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Sam's attire would make 1970s Elton John proud.

Excellent tutorial, Sam!

Good flaming brand painting tutorial. Easy to follow along. It’s cool to see your fire technique on one of the newer released models as well.

I enjoyed the hobby video! Good change of pace to mix in with the batreps, in my opinion. It’s cool to see different paint schemes and styles out there that stands apart from what the box art is. Loved the finished preview at the end. I feel the same about painting eyes at this scale! You’ve got to get so close to get into them well enough. If I had any notes, the airbrush compressor in the background is distracting at the first part of this video. It was easier to listen in once the brushwork steps began. Cheers! Looking forward to watch the next one.

Best Christmas tale I've ever heard

In MARC league, for instance, with an 80 point tournament, what if Best Sportsman was worth 1/4 of total. So you could get 20 points extra for that. It could rack up over a season.

I had an ale idea: Osgiliath Veteran ale; overcosted as all hell, but we still drink it in hopes it will one day actually be good.

Ian here! Good to see the picture of Ben in the helmet got thumbnailed, it's my absolute favorite picture thus far. As this year's champion, I thought I'd clarify some things for Sam. 1. The podium was me in 1st, with Jimmy Coughlin's MT/Fiefdoms in 2nd and Matt Iverson's Fornost in 3rd. I think Henry and the Troll-Toll list was dead center with 2-1-2, which was fun to see. 2. I cracked up multiple times playing against Jimmy's normal sized Minas Tirith lads because my WoMT and Fountain Guard TOWERED over his, and my mounted Elessar is basically the size of a troll. I'll be dialing it back for my upcoming projects, based on some comments I think I bridged the gap from absurd and went straight into psychological warfare. On more than one occasion someone didn't fully register the threat Earnur posed because Elessar was so large and in charge by comparison, and my warriors being Beorning sized on tall bases dominated sightlines enough to make it seem like I had numerical superiority. Given I was at 32 models, I generally didn't. 3. I voted for Matt Iverson in Best Painted. The vibe I've gotten is that every one of his lists has already won best painted in the past because he's been in the hobby that long, but I knew for a fact that the Earnur and Medbury Gwyrdgalas Elves he brought were painted very recently and they looked so damn good. Ben's Rohirrim just needed those last finishing touches to be a strong contender, and with how good his basing and brushwork is I think Jimmy could have taken it as well with round or two of highlights. 4. About 30% of my list was motivated by theme. I usually use someone like Faramir to act as Aragorn's son Eldarion, but it doesn't tend to go as well because Faramir isn't quite beefy enough to take the pressure off of Elessar. This iteration felt the best out of all of them. Irolas is supposed to represent Beregond from the books (dude holds off 5 Citadel Guard singlehandedly like a chad), and I think his statblock is much better suited to him than Denethor's footman. Elessar, Eldarion, and Captain Beregond on loan from Ithilien riding to war in the 4th Age. The original plan was running Battle of Fornost for some proper theme alongside the new toys, but in the end I guessed that someone else would be running it and I really wanted to use my shiny new Fountain Guard. The other 70%? You bet your Grimbold it's because this was my one golden opportunity to play them together before the new edition. Going into the event I thought it was going to be more of a meme, seeing as I had 425pts locked up in heroes, but largely by accident it actually hit the critical mass needed for it to work. The two of them together just do SO much damage. I hadn't run the list at all before Armourcon and I'm pretty accustomed to dumb Elessar lists running out of steam, but this one had the goods and then some. Irolas called 14 Moves and a single Defense across the 5 games, all to keep the ball rolling and making sure every point of Elessar and Earnur's Might was devoted solely to murder.

The TWO named heroes KD has remaining are going to need some serious glow-ups. But glad Khazad Guard, Iron Guard, and Vault Wardens stuck around.

So exciting! Only one model deleted from the game, everything else gets rules for a bit

Many were the ounces of Bourbon, Many were the laughs had.

Loved our game Ben, and I'm glad we finally go to play each other! I'm still shocked that Legolas and 4 archers were able to tie up your expeditionary force towards your terrain piece, and the Theodred/Tauriel fight at the end was nail-biting. I think I had about 13 dead at the end of the game - and I think about 8 of them were from Sorcerous Blasts! Gandalf was on fire! I hope we get to play again sometime!

I would have listened to this stream just to hear the rangers' names.

The edition is dead. Long live the edition!

