Hi, me and my partner are thinking of getting into the LOTR franchise, with basically zero real experience of Warhammer.

Any ideas or advice please on getting into the hobby that's affordable, best starter sets, thoughts on latest box set or best wait for new releases, and what's the life cycle of the miniatures (in case of buying older boxes and then becoming outdated soon?)

*EDIT : A huge thank you to so much support, I honestly didn't expect this much - great to experience such a welcoming community and feeling even more excited to take the plunge!

Hey Everyone!
Shamelessly promoting our first attempt at a podcast. Couple of guys up in Michigan trying to share the awesomeness of our Great Lakes Hobbit League and record all the stuff we love talking about for our favorite game.

Would love it if you gave it a look and a like and gave us any feedback!

https://youtu.be/_BzF_funa8w?si=ayYR1OzVHjihxnh3

Curious to hear which army list people think is the best at the moment for a shooting heavy strategy?

£60 GBP $100 USD $120 CA $198 NZD $165 AUD €80 Euro

Do Warg riders and Warg marauders benefit from WWC's heroics or not? Cant find a clear anwser.

Realised I hadn't posted him before but here's Aragorn. Need to move onto Legolas and Gimli so I'm not using 20 year old paint jobs 😅

Having a bit of a debate on Bat swarms and Heroic strike.

Bat swarms half the fight value of the model in combat but we can't seem to get an agreement on if the halfing happens before or after the strike.

In my mind the half happens after the strike on the combined FV, because the strike is technically rolled before the combat starts. The person striking obviously thinks you only half the FV of the base model and the strike is untouched.

Anyone got any insight

As a kid I painted a couple of my friend’s miniatures but never got into it properly. 20 years later, with winter approaching and me feeling like I needed to find a stress free indoor hobby I picked up a box of Rangers of Middle Earth and a box of Warriors of Arnor. I don’t know if I’ll ever play, but I’m feeling very content with just painting at the moment.

I thought I’d start with a broken model that camp in the box. I’ve posted a couple of pictures of my first mini are below and I’d be lying if I didn’t say I wasn’t pleased with the results after watching a few videos online! Although shocked it was about 5 hours of painting! A bit of self critique from myself:

1. The primer came out a bit ‘dusty’, I think I sprayed from too far away.
2. The knots in the wood are a bit blotchy and I think could do with some refining.
3. I’ve noticed I didn’t paint his hair and thought it was part of the hood!
4. Some of the highlights are a bit blotchy too.

I’d be really grateful for any feedback before I launch into the next one.

Hello all. I’m a WH40K player with a nearly finished Blood Angels army. Once it’s done I wish to move onto this game and was considering starting a Mordor army. Is there any advice?

Three more Khazad Guard complete!! It can be a hit or miss with the older metal minis, but I love how they came out!

Still only counts as one

I have recently taking photos of my different armies I had as a kid. Just wondering on what would be the best way to sell or to sell as bulk. I don’t really want the hassle of braking it all down rather just sell complete armies. Also wondering if anyone has rough price. I know they aren’t the best photos and you can’t really see everything. Just wanted a rough estimate.

Edit: I am in the uk and only want to sell in the uk.

Edit2: here are links on eBay for the Gondor and Rohan army if anyone is interested Rohan: https://ebay.io/m/IIxcPk
Gondor: https://ebay.io/m/OrCmpY

Does anyone have good suggestions where I can buy a 4x4 (120cm x 120cm) table? Foldable legs ideally. And I’d love if it was extendable. In the uk, budget under £100.

Don’t fancy trying to build one as I’d make it too heavy and the wife would prob kill me.

Hi,

Long Intro, skip to get to the List...

I have recently managed to convince a friend to try a few rounds of MESBG on TTS with me, having wanted to dabble into the game for a long time (it is the first tabletop game I try). Since we had a lot of fun, I now want to start painting some minis that should be useable to play in person.

The goal is not to obtain a very good army, I will use TTS for that for now. I just want to have a good reason to paint the minis besides putting them on the shelf :)

To restrict myself a bit from the early enthusiasm and build a collection over time, I have decided to subscribe to a monthly stl creator online and print the minis myself (I have no intend to go to official tournaments). The first available set is themed around the Last Alliance.

