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Need advice on picking a LOTR army.; Yeah, you read right.
Topic Started: 21st February 2012 - 01:25 PM (2,600 Views)
Stalarious
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Now do any of you awesome skaven know of a forum or if their is a thread here that I can read up on the fallen kingdoms and the tactics.

Its how I like to learn if I cant buy them yet.
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Olorin the Ancient
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Most Lord of the Rings players don't just collect one army, so I don't know of any army-specific sites, the way that there are for Warhammer and 40K armies. However, there are a few websites devoted to GW LOTR gaming in general. The largest is probably The One Ring, which would definitely have articles that could help you.

The Last Alliance is not nearly as big as it was a few years ago, before its database and back articles got deleted (a similar thing happened at the One Ring, but they recovered faster), but it has really been getting back on its feet recently, and is worth checking out.
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Warlord McQueek
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Must say that, from reading through your posts, you may want to consider Moria instead of the Fallen Realms.
The army is a bit like Skaven: hordes of cheap (and frankly rather worthless) troops, some elites (that are just slightly better than other army's normal warriors) and a bunch of monsters. Cave trolls, giant spiders, the Balrog (and the new 'semi-balrog' Dweller in the Deep), Watcher in the Water, cave drakes and mighty dragons. Probably the biggest amount of monsters available to any army.
As goblins were part of quite a number of starter kits (including the current 'Mines of Moria' one), they are available rather cheaply on eBay etc as well, so building a horde isn't quite as bad as it may seem at current prices (though WHFB is still worse in most respects, and I won't even mention 40k). I bought 6 of the first Battle Games in Middle-earth magazine on eBay for a couple of pounds, with the current rules almost enough for a 600pts army (only lacking in heroes, which you can convert from regular warriors). As the regular playsize is 500-1000pts, something like that is a good start.

As Olorin said, One Ring (OR) or The Last Alliance (TLA) are good places for LotR discussion.
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Stalarious
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Well that is something to consider does anyone else have any Ideas of what my first LOTR army should be?
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Ratty Gnawtail
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Totally not a magpie

The funny thing is all the armies can be built reasonably of equal strength and to sort of fit to what you want.

The Kingdoms of Men: Can range from reasonable soldiers to very very good ones, and a shieldwall of Warriors of Minas Tirith look great. They have a great selection of heroes and can be very flexible. However no big monsters, just some special chaps more designed to take the beasties out.

The Free Peoples: Takes more of the elite special troops with the Elves and Dwarves than a horde army. Though you get some monsters though as Olorin pointed out there are better ones elsewhere.

The Fallen Realms: I've already pointed out the flexibility in just the Uruks. Easterlings are fantastic elite shock troops whilst the men from Harad and Umbar provide buckets of cheap soldiers, interesting missile weapons, and Mumakil.

Mordor: Pretty much a jack of all trades. Plenty of big monsters and most of the force is tightly knitted together fluff-wise.

Moria and Angmar: If you want hordes here you go! Elite troops aren't necessary as elite as other races though you still get some very scary monsters and Daemon.

The problem that has happened with GW fusing races together is that in some cases two armies won't really necessarily fit fluff-wise with each other. For example Isengard being bolstered by a troop of Easterlings led by the lord of blades never happened and probably wouldn't of had anyway. Moria and Angmar are if memory serves a fair distance apart. In this light if you want to base an army on fluff then it would possibly be best to concentrate on one of the armies within the book than a mixture. I gave the example of the Uruk-hai because they seemed to fit the bill. Moria on its own whilst maybe not having super elite soldiers also fits what you want. Heh even Minas Tirith and Rohan can be used purely as themselves for a very fluffy result. I now realise that I've likely led you back to square one. The thing is the Lord of the Rings if filled to the brim with tales and themes for all the armies and a great majority of armies can be built very balanced. If anything it is more up for you to choose exactly what you want. I like the ruthless discipline and brutality of the Uruks and just this image of an unstoppable army of heavily armed lunatics. Someone else might like Moria for the swarms of Goblins. Have another watch of the films, read the books and have a look over the models. Hope this long post has helped a bit. :)
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Stalarious
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Ok yeah it does.... :wacko: lol well i guess it gives me a reason to re-watch the movies but knowing me thats just going to make me want all the armies.


:KA-BOOM: My wife is going to kill me! Atleast ill have the fallen kingdoms around to keep me warm in the next few weeks.
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Totally not a magpie

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24th February 2012 - 01:04 PM
but knowing me thats just going to make me want all the armies.
Why do you think GW does so well with selling the models?! :P

My method of army choosing when spoiled for choice is to first decide 'good' or 'evil' (naturally this is relative to view but for some reason LOTR seems a bit more clear cut of the goodies and baddies...) Then I usually pick a certain character or theme and use them as the basis of the force. For example Boromir leading the defence of Osgilith, or an Uruk-hai scout force attempting to probe the lands of Rohan for weakness, the Balrog of Moria and his Goblin servants that defeated Durin's folk, or Gandalf the Grey leading a group of rangers with Aragorn in search of Gollum. I would then build upon this with say what would have happened if Gandalf's group happened across a group of Dwarves or men under attack from Orcs and joined up with them to push back the Orc attack on the surrounding land and at the same time attempt to achieve their own objectives of finding Gollum.
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OK forall you guys/gals that helped me out I ended up picking Fallen kingdoms.

Now I am gonna start collecting models and I wanna build a 1000pt force centered around sieging is there any advice on a list of models I should get to make this 1000pt core list?
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