@@thektorMK1 I started with the starter set it's pretty good, but you should make a couple of the people into captains and add some banners to other people if you want to make a functional army
@@thektorMK1 I think it's a decent value set but you'll need to buy a couple of things to suppliment each army. There's some great models included, though.
I somehow stumbled across part 1 of this battle last week, having never played any of these sorts of games... a week on and thanks to your channel, I've bought the Pelennor Fields set and spending my evenings painting (terribly) Thanks for your amazing channel and for inspiring me to get going! Loving your videos dude!!
This is one of, if not your best video! The effort in the editing of the video and the clear NECESSARY narration make it great fun to watch. Thanks for all of you for your efforts! Great game beautiful game!
A mighty battle well fought. The camera work was so good, with close-ups allowing us to see the details on the table. This is seldom the case with so many Battle Reports on other channels.
Oh dude! That was absolutely amazing. Given that it is nearly as long as the Fellowship of the Ring it was just as grand and epic. I feel massively sorry for Ryan. His rolling had betrayed him, Ori came in for the clutch and that double Mumakil killing was just pure class. Glad you boys saw it through to the end and wrapped up a nice battle report.
Love the commentary, love the game and Ryans' epic rolls! I wouldn't say "instant" subscribe as I have been watching for 3h but awesome job covering this one for us. Cheers from Poland!
Wow, this was exhausting just watching it! I don't know how you managed playing it... Machines! I'd go as far to say this is THE best ME:SBG video (2-parter) on RUclips, and I watch a lot of them! Please do more narrative scenarios, you really do them justice with your awesome terrain and models, and they look like something out of the movies. A+++++.
Loved the various intros, especially the bits with the added sounds in the back (i.e. when you said that the gondorians were doing well there was the "for Gondor, for Gondor!" cry)
Having attempted a 30000 point(Total) battle and barely getting through 3 turns in a long weekend, I deeply understand the endurance a battle like this takes. Totally amazing to watch and it really was my favourite youtube video in a long time. Love this game and you give it amazing justice. Thanks!
I want to thank you and your friends/ the channel for providing me with hours of entertainment while i'm in quaratine! I want to get back into this tabletop again now!!
Discovered you through some facebook groups and binged this whole fight in one day, absolutely epic stuff man! Off to watch your battle companies series next
I'd love to see a 10,000 point last alliance battle. I know it's a lot of orcs but it'll be an incredibly awesome battle to watch, it's genuinely one of my favourite LOTR battles. It would be a long one to complete but really would represent what an important part of the second age it was. Large scale battles like this are fantastic to watch and follow all the way through to the very end.
Zorpazorp just need a black version of the Geonosis board then you're good to go, and the matter of painting hundred of orcs too 😂 hopefully by then they'll be new last alliance models out, which would be a perfect time to showcase them
Took me three days but I finally finished the video! My friends and I would have huge battles like this and it’d take hours! Love the channel man, can’t wait for new videos!
Part two!! Yesss!!! Love the cinematics and editing. Loads of work which makes it such an amazing video! So part one got me and my friends hyped to see if we could recreate this. Yes we can! As soon as lockdown is over, the building commences! Although I have mixed emotion that I found out I had 10k worth of points myself.....
Same! Nothing wrong about it. Only that I have to start painting again. I was in a good state, like 2 minatures a day, then Bannerlord came out and I stoped and now i just cant start again :(
@@enygma2623 haha tell me about it! This lockdown has got me back painting again. Really enjoying getting back into it. Stumbled across this channel and loving the battle reports.
@@Zorpazorp haha a healthy problem! Impressed with how well painted those models are! Always makes a board look so realistic. Fell beast wings and the colour schemes for the mumaks are great
Was such an epic event thank you Lachy for hosting such beautiful terrain as always, my comrades Orry and Jacques for keeping me in the game, and Dan really challenged me and played it through so well. Would DEFINITELY play again with whichever faction :)
Great video, amazingly produced! I don’t envy the amount of footage you must have sifted through. Really approachable format for people (like myself) fairly new to the hobby. Great work 👍
Thank you so much for this epic battle ! I know how much work there is. Even after so many hours you are all in a great mood and it is really fun to watch you. just thank you! ♥️
im just here for the sequal of the rogers 1's counter ;) that ingold death still plagues my thoughts everytime i roll a hero injury. Great Battle report, no idea how you guys keep track of might in all this madness
Absolutely love this, have you ever considered playing the old war of the ring rule set? I would love to see you play through some big games of that as you have such incredible boards models and terrain.
