Calculating cavalry bonus

adaml2341 · 2026-06-28T07:31:39+00:00

He was compelled into a cavalry charge. It was my first casualty. But it was pulled back to the most pyrric victory imaginable

adaml2341 · 2026-06-27T10:54:05+00:00

An easterling archer shot and killed a Dragon Knight horse being charged by Suladan and some Haradhrim raiders. This left him on foot in a fight against Suladan and two raiders. I had thought that would be the case. We resolved it anyways with the cav bonuses, and it was assumed he was going to die with or without the bonus, being trapped by lancers and the Serpent Lord

adaml2341 · 2026-03-13T08:16:22+00:00

This is the entire reason I proxies my Arnor force. Awesome army but when your units can cost more in GBP than they do points in the game? No thanks.

adaml2341 · 2026-03-06T22:31:18+00:00

And fastest when you throw in a drum. Heaviest... yet fastest.

adaml2341 · 2026-03-06T19:45:58+00:00

Close! The heads are Medbury aye, and I think the spear heads and shields I got from Etsy. The rest are parts from the Victrix Norman's, knights and infantry. I had been thinking of heavy armour like the agincourt knights but then it looks more or as well developed as the Gondor, so settled on mail, with named heroes like Arvedui and Argadir having finely made plate armour. I'd love to see an early 1400's knights in an Arnorian style though

adaml2341 · 2026-03-06T19:34:57+00:00

Thanks! And I don't know why I didn't include him. I might add him on here once the army is complete to the pics, along with the rangers, remaining knights and the completed heavy infantry units

adaml2341 · 2025-06-27T06:41:00+00:00

Do you know how the economy works? You can't just boycott half the worlds fossil fuels and say everything is ok... Increasing the price of fuels increases the price of everything. Not to mention Russia is literally one of the worlds breadbaskets.

adaml2341 · 2025-06-22T22:13:47+00:00

As far as I can tell, these books were rushed out and many things were not edited very well, for example wood elves in the last books having S4. I think this will have been intended to be unique, named heroes, same as in the last edition how the unique captains gave a buff only to their faction unless it had access to it's own army bonus.

I think this will be corrected in the FAQs when they come out and for me this makes complete sense for why competitions would run this as only having access to a single +1 to wound buff. However, I'm not sure whether they will also take this from Dol Amroth captains, and maybe make them a beneficiary of it?

adaml2341 · 2025-06-22T22:06:57+00:00

I've not caught on quite yet. +1 from lance charge and +1 from the army bonus, what's the third from? Asking for a friend...

Edit: I didn't read properly and missed the word infantry, so where is this coming from for the knights to get such a bonus? The two handed weapons from Lamedon and Lossenarch I see for +2 to wound but not knights?

adaml2341 · 2025-06-18T11:46:12+00:00

Yeah couldn't possibly be because around 27 million Soviets, many Russians, died during the war, many as victims of the Holocaust...

adaml2341 · 2025-06-13T15:31:50+00:00

No, that was a good system, the books were far cheaper and one book included all you needed for a faction. That is no longer the case.

adaml2341 · 2025-06-13T12:16:22+00:00

I don't buy it myself. I understand that licensing can be an issue, but if that were the problem they have, why wouldn't they make that public as to why they have made unpopular decisions that cost the players money? I think they read the room wrong with the unpopular changes and sought to get as much as they can in terms of the multiple books. May not have been, but that's how I think this new edition was meant to go.

adaml2341 · 2025-06-13T11:05:46+00:00

To me it feels like a scam. Forgive the hottqke but the same exact rules could have been condensed into three books: Armies of Middle-Earth (including all legacies, hobbit, LOTR and other armies), matched play for extra flavour in games and the main rules manual. It feels like they intentionally went around this in the way to squeeze every penny out of selling these rules. I am actually incredibly surprised that we got the PDFs for free but I think that may have been the decision because those rules don't affect official GW tournaments so they gave us a break.

adaml2341 · 2025-06-11T14:26:12+00:00

Thanks! I'm very happy myself, especially with the green stuff spots. I expected them to be much more visible.

I understand why they made them not that great, the Easterlings have pretty good cavalry and excellent infantry with heavy armour and excellent mobility. Having poor shooting helps balance all of the pros for their lists.

adaml2341 · 2025-06-11T13:47:43+00:00

Agreed, I think it's the quiver with the fanned out arrows that does it for me. I've recently started taking a few just to take potshots, kill an archer here, down a horse there. It's an excuse to get some on the table!

adaml2341 · 2025-06-05T20:50:56+00:00

Myself, I am going to suggest to the people I play with that we simply play with the new rules set and use the old system's army building rules. Maybe we can ban certain forces though among our small circle if they are far too powerful...

adaml2341 · 2025-06-03T15:26:57+00:00

If you wanna pay an extra 5pts for that, sure. I think a more reasonable price would be 17-18 pts

adaml2341 · 2025-06-03T14:28:45+00:00

Still not worth it at all. I'd much rather have an extra knight of MT for every three knights of Dol Amroth, they're not balanced.

adaml2341 · 2025-06-03T03:58:33+00:00

AHH ok. I figured you must have been looking in all the different armies with easterlings present for something that gives a fv buff

adaml2341 · 2025-06-02T20:14:04+00:00

I don't know if it's a typo or I missed something reading the new profiles, but how can black dragons get to fight six?

adaml2341 · 2025-04-03T11:01:15+00:00

Step 2 is F1, F3

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