Is anyone.....

Bilbo · **Posted:** Tue May 21, 2013 6:49 pm

.....actually playing WOTR out there?

SouthernDunedain · **Posted:** Tue May 21, 2013 6:50 pm

Yup, myself and a few others play it occasionally when we can all be bothered to drag everything down to the gaming club.

Bilbo · **Posted:** Tue May 21, 2013 7:02 pm

What size points value and factions do you tend to use? Have you got any images?

SouthernDunedain · **Posted:** Tue May 21, 2013 7:08 pm

between 2-3k points usually.

as for pictures, check out this thread for a battle myself and Leonardis did a while back. pretty sure that was 3k points.

Also, have a flick through this album on facebook. Basically a collection of 80% of all my Lotr photos, there are some WotR ones in there.

LordElrond · **Posted:** Tue May 21, 2013 7:59 pm

I just bought the rulebook, and we (my next-door neighbours and I) are hoping that the guys at GW will teach us some time during half term.

Also, what is battlehosts?
What would I need it for?

Thanks,
LordElrond

SouthernDunedain · **Posted:** Tue May 21, 2013 8:49 pm

@lordelrond, you'll be lucky if the guys in GW even know what WotR is

you'd be better reading the rules and playing small games between yourselves and learning the rules that way.
Battlehosts is the expansion book, not nessecary unless you are planning on buying lots of models and playing competitively. It basically contains some themed army lists that require x,y & z and give some extra special rules.

Rangefinder · **Posted:** Tue May 21, 2013 9:56 pm

A buddy and I have a games wanted card posted at the local game shop (Games Plus) in Mt. Prospect (Chicago, IL ...suburb). We got one inquiry to run a game of WOTR, but it never materialized.

I have a few thousand points combined of Harad/Mahud/Easterling forces.
Can field...
Host of Karna
Khamul's Easterlings
Mahud Wartribe
Mumak War Herd

Since giving up on collecting more WOTR size forces, I have collected up some Rangers of Gondor, Warriors of MT, and Axemen of Lossnarch. Still need Forlong, but I got Faramir in armo(u)r.

I am now focused on getting more varied good forces and start on Mordor too.

Have a buddy in Southern Illinois who has an amazing force of Dwarves. He's got both Battlehosts for Dwarves, and a massive collection besides that as well. He's pretty far away, and we have not run a game in a very long time. Our biggest game was about 5k per side, took 3 days to run it out. We both are not experts at the rules, and many times there were "sticking points" and/or "power gaming" complaints from both our sides.

My buddy has SBG size forces. So all we have to work with is evil for WOTR. However, I have enough movement trays and we can use counters to fill the slots and we are both agreeable to this. We will keep the main company tray with the appropriate models. So a WOTR game could be on the horizon.

On the positive... I am now painting what I am fielding in SBG. So I am slowly painting my forces. Try to get a new Warband painted up for each match now.

Harfoot · **Posted:** Wed May 22, 2013 10:42 am

Play WOTR every week, normally around 1,000 to 1,500 points. we play in Swindon, wiltshire, on a wednesday evening

Xelee · **Posted:** Sat May 25, 2013 12:47 am

Hi Bilbo, we play it as regularly as we play everything else. I am having a game this Sunday, againt the Noldor, in fact.

We generally play 1000-1200 points.

Hashut's Blessing · **Joined:** Fri Jan 15, 2010 8:41 pm **Posts:** 1279

I would, but nobody to play it with, lol

LordElrond · **Posted:** Sat May 25, 2013 5:36 am

Hashut's Blessing wrote:

I would, but nobody to play it with, lol

Teach thermo then...

Hashut's Blessing · **Joined:** Fri Jan 15, 2010 8:41 pm **Posts:** 1279

Been trying, but he's mostly interested in skirmish tyle battles, which WotR doesn't cover ;P I've actually written a list for his armies too

Lorindol · **Posted:** Mon May 27, 2013 6:53 pm

I play WOTR with tree guys in the netherlands. Together we can field armies of at least 2k.

We can field:
Mordor
High Elves(with numenor!)
Moria
Dwarves
Rohan

We've had quite a few good battles!

Dorthonion · **Posted:** Mon May 27, 2013 7:55 pm

I played some solo games - there is nobody out here in The Wild (just some WH40K fanatics). I live in hope... someday.

Xelee · **Posted:** Mon May 27, 2013 7:58 pm

Btw, you guys have WOTR blogs?

Lorindol · **Posted:** Tue May 28, 2013 6:31 am

Nope

I've seen your blogspot and it seem a lot of work to manage such a website. Since I work about 50h a week I lack the time

Hashut's Blessing · **Joined:** Fri Jan 15, 2010 8:41 pm **Posts:** 1279

I had two that were really just me painting, but they got dull because it was just loads of Easterlings and I ran out of Dwarf models to paint and never had anyone to play against.

Xelee · **Posted:** Tue May 28, 2013 8:00 pm

I only ask because I've noticed old games that are good don't tend to go away on the internet, even if officially dropped. Warhammer 3rd and OD&D are good examples of games that now thrive via blogs - so I like to collect the links just in case.

One day, WOTR is going to be 'old school'.

Lorindol · **Posted:** Tue May 28, 2013 9:19 pm

haha just remember I kept a weblog with a buddy when I was about 15 years old. It's been pretty fun seeing it al again and my skill with the internet wasn't that great.

(sorry it's dutch but just look at the crappy layout and content)
http://web.archive.org/web/20050912041038/http://www.gwlordoftherings.web-log.nl/

It even has a link to One-Ring !

GothmogtheWerewolf · **Posted:** Wed May 29, 2013 12:49 am

Hashut's Blessing wrote:

I would, but nobody to play it with, lol

I would play with you, but that club-a-ma-thing-a-ma-jiggy is in Cheadle which I found out is a little too far away.

In answer to your question. I'd love to play WotR again, especially at 2,000pts but it's like wishing for Wargs to be real animals.

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