Middle-Earth SBG news/rumours thread. Battle of Edoras starter set . p.69

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**Inquisitor Gideon**

Well, speak of the devil and all that.

**The Black Adder**

Those drakes are fantastic, I'll snap those up for my old world lizardman army

**Snrub**

The Drakes are nice, but I'm quite taken with that corsair ballista. The crew look good, and despite just being an oversized crossbow on stilts, they've made the ballista itself look not boring.

**Inquisitor Gideon**

The Black Adder wrote:
Those drakes are fantastic, I'll snap those up for my old world lizardman army

You leave em' alone. It's hard enough keeping the resins in stock for Middle-Earth in general.

**SamusDrake**

I have nothing against these previews for "Armies of Middle Earth", but they are jumping the gun when they've said its all for "later in the year" and "in due course". The book is now said to be "forthcoming", but if Hera is anything to go by then "available soon" means "more than four months", so I'm assuming that forthcoming means "come back at Christmas"...

**zombie_sky_diver**

Hey, take it for what it is. I'll wait until later in the year, even if it's Christmas. I'm happy (and very suprised) GW is even supporting the game this much of at all. For a while there I thought they might scrap it all together considering how scarce support and new releases were.

Now I'm hoping some old models and terrain sets come back that sudden went missing without notice

**warboss**

I'm a bit surprised that the drakes don't come with goaders/keepers. Nice sculpts though.

**ImAGeek**

I really really like the Drakes. Some of my favourite creature sculpts they’ve done, despite how relatively simple they are.

**The Black Adder**

warboss wrote:
I'm a bit surprised that the drakes don't come with goaders/keepers. Nice sculpts though.

That does seem a bit odd. Maybe they don't require handlers, although the implication from the pictures is that they are goaded. If they are goaded then some more original sculpts for anybody with an easterling force would have been appreciated, I'm sure.

On the flip side, fewer resin sculpts should keep the price point lower, which is especially nice for those of us co-opting them for another game (sorry Inquisitor Gideon, they're just too pretty to leave in Middle Earth

)

**Johanxp**

So many announcements and not a single actual release yet

**Inquisitor Gideon**

I have this nitty feeling that it's going to be like Necromunda in that they get all these announcements, goes radio silent for months and then there's just a massive dump of stuff, then the piled up previews again.

**warboss**

The Black Adder wrote:
warboss wrote:
I'm a bit surprised that the drakes don't come with goaders/keepers. Nice sculpts though.

That does seem a bit odd. Maybe they don't require handlers, although the implication from the pictures is that they are goaded. If they are goaded then some more original sculpts for anybody with an easterling force would have been appreciated, I'm sure.

Including the spear guys in the blurry background of the picture absolutely didn't help that impression. Seeing them in the pic and not seeing them mentioned in the post is what got me to double check for a mention.

**Sgt. Cortez**

The rules for the Drakes were already out two years ago, no such thing as a handler for them.

**ZergSmasher**

Johanxp wrote:
So many announcements and not a single actual release yet

Yeah, at this point I think everyone's getting weary of GW stringing us along. Just release some of this stuff already!

**RazorEdge**

Nice, but how about new Riders of Rohan and Cavalry for the Dunlandish.

**SamusDrake**

Hopefully it will be the Armies book and Hera in todays "Coming Soon" article. And sod it, they should throw in that Gondor Prince chap whatshisname as well.

**Dysartes**

Imrahil?

**SamusDrake**

Thats the one. Well done. They should also throw in that Gondor Prince chap whatshisname who has now been identified as Imrahil as well.

**Snrub**

I found plastic Imrahil to be completely uninspired. He's metal sculpt is much nicer. New one looks like it could well be a generic captain.

**SamusDrake**

Actually, just remembered the Thousand Sons are yet to go up for pre-order? Probably them this week...which is alright as they're pretty cool chaps.

**Dysartes**

Putting nothing up for pre-order next weekend is certainly a choice...

**SamusDrake**

That...is just heartbreaking.

**Inquisitor Gideon**

For the complete lack of nothing yet again, decided to get a few of the resins i've been missing. Because i'm annoyed and i waste money when i'm annoyed.

**Fergie0044**

When's the last time GW had nothing to order, except for Christmas week? Will we see a couple of weeks of hunkering down to see how this whole tariff thing plays out?

**OrlandotheTechnicoloured**

It wouldn't surprise me if this is down to trade route disruption with companies delaying/cancelling stuff due to tariffs (& potential port fees for chinese manufacture ships hitting US ports)

meaning ships being delayed/rerouted meaning stuff GW was expecting in terms of books, empty boxes and plastic terrain not turning up as expected so we get weeks with no new stuff

**MajorWesJanson**

Iirc it happened 2 or 3 times last year, plus the occasional week of mto or bl only

**Tim the Biovore**

Lief preview

https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/ftakeald/enact-the-king-of-rohans-will-with-lieftm-page-of-helmtm/

**Dysartes**

Before anyone asks, the WarCom article doesn't seem to specify the material for this young chap.

**lord_blackfang**

When I was in Morocco I was approached by a local who offered me to pet his horse for 10€ and the horse gave me a "next person to touch me dies" look. This horse reminds me strongly of it.

**Tim the Biovore**

Dysartes wrote:
Before anyone asks, the WarCom article doesn't seem to specify the material for this young chap.

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