emperor, there are now as many named characters for the Easterlings as there are warrior options. Interesting place to be.

Kind of a silly hand pose, but otherwise pretty neat.

I like the War-Priest barring the weird hand pose, but does Rutabi look a little squat to anyone else? Probably the angle, but the clown shoe doesn't help.

I actually really like the hand pose. It's an archetypal villain stance. But i think the squat look is because his legs are slightly bent in a brace pose. Angle doesn't help either.

They've obviously been impressed with the new Avatar of Khaine and thought "I'll have a bit of that!"

It's a villain pose, but it just doesn't feel like a lord of the rings villain pose to me, if that makes sense.

Still, not a huge issue.

I mean, it's not far off the pose Sauron himself is making.

Ha, fair point!

Man, it's been a long time since I watched those movies.

 Inquisitor Gideon wrote:
But i think the squat look is because his legs are slightly bent in a brace pose. Angle doesn't help either.

Assuming you're talking about Rutabi, then according to the article... she, not he.

Yes, I just noticed that re-reading the article. That's what happens when I skim read. Still it's nice to have a woman lead for them.

 krijthebold wrote:
Kind of a silly hand pose, but otherwise pretty neat.

Isn't he French? I thought he either gave or is about to give the French "Hi" to the Brits. :p

 Tim the Biovore wrote:
Very nice looking sculpts. Personally would have preferred a new sculpt for the generic Dragon Knight that loses the bath robe, but I'll not be saying no to these.

Also, between these two and the as-of-yet unnamed Emperor, there are now as many named characters for the Easterlings as there are warrior options. Interesting place to be.

It might sound like a long shot, but I would be willing to wager there is still more to come. The plastic easterlings models don't even have a command available anymore.