War of the Ring

Yesterday we talked about, in my Highlight, some of the stuff that the Forces of Darkness can take. Quite decent, isn't it? But here's some army summaries. First, for the Free Peoples

1. Gondor: Cheap and Hard units, which can hold their ground against some of the stuff that the Evil sides have. Good mix, it's a balanced force that has all the required types of stuff that a Good army needs. Also contains historic kingdoms - Numenor, and Arnor. The formations are bountiful and beautiful



2. Rohan: Expensive, but Brilliant. Don't bother with the infantry, the infantry is very bad compared to the mounted things. So many common formations are cavalry. So many of the formations can be taken as either infantry OR cavalry. Who DOESN'T love them?



3. Kingdoms: Ents. Hobbits. Fellowship. Council. EVERY Good formation that ISN'T tied to any armies already, is IN here! Too bad you can't take a full army here yet - it's allies only at the moment. AWWWW



4. Dwarves: Rocks. Dwarves are moving Rocks. High Defence, High Fight, Meh Strength. They are BORN to hold the ground. Ok, ok, they don't have the rules or the dice power of Elves, but they can hold the line against anyway except Sauron himself...



5. Elves: Terror. Pathfinder (Master). Two rules that you will find across the ENTIRE army. These guys are the ELITE of the ENTIRE Middle Earth. They each have Fight Values of 5 or more - thats 2 more than common Warriors of Minas Tirith. They have high defences, and high strengths as well. Too bad they are MORE expensive than Dwarves...
   

Riiiight. Good is elite. Good is good at stopping Evil when it comes to the qualities that Evil armies are Good at. Wow, thats a mouthful. They are expensive for this reason, but sometimes expensive is Good!

Here's an example list that i've been thinking about doing for War of the Ring:

• (Common) 3 Companies of Warriors of Minas Tirith. Upgrades: Captain, Banner Bearer


• (Common) 3 Companies of Warriors of Minas Tirith. Upgrades: Captain, Banner Bearer


• (Common) 2 Companies of Archers of Minas Tirith. Upgrades: Captain, Banner Bearer


• (Common) 3 Companies of Rangers of Gondor. Upgrades: Captain


• (Rare) 3 Companies of Knights of Minas Tirith. Upgrades: Captain, Banner


• (Rare) 3 Companies of Knights of Minas Tirith. Upgrades: Captain, Banner


• (Legend) 3 Companies of Court of the Dead King. Upgrades: No Additional


• (Legend) 3 Companies of Warden of the Keys. Upgrades: No Additional


• (3 x Allied Common) 3 Ents


• (Allied Legend) Fellowship of the Ring


• (Fortune) Athelas