In The Mind: Tournament
There and Back again. This event was 400 points a very small local event that focused a bit more on newer incoming players in our scene. I ended up painting up a new small force for the event in the new rangers of Mirkwood list.
The List: Tauriel with bow 11 Mirkwood rangers, bilbo with sting, and Gloin. This ended up at 394 points 14 models with a handy 8 might points.
The idea was run it in more of a combat sense with Gloin and Tauriel pulling the weight in combat with the rangers shielding or fighting. Bilbo ws there to call moves as his heroics were the only ones that affect both the elves and Gloin. Additionally i love bilbo and wanted to run him.
It was a very interesting and fun list as I saw just how powerful it truly is with the new elven cloak changes and well elves are elves and still cant wound anything. I set up so i would have 1 turn of shooting before charging in and making a mess with this more spread out style of play to maximize the knife fighters. It worked well in almost all of the rounds and ended up helping me only drop 1 game. Even that i refused to use the shielding rule as i was in teacher mode in that game and was playing an exceptional new player who had an uncanny grasp for the game and after a first unlucky turn for him he turned it around with his besiegers list and went lights out to nearly kill all of my models in two turns.
I would say this post is much more of a review for the rangers list as the event itself was much more relaxed and so there isn't a whole lot to go into there.
The list i felt like performed exactly how i wanted it to. low numbers but still enough to protect my heroes and not engage some of them while still performing quite well even without a banner. I really enjoyed Gloin as he killed a bunch every game but even with 4 dice still flopped quite a few giving me and my opponents some laughs.
I think the addition of the company really makes the rangers list shine in combat and show what they can truly do so i am super excited to continue to run it with a few more elves and even more Thorin's company members.
Overall i think the list was an absolute blast and would highly recommend playing it in a more fighty kind of style rather then kiting forever and just shooting as much as possible.
In conclusion i love the way the new edition is playing and i feel like this edition really will rely on skill of players since there is much less writing a list that can face any other list super well. I love the changes and i cant wait to play even more. This has been the minds of moria and I will be back soon with another article!
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