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Paradigm wrote: Wow, that is one hell of a haul! Out of interest, what are the contents of those Two Towers and RotK boxes?
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Strategy Battle Game contains a 160-page full-color rules manual, 32 highly detailed plastic miniatures (12 Riders of Rohan and 20 Fighting Uruk-hai), a ruined building, and dice.
Relive the battles of The Return of the King film and book with The Lord of the Rings tabletop strategy battle game. Inside The Return of the King you will find a 176 page full colour rulebook, 48 highly detailed plastic miniatures (24 Warriors of Minas Tirith & 24 Mordor Orcs), stone ruins of Middle-earth and dice.
Not so amazing but worth the $60~ i paid for them. I already own the books for all of those starter sets so I think im going to unload those to try to recoup some of the money spent. Im thinking in very good condition i should get $10-15 each.
Automatically Appended Next Post: 232 total minis. not too bad keeping each under $2 with plenty out of print/metal/characters. Then add books, white dwarfs that were included, terrain pieces and that was including the shipping costs. Id say it was a pretty decent deal snagging those auctions
Automatically Appended Next Post: What do you guys think of my new gondor army..............after todays purcheses(with a few small buys) i will be able to make this sizeable force. What do you guys think?
Warband 1 12/12
Aragorn, King Elessar
6 Warrior of Minas Tirith with Shield; Spear;
6 Warrior of Minas Tirith with Shield;
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Warband 2 12/12
Faramir, Captain of Gondor with Heavy armour; Bow; Shield;
12 Citadel Guard with Longbow;
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Warband 3 12/12
Boromir, Captain of the White Tower with Horse; Shield; The Banner of Minas Tirith;
12 Knight of Minas Tirith with Shield;
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Warband 4 12/12
Damrod, Ranger of Ithilien
12 Ranger of Gondor with Spear;
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Warband 5 12/12
Beregond
5 Warrior of Minas Tirith with Shield; Spear;
6 Warrior of Minas Tirith with Shield;
1 Guard of the Fountain Court with Shield; Banner;
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Warband 6 12/12
Knight of the White Tower
6 Warrior of Minas Tirith with Shield; Spear;
6 Warrior of Minas Tirith with Shield;
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Warband 7 12/12
Captain of Minas Tirith with Shield;
4 Warrior of Minas Tirith with Shield; Spear;
4 Warrior of Minas Tirith with Shield;
1 Guard of the Fountain Court with Shield; Banner;
1 Avenger Bolt Thrower with Swift reload; Flaming ammunition; Siege Veterans;
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Warband 8 12/12
Denethor, Steward of Gondor
6 Warrior of Minas Tirith with Shield; Spear;
6 Warrior of Minas Tirith with Shield;
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Warband 9 12/12
Madril, Captain of Ithilien
12 Citadel Guard with Longbow;
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RoperPG wrote: Blimey, it's very salty in here...
Any more vegans want to put forth their opinions on bacon?
Seems pretty sound, but bloody big! I have to say, that is one battle line I would NOT want to have to deal with, especially with Avengers and cav bothering me. Out of interest did you not get any archers, as in large numbers they can actually be pretty good.
Also, have you thought about War of the Ring? I know it gets a fair amount of hate but it is actually really quite fun if not taken too seriously and adds a whole 'nother aspect to the game. Also less daunting a project now that you have a ton of models! My Minas Tirith force is prety hige now and there is a certain satisfaction with pushing around trays of minis. I PM a link for the rulebook and extension if it interests you?
"Show no mercy, show no restraint! Feel the Emperor's fury flow through your veins and let it fuel our whirlwind of gore!"
Yeah, I did have a lot of fun with a lot of WotR back in the day. That said, I took the cheapskate route of using paper printouts of units with actual minis only standing in for heroes/banners ect. It's a decent ruleset, though.
Somewhere on my loooong list of 'one day' projects is to do a hybrid SBG/WotR ruleset. Unit-based mechanics, but with a less-nuts model count needed, and a sort of middle ground between abstraction for unit size and detail with individual minis. Like I say, one day...
As for that list, it looks pretty awesome. You have a lot of WoMT, and it's hard to go wrong there, and then Citadel Guard and Avengers for shooting, plenty of Might and a Boromir-led Cavalry Charge which should be something to behold! Only slight gripe is that you have Boromir and King Aragorn in the same list, but I guess you could always play the 'Throngoril' card and get away with it (for those that don't know, Throngoril was the name Aragor used when serving under Ecthellion and Thengel about 30-40 years pre-WotR)
Oh yeah, Namiel, totally jealous of your haul! Years ago I picked up the Warhost of Cirith Ungol boxed set. Great value for money. Wish GW still made sets like that. Amazed you can find those sets on Ebay these days!
Paradigm: We played it with fairly small forces and I think it was really under-rated as a game. I really liked how they kept the system simple while introducing a lot of flavour, and how they handled the iconic units. I was super exited about it for ages, but then no one else was!
A simple fix for the rules would just be halving the number of dudes per base. Keep everything else the same but reduces the model count by half.
