Wondering if you can still make a Gondor horde army with the current GW catalog, i was going to make a Gondor army but i don't really like the idea of idea of relying on the heroes to be doing most of the heavy lifting(Aragorn and Boromir), so the other option seems to be a "Horde" army, but without low-point heroes, Denethor, Beregond, etc, it doesn't seems like you can make a very good horde army. Also, i generally like armies that uses tactics and its warriors/soldiers, so would a different army like Rohan or Lothlorien be a better option?

I bet if you go Faramir, Denethor, Damrod you can squeeze in quite a few Minas tirith warriors depending on your point range. I think Cirion is back on the website too? And he's potentially good in there too. I am sure you can but Beregond is the king of the hordes and he is OOP for now. Although with all the rereleases they've been doing maybe he'll be back someday.

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Hello,

Without those few low-cost heroes, it will be difficult to make a Gondor horde army. Damrod, Denethor and Beregond are really useful. Mid-level heroes (such as Madril, Cirion) can also do the job, but they're obviously less effective to horde.
Faramir is a bit higher points, but without so much options, he's still a good choice. You can also try captains/kings, who are in the mid-range heroes

But definitely, without the 3 low-points heroes, it is less effective :s


Rohan is difficult to use, because of the cavalry. When you try to make all-cav army, you have low numbers, and you're fragile. I think that relying on warriors only is difficult nowadays, due to their lack of versatility... A good player might be able to use it at his own advantage, I suppose? I've never play an horde army so I can't give the answer :p I'm one of those who like to have "a little of this, a little of that" in an army, such as elites, monsters,... in order to react to multiple threats And to have a pretext to collect all the minis :p


Sorry for the bad English :s

Getting those heroes are required to make the horde fun at 800pts,
Faramir, Damrod, Madril, Cirion and Beregond plus 60 warriors is a good start.

You can always check eBay for those cheap heroes. I also recently started with LOTR SBG and managed to get all heroes quite cheaply.

Thanks everyone for the replies!


Cirion is back on the site
Largonien your english if fine!
I will check around ebay to see whats available and i will be working an army list.

I'm also working on a similar army. Will be posting a WIP soon (once I've made some reasonable progress)! Great fun!

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I'll be interested to see that!:)