Your Favourite Tactic

[icecube]

Well the title says it all, so lets hear what´s your favourite WotR tactic. This can be from as simple as sticking those certain troops in a terrain piece to something complex involving magick, fortunes/fates and multiple units all at the same time. Really anything that you can call a tactic goes.

[Cryl]

anything with longbows on a hill... in fact shooty stuff on a hill just works.

I've recently become a fan of putting Aragorn into the Grey Company and giving Halbarad the Banner of the King. That's a nice combo

[Psyberwolfe]

Legolas plus Galadriel for the win. Have her concillor Legolas and have him spend every last drop of might on Epic shot. Then have Elrond Epic Renew Galadriel. Rinse lather repeat. Can we say Middle Earth's equivalent to the German MG42?This gets pretty nasty when you add Haldir and Thranduil into the mix.

[Dark Lord]

I like sticking lots of heros on my Mumak and making it invincible. Khamul + Shadow lord + Dalamyr + Amdur means that the mumak reflects 1/3 of all incoming hits, may not be shot at unless within short range, enemy units recieve no charge bouneses and if you use epic rampage (and your mumak charged) thats str 10 hits that just keep goin till the enemy dies.
SUPER MUMAK!!!

[Cryl]

I like sticking lots of heros on my Mumak and making it invincible. Khamul + Shadow lord + Dalamyr + Amdur means that the mumak reflects 1/3 of all incoming hits, may not be shot at unless within short range, enemy units recieve no charge bouneses and if you use epic rampage (and your mumak charged) thats str 10 hits that just keep goin till the enemy dies.
SUPER MUMAK!!!

You've posted a few times about heroes on mumaks which just doesn't feel right to me. Personally I'm not convinced that heroes joining a monster formation is intended in the ruleset, sure it's not disallowed explicity but if a hero can join a mumak surely they can also join a Troll or Ent etc and that doesn't make sense with the way formations of monsters work compared to the formations of cav or infantry. I realise the arguement will be that the Mumak has crew but the rules make no distinction in unit type.

If you are allowed to do things like stack heroes on a mumak then that's a really really unpleasant unit; Pure opinion but I wouldn't play something like that as WotR is already notorious for the "broken" combinations and stuff like that won't help the games reputation. Sure there are ways to deal with it but still...

I'm sure people will disagree with me and that's fine all that this post really illustrates is the real tangible need for an FAQ for this game!

[Majorcrash]

You've posted a few times about heroes on mumaks which just doesn't feel right to me. Personally I'm not convinced that heroes joining a monster formation is intended in the ruleset, sure it's not disallowed explicity but if a hero can join a mumak surely they can also join a Troll or Ent etc and that doesn't make sense with the way formations of monsters work compared to the formations of cav or infantry. I realise the arguement will be that the Mumak has crew but the rules make no distinction in unit type.

If you are allowed to do things like stack heroes on a mumak then that's a really really unpleasant unit; Pure opinion but I wouldn't play something like that as WotR is already notorious for the "broken" combinations and stuff like that won't help the games reputation. Sure there are ways to deal with it but still...

I'm sure people will disagree with me and that's fine all that this post really illustrates is the real tangible need for an FAQ for this game!

I have to say I agree whole heartedly. I play a mordor army an occasionly feld my mumak. but I dont think that character should be allowed to join such a unit. Character come in to forms either mounted and a those are usually meant to be included in troops or cav units. those exceptions such as Glorfindel are rate as monsters but I cant see him joining a unit of ents.

[Bean]

Actually, it is disallowed, more or less explicitly. A hero joins a formation by being placed in that formation's Command Company. There's no other way to do it. If a formation doesn't have a command company, a hero cannot join it.

Monsterous formations don't have command companies--therefor, the can't be joined by heroes. I was basically thinking along the same lines, and after I read through the rules for heroes, I realized it wasn't legal.

If your regular opponents are doing this to you, this should get them to stop. If you were doing this to someone else, shame on you for not reading the rules better!

That having been said, the WOTR rules are full of holes and do desperately require an FAQ.

[pacopaco]

I like the "Render Useless" tactic. sometimes it back fires, though. For example, I have deep striked terminators to give the enemy a wallop, once the enemy unit is destroyed, I find that the enemy unit was so far away from the rest of the fight that my termies are now just having to walk across the table to engage another target.
I love doing it to people, but I hate when it happens.

[Cryl]

think you're in the wrong forum... which is a shame as I got all excited when I thought someone had posted in the LotR section

[Bean]

I posted!

I actually do kinda like the War of the Ring game. I've got a Moria army, but it's not quite assembled, yet. I want to be able to use my Wargs as Fleshhounds in my fantasy army, and I haven't gotten bases of the right size for them yet, so I haven't actually gotten a chance to play.

In addition, I have problems with this game because the rules are so poorly written. As is, the Ruin spell Exsiccate is the most powerful thing in the game, routinely killing about half of any formation you point it at, yet this is clearly due to an absurd oversight in the writing of the rules. It's as if the game was written to have a completely different system, in which hitting and wounding weren't the same thing, and then they decided to re-write the hitting/wounding rules but forgot to go back and change the stuff that inflicts hits on the enemy, leaving that stuff far more powerful than it was intended to be. And, really, that's only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to errors in the rulebook.

Even so, It's a pretty cool game and I'd like to try it out sometime.