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Army Encounter
Found in Fangorn Forest
Free Peoples: Ents are automatically recruited, and are worth at least 20,000 points. Found in Fangorn Forest. (Bobbins)
Neutrals & Dark Servants: An encounter with Ents is a very bad thing and will result in massive casualties. Eric Ker and Keith Petersen, along with a couple of others who's names I can't remember, have reported what appears to be two distinct Ent encounters. One is Huorns and Ents, another is Treebeard and ents. The first seems to be a straight army, the second an army plus the addition of a character (Treebeard, who's like any other NPC). The information is sketchy, since no one's challenged or located Treebeard to see if he stands out in the same way that Saruman, Gandalf, etc. do (so far as I know). (Bobbins)
Ents are so rarely seen that all information on them is sketchy at best. It's said that they'll destroy an evil or neutral army they run into, possibly killing all attached characters. They may or may not join the Free Peoples, depending on their mood. Ents are said to provide a huge combat bonus (as much as a dragon) and to act as a built-in set of siege engines when attacking a fortified pop center. I recently had the good fortune to fight ents and huorns in one of my games. Unfortunately, we were defeated after a protracted battle and so were unable to estimate the actual combat strength of the ents. The only thing I was able to ascertain with any certainty is that ents are worth at least 20,000 points.
Several rumors concerning ents tend to agree. It appears that only the Free Peoples can recruit ents, and that they're only encountered by armies crossing the Fangorn Forest. Given that armies almost never enter this region, this would account for Entish rarity.