For the biggest FU to elves you go with an Iron Hills army. Not for everyone given the Forge World pricing however.
400 pts is a nice sized game for beginners. Armies are currently created using a Warband system. 1 Hero and 0-12 Warriors make up a Warband. Can have as many as you want in an army.
If you want to go with the GW Dwarf ranges you have Durins Folk (pre-Hobbit) and Army of Thror (Hobbit prologue). Both have plastic troops so are comparatively cheaper to collect than the Iron Hills.
Mortensen never used a prop. He was the only one of the cast properly trained in swordsmanship. Every scene you saw him in he was using a proper steel sword.
>He was the only one of the cast properly trained in swordsmanship.
No he wasn't. Nobody is properly trained in swordsmanship. The hackjob choreography you see is movies isn't swordsmanship, fencing is a shit-tier sport, and "historical" european martial arts are pure fakery based around suspect materials and without a living tradition.
The only real swordsman today are those few of us who practice kenjutsu with an unbroken living tradition. That's it. It's physically impossible to use a European sword and claim legitimate training or skill.
go away and stop shitting up the thread with your opinion that nobody asked for. be a darling alright?
the new book will have a kind of smaller scale I think where we will build a company of 10 something units and they will gradually gain xp and new items and such. like mordheim games.
I think.
I always thought that guy in the top left looked like a hammer thrower, give him a kilt paint job and replace his hammer for a ball and chain and he'd fit perfectly
The pike goes into his armpit my dude, it hits a gap
How is LotR model wise these days? I presume GW still have some stuff but all the metals replaced with resin?
The original skirmish rules were pretty much designed for small units like that. (just with no campaign system)
Of course it wouldn't be GW if they didn't try to upsell everything and slowly creep up the points limit the class as a "standard game".
Alright guys. So myself and a few friends have been looking at this for a bit. I have no idea how the rules work or what I should buy but I really like the look of elves. What should I buy for elves to start a small army?
>Battle Companies is $70
Welp, there goes that.