First War Of The Rohirrim Mini Revealed For Middle-earth!
August 29, 2024 by brennon
Games Workshop showed off plenty during the reveal show this week for Warhammer Age Of Sigmar and Blood Bowl but they also dropped an awesome preview for the Middle-earth Strategy Battle Game and the new War Of The Rohirrim-focused edition coming later this year.
Wulf // Middle-earth Strategy Battle Game
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After Helm Hammerhand lays the literal smackdown on his father Freca, Wulf swears vengeance against his family and decrees that he will burn Edoras to the ground. This impetuous youth comes with both a foot version and a mounted version as part of the War Of The Rohirim release and the best thing is that this miniature is plastic.
Wulf (Mounted) // Middle-earth Strategy Battle Game
I really like that the design team has managed to capture the dynamism of the character from the War Of The Rohirrim anime but also tie the miniature into the aesthetic of the rest of the Middle-earth range. The character works well with the look and feel of other plastic miniatures that we've had over the past few years.
The character comes with the ability to re-roll a single d6 during Duel Rolls and he can re-roll Wound rolls of a one against enemy Heroes. This makes him a fearsome leader for you to add to your Dunlending forces.
With this character being a brand new plastic figure, you've got to think that we're going to see some new plastic infantry (and cavalry) to go along with him. Surely it's finally time for that proper update to the range?!
Are you going to be scooping up Wulf and War Of The Rohirrim?
"...and the best thing is that this miniature is plastic"
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I like it, I think I like the version on foot more.
Zero interest in the game system mind.
I like it, not a fan of the horses head piece but the mini is nice. Looks like GW are doing a good job making anime into minis.
I think the horse is ducking all the hate ?
Might be a bit controversial but I really not a fan of the sculpt, feels way to clinical and overly dynamic with those modern G’Wulla wavy bits.
So they gave him Abaddon the Despoiler’s power claws from old school 40k? Cool, I guess.
I starting slogging through Teh Rings of Powah again. Blelves, Blobbits, Blarves, Chobbits! My Asian wife commented on how painfully over the top the wokeness was ?
What does “Woke” mean?
It means being “awake”, and comes from the term “are you even woke?” – basically, the movement to acknowledge white privilege and systemic racism. It has now been subverted by the righties to imply some kind of reverse racism, making it, ironically, exactly as it was intended. It’s a mess. Woke art delivers colour-blind casting, regardless of historical reality (BBC 19th century dramas? Yeah, let’s be frank: Black folk didn’t own the estates, they worked them…). This concept has now been taken by studios to promote higher diversity and inclusiveness. Sometimes it works seamlessly, and other times, it can be… Read more »
Interesting take on it. I get the point regarding historical dramas – I worry in 15 year time we will have a country who believe Bridgerton is factual. Not sure I agree regarding fantasy adaptations mind – Tolkien wasn’t exactly the most descriptive of writers when it came to people, so we have no way of knowing if he intended all of his characters to be white – we are largely just overlaying his writing with the era he wrote in to come to the conclusion his cast of characters weren’t diverse. Personally I have no issue with studios casting… Read more »
Oh for sure. It’s far too easy to just blast off the usual rubbish that people say for/against it, but like you, I embrace the idea of it – and there are quality, seamless versions. As you say, Bridgerton is a bad example of trying to re-write history. Really bad. As someone with a degree in history, I’m against the tearing down of statues and re-naming of streets and buildings, just because it is offensive in today’s light. Better to put a plaque up, explain today’s thought, and change the plaque as time and thought evolve. Erasing history means we… Read more »
The culture war is not an imagined thing I’m afraid. I wish it were so but it is not. It had its birth in the 60’s and has only gained momentum. Polictics is downstream from culture. Therefore if you change the culture you change the politics. Whether you or anyone else thinks this is good or bad, necessary or wanton, well…that I leave up to you. But do not dismiss it, or one day your grandchildren could wake up in a world that does not share your values.
Woke just means alertness to racial prejudice and discrimination. So being called woke is actually a good thing. However it has been used by right wing now to call anything they dont agree with woke. They seem to believe any development on social issues prior to 1920 when women start to get a vote is wrong and they call it woke. They dont understand what the term really means or care about any of the issues it raises. When we talk about history. Do you believe jesus who was born in the middle east was white and had straight black… Read more »
Pretty much what I said. The term has its roots in a powerful movement, and has been subverted to a negative connotation, or even some kind of accusation of being bad.
As far as culture wars, I am firmly a centrist. I’m not interested in either side of what has become an unfortunately polarized debate. Not interested, don’t have the time. I like me, I like stuff, I can change, or I won’t, but here I am. ?
I think you are missing the point there. ‘Woke’ is an umbrella term. It is like ‘porn’ – hard to define but you know it when you see it. It takes into consideration idelogies that in my opinion are very toxic and divisive and that divide poeple into competing groups rather than letting us see ourselves as individuals. This all has its roots in post-modernism. Ideologies like gender ideology, intersectionality, fourth wave feminism, white privilege, Whiteness, identity-based hierarchies and the list goes on – and yes it is a phenomenon of the far left and that is way it is… Read more »
At this point, I’m going to say this is just going in circles, and we’ll agree to agree or disagree, or wherever we’ve ended up!
Tapping out. Enjoyed the talk, back to little toys!
Forgot Feminem. ;P
But, seriously, Xena had it (somewhat). We should be over it by now.
Then again, it’s too forced in The Rings. Still, I feel the series is not that bad and not even so far off from Tolkien in a general perspective – i.e. it fits different aspects of themes and style. Alas, the presentation, the pacing, the emphasis, and many details are off. A lot doesn’t feel like Arda / Middle Earth. Which is weak for a prestige project of such a big company.
As I said, it takes real art to make it seamless – and when it’s forced, it feels cringey, for all the wrong reasons. Teh Rings of Powah! is that.