I've been secretly getting my friends more and more into in for big games like this

Its the best GW game witht the fewest players. Once people get into it/get past some of the lame models they are hooked.

@@joshuaginn792 Titanicus is better imho, but they're both great :)

Zorpazorp Gaming has great Battle Companies BR.

Thanks for the comment. I exclusively use pen and paper. Some people use battle scribe but I think its a lot more hassle than it is worth

anything with that much armour can be primed with a metalic primer so you need less coats. and uruks are dirty muddy boys so make heavy use of brown washes and shades, lighten the skin with an orangeish brown and the leather with a tan colour. maybe even dry brush the raised edges with silver to make them look sharper.

would be super cool if You'd be able to create guides where to start collecting different armies not to be disappointed. Personally im into Angmar, but every faction would be interesting ;)

Hey Jacob, not sure if this is a dumb question but can warriors of Erebor take both shields and spears at the same time? I know there's an upgrade available in their stat block but there doesn't seem to be any model not holding a spear in two hands in this kit. Keep up the great content and thanks for all the advice!

@@CuttingRoomLore Yep they can take them both at once!

@@CuttingRoomLore Yep totally fine to take spear and shield together

Battle of pelennor fields or if wanted hobbit could do thorin and company and that white ork

Hey mate, I talk about this in the video. I absolutely recomend the Pellanor fields box set. It is a very solid start, both the good army and the evil army can be very competitive with very little added to them I talk exactly about what I recomend adding in the video

Yes, this is just the updated version. It’s the same game at its core.

Play Mordor and just keep track of your wraith to model ratio. As you find things that perform better, adjust the numbers accordingly until your army matches your playstyle and luck averages.

Yep every faction has regular captain's and a few other generic heroes such as a king of men to represent any of the king's of Gondor, or orc shamans who buff surrounding orcs

They are very very similar with a few add ons such as more heroic action but at their core its very much the exact same

I would definitely recomend the Battle of Osgiliath. It gives you two great starting armies that you can build on, as well as a decent amount of terrain. All you need to do is add a couple more heroes and you have two full armies

Definitely plenty of goblins! Groblog and a cave troll are also a great addition

@@ConquestCreations Ok Thanks

Lots of people proxy with models from all over, you just want to make sure you have the right scale

​@@ConquestCreations It would be awesome if they do. Although the biggest barrier seems to be that-GW don't sell MESBG minis 😅 after being convinced to try it out thanks to great content creators like yourself, I learned that GW don't even list the (new) faction I'm interested in.

Have an army of trolls lol

nope. You have to paint all the miniatures yourself

@@benni3754 that sucks.....hard to find time to play, let alone try to paint in detail something so small....

No, but fight value is still very important. When having two heroes going against each other, you are possibly rolling 2-4 dice, so getting a six is very likely. If that doesn’t come up, it’s very common that people will spend might to increase that roll to a six. So if you don’t have the fight value, then loosing a fight is more of an issue. Does that make sense?

@@adrianneumann5867 that makes sense thank you. I've just started playing so I suppose I just haven't come across situations where fight values importance is obvious. I've only had a couple of games so far and they've been quite simple so I can get used to the rules so haven't had any hero v hero battles like in your example. One of the scenarios I played all the units had the same FV as well so draws went straight to 50:50 roll offs which made FV seem a bit pointless but I'll keep an eye on it as I play more and games get a a bit more detailed.

@@davidwallin4515 yeah good idea! Just getting more and more familiar with the game as well as watching other people will help you with becoming a better player. Do you have the pelennor fields box? What factions are you interested in, I’m happy to give an tips.

@@adrianneumann5867 Yes I got the Pelennor box set to start off with. There's some scenarios included in that that start simple and get more complex at introduce more rules. Just basic battling to start with but have started adding special rules like terror and heros. Faction wise I'm having trouble trimming my interest down 😂 with so many big and iconic battles in the core story I want to recreate them all at some point (not I quick process getting that many models I know!). I suppose I'm being overly enthusiastic as a new player and huge fan of the core books. Any suggestions, tips, tricks or anything you can share will be gratefully received though!

@@davidwallin4515 I had that same exact problem when I started, I was so eager and excited to play out all the cool battles from both the books and the movies, do you have discord? This would be make this conversation much easier.

Not specifically but its works really well in co-op if you are playing scenarios