So this afternoon I asked Marouda what miniatures games she’d like to play if she could choose anything that I (we) have – any force, any game, any scale or scale of conflict. I even used the example that if she decided that she wanted to play WW2 Finns or Hungarians or French (I don’t have any of those) then I’d just buy them. She came up with two answers:
Gaslands, and Lord of the Rings SBG scenarios. Since I’m still waiting on the Gaslands rulebook to arrive in order to have some idea on what things to chop up and add to the little Matchbox collection that we picked up last week, I’ve started to look through the scenarios to see what we (I) need to get painted to run through the scenarios from the Fellowship of the Ring book (plus Moria Starter)
So I’ve created a list of the figures needed for all of those scenarios, then subtracted those that I’ve already painted, leaving a list of things that I’ll need to paint up at the end. I’ll also no doubt need to scratchbuild some terrain, that should vary from pretty easy (Buckleberry Ferry & Docks) to really quite painful (Amon Hen, the internals of Moria).
So here we go! (feel free to skip this post if you’re already bored. I’ll pepper it with painted examples, but there ain’t anything new here if you’ve been reading for years.
Scenario 1: The Hunt Begins
9 Dunedain
The Witch King of Angmar
2 Ringwraiths
Scenario 2: The Trust of Arnor
9 Dunedain
The Witch King of Angmar
8 Ringwraiths
Aenur will be my Gildor.
Scenario 3: Short Cuts Make Long Delays
Frodo
Sam
Pippin
Gildor (Subbed by Aenur)
3 Ringwraiths
Scenario 4: Buckleberry Ferry
Frodo
Sam
Pippin
Merry
3 Ringwraiths
Scenario 5: Fog on the Barrow-Downs
Frodo
Sam
Pippin
Merry
Tom Bombadil
Goldberry
4 Barrow-Wights
Scenario 6: The Grey Pilgrim and the Black Riders
Gandalf the Grey
The Witch King of Angmar
8 Ringwraiths
Scenario 7: Pursuit Into The Wilds
Gandalf the Grey
6 Dunedain
4 Ringwraiths
Scenario 8: Amon Sul
Frodo
Sam
Pippin
Merry
Aragorn
The Witch King of Angmar
4 Ringwraiths
*The Witch King of Angmar (Twilight)
*4 Ringwraiths (Twilight)
Scenario 9: Flight to the Ford
Frodo
Sam
Pippin
Merry
Aragorn
Glorfindel Mounted or Arwen Mounted
Glorfindel Foot or Arwen Foot
The Witch King of Angmar Foot
8 Ringwraiths
The Witch King of Angmar Mounted
8 Ringwraiths Mounted
Scenario 10: The Hounds of Sauron
Frodo
Sam
Pippin
Merry
Aragorn
Gandalf
Boromir
Legolas
Gimli
Warg Chieftain
18 Wild Wargs
I had this exact use in mind when I painted these.
Scenario 11: The Watcher in the Water
Frodo
Sam
Pippin
Merry
Aragorn
Gandalf
Boromir
Legolas
Gimli
6 Tentacles
Mines of Moria Scenario 1: Into the Dark
Frodo
Sam
Pippin
Merry
Aragorn
Gandalf
*Moria Gandalf
Boromir
Legolas
Gimli
4 Moria Goblins with Bows
Mines of Moria Scenario 2: Ambush!
Frodo
Sam
Pippin
Merry
Aragorn
Gandalf
*Moria Gandalf
Boromir
Legolas
Gimli
4 Moria Goblins with Shields
4 Moria Goblins with Spears
Mines of Moria Scenario 3: Surrounded!
