Hey Guys, the scenarios at Ardacon in order were: Lords of Battle, Domination, Control the Battlefield, Destroy the Supplies, Reconnoitre and Assassination

Nice! Love these army reviews

Hi really nice video! :D I really enjoy watching top peoples armies & strategies. Personally, I like the game most on 800 points. I have a feeling that how lower the points, how more important numbers are. Around 700-800 points, people start to add in a few big things, I think 800 points really balances the game, but I'd love to hear your thoughts. For example: Azog hunter's army has really high numbers, but if you just add in bolg (full equipment) + 2 hunter orcs, you already have 800 points. The same goes for most armies. I think this makes spamming cheap units less effective, since it's hard to engage all 60+ models for example on a board with terrain. Also, this makes other tactics (Magic, archery, cavalry...) more useful tools.

Sean's my favorite. No doubt in my mind, truly an all around Okay bloke 👍 .

Try 98 goblin town Goblins at 600pts with Scribe so you need more models when you get reinforcements! 😇

Great vid as always Nice to hear from Sean. How come Sean’s not playing in the contest champions league.

1st and 2nd drew in the final game, and Nicky's dwarves came up against Jay's Lake-town for Reconnoitre so the dwarves didn't stand a chance.

Great video great armies, weird lake town get 3 teams top, i think those guys are also pros.

Btw @50:00 gulavhar is not the only monster beside shelob! Funnily, mick said in the unexpected podcast that just came out that he said shelob only killed 6 models or so in the 5 games haha

It's interesting. Even being in the UK there's definitely much more of a focus on numbers over big heroes or monsters compared to what you see in a lot of batreps or hear about in other places. I'm curious if that's bleed over from WFB having been more popular once upon a time here than elsewhere.

Is any of your merch in the store gonna come back?

You could take Bombur with the Survivors of LT list in a green alliance if you took the Champion of Erebor version.

One other thing I noticed was there was very little cavalry epically compared to what I've seen at least in the Victorian scene

The guy in second had unusual heroes because he was in a team with jay so they all had to have different heroes

Finally got to the end - quick correction: there are two monsters. Gulavhar, of course, but also Shelob. :-)

Seems like a lot of these tourny list are favoring more models. When I play 600 pts I generally don't go above 25-30 models bc I like playing with a theme. Like an army led by a hero, but perhaps my lists are never as competitive. Also I'm here in the US so maybe our playstyle is different too.

With that assult on helms deep list can somebody explain why it has so many pikes? Im assuming its just to make all your guys have +2 attacks but seems strange not having any shield guys

Are the model bases not available on Conquest Creations shop anymore?

I know this is an old video... do you guys not make infantry STLs anymore? I only see terrain on your store

I have 2 questions. If a model has a bow and shoots, and then is engaged in combat, will he automatically change to sword and shield to fight? And if a model with 2 handed sword in combat gets a 6 on dice, making it a 5 for using 2 handed sword, can this model use a mite to make it a 6? Or 5 is the maximum value for him? Thanks

I'd imagine Alfrid is less 'leading a warband' than 'hires himself bodyguards'.

is Ardacon recorded somewhere? would love to see the Battle reports

BlackMist is one of the hosts of An Unexpected Podcast (on the DC Hobbit League KZfaq channel)

Arrrrrda should contain some Corsair armies

When is the next contest of champions battle report out

Spectre

surely number of dice is key to MESBG

The Hobbit armies drove me away from SBG for a long time.

2 monsters u had Shelob

I think the 5th place list could take Bombur from Erebor Reclaimed to do the Alfrid/Bombur thing . . .

Interesting analysis but I think you fall into the trap of assuming Lists make a difference. Player skill is the number one factor here. Most of the top ten players are consistent tournament winners. In fact I don't think any of them have never podiumed before and it includes two Warhammer World Grand Tournament winners, Two Ardacon Winners, and three who have won some of the Great British Hobbit League's most competitive players. Also Jay has played Lake Town for years, and has won consistently with it for years - it's always been considered very strong in the UK (3 out of top 5 players playing it is a giveaway!).

laketown op

Yeah coming from other genres, I hate the whole points system, there's only one system that makes sense to me if you want to be a truly competitive system: Bracket system with a winner and losers side, to explain it simply: Two losses and you are out. (First loss takes you into losers bracket, second loss means you are out of the tournament). when two people left, the winner of winners bracket goes against the winner of losers bracket. Winner of winners bracket needs to win once. winner of Losers bracket needs to win twice.

I still can't believe you shill alt models but try to promote the actual game. If you love MESBG, promote the actual models.