Games Workshop - Middle Earth Strategy Battle Game: The Lord Of The Rings - Isengard Battlehost

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The boxed set doesn’t naturally lead into a Legendary Legion, as there are no Legendary Legions with both armoured and scout Uruk Hai and none containing Saruman, but the army rules from the Armies of the Lord of the Rings book are fine in any case. Lurtz’s Scouts, a Legendary Legion from the Quest of the Ringbearer book, built around the 24 Uruk Hai Scouts.

With Rohan you can’t really go wrong with getting Theoden, for another detailed and modern sculpted character, Royal Guard for some Fight 4 elite cavalry/infantry, more Riders, and a command pack, and from there you can experiment with what you like from a solid foundation. I will say it again though, Lord of the Rings is a very good game, and GW are making it easier to get into it.

This battleforce contains 48 plastic Citadel miniatures for use in games of Middle-earth Strategy Battle Game and is an ideal way for existing players to bolster their forces, or for new collectors to get into the game. The profile for Eomer in particular is also missing heroic actions (because, as was mentioned above, they are avoiding those and only giving you Might to boost your die rolls). First and foremost, he lost Blinding Light, which against a Mordor battlehost you probably won't notice the loss, an Isengard battlehost MIGHT make you feel the loss, but the Rohan battlehost (with all those bows and throwing spears) . For AoHD, you’re best off branching out from your basic Battlehost + Commanders box, (List 2) as you’ll mostly be needing Uruk Captains and Uruk Warriors.

Why you’d like it: Tons of shooting, big siege weapons with Legion bonuses, and hordes of generic infantry and captains. It's worth noting that you’ve got a whole load of Scouts from your Battlehost untouched here, as well as some spare Dunland and Uruk heroes – so you could easily pad this list to 800pts or beyond. Fortunately, Dunlending Horsemen and Huscarls - both eye wateringly expensive if purchased in multiples – can be easily proxied by third party miniatures. Boromir introduces a different set of problems than Gandalf does, but to have a single hero who wants to be amidst his troops to grant maximum benefits means he's not going to be gallivanting across the board. If we were to optimise this list you'd want to hit your bow limit - but that's not something we've done here as we're limited by the number of bows in the battlehost.throw in the new Gothmog kit (or the old one, I don't care) and give them 24 Morannon Orcs (to join the 24 Orc Warriors).