Ready - From RhysH - Dunlending Warriors (150 pts)

I'm putting this in as Rhys' first post of the challenge. We've been playing LotR (also known as MESBG) since he was ten years old. We're both very excited by the release of the new rules as they seem to have adjusted a lot of things to the way we play anyway. Rhys is also very excited by the new army building, largely because his army (Gondor) seems to be largely unaffected.

aWe got the War of the Rohirrim starter set for Christmas, then got it again because we got a "really good deal" that we just couldn't pass up. Rhys laid claim to the Dunlendings, Wulf and General Blargh (Targ, I'm not sure why he dislikes the name so much).

This is Wulf, on foot and mounted. A very cool model.

GW leaves me cold with their business practices and they make models too complicated, in my humble opinion, but their plastic heroes are really nice. Also there should be a third picture here but it was so blurry it wasn't worth including.

The legendary General "Blargh"

This is another very detailed model. Difficult to assemble but great looking once done.

Front view. I look forward to painting my copy of this.

The two heroes were the things he was most excited about but he was also looking forward to the Hill Men. These models were not fun to build. they are all very dynamic, which is marketing speak for fiddly and difficult to assemble. With the exception of a couple of the archers they are all running, which means one, unsupported, contact point on the base. Happily I bought one of those alligator clip model holders from GW a few years back and it held them steady while they dried.

Two handed weapons and spears.

You can see their totally epic dynamicness here.

Archers. Note the two lazy gits just standing around while everyone else sprints.

Lots of fur and grey leather.

Much running. Very haste.

Sword and Board.

Their swords are cool and interesting. Some of them have Isengard swords.

You can see the Isengard style blade on the dude in the back.

These are the rest of the dudes. A late entry enabled by Daddy being "lazy" and "slow" in getting his work posted.

I really like the work he did on the torchs.

Running away after their attack failed.

All in all, these are very nice models. Well detailed and much better than the old (ancient) LotR minis. I'm hoping we get this treatment for all of the factions' core troopers as they are often really bad sculpts.

26 x 28mm Foot Figures x 5 pts each (130 pts)

2 x 28mm Mounted Figures x 10 pts each (20 pts)

Total = 150 points

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Aaron and Rhys, it's great to have you both with us again!

Rhys, you've done a great job with these Dunlending warriors. What a load of minis - good deal indeed! I especially like 'Blargh' (so much better than Targ) an the fellas with the burning torches. The people of Rohan have their work cut out for them, unless of course they get some reinforcements...

Well done and Happy New Year!

- Curt