This was phenomenal!!! I'm glad I finally got the chane to wathc it, congrats for the insane project!! Any chance of getting close-up pics of Jacques' Mahûd raiders? They look stunning!!
I love these battle reports ! Id like to see more in 2021> , even if its a matched points game going through the “Reconnaissance” or To kill a King & the others
Pretty cool video, I enjoy the enthusiasm. Bit more simple than this, but have you played the War of the Ring 2nd Edition board game? Pretty themeatic and would be fun to watch you report on a game against somebody with your enthusiasm.
Dude that is spooky hahaha, I literally just bought that!!! Will hopefully get it up on the channel at some point later i nthe year :D Thanks for watching!
@@Zorpazorp I've been playing it with some friends on and off on table top sim and its just so much fun to make your own Battle for Middle Earth stories. Im sure you'll have a blast and look forward to the day a video may come of it!
@@Zorpazorp Amazing! Colour me excited. Best of luck with all you do, I can only imagine the amount of editing required for something like this! And it turns out wonderful
Amazing battle report, I've enjoyed every minute of it.. just stunning and exciting! Any idea how to make these "neutral" mumak bases? Do you make a new one or cover the corpses on the base with modelling? Keep up the great content, never get tired of it! Greetings from Switzerland and stay safe friends!
Of course :D I just prefer SBG, the current edition of War of the Ring is very broken. Hopefully it'll get an update in three or four years after Amazon :)
i didn't think the King of the dead could soul drain a model with more than 5 wounds. I thought they erratad it to do "half of their wound count". I could be wrong.
You absolutely have to edit this battle down from 5 to 1.5 hours in your new style and upload to your new channel! As it currently stands its excellent but exceptionally inaccessible
Around the 2 hour 7 min mark or there abouts, that camel wouldn't be able to move out of the control zone freely i thought??. If you're stuck in a control zone at the start of your move, your options are to stay where you are, charge the model, or move wihtin the control zone and not charge as i interpret the wording on p.24. So would you would need to negate the zones first before that first camel could charge legolas and Gimli?? P.24 of the rules book under "Stuck in a control zone" for reference :)
You can absolutely leave control zones :) If you start in a control zone your options are: - Stay still - Charge the model who's zone you are in - Leave the zone as long as you are able to do so without getting closer to the model whose zone you are in.
@@Zorpazorp yeah I should have figured that was the case. I just checked their website again and realized that literally everything is out of stock. Thank you for responding, love your battle reports.
This entire battle is like 2 movie lengths. So awesome. Your hard work really helps bring the epic battle to life. Nice job man.
Thanks Froggy!!!! Yeah it can be really hard to make this stuff watchable so I'm glad you enjoyed!
or 3 quarters of TROTK
@@NinjaPokeProductions hahaha
@@Zorpazorp 1vA vb vvve5ese
This game is criminally underrated, it lots of fun and the new edition really improved the game
Word🥰
wish there was a smaller starter set. The pellnenor fields one isn't that appealing as a jumping on point
@@thektorMK1 I started with the starter set it's pretty good, but you should make a couple of the people into captains and add some banners to other people if you want to make a functional army
@@thektorMK1 I think it's a decent value set but you'll need to buy a couple of things to suppliment each army. There's some great models included, though.
Yeah, would be cool if we were also given starters like First Strike and Know no Fear. Or, perhaps, bringing back the old battleforce boxes.
I somehow stumbled across part 1 of this battle last week, having never played any of these sorts of games... a week on and thanks to your channel, I've bought the Pelennor Fields set and spending my evenings painting (terribly)
Thanks for your amazing channel and for inspiring me to get going! Loving your videos dude!!
Glad you enjoy it! Welcome aboard!
Greatest MESBG Battle Report ever, thank you for fulfilling this vision in the most beautiful way possible, you make this hobby of ours great.
