The Witch King gets bumped up a level to a Hero of Legend in Angmar armies, all Uruk Hai heroes in Assault Upon Helms Deep Legendary Legion lists can take six extra followers, etc so it is always worth reading the army special rules and any Legendary Legion special rules when choosing your army. ![]() Grima Wormtongue is an example (though you actually want to stick him on to an enemy character to use his ability) as are things like Drummers in Evil forces. May not be army leader but can be added to another heroes warband. Tier 5 – Independent Hero – Some guy with no followers. Orc Shaman on Warg plus a gang of Wargs is a staple warband in a number of Evil forces. Good for putting a small warband on the table and often with a special ability. These are generally unnamed magic casters, a few monsters, and minor combat characters. Tier 4 – Minor Heroes – 6 Followers and cannot be the armies leader. Forgeworld have added a lot of these models in the various supplements. Such models are very points efficient and great for leading a small force. There are a number of captain equivalents with names but with more Heroic Abilities and Might for not many more points at this level that are generally worth looking at, a lot of whom are things like named Orc characters like Mauhur or Gorbag. These minor heroes are often the glue holding big armies together, and in 4/500 point armies you may have your force led by one of the 2-3 heroes at this level that you’ve chosen. These are your jobbers, your captain and captain equivalents, the characters you have to google, that guy who was in that thing, you know, them, and people who don’t get introduced by name in the movie. Tier 3 – Heroes of Fortitude – 12 Followers. These are still big and important characters (some more so than some Heroes of Legend) and in sub-1000 point forces often the biggest hero in the force. This is models like Ringwraiths, Durbuz King of the Goblins, Galadriel’s husband that everyone forgets about, Eomer, Theodred, Gandalf the White, etc. Tier 2 – Heroes of Valour – 15 Followers. Tier 1 heroes are generally big expensive linchpins for your entire army who will be in the thick of the fighting, and get a big group of friends befitting their status. This is your Aragorn King Elessar, Theoden, Saruman, Balrog, Galadriel, Elrond, etc. Tier 1 – Heroes of Legend – 18 Followers and the Hero gets the Last Stand rule, automatically passing their first Courage test when the army becomes Broken. ![]() Some armies have special rules here that let heroes take more followers than they normally would, and I’ll give a couple of examples. The highest tier hero you have is automatically your army general, because the design team got sick of armies with Sauron or the Balrog being led by an Orc captain hiding behind a big rock for the entire game. In Matched Play army construction there are a number of different types of heroes, who can take a certain number of followers. Sauron leading a force including Balrogs in the First Age is too cool not to do, and Open/Narrative is there for you to do it. If you are playing Open or Narrative at the club or store, you need to talk to your opponent first about what to do in terms of scenario, and that’s always more complicated than ‘600 points ok?’ but often a rewarding way of playing. Tournament players are a minority of players, but a very vocal and online minority, whereas narrative players and people playing at home, doing their own thing, are very quiet about it online, but are thought to be significantly larger in numbers (with people who collect stuff, paint it and just display it being another large and generally quiet group). If you want to just play scenarios and do your own thing, this is a totally valid way to play and there is nothing wrong with it. In Narrative and Open Play you can basically do what you like, and the scenarios across the ME:SBG supplements feature a lot of forces not legal in matched play. If you are wondering what happens with siege engines like catapults, they are their own little warband that can’t be joined by anything else unless you are buying extra crew or whatever from the options in the army list entry for that unit.
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