Way Back When’sday #5

For this way back when’sday we’re going to take a look at some Middle earth miniatures.

Back in the day I used to collect elves. It was the game played the most in our local library gaming group, and we had a campaign going on. It was incredibly fun, with some truly cinematic moments. When war of the ring came out and tried to turn the game into a unit based game, the interest died off a little and the models were shelved, and eventually sold.

A few years ago I decided, with a fresh gaming community after moving up to Edinburgh, and a new set of rules about since I last tried it that I would try get back in to the game. But then there was the question which army do I collect? Elves again? Rohan?

Rohan was always one I had considered. I did have a small collection of them once, collected from the di agostini magazines that I used to collect, but then it did seem that everyone had Rohan. Which isn’t necessarily a problem, but it’s less fun to just play mirror matches all the time.

After much deliberation I found the Mumakil on sale. Now, this model as always one I also had wanted. I mean who wouldn’t? It’s a beautiful model and a centrepiece in it’s own right. And while the kit is old, it still holds up. Well, mostly. It certainly is showing it’s age in some respects, and I would always love to see an updated kit. Here’s hoping eh?

Through the excitement of getting to dive into Middle earth again, I painted up a force fairly quickly and joined a league to play it in. I did have some take away from it though.

Most of the game played as i had remembered, which was great. It’s one of the most consistent sets of game rules GW has had. And it’s always been good ( I can’t speak for the since released newer rules though, as I haven’t played them) Downside however, it does seem there were some interractions between models that didn’t make much sense.

One hit killing the mumak? Sure why not. Crew can’t get off the mumak? Yeah okay then…. (I had one game with spearmen in the Howdah who were stuck, they couldn’t get off and they couldn’t attack cause theyre up on the howdah….)

Until next time! 🙂