This is one of, if not your best video! The effort in the editing of the video and the clear NECESSARY narration make it great fun to watch.
Thanks for all of you for your efforts! Great game beautiful game!
Cheers Shauny!! Glad you enjoyted the style
Get Ryan an evil army. He clearly secretly works for Sauron with those dice rolls.
He often works for Saruman so I'm not surprised hahaa
I do I do! Love me some Isengard
@@ryantraise2212 the man himself walk amongst us!
Sauron during the whole battle report when hearing you talk: “Whose side are you on!?”
Hahahahaha indeed 🤣🤣🤣
A mighty battle well fought. The camera work was so good, with close-ups allowing us to see the details on the table. This is seldom the case with so many Battle Reports on other channels.
Cheers Kili, glad you liked the shooting style my man
Oh dude! That was absolutely amazing. Given that it is nearly as long as the Fellowship of the Ring it was just as grand and epic. I feel massively sorry for Ryan. His rolling had betrayed him, Ori came in for the clutch and that double Mumakil killing was just pure class. Glad you boys saw it through to the end and wrapped up a nice battle report.
Thanks so much Azza, yeah I'm really happy how it turned out in the end, absolutely wild ride, nearly five hours long in total hahaha
Love the commentary, love the game and Ryans' epic rolls! I wouldn't say "instant" subscribe as I have been watching for 3h but awesome job covering this one for us. Cheers from Poland!
Haha thanks so much! Once the MINAS Tirith build is done we'll have another epic game just around the corner!
Awsome. Great game, great editing, a board beyond fantastic, excitement to the last round and man the two of You held up all through the game.
Cheers Reyals
Wow, this was exhausting just watching it! I don't know how you managed playing it... Machines! I'd go as far to say this is THE best ME:SBG video (2-parter) on RUclips, and I watch a lot of them! Please do more narrative scenarios, you really do them justice with your awesome terrain and models, and they look like something out of the movies. A+++++.
Thanks so much dude, glad you enjoyed it :D :D lots more to come!
Loved the various intros, especially the bits with the added sounds in the back (i.e. when you said that the gondorians were doing well there was the "for Gondor, for Gondor!" cry)
Hahaha that's awesome Francesco! Every little bit I can do to help make it exciting :)
Having attempted a 30000 point(Total) battle and barely getting through 3 turns in a long weekend, I deeply understand the endurance a battle like this takes. Totally amazing to watch and it really was my favourite youtube video in a long time. Love this game and you give it amazing justice. Thanks!
Amazing. You’re dedication is inspiring to us all and Orry is brilliant as the walking rule book. Deffo like to see more of him. Great job guys
Thanks so much Scotty :D
I want to thank you and your friends/ the channel for providing me with hours of entertainment while i'm in quaratine! I want to get back into this tabletop again now!!
That's awesome Teryn!!! Glad to have inspired you!
Discovered you through some facebook groups and binged this whole fight in one day, absolutely epic stuff man! Off to watch your battle companies series next
Fuck yeah Liam! welcome bro!
I'd love to see a 10,000 point last alliance battle. I know it's a lot of orcs but it'll be an incredibly awesome battle to watch, it's genuinely one of my favourite LOTR battles. It would be a long one to complete but really would represent what an important part of the second age it was. Large scale battles like this are fantastic to watch and follow all the way through to the very end.
DUDE I'm SO keen to do Last Alliance!!! Absolutely coming soon :D
Zorpazorp just need a black version of the Geonosis board then you're good to go, and the matter of painting hundred of orcs too 😂 hopefully by then they'll be new last alliance models out, which would be a perfect time to showcase them
@@star_wars_miniatures Indeed very true on all accounts!!!
@@star_wars_miniatures 40k players be like: "painting hundred of orks. I wonder what that feels like?" :D
Took me three days but I finally finished the video! My friends and I would have huge battles like this and it’d take hours! Love the channel man, can’t wait for new videos!
Thanks so much Charles, had a big slog in the edit bay today really needed this comment
Just watched both parts back to back, best 4 hours ever spent
Hell yeah mate! You are going to love some content coming out in April haha
@@Zorpazorp Can't wait! Keep it up! Much Love from the Uk!!!
