88 has a metal Lord of Dol Amroth miniature, decorated in a fetching blue and white. There is a scenario and rules for staging a battle at Dol Amroth, defending the fortress. I comes with 6 card stock miniatures, of mounted Knights of the afore mentioned fortress. Prince Imrahill gets the nice painting guide treatment which I’m itching to do, the miniature was mounted before I wrote this and I’m waiting for the glue to dry. Then there is an excellent model of the fortress which isn’t too big, and I really want to make this one.

89 comes with Woses, well one Woses to be exact, namely Ghan-Buri-Ghan (forgive me for not doing the diacritics) This model is reminiscent of the orc shaman model, as he stands the same way. As he likes to ambush beings, there are instructions for this and a scenario entitled the Dangerous Journey, where the Rohirrim travel down a secret road on the way to Minish Tirith. We get a painting guide, detailed as ever but this guy has interesting face painting to ruin your lovely graded flesh tones. Finally there are some traps that he can set, in the modelling workshop. Not too exciting but there is a nice one where an uruk-hai finds himself upside down suspended from a tree by the trap.

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