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Hi Everyone,
Something I enormously enjoy about Wargames in general, is the metagame: occupying yourself creating a balanced list in your head. Now because I've been playing a lot of 40k (a game where your list is 75% of the game) the past 2 years, I have been enjoying myself a lot with building what I call Library Lists.
You'll all know what I'm talking about ones I explain it: these are very thematic lists, centered around a specific idea. More than that, the point is also to make them fairly competitive.
(40k) Ideas could be: a list to best represent actual space marines (like in the fluff), a 100% genestealer list, a list using only land speeders & storm ravens (in 5th ed, mind you), a space wolves list with only 3-man squads (and almost no vehicles),...
Now, since I'm getting back into lotr ones again, my mind is constantly wandering of & creating Library Lists for SBG... So, what else can I do then type them out & show them.
The first is centred around a frustration I have since GW ever released the Harad scourcebook: why the hell do Half-Trolls come from Harad?!
Last time I checked, the Troll population in Harad was zero to none (which makes sense, considering the sun). So how did the half-trolls get there?
And why aren't there, according to GW, no half-trolls in regions like Mordor, The Misty Mountains, Dol Guldor, Angmar,... Places that are crowded with Trolls and 'hybrid' creatures (Half-orcs,...)
So, because I'm a servant of the Barad-Dûr first & foremost, I wanted to created a list that contained a lot of Half-Trolls, and very little Harad...
Most Library Lists I come up with are developed at the different pt levels, but because this list fitted so nicely at 500pts:
Warband 1
Mahud Tribesmaster
10 Half-Trolls
Warband 2
Shadow Lord, or The Dark Marshal / Knight of Umbar
10 Orcs with Spears
Morannon Orc Banner Bearer
Morannon Orc with Shield
TOTAL = 500pts
First of all: I think that, if this list is nicely painted up in a fitting dark colourscheme, it's gonna look awsome (DMS... No?)
But concerning gameplay: this is a list build towards my fanaticism for symmetry & ranks. The Half-Trolls form a nice arrowhead, supported by the spears. At the top of the arrow comes the nazgûl, with a morannon orc in front of him in case someone decides for a lucky shot.
I'd go with the shadow lord in case some elves decide they wanna throw 6's, but I can see that the Dark Marshal would allow for some genious combat boosts. The Knight of Umbar also, perhaps, for some anti-F5+
And of course we add in a Banner.
When you'd really want to bump this list to higher point levels (while keeping the theme of course), getting 12 Trolls/Spears would be nice. Perhaps some scouts on wargs (I know, haradrim are better, but stickin to the theme here) for some bow fire.
What would be awsome to add is of course a Mordor Troll, perhaps even with a war drum (imagine the look of the army then).
What do you guys think of this list? Does it work? Or am I still in a more 40k mindset? Anything you might change, keeping the theme in mind?
Post!
K
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Last edited by Raggbur on Fri Aug 03, 2012 7:10 am, edited 1 time in total.
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