Even the Wise

Today I played an extremely fun game of MESBG, and thought it was the perfect excuse to revisit this blog. It also featured 2 armies of my own, fully painted, so it also serves to show off some nice pictures. Here are the armies we'll be playing: I'll be piloting Mordor, and my rival will be playing with the MT army. My opponent is a new player, but fortunately he got the hang of the rules very quickly, and we had a great game. The scenario we drew was Clash by Moonlight, which had me somewhat worried as I had never played it, and my assumption was that his bows would tear me a new one.  As may be seen in the picture further down this post, there were some hay stacks that were impeding the clear advancement of my troops. My opponent also had a picnic table dividing his forces. We ruled that the picnic table wasn't an impediment for his movement, and fortunately I got the same ruling for the patch of overgrowth my Orcs had to move through. Turn 1: Priority Evil. The forces o...

Today I had a great game of MESBG, so I thought I'd share. (I know, I need to paint my Gothmog and WK, and the banner bearer too). These were the armies: We were playing Domination, and this is what the board looked like after deployment. Basically, on my left flank, Gothmog and his warband facing off against Famamir with the majority of his bows, and a Captain with a fair amount of warriors. On my right flank the WK was facing Boromir and a Captain, and some warriors of MT. Turn 1 : Priority Evil . Gothmog calls a heroic March to try to reduce the impact of the bows . The WK and his warband move forward and uses compel on Boromir in order to move him to a more convenient position and to prevent him from charging this turn . On Gothmog 's flank some warriors of MT engage with the orcs , but the lines do not fully crash . By the end of this turn only one orc and one warrior of MT had died . Turn 2 : Priority Good . WK calls a move , and Boromir responds . Roll -off goes Evil ....