Glorfindel Lord of the West

Glorfindel was tall and straight; his hair was of shining gold, his face fair and young and fearless and full of joy; his eyes were bright and keen, and his voice like music; on his brow sat wisdom, and in his hand was strength." Glorfindel was one of the mightiest Elves of Middle-earth.

As I mentioned on my Lords of the West article, it's pretty hilarious that this was announced literally hours after I finished painting the much older Glorfindel. Like many Tolkien fans, Glorfindel is one of my favorite characters- even though I am 100% on board with what Peter Jackson did with Arwen in his stead.

Normally I absolutely HATE finecast, but this model really wasn't too bad overall. The casting was quite clean with very few supports and mold lines to clean up. Maybe that's only because the cast is so new.

He's been the leader of the Rivendell forces for most of our games- I prefer him to Elrond and Gil-Galad over all, only because of his flexibility. He can deal with just about anything. His biggest weakness is just his "killiness". Strength 4 is par for the course for most heroes, but given Glorfindel's cost it does feel a little weak. Though, he can two-hand AND has heroic strength, I just find my might on Glorfindel to be at an absolute premium while two-handing can be tough to pull off safely.

Plenty of battle reports to come featuring this guy!

Comments

Tabletop Admiral MESBG Army Builder now Live!

Edit- for those of you still using this page, the new edition URL is as follows : https://modular.tabletopadmiral.com/?gameUrl=https://nowforwrath.github.io/data2024.json And just the data file is at https://nowforwrath.github.io/data2024.json ************* Many of you who have frequented this blog and checked out some of my battle reports may have noticed just how nice my army lists looked! This is all thanks to Andrew, the developer of Tabletop Admiral. Many moons ago he worked on a modular system for his list builder and I volunteered to be the steward of the MESBG data- tirelessly click-clacking away to get your favorite profiles digitized! This builder is AWESOME. I've been using even the earliest alpha versions of it for well over a year and nothing else comes close. Love it to pieces! IF YOU COME ACROSS BUGS PLEASE E-MAIL ME DIRECTLY AT NowForWrathBlog@gmail.com The text below the cut is from Andrew's original announcement on Reddit, and details how to use the build...

500 point tournament report with Rivendell

I was really excited to play in a 500 point tournament over the weekend! It was the second of four connected tournaments in the "To War!" escalation series hosted at Your Hobby Place in Fredericksburg, VA. My report from the first tournament can be found here, where my Rivendell forces took third overall!

Ambush at Amon Hen!

Chris and I were looking to get a game in, but neither of us were feeling anything particularly "sweaty", or "meta" and so opted to do something I have yet to try in ME- play a scenario! With my recently completed fellowship we opted for the Ambush at Amon Hen.

Now For Wrath

Search This Blog