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RazorEdge wrote:
BTW, what is the red dot on Madril's Head?

He has a head wound at one point in the siege of Osgiliath.

It's the head wound he takes after orcs attack the city at night.

Looks more like ulcer or a boil...

Eh. It's just the head wound he got before becoming pin cushion'd by Gothmog.

 Inquisitor Gideon wrote:
Eh. It's just the head wound he got before becoming pin cushion'd by Gothmog.

Which is an odd inclusion imo since he dies immediately after receiving it.

I wouldn't say odd, just an extra detail someone fancied paiting on.

Yeah exactly. Doesn’t look like a sculpted detail or anything, just a touch of red wash near the hair.

I rewatched the Preview for the Osgiliath Starter.

It his hairs combined with that red dot of paint which realy looks odd and stupid. In the Video you can see him without this red dot which looks absolute much better.

https://deadline.com/2022/08/embracer-group-acquires-rights-lord-of-the-rings-and-hobbit-1235095113/

The Embracer group (owners of Admodee etc) has just bought up the LoTR/Hobbit/Middle Earth/Tolkien rights from the Saul Zaentz company who are the ones that provided the licence to New Line Cinema for the Peter Jackson LoTR movies etc

so while the Middle-Earth SBG is secure as long as the current (newly renewed) licence goes future renewals may be trickier

I doubt it. The licence GW has is set up with their own parameters based primarily on the movies etc. If any new games are made, it will be something totally different.

Legions of Middle Earth?

SW Legions ruleset reworked for a Fantasy setting?

FYI - "Thorin Oakenshield™ & Azog™" has just gone Last Chance to Buy...

Already up, oops

beast_gts wrote:
FYI - "Thorin Oakenshield™ & Azog™" has just gone Last Chance to Buy...

Out for the rotation. They announced it weeks ago...

 McDougall Designs wrote:
Frankly GW selling 2 decade old kits isn't surprising.

Look at eldar and catachans.

Minimal support and minimal effort for (I'm assuming) minimum sales.

That said, I've seen people make KoW armies out of The Elves and Rohan so I'm pretty sure seeing them make armies out of minas tirith models is not too far off.

Here's one I prepared earlier:

 Azazelx wrote:

 McDougall Designs wrote:
Frankly GW selling 2 decade old kits isn't surprising.

Look at eldar and catachans.

Minimal support and minimal effort for (I'm assuming) minimum sales.

That said, I've seen people make KoW armies out of The Elves and Rohan so I'm pretty sure seeing them make armies out of minas tirith models is not too far off.

Here's one I prepared earlier:

What trays are those, please and thank you?

 McDougall Designs wrote:
What trays are those, please and thank you?

They look like standard Warhammer Fantasy movement trays from the past. A modern solution would be War of the Ring style MDF trays with round cutouts. You can get these from several manufacturers such as Sarissa Precision, Warbases or Litko.

I can vouch for Litko. They even made 32mm round move trays (my Tzeentch chosen are on big bases).

 McDougall Designs wrote:

What trays are those, please and thank you?

They're the Renedra ones.
https://www.renedra.co.uk/product-category/gaming-bases/movement-trays/

jullevi wrote:

They look like standard Warhammer Fantasy movement trays from the past. A modern solution would be War of the Ring style MDF trays with round cutouts. You can get these from several manufacturers such as Sarissa Precision, Warbases or Litko.

I went with the Renedra ones without cutouts as in KoW (like WHFB) human infantry have 20mm square bases. Renedra also have cutout bases these days. All in HIPS rather than MDF or perspex.

Since I use round bases because dual-use, my 100m frontage has 4 models instead of 5,

As KoW uses wound markers rather than model removal for casualties, it works better than having the wrong frontage in order to have the correct number of models.

I mean, Rivendell Gandalf is a nice model, but having an MTO for one model seems..odd?

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2022/08/28/sunday-preview-get-ready-to-breach-kill-team-goes-into-the-dark/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sunday-preview&utm_content=sunday-preview&fbclid=IwAR3gZl0gsUMhxXlSQSiTQ9k2hW-UrMkmkuY_5myod2hmzEjShoEjC1Xdipc

Well it's a bit bizarre, but i've been chasing that sculpt for a while, so I'll take it!

Jesus! They want $34Aud for Gandalf.

That's almost double want they normally charge for a single Middle-earth MtO mini. $18-$22 being the norm. A mounted hero is generally $40. I hope this isn't to become the norm...

For some reason The Hobbit MTOs are always ridiculously expensive even by their normal standards.

This sculpt is a LoTR era sculpt though.

He's £12 here. Seems about right, i have a vague memory of him being £10 when he was new.

Battle of Osgiliath and Battlehost pre orders next week

The Battle of Osgiliath has a very special advanced pre-order. It’s going to be available to order from the 10th of September until 8am BST on the 26th of September. Orders placed in this window should arrive before Christmas.

and the old Osgiliath ruins return

And some sexy as hell dice and the final fate of the witch king. Good stuff.

Seems a bit odd for the Rohan battle host not to have any cavalry for a famously cavalry heavy army.

 .Mikes. wrote:
Seems a bit odd for the Rohan battle host not to have any cavalry for a famously cavalry heavy army.

It is light on Cavalry but there are 6 riders in that set.

Oops so there are, my bad. My browser cut off the image so I didn't see the top row