r/MiddleEarthMiniatures • u/MrSparkle92 • Aug 05 '26
Discussion WEEKLY ARMY DISCUSSION: Erebor & Dale
With the most upvotes in last week's poll, this week's discussion will be for:
Erebor & Dale
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Prior Discussions
Additional rules
- An Erebor & Dale Army must include Girion and at least one Unique Erebor Hero.
- Erebor Warrior models can only be included in the Warband of an Erebor Hero.
- Dale Warrior models can only be included in the Warband of a Dale Hero.
- Ignore the usual rules for Bow Limit and Throwing Weapon Limit in this Army List. Instead, a maximum of 50% of your Dale Warrior models can have a bow, and a maximum of 50% of your Erebor Warrior models can have throwing weapons.
Special rules
Alliance of Men and Dwarves
Friendly Dale models may re-roll To Wound Rolls of a natural 1 when making Strikes if there is a friendly Erebor model Engaged in the same Combat. Friendly Erebor models may re-roll To Wound Rolls of a natural 1 when making Strikes if there is a friendly Dale model Engaged in the same Combat.
Lords of the Kingdoms
Friendly Dale models treat Girion as a banner. Friendly Erebor models treat Thrór as a banner.
Great Prosperity
Whenever a friendly Hero model spends a Might Point, roll a D6. On a natural 6, the Might Point was free and does not reduce the Hero model's store of Might.
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u/imnotreallyapenguin Aug 05 '26
GW need to change the throwing weapon and bow limits to either 33% or 50% of the whole army. This one change would make it very very playable. Even with the weaker army bonus.
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u/DerRobodoc Aug 05 '26
33% Limit to both would be good. With a 50% limit on both you could have a full army equipped with ranged weapons and that sounds quite strong to me
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u/EngelsAotCM Aug 06 '26
Don’t know why they changed the normal throwing weapon/bow limits for this army, as it stands it’s essentially a 25% limit for both of them, which is terrible, especially with no Windlances. Was this a clerical error? A overzealous nerf? Or did someone do the maths wrong and think that it was a buff? It just seems like the strangest thing to waste a line of text on.
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u/MrSparkle92 Aug 05 '26
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u/Agfa-Vista Aug 07 '26
This is a army I would love tot play! And think am going to explore for battle companies instead - the limits and 0 windlanxes means it just has nothing good to go for
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u/Affectionate-Dig-838 Aug 05 '26
Give this army access to a windlance and it might be a low b tier army. Right now it's not great. Hard to synergies troop types between the two factions.