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Originally posted 13 June 2022 – AdamTheCon We return once more to Middle Earth to explore the other heroes of the Rohan army. I will admit that these heroes have not received quite the play time that those featured in Pt.1 had, however there are some clear and obvious positives and negatives for all of…

Originally posted 28 August 2021 – AdamTheCon But who will ride to ruin and the world’s ending? This is my attempt to think out loud about the heroes available to the Rohirim in Middle-earth™ Strategy Battle® Game² and, more specifically, who in particlar would be best suited to join my forces after the campaign in…

Originally published 23 August 2021 – Captain Ideas TABLEWORLD TERRAIN WINDMILL While there are a few reviews online for Tabletop World stuff, I noticed that most of them missed the crunchy stuff I wanted answers to before I sent a big load of money across the internet for what are, basically, very nice dolls houses.…

Originally posted 15 June 2021 – QuarterMaster Week two of posting army lists and we’re on to Cirith Ungol! This is a very different list from the standard Mordor shenanigans we’re all used to. When using this legendary legion you are extremely limited in the units that you can take – basically just orcs and…

Originally posted 8 June 2021 – QuarterMaster The war in the Wailing Foothills is over and after the dust has settled we have somehow found ourselves wanting more, more, Mordor! Our band of thieves has taken the momentum from our weekend of brawling and transitioned over to 800 point games. I don’t think any of…

Originally published 8 June 2021 – Captain Ideas ‘For when you gaze long into the abyss… you’ll realise you haven’t published anything.’ It’s been a while and I suspect some of our readers had reckoned the blog dead and that our MESBG Campaign in March didn’t go as planned. Neither of these things are true…

Originally posted 11 May 2021 – AdamTheCon War in the wailing foothills – campaign weekend player pack A little while back now the group had some absolutely cracking games of the Middle Earth Strategy Battle Game during a boys weekend to Dubbo. Lord of the Rings was not necessarily my first choice for a game…

Originally posted 16 January 2021 – AdamTheCon Trampling new ground. I’m a bit over painting horses. It’s lucky that I’ve finished with them. They’re not bad models, it’s just uninspiring painting various shades of brown onto four-legged creatures that GW decided to only ground one foot… So I’ve decided to do a test base that…

Originally posted 29 May 2021 – AdamTheCon Can you attach training wheels to a horse? When the other guys said we were going to start a Lord of the Rings campaign, I jumped at the chance. Only by happenstance did I manage to acquire some Rohirim miniatures weeks before. I had only expected to assemble…

Originally posted 9 January 2021 – StarFucker My first purchase for the Minas Tirith army, a box of Warriors of Minas Tirith, came together rather quickly (after an initial fuck-up of overspraying, stripping the paint, and starting again). I converted one spearmen into a banner bearer using some brass rod and a can of Kombucha…