LotR battle report: Rescue at the eaves of Fangorn

[Doomhippie]

I agree that the LotR minis are probably among the finest GW has produced in the last years. Of course there are some exceptions but overall I'm still very much impressed by the miniatures. The Mines of Moria starter set is a real bargain. The plastics of Aragorn and Boromir are really worth a closer look, so is the troll. It's a wonderful set.

For me the key to any miniature game is size. As I am unwilling to paint mass armies adn easily get bored if I have to move more than 20 miniatures on the battlefield the original LotR skirmish game is perfect for me. However, if you are a fan of mass combat, it can easily be done as well. As I said, I prefer the smaller scaled scenarios.

Anyway, thanks again for your nice feedbacks.

[Red Orc]

Thanks for giving us some lovely LotR goodness! I guess many of us got into this fantasy toy soldiers lark because we read LotR as kids (I know I did, loving LotR and then finding a game called D&D where I could pretend to be a Dwarf Warrior and battle goblins was the beginning of my downfall)...

... you can use proxies for the more expensive metal elite figures ... I mix in historical figs too - my Easterling Kataphracts are, uh, Byzantine Kataphraktoi and with the plastics on the go it's cheap to do a head swap.

Because the LotR mini are much closer to true 1:72 than the WH ranges, there are many many ranges out there that are comapatible. Looking in my cupboard, my Emhar 9th-10th Viking Warriors look pretty good as warriors of Rohan... but Momataro is right - there are metric kilotonnes of old LotR plastics on the market.

[WarGameGuru]

I agree that the LotR minis are probably among the finest GW has produced in the last years. Of course there are some exceptions but overall I'm still very much impressed by the miniatures. The Mines of Moria starter set is a real bargain. The plastics of Aragorn and Boromir are really worth a closer look, so is the troll. It's a wonderful set.

For me the key to any miniature game is size. As I am unwilling to paint mass armies adn easily get bored if I have to move more than 20 miniatures on the battlefield the original LotR skirmish game is perfect for me. However, if you are a fan of mass combat, it can easily be done as well. As I said, I prefer the smaller scaled scenarios.

Anyway, thanks again for your nice feedbacks.

You hit the nail right on the head too. They've always been the nicest models GW puts out. Just being able to capture the likeness of the characters from the films as well as they do was the #1 reason I collected them years ago. I always felt everything was so spot on with each and every model.

It's too bad I got out before they went to more plastics tho, because when I collected and played it, the only plastics were the old starter set models, and aside from them, those same models were available in plastic separately, but that's about it. That Mines of Moria set almost had me jumping back into it.

[Orgel]

Moin Doomhippie!

Nice BR and very cool Mini's. LotR is unknown to me. Not the Films, indeed the Tabeltop. I hope we can play it.

LG
die Orgel