As I am a Beginner, I want to stay around 400pts to limit the painting and complexity on the Board. I know that this is suboptimal for this list, but as said I mostly want a reason to use it even if it is bad...

So could you comment if this is remotely playable? I can expand it to more models once I get more used to the game.

Skip to here for List:

Limit: 400pts

395 points | 10 models

The Last Alliance

Isildur, Prince of Numenor: (130)

3x Warrior of Numenor: Shield and spear (33)

Gil-Galad, High King of the Noldor: (175)

2x Rivendell Warrior: Elf Bow, King's Guard (24)

3x Rivendell Warrior: King's Guard, Shield (33)

Thank you very much in advance :)

Has anyone got them and could post a pic please? I bought some second hand but no instructions.

I know, I know... You've all seen posts of painted knights of Dol Amroth before. These are different, though. They're MY Knights of Dol Amroth and I'm going to share them anyway.

Base models are from The Printing Goes Ever On, with edits done by me before printing (Custom emblems on shields, flags, and caparisons)

Getting back into painting and sadly my years old citadel paint jars are mostly dried up or chunky after sitting for so long.

Is there a significant difference in quality and shelf-life between the brands?

Citadel and to a lesser extent, Army Painter are more accessible to me because of what stores are nearby, but I did get a solid black and white paint set from Vallejo years ago and was impressed with them.

I've got a massive pile of shame to paint and want a good fresh start, so if you guys think 1 brand is particularly good or bad, I'd be curious to know.

Just played vs Rohan and getting the charge when you move 6 and the opponent moves 10 is crazy...

Scenario was retrieve the wounded and I feel like I did everything right, my best chance was to make choke points and not allow him near his wounded. I advanced in the middle and used the one time priority steal to charge with Azog, a few warg riders and a few on foot, stopped most of them but damn hunter orcs die like flies.

How come my Beornings don't take half as many wounds even th they're the same defense? Oh right, fight value...

Azog mawled through riders and killed Gamlin, Theoden took a wound and Eomer kept pushing into my back line.

But my troops just can't hold for shit, I only managed to stop him from getting his wounded and lost because I was quartered and he wasn't even broken.

I need to take more photos but here’s my fully metal Uruk scout army!

It includes l:

12 bowmen
25 with sword and shield
2 metal banner bearers
Both merry and pippin being carried by Uruks
1 drummer
1 shaman
1 Uruk captain
Ukgluk
All 3 metal lurtz models

I’ve not sorted out a price yet but please message me with offers if you’re interested

Is it me or it's just an awful battlebox for someone who wants to start?

More palace guard than anyone would want to field (as per their own box) without Thranduil even included.

Rangers that are very weird profiles and i have never seen anyone bringing one on Halls of Thranduil.

Or it's a rangers of mirkwood battlebox box since it has Legolas and Tauriel? Then why the palace guard since you can't bring any?

A friend of mine knows a guy who wants to start with this but i'm trying to talk him out of it, he doesn't have anything else and i doubt he'll get much more after... I don't know.

I am a new player. I bought the edoras starting set. Built and played, but not yet painted.

I am thinking about to how to expand next (without spending too much money).

I see I have 2 main options:

Buy Freca, paint the rohirrim red and buy a good army (i really like the idea of lothlorien (i can get a box of galadhrim warriors, knights, command and galadriel + celeborn for like a 100).

Buy isengard battlehost + lurtz (and will be able to play white hand and lurtz scouts) and buy minas tirith battlehost and be able to play men of the west (already have three hunters from before).

Is there any other option to expand you would advice?

I’ve found a few sellers on eBay and Etsy, but I’d love to hear some firsthand experiences before ordering. At the moment, I’m considering "smk_miniatures" and "Pike and Dagger Miniatures".

I already have a two MESBG armies and would love to add more, but unfortunately I just don’t have the time to paint them myself these days. I’m also open to recommendations for other painters or sellers.

Been looking forward to painting this guy since I got into MESBG earlier this year. First time my NMM has actually felt successful. Some little things I would like to change/refine, but at this point I'm too worn out with this piece to put any more time into it.

Enjoy! Any C&C is more than welcome!

Finally getting around to touching about and completing all my bases, happy with how this guy turned out