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I've had games where I've been disappointed with these guys, but I've also had games that I've really enjoyed using them (and I've both underestimated them and faced other players who have underestimated them). So let's take a second look at these guys and see what's to like about them and why they're so good to have in certain Mordor builds . Taking the Drummer Troll also makes your War Drum far less likely to be sniped by the enemy (D5 with 1 Wound/1 Fate is laughably easy to kill with most serious shooting threats), which preserves your army's overall speed much better than if you ran an Orc Drummer.

bases are pretty common for big monsters in MESBG (my beloved Balrog has one, as do Ents, Eagles, Shelob, Gulavhar, the Spider Queen, and Mordor Trolls/Chieftains), but with 6" movement AND a large base size, the typical situation a Mordor Troll will find himself in is that he will a) move towards the enemy line very predictably, b) charge or be charged, and c) be stuck in that general area for the rest of the game.

Our first stop is a "Tiberius Special" for Mordor - a list that fields a ton of units that I love (some of which people think are garbage from a competitive standpoint). Unless you're playing with the Army of Gothmog or an Isengard list/Legion, you'll always have access to a Mordor Troll Chieftain . If you took the hand-and-a-half hammer on the Troll, you can always choose to Bash the hero you're fighting - and if that hero is a S4 man-sized model, this means you're starting with a +3 advantage on the Bash roll-off WITHOUT two-handing (and you COULD two-hand to get a +4 advantage).Posts come out every Monday and Thursday (with the occasional bonus post), so check them out and join the discussion in the comments! On the following turn, our massive base size will make it hard for the hero to get around us - and he'll be down at least 1 Might point when we start round two . We will use anonymous information about the ad you saw and how you engaged with it to measure and improve our advertising campaigns in the future.

A similar strategy could be employed by using an Immobilize/Transfix spell caster - anyone who can cast either of these spells on a 2+ or 3+ against a model that can't resist them has the potential to stall out a good lump of points away from the action (or worse still, who is in the MIDDLE of the action but can't move and can't make Strikes if engaged). Trolls actually like this a lot, since a resource-depleted hero usually doesn't want to end up anywhere NEAR a F7/S7/3A model - let alone a monster model who can wound most man-sized models on 3s with Rend! If you're expecting me to say that every Mordor, Barad-Dur, and Isengard list should take at least one Mordor/Isengard Troll, you're going to be deeply disappointed. Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom.

With base F7, most heroes are going to need to declare a Heroic Strike just to tie/beat the Troll's Fight Value (the F8+ club is pretty exclusive), so we know that the hero is going to be down at least 1 Might point. We're back in our In Defense Of series for the next few weeks and I wanted to start off with what has become one of my favorite Mordor units: the Mordor Troll.