Defenders of Helm’s Deep as an all foot Rohan Legendary Legion has a lot characters and character, and 24 Warriors will cover your needs for basic foot soldiers. In tournament play very often a pure cavalry force is used, but if you aren’t going to tournaments don’t let that bother you at all. With Rohan you can’t really go wrong with getting Theoden, for another detailed and modern sculpted character, Royal Guard for some Fight 4 elite cavalry/infantry, more Riders, and a command pack, and from there you can experiment with what you like from a solid foundation. Theoden, two packs of Royal Guard and the Rohan Commanders blister give you the necessary characters and elite infantry for the force.

This would be a 500 point force using the Defenders of Helm’s Deep Legendary Legion from the War in Rohan book. Theoden with Armoured Horse, Heavy Armour, ShieldĮomer with Armoured Horse, Shield and Throwing SpearsĤ Rohan Royal Guard with Horse and Throwing SpearsĢ4 Warriors of Rohan (8 with shield, 8 with throwing spear and shield, 8 with bow) Here’s an example all cavalry force (that’s fairly hero heavy and elite): So lets do some example forces with various levels of extra stuff to get. You will also have the choice between an infantry based force, a cavalry based force or a mixture. Theoden with heavy armour on armoured horse and shield clocks in at 100 points, and works great with more Riders and some Royal Guard on horse, and Gamling makes a great companion as well.

Rohan are a very hero centred faction, but fortunately you have plenty of them to choose from. Because riders can lose their horses and get replaced by foot models, you will want to keep six of your foot models to use for this. You have Eomer, Marshall of the Riddermark, 6 Riders of Rohan and 24 Warriors of Rohan. These are worth getting if you want to do themed armies in tournament play, but if you are just starting out then there is literally nothing wrong getting Armies of the Lord of the Rings and then just stopping. There are also what are basically campaign books, like War in Rohan and War in Gondor, that provide more model options (often characters) and Legendary Legions, where you give up some options for your faction but gain some extra special rules. If you went with Gondor or Mordor, then the new starter will be a great next purchase, giving you more characters/monsters and more basic troops as well as the new rulebook with the FAQ/errata in it. There is nothing wrong with playing a 250 point game to get a feel for the system and then decide you need a monster, or another couple of characters, or some elite infantry.Īll the battlehosts are from the Lord of the Rings, so profiles are all in the Armies of the Lord of the Rings book. I’m going to give my standard advice of play a game or two in order to get a feel for it and see if you like it, and then commit harder. So you’ve picked a Battle Host up, and you’re wondering what to get next. GW have created boxes with a new, modern plastic character and two boxes worth of infantry or cavalry. These are all popular armies with plastic troops and cavalry, and new plastic character kits. So GW have basically given Middle Earth Strategy Battle Games Start Collecting boxes for four factions: Gondor, Mordor, Rohan and Isengard.

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