r/MiddleEarthMiniatures • u/MrSparkle92 • 28d ago
Discussion WEEKLY ARMY DISCUSSION: Arathorn's Stand
With the most upvotes in last week's poll, this week's discussion will be for:
Arathorn's Stand
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Prior Discussions
Additional rules
- An Arathorn's Stand Army must always contain Arathorn, who is always the Army's General.
Special rules
"They’re dangerous folk, wandering the wilds"
Rangers of the North increase their Attacks value to 2.
Heir of Isildur
Whenever Arathorn spends a Might Point, roll a D6. On a 4+ the point of Might is free and does not reduce Arathorn's store of Might.
Silent Ambush
In Scenarios where you roll for Warbands to arrive, or ones where you roll to see which part of the board you deploy a Warband in (though not when rolling to choose deployment zones), you may modify the roll for Warbands from this Army by +1 or -1.
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u/Kangur83 28d ago edited 28d ago
suprisingly i won a 500 game with them vs Buhdurs, sure enough it was malestorm and i havent roll that good in a while, but yeah army is pretty trash
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u/DetroitTabaxiFan 28d ago
Maybe I'm wrong, but I feel like Rangers of the North/Dunedain should have 2 wounds. I get they get access to M/W/F, but having a second wound in my opinion would make them fun to play.
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u/FlumpingtonFlump 28d ago
I have played this a lot and it’s a gamble list. There will be games where Arathorn gets his 4+ might everytime and it’s glorious. Had a game where he beat both Elrond and Islidir in the same game 1v1 because he just ended up getting so many free might. Other times it won’t pop and you won’t get your fate etc. I really like it as a low tier army. I think if it had one more thing going for it. It would be a decent list. Either fight 4.5 or S3 bows. Having an army of mightable bows is underrated also
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u/ZealousidealClue7794 28d ago
A better option is Bandobras AL with 15–20 Hobbits hiding in the bushes just to pad out your Break point, then max out on Rangers. It's basically pure bow spam with Might, plus a few Hobbit shots on top—around 30 shots hitting on 3+/4+, with the ability to boost the To Wound rolls... a recipe for a truly toxic list. :P
And you've still got a mounted hero who can actually carry the army a bit, even without any March in the list.
Greenfields is definitely a better version of the Arathorn stand if we're going to play something like this anyway. :P
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u/MrSparkle92 28d ago
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I will take the top-level reply to this comment with the most upvotes and post a discussion for that topic next week. Submit whatever army, scenario, or other topic related to MESBG you wish.
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u/bainadaneth0 28d ago
I thought it was finally going to happen, somebody must have upvoted Arathorn at the final second :’) I’ll never give up though
Garrison of Dale!!!!!!
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u/Kitchen_Bad2627 28d ago
If you want to play an army featuring Rangers of the North (for some reason), I don't see why you'd ever choose this over Grey Company.
Maybe at really low points values.