Part two!! Yesss!!! Love the cinematics and editing. Loads of work which makes it such an amazing video!
So part one got me and my friends hyped to see if we could recreate this. Yes we can! As soon as lockdown is over, the building commences! Although I have mixed emotion that I found out I had 10k worth of points myself.....
Same!
Nothing wrong about it. Only that I have to start painting again. I was in a good state, like 2 minatures a day, then Bannerlord came out and I stoped and now i just cant start again :(
Hahahahahaha I know right.... I was like, 'I may have a problem....'
Bannerlord has been a distraction to us all haha!!
@@enygma2623 haha tell me about it! This lockdown has got me back painting again. Really enjoying getting back into it. Stumbled across this channel and loving the battle reports.
@@Zorpazorp haha a healthy problem! Impressed with how well painted those models are! Always makes a board look so realistic. Fell beast wings and the colour schemes for the mumaks are great
One year has passed and I was finally able to finish this videos, starting 2021 strong. Amazing work guys!
Big sequels out soon too!!!
Was such an epic event thank you Lachy for hosting such beautiful terrain as always, my comrades Orry and Jacques for keeping me in the game, and Dan really challenged me and played it through so well. Would DEFINITELY play again with whichever faction :)
Hell yeah bro
Fantastic battle report and awesome energy to keep the commentary going.
Oh wow this is an oldie! thanks for watching mate!
Please do another massive battle report - the Black Gate perhaps? Ryan needs redemption!
Great video, amazingly produced! I don’t envy the amount of footage you must have sifted through. Really approachable format for people (like myself) fairly new to the hobby. Great work 👍
That is AWESOME to hear, that';s a really important consideration of mine, we need to roping new people in as much as we can :)
Thank you so much for this epic battle ! I know how much work there is. Even after so many hours you are all in a great mood and it is really fun to watch you. just thank you! ♥️
Thanks so much Raph!! Yeah it was a long day but amazing fun :D
Can always rely on you to give us the best SBG content! This one definitely got me through painting so many models as well!
Hey wheatabix! Lovely to see you in the comments as always mate
The awesomeness of the introduction is strong in this one.
Hahahaha thanks bro :D
Great game guys! Loved the quality of everything and looking forward to future episodes man!
Thanks Hakazu! I start work on Minas Tirith today so that should be up next :D
@@Zorpazorp Awesome man. Now I have a reason to visit Australia to stea...buy the castle ;)
@@Hakazu hahahaha
Awesome name, Orrey! Good luck in Moria and give my regards to Dori, Nori and the lads!
Hahahaha hopefully he doesn't meet the same fate as his namesake!
@@Zorpazorp Indeed. There's even an old SBG Moria campaign about that very event. 😊
im just here for the sequal of the rogers 1's counter ;) that ingold death still plagues my thoughts everytime i roll a hero injury. Great Battle report, no idea how you guys keep track of might in all this madness
Haha me too man me too 😂😂 but yeah we put Orry in charge of it because all he was doing was marching hahaha
So excited for this! Cheers from the US!
Cheers Phil!!!!
Great to watch, nice editing. Really liked that the orcs held the centre for so long. Liked how close it was. I always felt evil was up against it.
Yeah me too man, every other time we've played it (thids is my fourth time) mordor has just gotten crushed!!
Seriously impressed with the commitment, must have been such a long game. Thanks for making it happen
respect for orry patience!!!
indeed hahaha
and he won!!! no way
Absolutely love this, have you ever considered playing the old war of the ring rule set? I would love to see you play through some big games of that as you have such incredible boards models and terrain.
I haven't yet but I'm planning on doing it soon!
@@Zorpazorp dude that would be awesome! Cant wait!
Awesome scenario my friend and I are currently playing a last alliance battle at 1650 pts each. Thanks for the inspiration for further games!
Good luck! Glad you enjoyed it!
This was beautiful to wake up to! I'm so excited.
You are most welcome :D
You're an amazing guy, I like your job!
Thanks and congrats
Thanks so much mate!!
That scene at the start and the music is my favourite part of LoTR
Mine too I reckon!
A heroic Challenge!! =) Just legendary! Thank you guys for the hard work. Greetings from Switzerland.
