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Sadly not.

Looking in the reviews of the Armies of LOTR, we can definitely expect other characters such as Fealaf, Lief and Olwyn soon. Also, we should be looking forward to new Rohirrim horseys and the armoured version of Helm on horse back.

Noticed they're no longer doing the Rohan Battlehost, and I assume they'll be giving the same update treatment to the other three battlehosts - probably those boxes were to sell though the old sprues. They'll probably spend the next three years doing that, and given that the film features Helmsdeep, its seems only right that they'd have new Uruk-Hai models to give the new Rohan Warriors some grief.

New Uruk-Hai Scouts & Lurtz would be bloody awesome. I mean it - I would be there. That and and a new Fellowship kit would be sweet.

They did new rohan and dunland because of WotR, I would not expect resculpts for other factions until they actually show us something to indicate it

chaos0xomega wrote:
They did new rohan and dunland because of WotR, I would not expect resculpts for other factions until they actually show us something to indicate it

Agreed. That they've never redone the Last Alliance elves and Numenorians would indicate that if they don't have to they don’t care.

SamusDrake wrote:


Noticed they're no longer doing the Rohan Battlehost, and I assume they'll be giving the same update treatment to the other three battlehosts - probably those boxes were to sell though the old sprues.

GW doesn’t make boxes like Battlehosts to “sell through old sprues”. The sprues sold in those boxes are manufactured and packed specially. The idea is especially impractical in cases like this, because it would rely on having overstocks of a large number of different original codes, roughly in proportion to each other, and having enough of them to keep the resulting Battlehosts in stock as part of the range long term. Short version: this just isn’t how it works.

The Rohan Battlehost has been withdrawn because one of the components in it (the Warriors of Rohan sprue) is no longer part of the range. It doesn’t really indicate anything more than that about what might be coming in future.

Greenfield wrote:


GW doesn’t make boxes like Battlehosts to “sell through old sprues”. The sprues sold in those boxes are manufactured and packed specially. The idea is especially impractical in cases like this, because it would rely on having overstocks of a large number of different original codes, roughly in proportion to each other, and having enough of them to keep the resulting Battlehosts in stock as part of the range long term. Short version: this just isn’t how it works.

The Rohan Battlehost has been withdrawn because one of the components in it (the Warriors of Rohan sprue) is no longer part of the range. It doesn’t really indicate anything more than that about what might be coming in future.

Oh, I've been misinformed then. Thank you for the clarification.

Designer's commentary up.

https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/lhh0ygi2/fight-better-battles-in-middle-earth-with-the-first-designers-commentary-of-2025/

And certainly wasn't expecting a new plastic Bolg

Very unexpected, but a welcome surprise

Very much out of the blue, but a pleasant surprise certainly. Decent sculpt and reduction of finecast in the range is pretty much always a good thing.

Bit surprised they're updating Bolg of all characters, and so I'll positively suggest that a "Quest of The Hobbit" book might be a thing in the near future. Hobbit Battlehosts would be interesting...

It's not a horrible model although the warg is in a very odd pose. I'm just confused as to why anyone considered Bolg a priority.
It's especially odd that he would be released before Azog, unless there's a whole wave of Hobbit miniatures in the works.

I doubt Bolg will jump the queue ahead of Azog, but they just had to mention him due to his awkward base size which will be corrected. The current resin for Azog is using a circular base which won't need changing.

They'll probably do both characters and maybe in a double pack like they have the Rohan princes, or Wulf & Targg.

Mozzamanx wrote:
It's not a horrible model although the warg is in a very odd pose. I'm just confused as to why anyone considered Bolg a priority.
It's especially odd that he would be released before Azog, unless there's a whole wave of Hobbit miniatures in the works.

I like the pose, the warg in a landing pose is fun. And he's a primary antagonist, it's not surprising he would be at a forefront for resculpts. And anything that cuts down the finecast for plastic is welcome.

Looks like GW are releasing narrative scenarios each month - starting with ones to tie in to Fellowship of the Ring.

I'm not a MESBG player, so I have a question - were this sort of content part of the previous edition's books, or is this being brought back from the original releases?

Probably lifted from the Quest of the Ringbearer book from the last edition, with the odd minor change. All three scenarios were in the original Fellowship rule book from the early 00s.

 Dysartes wrote:
Looks like GW are releasing narrative scenarios each month - starting with ones to tie in to Fellowship of the Ring.

The cynic in me thinks GW only giving 6 scenarios in the rulebook was part of a long term plan to drip us re-printed scenarios from older books as crumbs as they go back to barely supporting the game.


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The cynic in me is usually right.

He's really smug about it.

Its probably because they have other things to release before they can get around to new updated "journey" books for LOTR and Hobbit.

We're still waiting for the rest of the War of the Rohirrim cast to be released too. They've shown us the plastic non-Bride Hera but not released her yet, and we haven't even seen the models for Frealaf, Olwyn, and Lief yet, or the non-Wrath Helm for that matter. I am starting to wonder if it's being delayed because the movie was a box office disaster.

Becasue if they wait longer the film will become a success?

 .Mikes. wrote:
Becasue if they wait longer the film will become a success?

Ouch. Too soon, bub! On a peripherally related note to that, I saw an ad saying that its coming to Max streaming (at least in the US) on Feb 28th.

Home video release is 3rd of March, which happens to fall on a Monday.

I don't suppose anyone's heard anthing about the 3rd army book?

Which third Army Book?

We have one for The Hobbit, and one for LotR.

There's the Armies of Middle-earth to follow

Vorian wrote:
There's the Armies of Middle-earth to follow

Yeah this one. Otherwise known as "The One Everyone Really Cares About".

Is that going to be stuff that wasn't in the films but in the books?

 ZergSmasher wrote:
We're still waiting for the rest of the War of the Rohirrim cast to be released too. They've shown us the plastic non-Bride Hera but not released her yet, and we haven't even seen the models for Frealaf, Olwyn, and Lief yet, or the non-Wrath Helm for that matter. I am starting to wonder if it's being delayed because the movie was a box office disaster.

I don't think they could care less about the movie as long as the models and books sell.

SamusDrake wrote:
Is that going to be stuff that wasn't in the films but in the books?

It's supposed to be the lists and models in the last edition that's not in the current two army books.

 .Mikes. wrote:


It's supposed to be the lists and models in the last edition that's not in the current two army books.

Oh, a Legends book? Characters like the Dweller In The Dark?

No, legends are gone. The third is for anything not specifically featured in the films. So Gondor/Rohan secondary characters, Angmar, the rest of Harad etc

Oh, so I had it right first time then; stuff not in the films but still in the books. Gotcha.


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Oh, so I had it right first time then; stuff not in the films but still in the books. Gotcha.