Ok guys I'm not a beginner but I might as well be been gone for about 2 years or so been busy travelling and completely lost interest in the hobby but I collect wood elves and just watched the newest Hobbit movie (been so stupidly busy never got to see it when it was released in the cinema) and fell quite utterly back in love with the 'new' wood elves. However, having milled around here for a day or two it looks like there have been some big changes to the game, this whole thing about ranges going OOP is very worrying, do you guys mean the whole LOTR range???

In short could you guys tell me everything that's happen in the hobby in the last 2 years please

Biggest deals are probably the shift to creating armies with "warbands", plus new deployment scenarios; plus some new rules from the new Hobbit book, specifically for monsters (very welcome changes) and new heroic actions (very nifty options).

Warbands require a hero + up-to-twelve warriors, and your armies are composed of multiple warbands. Gone are the days of Legolas + 40 wood elves but even if you're a fan of WE, it's a good thing.

Otherwise the game is the same, you won't have to relearn everything. If you want to be up to date, get the Hobbit rulebook, plus the latest six sourcebooks: Kingdoms of Men, Free Peoples, Fallen Realms, Mordor, Moria/Angmar, and Desolation of Smaug.

As for OOP stuff, yeah, it's continuing, seems like they're phasing out metals, and not always replacing them with Finecast versions. So get 'em while you can, I guess.

That's actually great to hear, I left before warbands came in but I'm aware of the Warbands rules so that's not a problem but from the vague messages I picked up I thought they were OOPing the entire LOTR range in one fell swoop, well maybe a couple of swoops but you get the jist nice to hear it happening slowly (as it was always bound to happen at one point)

Welcome back! Whafrog pretty much covered it all, and the minor stuff he might have glossed over (such as weapons' special strikes) can be found in the Hobbit rule book.

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Welcome back to the hobby. Check out this YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWBrZb ... Igl1jR1kPQ.

It's a SBG channel with daily videos, and they have made a bunch of videos with the changes to the rules. Here is the playlist's link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8_rPD4 ... YBj5bC5xIj.

Again welcome back!

Does anyone know how we can find out what things are going OOP and when?

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Thanks!

Can I just say thanks as well, this is why I really love this site, within a day I've got a load of really helpful information from a bunch of people with absolutely no hassle