Castellan of the Ring

Wenn ihr meinen Blog bisher verfolgt habt, werdet ihr eine gewisse Tendenz bezüglich der von mir gespielten und gesammelten Armeen, festgestellt haben. Es zieht mich irgendwie immer zu jenen, welche nicht zum Mainstream gehören, nicht beliebt sind oder im allgemeinen wenig gespielt werden. Beziehungsweise ist es eher so, dass dies ein Nebeneffekt ist. Es hängt vom Aussehen, dem Spielstil, der Hintergrundgeschichte etc der Fraktion ab, ob ich sie mag oder nicht. Nichtsdestotrotz spiele ich mit und denke sehr viel über Armeen nach, welche aus dem einen oder anderen Grund, nicht beliebt sind. Und fast alle haben eines gemeinsam - sehr limitierte Profil und Miniaturen Auswahl und/oder in Verbindung damit, limitierte Möglichkeiten zu skalieren und wenige Spielstile. Ihr das vielleicht nachvollziehen - wenn man eine Fraktion sehr gerne spielt aber sich über deren Limitierungen bewusst ist, dann beginnt sich auszumalen wie GW sie erweitern könnte/sollte - zb siehe meine Gedanken zu Numenor . ...

We are at the first entry of this new series and we will start with - what a surprise^^ - Numenor! It is the one I thought of and like the most as you might have guessed by now ;) Current status Numenor currently has two named heroes, one unnamed hero and one warrior choice. The two named heroes are among the best, human factions can muster and the unnamed hero and the warrior have a lot of equipment options. The army bonus is ok (as are their alliance options), everyone near named heroes, receives magic resistance and the warriors feature F 4 and S 4. And while there are better options in alliance partners, Captains of Numenor are really good at what they do. This, combined with the big choice of equipment options, gives this faction more flexibility than you might think on first glance. Drawbacks as a small faction The first drawbacks result from the miniatures themselves. They are among the oldest ones being around in the system and that shows. The heroes are ok but have no official...

 If you followed my blog so far, you might have noticed a tendency regarding the armies I play, collect and write about. I am drawn to the ones that are not mainstream, popular or in general not too often played. Or rather, this is a side effect and just coincidence to align with what I like. It depends on the look, the play style, their lore etc, etc. Nonetheless I am playing and thinking a lot about armies which are, for one reason or another, not so popular. And they all have something in common - very limited profile and miniature selection and/or coupled to that, a a limited number of ways to scale and/or play styles. You maybe can relate - when you really like a faction but are aware of its limitation, you think about how it could/should be expanded by GW to make it more usable - e.g. my thoughts on how to expand Numenor .  But while it was really fun to come up with new profiles, I also thought of the other smaller factions and that probably for each of them, there are ...