Good morning gamers,
We’ve talked about Minas Tirith, Isengard, Rivendell,
Mordor, Lothlorien, Angmar, and Numenor already in this series on list building
and today we turn to my first army of Evil – the one that took me a LONG TIME
(and ultimately a Balrog) to enjoy using: Moria. Moria has a surprising
number of warrior and hero profiles and their variance is huge (literally
“huge” in size of model, points cost, and $$$ to acquire). That said, Moria’s
wide selection of heroes (read monsters) and warriors (read monsters) can be
really expensive and leave you wondering what you’re actually getting for the
purchase of that model. After nearly 10 years of collecting Moria (and occasionally enjoying in game-play), I’ll share some of my thoughts that made me
agonize over this list for so long (and even now, I’m not convinced it’s quite
right – I think it’s mostly right, but you’ll see what I mean when we get into
it).
Moria: Who’s Your Centerpiece?
While Minas Tirith armies need to decide which of the “big
3” to run (King Aragorn, mega-Boromir, or Gandalf the White), Moria armies have
a “Big 5” to deal with: do you run...
- A Balrog (who will eat up half of our points today)?
- A Cave Drake (or two)?
- A Watcher in the Water (maybe with a Cave Drake)?
- A Dragon (with wings and one other upgrade)?
- Or Durburz (who is not anywhere near as big as the other options, but if you don’t take the Balrog, he makes for a pretty good army leader and can be run with basically any of the other options without much difficulty).