Hey guys, bad news: today I spoke with a redshirt in my local store and he told me that shortly GW is going to repackage all LotR plastic infantry boxes, halving their contents and "lowering" their prices. Now don't jump for joy, this lowering is actually a covert per model price increase of almost 35%! Here's an example (sry it's in €, but that's what we have here...): currently, a standard infantry box (e.g. Warriors of Rohan, Gondor, etc) contains 24 models and costs 26€. In future the box will contain 12 models (so, 1 sprue instead of 2) and cost 17,50€! 20 models will thus cost 35€, a whopping 9€ more than they do now - that's about 34,6% increase! Typical GW... If you plan on getting some infantry, better get them sooner than later! Ye have been warned... :no: Be aware that this isn't a rumour anymore, he openly advertised it to me, unasked... it's a given. Unfortunately.

During our yearly LotR Community event in Germany on the Kauzenburg we had a semi official visit by a Games Workshop employee. He was allowed to tell us, that we will se a new version of the Skirmish Rulebook in February. He mentioned that there will be a new value for heroes which tells how much warriors the hero may command. Every warrior needs therefore a commander and the ratio between heroes and warriors is now not completely up to the player any more. No information on WotR and the Hobbit guys, but good news for the skirmish version of LotR.