Erratas Continue?

Good morning readers,

If you haven't seen it already, there are some new changes that have crept into the errata files - mostly related to Elven heroes (and some of the Designer commentaries are missing). Check them out here: https://www.warhammer-community.com/faqs/#middle-earth-strategy-battle-game. Some of the changes that you'll see:

• Armies of the Lord of the Rings
• Arwen is a Minor Hero (not a Hero of Fortitude)
• Cirdan is a Minor Hero (not a Hero of Fortitude)
• Arwen can be included in a Fellowship army if you also include Aragorn
• Haldir is a Hero of Valor
• If you want the Easterling bonus, you need at least 25% of your army to be Easterlings
• Armies of the Hobbit
• Alfrid requires you to take the Master or Bard in your army
• Arwen is a Minor Hero (not a Hero of Fortitude)
• Cirdan is a Minor Hero (not a Hero of Fortitude)
• Arwen can be included in a Fellowship army if you also include Aragorn

Additionally, the FAQs now clarify that if you have a historic alliance, each allied contingent only needs to have a Hero of Fortitude. Convenient and Impossible alliances still require a Hero of Valour, but given that all generic captains are Heroes of Fortitude, it should be possible to get back 90-95% of the thematic lists that were "lost" with the first round of FAQs as long as you bring along, say, a Rivendell Captain with Cirdan.

My initial take: the primary heroes that were targeted by the "must have a Hero of Valor" hero have been targeted here - maybe we'll see that disappear? Alternatively, making Haldir a Hero of Valor allows him to ally with the Fellowship for more thematic play (though Gildor received no such bonus). We'll see what comes of it...

Tiberius