The Armies Of Mordor

   One of my mates messaged me to ask me if I wanted a game, as he only plays Lord of the Rings I knew I was going to have to tidy up/add to one of my collections, however, when he told me the points limit, I knew I had a fair amount of work to do.

   I spent about a week trying to decide what direction to go in - mostly looking at my old Isengard force or my slightly newer but very unfinished Haradrim, but when he told me he was using a list based around the Grief of Eomer, which happens towards the end of Pelannor, I did a hard left into my to do pile and pulled out my sprues of Morannon Orcs.

I painted three warbands (a sprue each) of Morannon Orcs along with a Morannon Orc Captain for each - this would be the vast bulk of my army*.

*Although, I also proxied in a Isengard Troll as a Mordor Troll for some hitting power

It was at this point where I was posting photos on Istagram where he follows me, that I decided to use this as a chance to get more of the backlog painted and start to get inside his head pre game by painting models that I wasn't going to use, but that he might worry over.

The first model was a Mouth of Sauron, partly as it was an easy model to paint and partly as it's rules are quite good.

Then came Gothmog as he really helps Morannon Orcs out and he was only going to sit in the backlog if not.

I didn't stop there but that's enough for one post.

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