I KNOW RIGHT!!!! I never thought I'd see the day!
This was phenomenal!!! I'm glad I finally got the chane to wathc it, congrats for the insane project!!
Any chance of getting close-up pics of Jacques' Mahûd raiders? They look stunning!!
watched the hole battle today while painting, just AWESOME, so many different models *.*
Thanks mate, got some HUGE games coming again soon
@@Zorpazorp yeeea!! cheers from italy 💚⚪❤️
Literally the best thing I’ve seen on RUclips. I’m hoping to do one myself, what were the points on each side?
Hey Durin! It was a scenario not a match played game so I can't recall each faction breakdown but's roughly 10k in total :)
@@Zorpazorp I can imagine how much effort it took and beside it not being even makes it better
I love these battle reports ! Id like to see more in 2021> , even if its a matched points game going through the “Reconnaissance” or To kill a King & the others
More coming!
Congrats Lachie!
Looks awesome!
Hope you remember me!:))
You've helped since the launch of ME SBG
Of course bro! Glad you're enjoying it all :D :D :D
@@Zorpazorp Keep up the amazing work!
Wow real dedication on this one! Know I’m late to the party but really enjoyed this and the first part - great work guys
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great battle report guys! I’ve always wanted to play a similar size game with my buddies, just need to finish my Rohirrim!
Hell yeah Kyle!! Get into it! It's an amazing hobby goal to work towards :D
Loved watching this Battle, Enternaining and especcially on that beautifaul board with so many units
Thanks Matty!
That was awesome. Congratulations to all of you for this epic battle.
Thanks for watching mate!
@@Zorpazorp It was a pleasure.
What a nice battle, thank you for sharing it. I feel bad for Ryan and Rohan, those dices should be branded as heretic and purged.
He should have used the Rohan dice!!!!!
Awesome stuff! Only 45 mins in, and Amdur, my fave, he has a free heroic strike! 😭
Yeah we remembered off camera and gave him the might point back I'm pretty sure haha
So epic! Thanks guys and great work.
Thanks so much:D
I never thought that a battle on a large open field would be so exciting.
This game is awesome!
So excited for the next installment now that you said it’s coming!
Watched the entire thing, my god hahah what a dope battle though. Great to watch.
More biiiig ones to come :)
Magnificent video as always!
Thanks mate :)
I love watching your videos. Please do another battle of pellenor fields.
Pretty cool video, I enjoy the enthusiasm. Bit more simple than this, but have you played the War of the Ring 2nd Edition board game? Pretty themeatic and would be fun to watch you report on a game against somebody with your enthusiasm.
Dude that is spooky hahaha, I literally just bought that!!! Will hopefully get it up on the channel at some point later i nthe year :D Thanks for watching!
@@Zorpazorp I've been playing it with some friends on and off on table top sim and its just so much fun to make your own Battle for Middle Earth stories. Im sure you'll have a blast and look forward to the day a video may come of it!
@@Stoobings Yeah I've definitely get some TTS up at some point haha :D would be mad fun!
Love you guys well done.
Thanks mate!
This is insanely awesome! I'm definitely subbing to this! Any plans for a Battle of Five Armies Battle Report btw?
That's the plan! Would have filmed it already if not for Covid!
@@Zorpazorp Amazing! Colour me excited. Best of luck with all you do, I can only imagine the amount of editing required for something like this! And it turns out wonderful
So... as expected. It was entertaining for sure.
Thanks bro!!
This was awesome thank you.
How long did it take you to film and play it in the end?
15 hours bro :) thank you for watching!
Awesome game guys, it looked brilliant. I am surprised good won that, even in the last turn I was sure evil had it in the bag.
Me too man!!! The army of the Dead just choked up the Easterlings and Harad!
That was brilliant you guys are great
Thanks!
Amazing battle report, I've enjoyed every minute of it.. just stunning and exciting!
Any idea how to make these "neutral" mumak bases? Do you make a new one or cover the corpses on the base with modelling?
Keep up the great content, never get tired of it!
Greetings from Switzerland and stay safe friends!
