Héra Mini Revealed For War Of The Rohirrim & Middle-earth SBG
November 29, 2024 by brennon
One character has been missing from the previews for the new War Of The Rohirrim line-up and the latest edition of the Middle-earth Strategy Battle Game. Héra, daughter of Helm, has now popped up, ready to take the fight to Wulf and the Usurpers Of Rohan.
Héra, The Bride Of Death // Middle-earth Strategy Battle Game
As the youngest child of Helm Hammerhand and his only daughter, Héra finds herself in the middle of the brewing feud between the Lords of Roha with Freca and Wulf lighting the fire. You can see her represented here in her bridal white, ready to act as an avenging warrior with sword and shield at the ready.
I must admit that I have been looking forward to seeing the miniature for Héra since the announcement of the War Of The Rohirrim range and I find myself a little disappointed. I've found the other miniatures that have been revealed fantastic, packed with detail and looking like a great halfway house between the classic Middle-earth aesthetic and that of the new anime movie.
Something about Héra seems a bit lacking. I don't feel like she looks particularly like her character from the movie but then again maybe that's a hard balance to achieve for the sculptors? I am in two minds!
What do you think? Drop your comments below...
"Héra finds herself in the middle of the brewing feud between the Lords of Roha with Freca and Wulf lighting the fire..."
Supported by (Turn Off)
Supported by (Turn Off)
Supported by (Turn Off)
Greek goddess in Middle Earth?
Nice mini but expecting a C&D from ancient Greece in 3 … 2 … 1 ….
They put ™ on the end of the name so they own Hera now 😀
No, you have to pronounce it like a Canadian:
“Oh! It’s her, eh?”
At least she doesn’t have those gigantic anime eyes.
As a female warrior in that kind of setting she’s also quite boring. It’s like she is missing purpose in life.
Doesn’t feel very MESBG to me in sculpt, though I don’t think any of the new Rohan Minis except the troops do.
From what I saw of the stats previewed this also looks like G’Wulla are firmly bringing new mini gets a 1+ on stats to get people to go buy it, which just makes me even more sad than I was that this new edition of MESBG is triying to fix something that wasnt broken and ruining it.
Very true
Does that make her ‘better’ than Eowyn(sp?) ?
IF it does then it really rams home the message that her stats are there to sell the mini …
Heck … to be honest it feels wrong to have a character added to the setting just for the movie.
I don’t mind the mini and I think it is OK, but it is nothing special. We all have seen better. The name I find a stupid choice, with so many Old English names to choose from – why they went with Hera is beyond me (but Nightrunner, it has an accent on the ‘e’ is it’s OK, right!).
Yeah, it’s such an odd-man-out name, considering the names of everyone else in Rohan. It’d be like having a culture based on Rome with names like “Claudius,” “Augustus,” and “Maximus,” and then Claudius just randomly names his daughter Sakura.
Doesn’t even look like a girl. Who’s going to play ‘her’ in the Peter Jackson movie ?
it’s an animation … so no real person is going to be playing her, unless they do what Disney does and make a life action movie out of the anime.
Miss me with this “we can make a better Eowyn” fanfic nonsense. As a generic female warrior mini, it’s honestly pretty good, but that’s no LotR character, and she never will be.