Thrain's weapon

BrentS · **Posted:** Tue Apr 09, 2013 12:47 am

Question... How would you interpret Thrain's two handed weapon? His profile clearly says the the model is armed with a 2-handed axe; however the model description on the GW site (as well as the model) clearly shows/states this is a 2 handed hammer.

How would you rule this I'm terms of special strikes - bash(hammer) or piercing(ax)?

JamesR · **Posted:** Tue Apr 09, 2013 1:39 am

Go with the model, it matches the film and GW will probably correct it as they did with his father

BrentS · **Posted:** Tue Apr 09, 2013 3:06 am

JamesR wrote:

Go with the model, it matches the film and GW will probably correct it as they did with his father

I tend to agree with you.

Regarding Thror, I didn't see where they updated his profile?

SouthernDunedain · **Posted:** Tue Apr 09, 2013 6:38 am

The FAQ.

BrentS · **Posted:** Tue Apr 09, 2013 12:49 pm

SouthernDunedain wrote:

The FAQ.

Sorry, should have said that they changed thr weapon but they still didn't address him being modeled with a shield (and no option to add a shield).

Goldman25 · **Posted:** Tue Apr 09, 2013 3:28 pm

Go with WYSIWYG.

Bilbo · **Posted:** Tue Apr 09, 2013 5:05 pm

Hopefully it should all be sorted with a Hobbit an Unexpected Journey, Journey book. I suspect that these issues resulted from the related secrecy and lack of information etc encountered when developing a game based upon an unreleased film.

Personally I am going with t he what you see is what you get!
I do hope that this means that Thror's defence is elevated to a 9.

However I would have appreciated Thrain having an axe over the hammer (despite it looking cool) for the special rule.

BrentS · **Posted:** Tue Apr 09, 2013 5:36 pm

Agreed on WYSIWYG... that's the way I'm planning on using it.

Bilbo wrote:

However I would have appreciated Thrain having an axe over the hammer (despite it looking cool) for the special rule.

Totally agree. The special strikes rule for an Axe seems much more usable for a big hero than the Bash rule. I've struggled to come up with a plausible reason why I would give up 2 additional strikes against a model just to knock him down. I guess if it was a big fight that could be useful but I suspect if it was a big fight, I'd also have a Grimhamer in the fight and could use that to Bash the model and get double strikes from Thrain.

Thrain's weapon

Who is online