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Missives from Middle Earth #9 "...and they were grave and beautiful."

on October 15, 2025

Galadhrim Games Workshop Lothlorien Middle Earth Strategy Battle Game Missives from Middle Earth

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Proto-Astartes in k0rdhal pattern powered armour

on October 09, 2025

Astartes Fiction Kitbash The Horus Heresy Warhammer

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Missives from Middle Earth #7 "...A chance for Faramir, Captain of Gondor to show his quality."

In my last Missive from Middle Earth I outlined my aspiration to bring my Garrison of Ithilien force up to around 500 points by painting up another couple of Warriors of Minas Tirith with bows. Over the festive break I was able to get a few painting sessions in as we had a very quiet Christmas in the Tangential Contrivances household, so I knocked out the archers quite quickly (not having a shield and the extra steps that entails makes them a lot faster to paint!). It turns out that I hadn't quite done my sums correctly though, even with two additional bowmen, I had left a few too many points unspent for comfort. After some hasty recalculation, looking back over the army list and then digging through my stash of MESBG minis, I came up with a solution to the problem in the form of one more Knight of Minas Tirith. Having used one of the lances from the kit to kitbash my Warrior of Minas Tirith with banner though, I found that the pose of sole remaining lance arm wasn't working...

Proto-Astartes in k0rdhal pattern powered armour

Though perfectly balanced, the sword feels heavy in his hands. He was told it was an heirloom of a clann of Nord Alba, but it is not the history of the blade that weighs upon him so. He is oathed to this moment. The soft breath of the wind catches the wax sealed parchment afixed to his vambrace but he needs no reminder of the words he spoke not two hours before, for his eidetic memory would not let him forget them even if he tried. Besides, it is not his oath that feels burdensome. His genhanced eyesight allows him to pick out individual warriors among the horde that has assembled upon the Katabatic Plains. Most look to be baseline humans, armed with lasfusils and stubguns, their slight frames encased in carapaces of burnished plate, the edges flaring crimson in the pre-dawn light. A day like this might once have been considered ill-omened for dawning red, but in these enlightened times, such superstitions are frowned upon. There is a commotion among the horde as larger men force ...

Missives from Middle Earth #6 - "...despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt."

It's been a little over six months since I last wrote of my adventures in Middle Earth which is far longer than I'd originally anticipated, but once the new edition of the Middle Earth Strategy Battle Game was announced in August, I decided to hit the pause button until there was more info on how army building would work going forward. My thinking was that while of course no one from Games Workshop would come round to my house and tell me how I could use my models, I didn't want to end up working on stuff which might be rendered invalid in the new edition as hobby time is precious. The upshot of this being that Hurin and Ingold have languished unattended upon my painting desk for the latter half of this year (though, I did paint their bases at least!). Having taken delivery of a shiny new copy of the Battle for Edoras set and the revised Armies of Middle Earth book last weekend, it turns out that there are no profiles for them thus far, so I think I made the right choic...

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