Really enjoying the mesbg competitive chats. Please more.

this review is Spot on, great content by the as well lads, a fellow Albertan appreciates seeing what local Canadian Meta is ahead of the battle of Amon Sul, i know we will see at least 1 emperor there but wondering how'd they'd match up against the attack on lothlorien LL

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the worst part about the Emperor is that you cant really play Amdûr & Khamul anymore...

fought a couple emperors. different players. both LL. once im using khazad dum once using corsairs. did not feel broken/undercosted. sure he's an awesome buff bubble on palanquin. but base size makes him super easy to block, or his own guys block him without you even doing anything. so you have to either lose the pal or waste his combat ability. also on pal if you put him in front so no friendly blocks he's a huge target. and infantry slow. he WILL be shot. and once he goes everything goes. way i see it he's got 200 points worth of abilities but you will only ever get to use 80% of them. thats where the 170 is from.

i like the including of dragon knight in the list.

As a Ranger/Grey Company player it's my worst match up until now, my best achievement was a draw on take and hold against them, otherwise I just can't do anything.

With this style, skip 2 acolythes to warriors with shield and make a weapon swap to 1 pick/axe on the acolythes.

I don't think it's undercosted. Having played with and against easterling before and after the Emperor, he doesn't feel undercosted. His biggest strenght is that he can still do something while doing nothing thanks to its passive auras, but you never feel you can bring out it's full power. He can be targeted by basically anything that can due to how big it is, and he's very easy to slow down. It has glaring weaknesses that can be easily used against him. Then, it's not fair to judge a hero in a vacuum. Yes, the Emperor does a lot, but the army he's in? Easterlings are just not that good, they always were a watered down Minas Tirith with less option. They don't have punching strenght, with only Khamul on Fell Beast and piercing striking captain on foot with 2hw able to deal confortably with high defence. For all her prowness, Rutabi is not going on a killing streak anytime soon with S4 and no bonus. You need brorgir, but for all the good he does he's still 85 points on top and a spell may not always be successful. Easterling cavalry doesn't hit hard, the archery is mediocre at best. Magic is there, but harder to cast then most equivalents. The heroes aren't that good at killing ,even the supposed lord of blades can be kept at bay by a 9 points dwarf. Elites are overcosted, no "Bodyguard" or "Fearless" units to keep isolated objectives. Proof that the emperor is fine as he is is that, overall, easterlings are not being dominant. They have a few good options that finally gave them a fighting chance, but that's it.

Mitchell "Nah he aint that good" Guys "What about xyz and abc?" Mitchell "Yeah that's very fair" In my experience yeah, he's undercosted in the LL. I've never played against him outside it so can't speak about that. I also think it's a bit of a cop out to say "Just don't fight him with characters bro" There's lots of missions where getting points off the enemy general is critical, and there are other slow characters who are at risk if the emp gets a heroic combat off, or fights across your line from the flank. He is like a slow coal train. Yeah, don't walk on the tracks and you're fine, but find yourself on them and you're doomed! Because he's still coming to the station and you probably can't stop him with anything short of a 200+pt character like Azog or Elendil, or a big crazy set up combo like enrage beast plus invisibility on spiders or a warmachine. Honestly the way I'd fix him is I think he should be able to be knocked off his palanquin with a monstrous charge, or being hurled. I get that it's cheap to blast him off or have something to hurl into him. I also think what Jay says isn't the law. His job is to release rules to sell minis. We have seen power creep in the game in the last few years, no question. Every Easterling player I know would play him at 200pts. No question.

I think the emp NEEDS to lose resistant to magic. This would make him more balanced in toureys because it would give him some terrible matchups (WK on fell beast, sarruman, radagast) I think he does need a nerf to his main profile outside of this too e.g:only half of the bearers can strike blows. However, I do think the LL has to be nerfed to the ground. It just makes any other easterling army type (Amdur or Khamul) totally useless in tournaments

guy in the bottom right is huffing savage copium in this podcast

I think the Emperor is fine, beeing a support hero, not a hero killer. Rutabi is underpriced. Should cost as much as Gothmog. Yes master of battle on 3+ but she has a fighter Profile as Elrond

He's very undercosted. 200 points minimum. In his Legion he gives absolutely excellent abilities.

I'd advise to add the credited accounts to description as well