I wonder how much of the range will get put aside. The game has been going along for over 20 years and there are models (like Cirion, Murin and Drar, Gulavhar, the old giant spider profile, the Black Guard, storm callers, the kings huntsman and knight of the white tower, castellans, sons of Eorl, warg marauders, and the named Nazgul) that have been more or less left behind as GW has turned from its own creations of the late 2000s following the Hobbit films. I could see them going out with the current Dunland range, aside from the Wildmen models, to help keep down of profiles to manage. I do worry that we may see the end of some full peripheral armies (Khand, Far Hard, and Khazard Dum) as a way to slim down the range too.
I would not be pleased to see the armies all reduced to legendary legions with no alliances. Seems like a difficult way to organize the range with a lot of repetition for profiles. It would help balancing different profiles I suppose. No way for the lady of light or Cirdan to show up in Minas Tirith if there is on alliance system. Fingers crossed its more like Legions of Middle Earth in terms of specific lists representing times and places with some limited ally options.
Reworking the fight values does seem like a good idea. As does taking out special strikes.
A new edition with some changes to the rules and new models sounds better than the game being dropped altogether. I will be looking forward to seeing what happens when the details come out.
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