Galadriel works for of like the shadowlord but a bunch more powerfull on magic, also a nice anti wraith model in magic.

I would highly advice taking her, she is aowrth every points, even to help your squishy armoured elves and make them into combat, yes crossbows gonna hurt you and all forms of shooting (for example a dragon´s breath weapon *wink*)

I still dunno to where you wanna aim this force, 500pts?

I would suggest the following:



Thranduil KotWR (Four attacks)
3 Mirkwood Armoured Swordsmen
5 Mirkwood Armoured Glaives
3 Mirkwood Armoured Bows.

Rivendell Knight Captain (Lance, shield etc)
3 Rivendell Knights with shields.

White Council
Galadriel, lady of Light

499pts


Or instead of her use a palace guard captain and add more elves (yes he will get fight 7 nearby thranduil)

Galadriel is very usefull for several reasons:

- extra defence to resist magic with fortify spirit, can turn out extremely usefull to resist transfix (which is the most annoying thing you can get on a melee chop chop thranduil, you cannot afford him being transfixed 2 often...
- nearby enemies suffer -1 on courage, get around when the force is broken and you get plenty chances to get enemies to rout.
- she cant be disarmed which is usefull
- shooting vs her and those nearby 6" only hit on a score of a 6 (increasing drastically your warband survivability before hitting into combat.
- 1 well placed banishment can put up dead to any nazgul you face.

Thranduil is that list seems more of a chop horde than hero fighting, for that elrond or legolas fit better the role..

Palace Guard won't benefit from new Thranduil. They are very specific in the wording of which character gives which bonuses.

Palace Guard won't benefit from new Thranduil. They are very specific in the wording of which character gives which bonuses.

its a nice benefit, least you can lead mirkwood elves with a defence 7 guy that get even better nearby thranduil over a D5 guy which got a fancy weapon

Defence value, Palace guard captain got heavy armour and shield = D7, the mirkwood captains from this hobbit got D5, seems alot weaker despite the fancy weapon (spear/elven blade/ can shield all in a go) and both cost the same in points

As part if you wanna take the hobbit elven mirk cav, I dont think there worth it...an elf that can re-roll in fight if thranduil is nearby but with defence 4 and costing 16pts a piece, im not sure, galadhrim knights o nthe same step there a bit more expensive but alot alot more options to field and gear up, also horses are better at charging through terrain with fleetfot...

mirwood infantry can be complicated in a way, prob best way for you is to use them like wood elves (of a sort) most of em just with glaive and/or bow

they are armoured elves but still defence 4, only good thing is that S4 kill em on 4+ rather than 3+ compared to wood elves, but these cost 10pts a pop, they are expensive...

I would prob take the following 4/4/4 Palace guard with shield/mirk elves with glaive/bow

Then you say why not elves with shield if its to die vs S4 either D5 or 6 gonna die at same value... well

For 2 things, if its thran in the mix,
- you get front rank fight 6 value nearby thran
- bodyguard, go charge head on terror kind of foes there all good

They do cost 2 palace guard with shield for 3 elves with shield(in comparison), but vs S2 or 3, the defence 6 makes a considerable diference.

To use mirk armoured elves in most cases its just a matter of taste if you like em or not more than anything...

500pts of these aint easy unless oyu drop galadriel and fill up with an high elf warband