Happy 2017 gamers!
I find myself alone most Tuesday evenings with my wife
hanging out with friends and I took a look at the blog and realized a great
travesty: 6 posts came from this blog last year. I know what you’re thinking –
how in the WORLD did you only get up 6 posts (and not all of them were yours)!
Where were you last year!?!?!?
The answer is quite simple: the workbench has been far from
empty – it just hasn’t seen much LOTR stuff. While I will go into great detail
as to what we were doing last year, I’ve decided first to show you:
Behold! The great Highborn Elves in all their glory! |
For those unfamiliar with what’s been happening in the Games
Workshop cosmos, our beloved Warhammer Fantasy 8th Edition got
shelved in favor of Age of Sigmar. Most of the competitive armies (and the
entire meta) got dumped for a new system that’s more squad/hero-oriented
instead of large army block-oriented. This got a large group of WHF fans
miffed, so a handful of our great heroes of the game decided to petition for
(and were granted) permission to create “The Ninth Age,” which is either the
step-daughter or pretty niece of WHF 8th Edition.
Citizen Spears/Sea Guard (can't decide) on the left, Flame Wardens on the right - none of these are the original GW models... |
So, why didn’t I post any of this last year? Because that’s
not what this blog is for. This is not a Ninth Age blog and it’s not going to
become one. Why do I bring up all this now? Because the purchases we made for
Ninth Age had an impact on our LOTR collection in two big ways:
First, we took Dunlendings to a tournament this year. No picture today - more on that next week. At THRO 2016, we did a
Rohan vs. Isengard tournament (pictures going up next week, know it’s really
late, been really busy, more excuses than I can write, yada-yada-yada). At that
tournament, we tested out whether Dunlendings are worth it – questionable
whether getting MORE S4 units against a predominately D5 civ is even valuable,
but I did like them (and thematically, since I brought Thrydan, I needed to
bring at least some Dunland units). The models you see here are taken
from the Saxon Thegn set distributed by Warlord Games. They’re really good and
can be used easily for Dunlendings or Rohan guys. You could probably use them
for other things to, but those would be the most obvious conversions (since
they come with rounded shields and ringmail armor). But as great as these guys
were/are, they’re not the biggest reason for the purchases we did…
It's amazing how much stronger a list can be when it has basic alternate gear options available... |
The bows got new hands, spearmen sometimes got new hands (but most lost their entire forearm) - can't tell, huh? |
Ultimately, it’s pride in our work that makes the hobby what
it is – hence the repeat of the quote of the month. We’ll be doing hobby work
every Tuesday (and some other days as is convenient), and when those are
LOTR-based, we’ll let you know in this space. I should warn you: 2017 and 2018
are currently pegged as Star Wars Imperial Assault years – we’re getting the
core set soon, have a few of the support blisters already, and my kids want the
new Rancor, so we’ll be busy. J I've also been asked (along with my good buddy Glenstorm) to join the FFG forums contributor Rythbryt at a new blog dedicated to talking all things SWIA - the blog is called Wretched Hive (if ya don't get the reference, you need to re-watch A New Hope, :-) ). While new models will probably not be flowing into this hobby, we’ve got plenty
of painting/basing/terrain-ing to do to provide content here. Until next time,
have a great start to your year and happy hobbying!
Hehe, yeah, I should probably finish a bunch of the posts I was thinking about doing in 2016 as well, :P
ReplyDeleteLoving the Numenor conversions - Numenor always struck me as a good investment (high FV humans are rare for that cost), and love the switch to bows and spears. Plus huge fan of being able to use surrogate models in-game, :)
I'm a Numenor fan myself. In fact, that was my army at the 2016 NOVA Open SBG event Labor Day weekend. I did better than I had hoped, 3-2 Win/Loss record for my first big tournament (52 players, I believe).
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