Lord of the Dark Ages

I’ve spent this moring looking at statlines that could be suitable to use as Dark Age fighters.

I’ve started of using Rohan as the basis of most of the main units as, personally, I feel they have the most Dark Age feel out of all the factions in LoTR, I then spread out to other factions for stats i thought may be more appropriate.

For now i’m keeping unit types simple, using the generic unit types from Saga with some of the faction specific units. However I have split the Warlord type into King and Chieftain, to represent the idea that an army could consist of the King who has called all of his Chieftains to war.

The unit types and the LoTR units ive based their stats on:

King – King Theoden
Chieftain – Captain of Rohan
Hearthguard – Rohan Royal Guard
Warrior – Warrior of Rohan
Levy – Ruffian
Viking Beserker – Urak Hai Beserker
Irish Curaidh – Dunedain
Irish Wolfhounds – Grip, Fang & Wolf from Farmer Maggot profile
Wolfhound Handler – Warrior of Rohan

I also checked the special rules that were associated with the units and kept or discarded them as i thought appropriate.

I haven’t looked at wargear options yet, but again I will begin basing these on the options available in Saga. I think this is where wargear options will start effecting the statlines and therefore points cost. (For example, hearthguard assumes the unit has armour, but not all Welsh hearthguard had armour)

Attached below is the pdf of my work so far detailing what I have talked about above. You are welcome to look at it, and suggest alterations, more appropriate statlines and so on. Apologies for those reading this that do not have the Middle Earth rulebook some of the file may not make sense, but it would have been a lot to type up which I was too tired to do for now. I will be happy to answer questions.