Yeah i really only have good experiences with it, though it was passed of as a WHFB test edition! The model count is an issue i guess but with a few really good deals on eBay and i already had a solid 2000 point army to expand upon. The main issue i find is painting all the buggers to a decent standard!
Your 'one day' project sounds good, though it seems like a lot of thought would have to go into the process. Good luck if you ever do decide to do it!
Lets hope that with the Hobbit WotR 2.0 will be released in all its former glory with some little fixes...
"Show no mercy, show no restraint! Feel the Emperor's fury flow through your veins and let it fuel our whirlwind of gore!"
Mordor Uruk Hai are still available in metal, at just £8.20 per blister (very close to the average price when I started LOTR 12 years ago - so theres price nostalgia), they're very nice models and they have a good number of variants (6) which I can boost with conversions (got some axes from Gripping Beast).
I think they'll work well with my Angmar army so I'm gonna get 4 blisters (of 3 models) for a full Warband. Only £32.
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True, although the bay still has better deals i'm afraid and has more choice. Of course there is more security on GW but i'd still check out ebay. I'm not trying to stop you from buying direct though, i still purchase stuff straight from GW, but sometimes it's just not worth it...
"Show no mercy, show no restraint! Feel the Emperor's fury flow through your veins and let it fuel our whirlwind of gore!"
Since we're discussing bargain LotR here, check out these guys from Wargames Factory. A dollar a mini (about £16 a box in the UK after discount) and with a weapon swap and paintscheme, they could make great Hunter Orcs:
http://www.wargamesfactory.com/webstore/horse-and-musket/woodland-indians
Captain Galenus wrote: True, although the bay still has better deals i'm afraid and has more choice. Of course there is more security on GW but i'd still check out ebay. I'm not trying to stop you from buying direct though, i still purchase stuff straight from GW, but sometimes it's just not worth it...
My point being that £8 a blister (3 models) is what I consider to be a fair price, comparable to the prices I was paying when I started the game over a decade ago.
I have bought dozens of cheap minis off ebay over the last year, when the models are OOP, or models that have had the prices jacked up over the years (metals converted to Finecast). My desk is overflowing with ebay purchases. And they probably won't ever get painted (I still have models from 12 years ago that I haven't yet painted. )
"Fair price" pontification aside, I did actually check ebay just now to see if I can get them cheaper and theres a bundle for £27 of 8 Uruk hai, original Shagrat (mithril shirt) and a banner...But I already have Shagrat and the banner, and the 8 Uruk Hai are all duplicates of just 3 of the 6 available variants, so (I think) its worth paying £5 more with GW to get all 6 variants.
TL;DR. As much as I whinge and complain about GW, when I feel the price is fair (£8 per 3 model blisters of the old LOTR range, vs the £15 per 3 model blisters of the new Hobbit range) I'm still willing to buy direct from GW.
I'm not familiar with their Indians (wasn't even aware they'd released an Indians kit) but I really wasn't impressed with Wargames Factory's plastic Saxon Fyrd (unarmoured). Really poor rubbery detail. I much prefer Gripping Beast - better detail, and cheaper too.
I've assembled about 36/44 of the Gripping Beast Saxon Thegns (armoured), and I've got a box of the Dark Age Warriors (unarmoured) awaiting assembly. Whereas I assembled just 8 or so of the 32 WGF Saxon Fyrd and gave up, I hate them so much.
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My list above comes in at 2000 even. Aragon can be swapped for Gandalf....give me some magic.
Below are some pics from my haul a month ago. Got all this for $130
Spoiler:
A pile of womt, fellowship borimir, borimir of the white tower, a dozen numenorian warriors, isldur, elendilx2, Aragorn, Gandalf, trebuchet, mounted banner, Gandalf the white, 4 rangers.
Pile of high elves, eledan, elohier, 2 banners, 2 captains, 6 metal spearmen, gilglad, arwen.
8 black numenorians, 7 nazgul, 1 twilight ringwraith.
15 corsairs, the dark marshal, saroun
box of about 100 evil models. Orcs urks and haradram
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RoperPG wrote: Blimey, it's very salty in here...
Any more vegans want to put forth their opinions on bacon?
@Shadow Captain Edithae - fair enough, i suppose with something like that we must make the most of the situation while GW actually give us fair prices!!! "Have I told you the tale m'boy, when I was young and I bought something off Games Workshop without mortgaging a limb? I can hardly remember it now..."
@namiel - Aragorn is beast, but Gandalf is magic, decisions decisions! Looks like a pretty spectacular haul. How i would kill (metaphorically of course...) for all those High Elf metals. I've been chasing different lots for ages and the keep getting pinched before i can get them... My elves are still looking a bit lonely with just their plastic friends... Those Black Numenorians and Nazgul don't look common either! How I envy a good haul!
"Show no mercy, show no restraint! Feel the Emperor's fury flow through your veins and let it fuel our whirlwind of gore!"
There was more and more I didn't have money for as well. I'm hoping people will bring it out for the next bazaar in the summer. My flgs does 2 bazaars and 2 auctions a year. We should be having an auction here soon.
RoperPG wrote: Blimey, it's very salty in here...
Any more vegans want to put forth their opinions on bacon?
Sand Stained Red, a 28mm Gladiators commission build 
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