Thanks dude!! I would just make a new one and cut it to size, rather than wasting the corpse base :)
Stab counter was worth it. ;)
OMG SOMEONE NOTICED IT HAHAHAHA last time no ones even mentioned it
@@Zorpazorp I can't find a good explanation of the stab rule. so if you loose the fight you endure strength 2 hit and what's the bonus for winning?
@@Dorumir re roll ones to wound! :)
2:31:17 😱😱😱 never seen that happen before!
My record is 5 ones and 2 twos haha
Just sheer class!
I need to know where can I get those mumakhil I've been my whole life looking for something like that!
They're from games Workshop buddy :D :D
Really nice game! 😊
Thank you 👍
Great models and set up! seems like the rules can't handle this game size without grinding to a crawl. Maybe try one page rules.
you know you have war of the ring system for this category of battles, don't you?
Of course :D I just prefer SBG, the current edition of War of the Ring is very broken. Hopefully it'll get an update in three or four years after Amazon :)
Will you do a battle of helms deep battle report
Of course!
@@Zorpazorp awesome you just got a patreon of me
@@elliotmoreton6975 Welcome to the family bro!!! Thanks for the support :)
Death!!!!!!!!!!!! YES YES Yes I loved!!!!!!!!!!
Hahahaha glad you liked it GK
you should do the battle of the five armies.
Shouldnt that last Mumakil move at 2:12:38 be Good's move since it was wounded before?
It really fells like youre watching the battle for real
Haha thanks Benny
F for Sulladan
Ori is the man!
He is indeed!
How about doing the battle of the five armies
Would have already been filmed if not for Covid haha stay tuned sometime next year for sure!
BEST CHANNEL EVER!
i didn't think the King of the dead could soul drain a model with more than 5 wounds. I thought they erratad it to do "half of their wound count". I could be wrong.
I know the Balrog is immune to the autokill but I think Mumak's still are will have to check the FAQ.
Where can I get these models? GW seems limited. Are they still coming out with new units?
New stuff all the time, fully supported :) There might eb the odd model out of production but they're bring back more all the time
Awesome!!!
Thanks Dan!
I am fairly sure immobilized models cannot call special actions, so no shielding on imrahil
Have you ever thought how much money that there is on the table?
He tried to add that up and stopped after it started getting scary hahaha
Where do you get these models from?
The Middle Earth strategy battle game range from Games Workshop 😊
Zorpazorp it says temporarily out of stock for everything, are they special order or is this because of the corona virus
@@jonathanmccarthy5677 the whole company is on hiatus, will be back after Covid19 😊 lots of Independent retailers still open though :)
Thanks
When You play all campaigne, Gondor at war or War in Rohan? :D
Coming soon GK! So many games so little time 😂😂
1:38:33
You absolutely have to edit this battle down from 5 to 1.5 hours in your new style and upload to your new channel! As it currently stands its excellent but exceptionally inaccessible
Poor Halbarad...
Turned into a pancake.
He sure did hahaha
Well you don’t see many Orry’s out there
Indeed hahaha
Around the 2 hour 7 min mark or there abouts, that camel wouldn't be able to move out of the control zone freely i thought??. If you're stuck in a control zone at the start of your move, your options are to stay where you are, charge the model, or move wihtin the control zone and not charge as i interpret the wording on p.24. So would you would need to negate the zones first before that first camel could charge legolas and Gimli?? P.24 of the rules book under "Stuck in a control zone" for reference :)
You can absolutely leave control zones :)
If you start in a control zone your options are:
- Stay still
- Charge the model who's zone you are in
- Leave the zone as long as you are able to do so without getting closer to the model whose zone you are in.
YYEEEESSSSSS!!!!!!
Told you I'd get it up quick Paulie :D
Zorpazorp yes u did 👌
I love these vids but that cheat roller for Gondor is cringe 😂
Hahaha he had some boss rolls haha
is this game still supported by GW? I wanted to buy it but its all out of stock
Games Workshop is currently on hiatus die to Covid19, it's still supported 😊
@@Zorpazorp yeah I should have figured that was the case. I just checked their website again and realized that literally everything is out of stock. Thank you for responding, love your battle reports.
@@dinnerandmovie614 no probs :D
too many elephants, not enough rohan riders or ghost bois
Couldn't agree more 😂😂😂
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