Yes, the troll is a very nice model. I actually own three, one is the prepainted version from dungeon command.

Like this one:



there is also a heroscape version:



So it would appear that troll sculpt has seen a few games already!

No painting for the moment, but am in the process of organizing my LOTR minis. With the new edition out (wich i hope to find at crisis), it was time to take stock.

got my main force, Isengard out on the table, just to see what i still need, and thought i'd make some pictures.



main troops and scouts behind them


berzerkers


engineers with siege ladders


bomb teams and crossbows in the back


also found an unpainted isengard troll!



So, this is enough for a skirmish game right? 

Small skirmis, maybe... 

Funny thing is, i still need stuff.

I am missing:

mounted saruman
sharku on warg (i have some warg riders in my mordor army)
uruk shaman
vrasku
ugluk

Still one of the most complete one i have.

the list just goes on after that 

needs:

rohan : sons of eorl, mounted royal guard, gamling with the banner, outriders, grimbold
gondor: rangers, guards of the fountain court, knights of minas tirith, citadel guard, beregond
moria : prowlers, balrog, beastcaller, bat swarms
mordor: morannon orcs, wraith/witch king on fell beast, more warg riders, mordor orc command ,  trolls
wood elves: wood elf warriors with armour, maybe some without armour and some sentinels
rivendell: arwen on foot, elrohir foot and mounted, rivendell knights, command
treebeard would be nice as well!

only thing i have enough of is numenor!

I constantly pick up stuff here and there, LOTR is one of the things i just keep loving, eventhough i almost never play. If i aver had to get rid of everything exept 1 game/range, my lord of the rings stuff would stay!

Just one of those games that scales remarkebly well.

Stroll on......

The way the LOTR figures have progressed in quality since I first started in this hobby

I've still got  too many blister packs of the old Heritage (?) minis in one of the sheds.....Along with my first efforts at painting wee soldiers.

Cheers - Phil

starting from the movie ones up untill now, they have only been getting better!

I must admit that the preview for the new gandalf did not look that good though! I guess it's a digital sculpt. Say what you want, but you can see the difference between 'proper' sculpting and sculpting digitally.



His face is spot on on the mounted model though! But pippin looks nothing like it...

Soo no painting this weekend, too busy making a shopping list for crisis. Did manage to play some games tough, just trying stuff out.

first game was a game of bolt action skirmish. I wanted to try to give each soldier a die and make them all act on their own, just to see how it works. Just had to change a few rules to get it working.

- morale checks are taken when half of the force is out.
- shooting with weapons with more than 1 shot can only target multiple models if they are within 3"
- sergeants can take one die out of the bag and order another figure to act with them

Worked well, but took a long time! some shots of the game:






An action shot showing the close assault of a ruined factory. Dice are used as in normal bolt action, glass beads are pinning markers. only using single models makes you use all available cover, and work in fire teams wich is pretty historical!


Second game was kings ofwar with my warhammer armies, undead vs goblins. Just a big scrap! Goblins won by the skin of their teeth!







Now just a few days of trimming and rethinking the crisis shopping list and maybe i can get back to painting!

what i have on there so far:

-vallejo dark earth texture
- 4x vallejo mat varnish
-army painter static grass and flock
- great war french expansion and tanks
- perry miniatures: kellerman blister, ney blister, french cuirrasiers
- black scorpion undead pirates and governor
- LOTR battle for the pellenor fields + army book
-sarissa far east village or tower and european chateau (ruined or intact)
- ainsty treasure markers, trade goods, barrels and barricades
-studio miniatures zombies, german zombies, zombie leader and their "not a-team"


comes to over 500€ so might need a good trimming 


Also pondering the walking dead by mantic games,test of honour and pulp alley. Have seen some batreps, and test of honours seems pretty bland as a system. Pulp alley seems there is more to do about the cards than the miniatures gameplay-wise, so not sure about that either. And the walking dead game is really dangerous with their booster expansions, as i have a "collect them all mindset"!

any body got any comments about these games?

Super stuff, Peter !!

Cheers - Phil

Hmmmm, Bolt Action skirmish is an interesting idea.  If you are going to play KoW you might want to add some wound counters to you crisis list.  Personally I'd be knocking those dice around every time I tried to move.

Pulp Alley is an interesting game because it takes the focus at least slightly off combat with the card driven plot points but movement and dice rolling still have a big part to play.

Test of Honor is not a bad game but I wouldn't say it's a must play unless you really need an excuse to paint up a few Samurai.

Quote from: lowlylowlycook on 29 October 2018, 06:38:22 PM
Hmmmm, Bolt Action skirmish is an interesting idea.  If you are going to play KoW you might want to add some wound counters to you crisis list.  Personally I'd be knocking those dice around every time I tried to move.

I always use those dice, never had a problem really!

Quote from: lowlylowlycook on 29 October 2018, 06:38:22 PM

Pulp Alley is an interesting game because it takes the focus at least slightly off combat with the card driven plot points but movement and dice rolling still have a big part to play.

Yeah it's an odd duck. was convinced at first, but then i saw a demo game by the rules writer himself. A whole turn, playing rolling tons of dice, opposing dice rolls, alternating activations, taking shot after shot, eventually dealing a wound each to each other. Then end of turn, the recovery phase. both roll a die and pass  and the wounds go straigth off. The uselessness of the entire turn just made me cringe. So my guess is i won't like it! But then i saw another game were instead of one character, he had a gang of 5 models, and they functioned as wounds, removing one eachtime a wound was taken.That looked slightly better, but i'm still unsure if it would be my kind of thing.

Quote from: lowlylowlycook on 29 October 2018, 06:38:22 PM

Test of Honor is not a bad game but I wouldn't say it's a must play unless you really need an excuse to paint up a few Samurai.

Not really, have enough to paint already, just looked like a nice price for a starter box!

What i'm really looking for is a skirmish game that i can just take from the shelf and play. I have almost everything from the song of blades line, and i like it, but usually i spend too much time making the characters/profiles to really call it a "take and start playing" game.

Just bought Test of Honour (based on the fact I'd like to paint some Samurai at some point). Like you say Peter great value for kind've everything in the box, was £27 on Wayland with free delivery (Kids can skip McDonalds this weekend  )

Quote from: Matt J on 30 October 2018, 02:42:48 PM
Just bought Test of Honour (based on the fact I'd like to paint some Samurai at some point). Like you say Peter great value for kind've everything in the box, was £27 on Wayland with free delivery (Kids can skip McDonalds this weekend  )

 

Skipping McDonalds will do them good

PAinted the mounts for my spider riders!

Nice !! 

Cheers - Phil