The Empire Responds to the invasion of the Uruk Hai

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.

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?

When I make armies it is an exploration of the instinct. I instinctually feel my way through what miniatures I want in the army. What theme do I want? What monsters and machines? Then I can decide what base troop units I want to make the army look and feel good on the table. I’m talking aesthetically and visually good. I could not care less how they play, I can figure that out when I’m playing! Adjust tactics, use differently etc.

But how it looks is key. And that is pure gut instinct in the making.

My gut is currently telling me that I do not want any more foot troops. But I do need some more cavalry, a bunch of light cavalry. I will make some Roders of Rohan into Numenorian light cavalry. Probably two large units or 3 medium size units. I will also make 2 numenor scorpian bolt throwers to go with the crew I made a couple years back. And a large Roman ballista will look lovely with Numenor crew.

My gut also says a second elf bolt thrower is required, and the elf chariots need pennants flying.

Lastly I think I need an elf riding a Griffin. I think I will explore the high elf griffin model from the island of blood warhammer set and  see if I can make it work with some Lord of the rings elf rider.

Maybe I will have a small unit of lothlorian elves at helms deep that I will use as shadow warriors in warhammer games. All these Lord of the rings will do double service as a last alliance version of the high elves army lists in warhammer fantasy. So that central block is 75 sword masters of Hoeth, not bad! That unit of spears and bows mixed together will be some lothern sea elves city guard.

I’ve made so many minis lately because it’s been so hot I didn’t even want to bother painting. But it’s cooling down now……and I am bored of making models. I’ve got another Uruk hai battalion to paint. Yes, I bought more.

Well they came up bloody cheap on a discord group! You would have too!!!

An army of undead to paint.

And now this army of last alliance.

Of course there is also all those empire to do……………

I’ve also included a useless wandering wizard who, like rincewind, travels from game to game making Cockups and then dimensionally jumping to our next game for another tale of woe. Next to him is a converted familiar that I made from my free model given to me at BOYL this year! It’s Bryan Ansells head on a snake neck holding the citadel (yes the actual citadel logo of GW legend!) on a platter.

The main body was converted into an elf mage.

I don’t know why I did this, probably a heinous crime. But the cosmos told me to sit and do it.

You should always go with your gut.