I finally saved up enough dough to order the new (?) Battle Companies book. I must say, I'm disappointed. Not in the material itself, there's lots of great stuff in there, I love the campaigns and scenarios and modifications you can make to your minis, but the fact that many of the models listed are not available and haven't been for some time. Eg: Guard of the Fountain Court has been OOP for years. While this isn't super detrimental to me personally, (I've been collecting since 2008) I can see how it would be for new players. It has been my assumption that Battle Companies is intended as an excellent way to get into the hobby with any force. It seems this is not the case.

If you haven't yet bought this book, caveat emptor.

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psst...

https://www.games-workshop.com/en-US/Gu ... tain-Court

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Although disappointing now, that many of the models are OOP, I think it shows the Middle-earth team plan to make them available again. I think that also shows that it is intended to be a long term product that won't quickly be replaced or invalidated.

GW anounced to edit more battle company descriptions in the White Dwarf journal. In this August edition of WD are contained the rules for 4 new battle companies (rangers of the north, Osgiliath, Cirith Ungol an Khand) and 1 scenario.

I'm not very interested in the other tabletop systems, but I bought this WD just for the 6 pages of battle companies stuff. The companies are quite interesting, but with limited career chances for the warriors.

Werennor - you should put this information in this thread - viewtopic.php?f=102&t=33520,

Voyager360 is keeping a running list of Battle Company resources.

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Thank you, Mapper, for the hint. The info fits better there!