Durins Folk Heroes

DwarfWarrior · **Posted:** Sun Nov 17, 2013 7:00 pm

Can anyone recommend some good heroes from durins folk, to lead iron guard, (excluding gimli :gimli:

). I have considered dain and floi, are these two good? Do you recommend any others.

SouthernDunedain · **Posted:** Sun Nov 17, 2013 7:12 pm

Durin...worth every point. He is a tank. The difference between dain and durin shouldn't be an issue. How come you want to exclude gimli? That's who I'd use although I do sometimes run a shieldbearer.

black1blade · **Joined:** Tue Jul 30, 2013 12:10 pm **Posts:** 225

Time line reasons maybe?

Denizen · **Joined:** Sun Mar 03, 2013 8:15 pm **Posts:** 156

I'm not a fan of Dain for his F5.
Floi is very good, but he's a support hero. Get a big combat hero first.

The King's Champion is a real beast and can make those Iron Guard the most deadly warband ever!

Durin + banner + spear support ("6" attacks O.o) is always a good option :-D

Ringil · **Posted:** Sun Nov 17, 2013 7:28 pm

Balin's a great hero and better then Gimli in nearly every way, Floi and Dain are both good heroes as are the majority of Durin Folk heroes.
Floi's special rule can be incredibly helpful against something like a shade/Goblin King.
However I agree with SouthernDunedain in that Durin is an absolute tank, in the games I've fielded him he's certainly never died and I think he's only taken one wound in all of them put together, although I do have a fair bit of luck with his 6+ save

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Personally I would go for Durin or Balin though as they are both survivable and cut through troops with +1 to wound, with Balin being a budget option.
Billy

Forgot about the kings champion, another great hero but personally I think he's better served with Khazad guard or Vault wardens for a solid def 9 line.

-Bolg- · **Joined:** Sat Jan 05, 2013 8:45 pm **Posts:** 120

Balin with durin's axe (or gimli) durin is strong either.
king's champion eiter.

Dain is weaker than durin because op F5 and the horn of durin is very good and his axe either. (and his crown)

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New post, Denizen: I tought you could only have one re-roll

DwarfWarrior · **Posted:** Sun Nov 17, 2013 7:35 pm

SouthernDunedain wrote:

How come you want to exclude gimli? That's who I'd use although I do sometimes run a shieldbearer.

hes the one ive allready got!

Denizen · **Joined:** Sun Mar 03, 2013 8:15 pm **Posts:** 156

-Bolg- wrote:

New post, Denizen: I tought you could only have one re-roll

You can only re-roll one dice once. But he has 4 to chose from!
Also he's axe just mentioned 're-roll one dice' not 'counts as in range of a banner' so imo it just ads up, no?

-Bolg- · **Joined:** Sat Jan 05, 2013 8:45 pm **Posts:** 120

Yes, you're right

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SuicidalMarsbar · **Joined:** Sun Apr 24, 2011 1:14 am **Posts:** 1712

Kings champion duuuuuh

Bilbo · **Posted:** Sun Nov 17, 2013 9:23 pm

I wouldn't worry about time lines with Gimli and Iron Guard. They have the same fighting styles, i.e. charging in with loads of attack whilst flinging in a throwing axe!

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