Citadel 1980's Lord of the Rings: The Last March of Ents (completed).

I have finished my 'March of the Ents' army. 

As mentioned in an earlier blog post, the army in organised and based according to the Midgard rules set, and comprised of miniatures only from Citadel's 1980's Lord of the Rings (ME) range. The army itself is comprised of five Ents and two Hobbits (Merry and Pippin), and works out to be 384 points. All of my Midgard Lord of the Rings armies are around 400 points.  

Each of the Ents are classed as Monstrosities (Giant). I have retained the boulder throwing option (of course!), increased the armour value to 5, gave them Aura of Dread, and made them Relentless. They are quite powerful units, but the Ents were. They are expensive in points (66 points), and will be outnumbered, but that was the fate of the Ents in the book. The idea was to create some huge, scary, and terrifying monsters which, again, the Ents were.  

In Midgard you can't have a Monstrosity as a hero model. So in order to have some heroes I added Merry and Pippin to the army as they were present! At this stage of the Lord of the Rings they have not gained the experience of being with the Rohirrim or Gondorians, and so I kept them as quite mid range heroes, at Level 2 (although I do have spare points to increase them). Both have reduced armour, Hold Fast, Inspiring, Non-Combatant (I might change this) and Today We Fight to Win. Merry is classed as the Army General. 

Overall I'm happy with the army. It was fun to paint, and I enjoyed painting the Ents as they were easy and straight forward to do. Merry and Pippin are enjoyably characterful sculpts, full of that 1980's fantasy vibe. I have collected the army and painted it more for the enjoyment and quirkiness of having an Ent army, especially from the 1980's era. 

Enjoy :) 

Merry and Pippin lead the last March of the Ents. 

Pippin and Merry.
These are from the BME-1 The Fellowship of the Ring boxset. Basing them on 40mm round bases (as I do with heroes for Midgard) really works well. 

Treebeard. 
As mentioned before,I have already updated on the first batch of Ents which I have painted. However, I can't  remember which ones they were, so here they are all are! This one is Treebeard, recognisable because of his greying beard as described in the book. 

Ent.

Ent.

Ent.

Ent. 

Ents marching! 

I have been very busy of late painting 1980's Slann, and so forthcoming blog updates will be on them. I do however have a lot of other things I have been doing, such as assembling and basing 1980's Citadel Lord of the Rings armies, as well as my 1980's Regiments of Renown, amongst other things. The main thing I am short of is time at the moment, but I shall try to make more blogging time!