The Lord of the Rings: Armies of Middle Earth: New White Dwarf dumps The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings?

Saturday, 25 January 2014

New White Dwarf dumps The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings?

Games Workshop have officially announced their two new magazines to replace White Dwarf today. White Dwarf becomes a very short 32 page weekly (stunted, indeed) and the monthly magazine is now called Warhammer Visions. From my point of view the interesting thing is that they have removed mention of The Hobbit (and, therefore, by implication, the whole Lord of the Rings game) from the cover. This means, I can only assume that only Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000 are now core games for Games Workshop.

I will have a look at them when they come out next Saturday.

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Scottswargaming25 January 2014 at 20:31
Must admit I havent bought a WD in many moons - the last one was the release of the first Hobbit starter set...
Sad to see them drop Hobbit/LOTR as a 'core game', especially with one movie still to go...
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joe5mc26 January 2014 at 11:51
I would guess we will still see Hobbit figures in the new weekly white dwarf, at least the new releases. The new monthly 'Warhammer Visions' by its title alone pretty much excludes LOTR.
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legatus hedlius26 January 2014 at 12:41
I hadn't heard that. Interesting,
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legatus hedlius26 January 2014 at 12:42
I wonder how many new The Hobbit releases there will actually be!
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legatus hedlius21 March 2014 at 09:33
I'm starting to buy out of production LotR figures off ebay now. I started up by buying the first battlegames in Middle Earth magazine. I painted the goblins in a day and my son and I played a game with the cardboard Aragorn on the kitchen table.
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Wargaming Middle Earth

I confess that I had never been a fan of The Lord of the Rings until Peter Jackson's monumental films came out. I had never read the books and had, years before, given up on The Hobbit half way through. Now I have read most of them (I am still struggling to finish the Return of the King) and whilst acknowledging their influence and scope still don't think they are particularly readable.

No, for me , it was the fantastic images created by the film that inspired me. Oddly, when Games Workshop came out with their Fellowship of the Ring boxed set I didn't buy it as I couldn't see how you could turn a film featuring largely invincible heroes into a satisfactory game.

It wasn't until D'Agostini came out with their Battlegames in Middle Earth part-work that I got interested, at the prompting of my little boy, Guy, and subsequently subscribed to the magazine; eventually collecting every issue.

I painted the 12 goblins included in the first issue in a day and my little boy and I immediately played a game using these and the cardboard Aragorn included as well.

Since then I must have acquired hundreds of figures, although very few are painted. Most are designed by the Perry brothers and are, as a result, completely gorgeous. Some of them are truly remarkable portraits, in 25mm, of the actors who played the parts in the films.

Occasionally, LotR games are played at Guildford but the main driver for me in getting more figures done is Guy, who loves playing the game.

So over the next year or so I will see how many more of these splendid figures I can get onto the gaming table and even have a go at making some scenic items.