Frustration with Games Workshop Hobbit implementation
This is a little bit review and mostly a rant, you have been warned.
The starter set is good, but too expensive and only suitable for limited scenarios in the starter.
The models are nice and are the best LoTR plastic sculpts to date.
Why did GW make the hobbit minis their own army lists? No idea but it was stupid stupid and more stupid. Why should the hunter orcs be outside of an angmar or even mordor list? Putting them in the angmar list would have given angmar exactly what it needs, an elite unit. Or even make a dol gulder list which can have a twilight witch king and regular orcs and spiders? Why are the dwarves outside the erebor list? Why has GW made it so hard to integrate these models into points matched games?
These are the things keeping me from getting any of the other sets. I love the look of the grim hammers but I am not going to get them since I already have a huge erebor army and I do not want to start a hobbit dwarf one. I like the hunter orcs but I am not starting another list just fort hese orcs. I like the elven cavalry but.... Well you get the idea.
Will not buy the white council. Too much for figures I already have. Might buy the plastic eagles since they can be used in LoTR armies. But I have two metal gwahir models and two old GW LoTR eagles as well.
Come on GW get over yourself.
Could ally them into the other lists easily enough.
ReplyDeleteThe dwarves are their own list the same as the fellowship, and I imagine eventually they'll integrate them into other lists. I figure the main reason is that they are pretty cheap for Heroes and having them as part of the main lists would result in weird scenarios/lists.
My only gripe is that they add up to a silly point value! 1000pts exactly would be ideal.
Same with the trolls, I want to play a game with just the trolls, but they add up to a weird number XD
You are probably right and the dwarves will be integrated into other lists. But why even wait? With the new elf cavalry, why not put them into the rivendell lotr list? They need cavalry anyway, galadhrim have cavalry why not rivendell? One of my theories it that it probably comes down to marketing, anything new in the hobbit movie must only be in a hobbit list. i.e. see faq on elrond in the white council.
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