I'm sure you've already considered it, but if you're looking for something killy, and you're already taking Gandalf, Elessar is an excellent choice at high points IMO. His weakness to magic or shooting are mitigated by Gandalf, and he can call a move every turn to make sure Gandalf can cast, even if you wish to get him into combat. He also brings march, and I don't know how married you are to the idea of having bows and high fight, but it's definitely a strategy to have Blinding Light and march, just forgo shooting, accept fight 3, but you'll be mostly D7 because when your backline is also warriors of MT. Throw Hurin in and have your heroes move together as an unstoppable death squad. Maybe some knights of Minas Tirith. I understand I built an entirely different army for you lol, but if you want to take Gandalf I can't imagine a stronger pairing than Elessar. And the rest of the list kind of builds itself.

Ben the Merciful is always a winner. Not making a new player rethink his decision to try MESBG shows your quality. Maybe for a non-game summary you can discuss the latest announcements from GW? Sam did a stellar job with the solo episode, but much has happened since then. Hopes and fears for new rules and supplements??

Excellent review!

This ramble pleases me!

I think Ben was with you in spirit. I hope you both get many boxes of new hotness for Christmas. Return to childhood.

Looking at the wording on Sorcerous Blast, it seems to me like it was ruled correctly. The manual specifies that if you knock over a model that is in combat, then all the models in that combat are knocked over. It also specifies that if you blast a model into a str 6 model, it stops immediately and doesn't knock it prone. Your situation is the second one, and since that model isn't affected, nobody else within the combat is affected. If you could've aimed the blasted model at your own uruk, then yes, it would've worked. It seems weird, but at the same time you can see why they ruled it this way, so as to stop people from abusing it. In fact the example you used of Saruman and Ents wouldn't work, because if you knock other models within the combat prone, then the big model also gets knocked prone.

Let the record show that I (other Sam) did NOT run the bird. Elendil/Gil Galad/Galadriel

The Pale Rider against Roughshod Pike. Bourbon Clobber Em!

Fantastic, I hope ben doesnt talk too much poop about me in the next one! Cheers fellas

Army of gothmog!! Love to see it, it’s a hard list to pilot but very satisfying to get a win with

I'm sorry about our match in Round 2, Sam :( I agree it wasn't really a contest, and I agree with everything you mentioned - Hold Ground was favorable to me (or at least more favorable than the other maelstrom scenarios), having to roll a 9 to pass every courage test is rough, failing to kill a Nazgul permanently is also miserable (and just feels bad when you don't actually make progress towards it), and everything else that you mentioned. I always enjoy getting to play you, but this one felt bad :(

Nice looking gothmog llc ;) love the pod!

Thank you for mentioning the Durham's Bane tournament! It is a two-day event, July 13-14, 2024, and 700 points. (Sad that you two can't make it. ☹)

Great video

Our game was so much fun! I'm so glad Chris witnessed my throwing spear amazing-ness. That was absolutely ridiculous. ALSO... what poetic justice that a lowly orc killed my leader... sweet revenge was exacted on Azog not many weeks later! (Sorry again, Ben!)

Love the pod!

Great video. So much better watching

This was pretty cool to see. Never done conversion to this scale.

One of my favourite converters in the hobby scene, always a huge inspiration! Great to hear more from the legend himself! 🔥 (Also humbled by the Boromir shoutout, even I’d forgotten I made that it was so long ago 😂)

Turned out great!

Lovely stuff mate 👌🏻

1) I feel like you need to drink an Ale while doing this and tell us about it :) Just don't drink too loudly into the microphone! 2) I need some Tom Bombadil singing going on... 3) Nice job!

Very cool!

Those were some tough match ups

I myself was enjoying a white spectral ale guaranteed to cause terror to those who want to fight your boys. Great video fellows

Another great episode lads

Gents, we'd love to see your smiling faces at the Durham's Bane tournament from July 13-14, 2024.

Hey, guys. After doing a deep dive through the rules and FAQ’s I found that Sam was correct. On page 86 under spear rules it says that heros can not take part in heroic actions and spear support.

Really disappointed the two of you don't dress up like Boromir and Faramir when you record these episodes.

It was a pleasure meeting and playing you both! We were rooting for you guys to win the Doubles so we could say we lost to the winners :D -Richard

Beornings are definitely tough to beat. Great job fellow.

Been waiting for this one. Love double events

As a longtime spotify listener and newish patron just dropping in to say keep up the great work i love the show its become appointment listening

There’s nothing worse than Bolg being off his warg.

Nicely done Gents as a new(er) listener it was nice to see pictures of your games and can't wait to see more!

Great to see you guys on RUclips! Excited to see what you do with the video format. As someone who finds fun in the competitive tactics, it's a great reminder sometimes to go back to our roots and just have fun with silly situations. It would be fun if we get matched up in Adepticon! -Richard