Frodo
Sam
Pippin
Merry
Aragorn
Gandalf
*Moria Gandalf
Boromir
Legolas
Gimli
8 Moria Goblins with Bows
8 Moria Goblins with Shields
8 Moria Goblins with Spears
Mines of Moria Scenario 4: Battle in Balin’s Tomb
Frodo
Sam
Pippin
Merry
Aragorn
Gandalf
*Moria Gandalf
Boromir
Legolas
Gimli
8 Moria Goblins with Bows
8 Moria Goblins with Shields
8 Moria Goblins with Spears
Cave Troll
Scenario 12: Balin’s Tomb
Frodo
Sam
Pippin
Merry
Aragorn
Gandalf
*Moria Gandalf
Boromir
Legolas
Gimli
2 Goblin Captains
8 Moria Goblins with Bows
8 Moria Goblins with Shields
8 Moria Goblins with Spears
Cave Troll
Scenario 13: The Escape from Dwarrowdelf
Frodo
Sam
Pippin
Merry
Aragorn
Gandalf
*Moria Gandalf
Boromir
Legolas
Gimli
2 Goblin Captains
8 Moria Goblins with Bows
8 Moria Goblins with Shields
8 Moria Goblins with Spears
Cave Troll
Scenario 14: The Bridge of Khazad-Dum
Frodo
Sam
Pippin
Merry
Aragorn
Gandalf
*Moria Gandalf
Boromir
Legolas
Gimli
The Balrog
2 Goblin Captains
8 Moria Goblins with Bows
8 Moria Goblins with Shields
8 Moria Goblins with Spears
Cave Troll
Scenario 15: Lothlorien
Frodo
Sam
Pippin
Merry
Aragorn
??Gandalf
Boromir
Legolas
Gimli
2 Goblin Captains
8 Moria Goblins with Bows
8 Moria Goblins with Shields
8 Moria Goblins with Spears
Warg Chieftain
18 Wild Wargs
Scenario 16: Aragorn’s Stand
Frodo
Aragorn
Legolas
Gimli
Lurtz
1 Uruk-Hai Captain
6 Uruk-Hai Scouts with Orc bows
12 Uruk-Hai Scouts with Shields
Scenario 17: Borimir’s Redemption
Boromir
Merry
Pippin
1 Uruk-Hai Captain
6 Uruk-Hai Scouts with Orc bows
12 Uruk-Hai Scouts with Shields
Scenario 18: The Breaking of the Fellowship
Aragorn
Legolas
Gimli
Boromir
*Wounded Boromir
Lurtz
1 Uruk-Hai Captain
6 Uruk-Hai Scouts with Orc bows
12 Uruk-Hai Scouts with Shields
Painting List:
8 Ringwraiths on Foot.
8 Ringwraiths Mounted
The Witch King of Angmar on Foot (Robes)
The Witch King of Angmar Mounted (Robes)
*The Witch King of Angmar (Twilight)
*4 Ringwraiths (Twilight)
Pippin
Merry
Tom Bombadil
Aragorn
Glorfindel Mounted or Arwen Mounted
Glorfindel Foot or Arwen Foot
Gimli
Boromir
*Wounded Boromir
Warg Chieftain
18 Wild Wargs
The Balrog
Lurtz
1 Uruk-Hai Captain
6 Uruk-Hai Scouts with Orc bows
12 Uruk-Hai Scouts with Shields
So… that’s “only” 48 figures (edit – 59 – apparently I can’t count when I have a headache!) needed to have the above ready to go. Unfortunately, a lot of them are essentially “hero” models, so they’ll need that extra amount of care and time to paint. I’ll probably also want/need to batch paint several of the heroes who have multiple alternative sculpts, to retain colour consistency across their many models.
I do have models I could sub in for quite a few of the “faceless” models there – for example I have about a bunch of wolves I could sub in for the Wargs for example, or use Uruk-Hai warriors/berserkers for the Uruk-Hai scouts – I’ve got the proper models for all of those, and so I’d much rather use this as motivation to actually paint those models instead. Gildor being the exception for that sort of thing as I don’t have the proper model, and Aenur makes a good proxy. Also, Goldberry, I guess as I don’t have the official model, but do have a RBG model that I specifically purchased to be Goldberry in LotR.
Azazel's Bitz Box. 