May Release: Battlehosts and Miniatures

General Elessar · **Posted:** Mon Apr 12, 2010 3:48 pm

Darthvegeta800 wrote:

General Elessar wrote:

I was hoping there'd be a Fortune for Gondor that boosted a formation's defence. I could then use it on the Grey Company, and eliminate their ony weakness... :twisted:

Villain! You should play Mordor! :-X

My brother does. One Mordor play per household is plenty. :-D

Darthvegeta800 · **Posted:** Mon Apr 12, 2010 9:23 pm

^__^

Well my Easterlings are nearing completion. Just some extra infantry left to do and I'm soon moving into painting my special chars/bannerbearers/cavalry.

I'm eager to try out the Khamul Battlehost.

General Elessar · **Posted:** Tue Apr 13, 2010 10:40 am

I've sprayed my Gondor army, and now I have to paint it... all 103 models :shock:

imrail · **Joined:** Tue Aug 18, 2009 7:24 pm **Posts:** 666

103 are sure a lot of miniatures.
Batch painting;)

General Elessar · **Posted:** Tue Apr 13, 2010 1:02 pm

Yeah, I'll probably do them in groups of about ten.

Darthvegeta800 · **Posted:** Wed Apr 14, 2010 2:51 pm

General Elessar wrote:

Yeah, I'll probably do them in groups of about ten.

Yeah I 8 (or more?) boxes of Easterlings + some other stuff related to the Easterlings. Painting them by 20. All red, then all gold, then all black etc. And at the end removing imperfections, then varnishing and finally placing them on bases with flock.
I'm almost through them...

Batchpainting saves the day!
Though when i'm done I'm not painting anymore Easterlings for quite a while...

imrail · **Joined:** Tue Aug 18, 2009 7:24 pm **Posts:** 666

Darthvegeta800 wrote:

General Elessar wrote:

Yeah, I'll probably do them in groups of about ten.

Yeah I 8 (or more?) boxes of Easterlings + some other stuff related to the Easterlings. Painting them by 20. All red, then all gold, then all black etc. And at the end removing imperfections, then varnishing and finally placing them on bases with flock.
I'm almost through them...

Batchpainting saves the day!
Though when i'm done I'm not painting anymore Easterlings for quite a while...

I know the same problem, I can't see any rangers/easterlings/womt

Feanorthenoldor · **Joined:** Wed Sep 02, 2009 6:44 pm **Posts:** 879

hey all, i found this on the internet, enjoy

oh if this is illegal, i am deeply sorry, don't know much about that kind of info,

http://www.belloflostsouls.net/2010/04/ ... video.html

it's a video that gives you a brief overview of the battlehosts book!!!!

awesomeness!!!!

lord_balin · **Posted:** Sun Apr 18, 2010 4:22 am

gw have really made a gr8 step from sbg to wotr and now to this master piece! im also extremely excited seeming as they cum out on my b'day!!!

lord_balin · **Posted:** Sun Apr 18, 2010 4:24 am

my elf army (including an ent or 2) is made up of 150 models. it took me 6months to complete them all, and my friend just gave me sum more elves :shock:

scipio.au · **Posted:** Sun Apr 18, 2010 5:11 am

Feanorthenoldor wrote:

oh if this is illegal, i am deeply sorry, don't know much about that kind of info,
it's a video that gives you a brief overview of the battlehosts book!!!!

I can't see anything illegal about it - it's just a video review that gives an overview of the book.

DainIronfoot · **Joined:** Tue Mar 09, 2010 1:13 am **Posts:** 94

Im trying to get my host of Erebor ready fro a tourney at my store!

I read through most of the book yesterday and this is my summary:

Good

Elves and Dwarves got ok formations but not as good as other hosts because they already good before. (In the opinion of a dwarf player they got boned)

Rohan and Gondor got some good which made them more of a powerhouse.

Forgotten Realms got some nice battlehosts. I may be taking the hobbit one.

Evil

Mordor is now insane! With their 12 mob formation for only around 300 points is insane! And even other formations are good too.

Isenguard got some ok formations but the best is probably the siege formation. Now almost all your rares no longer count as rares.

Fallen Realms seem ok. I didn't really get a good look at their hosts but they seem like they got some good ones and some bad ones.

Angmar is now a GOOD army. Buradur's ambushing trolls, wargs, and goblins are insane!!!! And the spirt host is also really good! You can now put captains and heros in some of the ghost legions! Angmar seems pretty good now.

Later I am going to put up my dwarf list

Uruk-Hai-Trooper · **Posted:** Mon Apr 19, 2010 3:22 am

None of the battlehosts for Isenguard really tempt me. By the time I've paid point-wise all of the requirements for the battlehosts it's become too expensive for any of the advantages IMHO to offset the costs.

lord_balin · **Posted:** Mon Apr 19, 2010 1:09 pm

ino although if u play in sbg as the dwarves they're sik, also 4 my elves i have the white council who are an amazing legendary formation of wiked ranged sorcery

spuds4ever · **Posted:** Mon Apr 19, 2010 1:56 pm

Feanorthenoldor wrote:

hey all, i found this on the internet, enjoy

oh if this is illegal, i am deeply sorry, don't know much about that kind of info,

http://www.belloflostsouls.net/2010/04/ ... video.html

it's a video that gives you a brief overview of the battlehosts book!!!!

awesomeness!!!!

Lol, in the video, every other word the guy says is uhh. :lol:

Eaothen-the-brave · **Posted:** Mon Apr 19, 2010 3:00 pm

spuds4ever wrote:

Feanorthenoldor wrote:

hey all, i found this on the internet, enjoy

oh if this is illegal, i am deeply sorry, don't know much about that kind of info,

http://www.belloflostsouls.net/2010/04/ ... video.html

it's a video that gives you a brief overview of the battlehosts book!!!!

awesomeness!!!!

Lol, in the video, every other word the guy says is uhh. :lol:

haha

indeed

anyway, the book seems pretty nice, even tough I don't play WOTR :wink:

Deldagnir · **Joined:** Mon Apr 12, 2010 10:51 pm **Posts:** 17

Is this all the units that are going to be released in May?
(Faramir, Duinhir and command, Dwimmerlaik, Mauhur and command).

P.S. Mauhur sucks, Isengard are beefed up enough and they have enough leader variations (Saruman, Lurtz, Grishnak, Ugluk, Varsu, Sharku & Thrydan Wolfsbane - who is cool).

I know the dwarf and elf factions won't be beefed up as they're waitin for the Hobbit film but another Isengard hero.......ffs

Hellfury · **Posted:** Tue Apr 20, 2010 12:48 pm

Deldagnir wrote:

I know the dwarf and elf factions won't be beefed up as they're waitin for the Hobbit film but another Isengard hero.......ffs

Anything that gives a model to the WotR rules is good in my book.

I am pretty sure the elves are complete, or very close to it. Dwarves only need a champion and the loremaster to complete it. Angmar needs werwolves. etc. etc.

I dont really care who gets what as long as those units get filled before too long.

imrail · **Joined:** Tue Aug 18, 2009 7:24 pm **Posts:** 666

And a new rulebook for SBG

I'd like to see the stone giant though, but I guess that's with the hobbit release.

Eaothen-the-brave · **Posted:** Tue Apr 20, 2010 3:50 pm

imrail wrote:

And a new rulebook for SBG

I'd like to see the stone giant though, but I guess that's with the hobbit release.

yes, I'd love to see a new SBG book, but probably that's not going to happen, since the books will (aparently) be mail order soon.. :sad:

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