u/Florohir

Alright, so I've played about three or four maelstrom games, and every single time me and my friend realized thet we did the deployment wrong. I've read the passage explaining maelstrom in the matched play guide like 10 times but I just can't seem to grasp it. It also doesn't help that I've seen multiple youtube channels do it differently as well, either mistakingly or on purpose for balance reasons. Can someone explain to me what the sequence of deployment is?

Lets say, as an example, you have a match between Defenders of the Pelennor with 3 warbands (Aragorn, Theoden and Imrahil), and Legions of Mordor with 3 warbands (Witch King, Gothmog and Amdur). You've just determined which way is north. And now? Do you roll for priority and then roll for ALL of your warbands? Or do you roll for 1 warband, then your opponent, alternating as such? Or do you both roll for 1 warband, then play a turnz and the next turn for another warband, etc.? And if its the case where you and your opponent roll for all warbands in 1 turn, do you then proceed to the shoot phase (since it says 'at the end of your move phase in the matched play guide). Please free me from this confusion 🙏🏻.

Two questions concerning Aranarth's special rules. His 'Remnants of Arnor' states: "Friendly Dunedain models treat Aranarth as a banner. Additionally, all Dunedain models in the same army list as Aranarth gain the Arnor keyword."

1. Does the banner effect work on himself, since he has the Dunedain keyword?

2. Isn't the last part of this rule redundant? It's already stated in the army rules for Arnor, and in Battle of Fornost, the only other list that includes Aranarth, there are no benefits from haveing the Arnor keyword, so it doesn't do anything there either.

As an aside, it seems to me that, even if the banner included himself, 80 points for Aranarth is enough to make him last pick in any Arnor list, even after captains.