The Empire Responds to the invasion of the Uruk Hai
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About the Project
I have spent a few years building a large terrain board, some small armies and one large army of Uruk hai. I now want to build up another army to match the size and force of the orcs (Uruk hai) and goblins (Moria). The only two forces I have of any scale is undead and Empire, my mates have some empire too so I shall do my empire principally. And we can use the allies from other human provinces during games to top us up in points as high as possible while the forces slowly come together. Though I may get distracted from the slog again from time to time. This is now part of the process! So expect: undead, Men of Numenor , Eregion Elves, Morian Dwarves and maybe even some dungeon saga. Possibly a small bit of sci fi too as I’ve wanted to get on to my Aliens from the film for ages! But mostly, FOR THE EMPIRE!!!! And dogs of war…..
Related Game: Warhammer Fantasy Battles
Related Genre: Fantasy
This Project is Active
New games day north of Birmingham!
18x6 foot warhammer game!
Apologies if I spelt anything wrong! White dwarf layoutvdo e by Mark Smith, well done Mark!Empire wizards on the way! Huzzah, back on the humies!
Love these sculpts, they knocked it out the park with these metal LOTR’s.
A classic hammer wizard called Jeff, we have written rules for a crap (rincewind like) wizard with Bryan Ansell headed familiar holding the citadel logo!
Currently working on a light wizard with apprentice and dogs bodies. The frostgrave metals make beautiful warhammer minis that fit in well with Lord of the rings scaling.Mountain pass, fin
My daughter thought it would be great to make a hat for the giant. She brought an acorn top. Fits bloody perfect on the giants head!
Latest game, forgot to include Jeff!! Bloody idiots.
An encounter in the mountain passes. Night goblins go head to head with my pals chaos and dogs of war dwarf pirates.
Went very well for the gobbos at first, bolt throwers destroyed the chaos lord, thinned out multiple ranks of nasties and the chariots with fanatics destroyed plenty. I knew the fear causing troops would wreak havoc if I did not remove them, so that was the mainstay of my targets. I removed all but one fear unit. The wolves did a grand job of racing up the flank and taking down all the enemy artillery. The giant made short work of the remaining chaos warriors by jumping up and down on their heads cackling with glee.
Then the last fear causing unit made contact with my gobbos. They allll ran away in a wave of panic. 😱. The last remaining unit was the chaos knights who were destroyed by the brave chariots! Narrowly gaining victory for the last of the night gobbos. It felt more like a draw given that 180 of my 230 gobbos had fled the field or died.
Next time a better scenario will have to be had. It felt a little wrong doing a straight up and down engagement.
An aside about Lord of the rings
Fandoms are curious things. The scale of them can be an indicator of quality in some cases. Sometimes it is a niche within a niche.
I love the lord of the rings.
I love the hobbit.
I adore the films made for the above!!
I cannot wait to see War of the Rohirrim.
I am giddy to see the Hunt for Gollum.
Rings of power is a thing. Incredibly expensive and very well made from a technical standpoint. It somehow left me hollow and annoyed. I’m quite sensitive about my stories! If I feel underwhelmed by an adaptation of something I care for it miffs me! ‘Napoleon’ anyone!? Bloody Ridley Scott. 10 more alien films, not one question answered only 10 more posed!!!!!!!!
better something than nothing right!?
Facebook groups for the Lord of the rings films are at 11million subscribers.
the hobbit films are at 6.5 million.
rings of power? 0.1 million.
sorry? 100th of the fan base? What’s happened!
I was ever hopeful for more miniatures from the rings of power before I saw it, can’t wait for the new Rohirrim fellas and the hunt for Gollum! Don’t want Rings of power. Seems GW agree also. What’s going on? How did it miss the mark so majorly?
The extra cavalry
A simple conversion of new shields and a good scalping of the helmets to swap for the numenorian style helm and these chappies are good to go. Will much around with colour schemes a bit to help them fit but this is they. There is a unit of 24 here and another unit of 24 on the way.
Adding pennants to the chariots has made me feel way happier with the aesthetic and I’m now less worried by far that they won’t fit in. Amazing what a flag can do. ?
