New Eomer Miniature Coming To Middle-earth SBG Soon
August 20, 2020 by brennon
Games Workshop is lining up a long-awaited miniature for pre-order this weekend. The new plastic version of Eomer is going to be hitting the Middle-earth Strategy Battle Game and fighting to free Rohan from the grip of Saruman and his Uruk-Hai.
Eomer // Middle-earth Strategy Battle Game
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This new version of Eomer comes with a lot more options compared to your standard plastic kit from Games Workshop, especially for a character. You get a number of different heads, weapon options and ways in which to pose said weapons when it comes to building the miniature. I also reckon there should be some hat-tipping considering the detail they've managed to work into the character this time around.
One of the things I was worried about with the sculpt was that it wasn't going to match the proportions of some of the older miniatures in the range. However, from looking at some of the battle shots that Games Workshop released this week, it isn't a bad match.
Eomer Battle Scene // Middle-earth Strategy Battle Game
As well as the mounted version of the character that you're seeing here, you will also get the character on foot so that you can use him to defend his lands with sword and shield, toe-to-toe with the Uruk-Hai. I still stand by the fact that they haven't really bothered to make the miniature look like Karl Urban here. Whilst some of the new plastic miniatures are very inline with their movie counterparts, it appears that Eomer has drifted away from his onscreen likeness.
Eomer Battle Scene // Middle-earth Strategy Battle Game
It seems like it won't be long before more Middle-earth hits the tabletop. As well as Eomer you've also got The Quest For The Ringbearer book on the way and hopefully a few more characters to help bulk up the range and/or improve upon some of the old sculpts.
The Middle-earth Strategy Battle Game is still one that hits all the right notes for me. I love that it can be played as a battle game or with individual characters, a group of friends and plenty of narrative elements. I still can't wait to try and (one day) play through all of the scenarios from the films/books with beautiful terrain and a fully painted host of miniatures.
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Nice.
Love MESBG and cant wait for this miniature.
Very nice. Eomer he’s the hero. Number of orcs goes down to zero.
Great miniature for a great game.
Love that they still release miniatures for MESBG but im still expecting that maybe someday they will release a new army and not only heroes.
Someone in my flgs mentioned that GW doesn’t have the rights anymore to make the likeness of the actors from the movies. Any truth to that?
No truth in that as far as I am aware. They still retain the movie rights, which includes actor’s likenesses I believe.
Their new CAD techniques and virtual sculpting style, while excellent in many ways, just doesn’t seem to be as good at replicating specific features as the Perry twins and Brian Nelson were for the original metal models.
Mind you, it is still better than Gary Morley used to do… Elrond…*shudders*
It is a pretty badass sculpt. Makes me think of getting the not-greatly painted Rohan army I did as a teenager back on the table with himself.
It’s a really cool model. Personally still prefer Knight of the Pelennor sculpt though. I just wish they’d release the gaps in the range rather than new sculpts of existing models.