Plastic – easy to assemble, prime and paint, and pretty durable.Models come in the following materials in this game: Heroes: This lists the Heroes available to the faction, and what materials they’re available in.Historical Allies: The rules for which armies can be fielded together in the game are pretty complex, but under this entry, we’ve just listed the armies that each faction can ally with without losing their Army Bonus, which should give you a good idea of which armies it could make sense to collect as part of the same force.Army Bonus: Unlike the stratagems and subfactions and army traits of other Games Workshop games, each army in Middle-Earth Strategy Battle Game has just one Army Bonus rule that you get if you field a unified force from a specific army list, and for each faction, we briefly explain what it does.Introduction: Here, we briefly tell you about the lore background of the army, and if there’s anything specific you need to know about the army’s playstyle and the state of its model range or availability, we also note it here.Image: To keep things simple, we represent each army with just one image of some of the models available to it, to give you a feel of the style of the army without destroying your browser.Name: This is simply the official name of the faction.In this Middle-Earth Strategy Battle Game Factions Overview, we give you a brief primer for each of the armies available in the game, following this template for each faction: Middle-Earth Strategy Battle Game Factions: what each section will contain: However, the game has had a long life across several editions, and it can be difficult as a beginner to figure out which armies are available, how up to date the models for those armies are, and what materials they’re made of.

Tolkien and the film adaptations of Peter Jackson to life in plastic, metal and resin. Middle-Earth Strategy Battle Game is a vast tabletop miniatures game with a myriad of factions and models that bring the books of J.R.R.

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