1000pts MESBG Battle Report: Minas Tirith Vs Isengard (Ft Conquest Creations) 

Your kind words are too much mate. Keep playing and learning. And my the dice forever be in your favour -Sean

Glad to hear it mate! We're not stopping anytime soon! -Liam

You're a legend Mr Sam J. -Sean

I do rate the ranger build. It is super hard to look past the S3 bows, body guard and potential f5. Especially when I have a bunch of spears in my army already. It's Mainly the body guard tho. -Sean

upgrade the siege vets to captains and just take all bolt throwers my dude -Liam

How do you know we haven't already partaken in Turkish oil wrestling

@The Last Alliance of Noobs and Men Well maybe you have and maybe you haven't. I haven't seen any evidence of it. This question needs to be answered for all the world to see. Film it and bundle it into my statue purchase.

He's always been the dark lord -Sean

Liam did a killer job on the thumbnail didn't he. That face will haunt my nightmares for days to come. -Sean

Sadly not from us as we didn't take any footage. But Jacob put up a video a few months ago. I believe it's called something like "I travelled 2000km to play MESBG" We will be doing more tournament recaps of this year tho, so keep an eye out. -Sean

@@NoobsandMen Thanks for the reply, and once again... thank you for the Batrep, I can't wait for the next one with your Minas Tirith and their awesome paint work.

Both scary lines to see facing each other -Sean

It's well known that unpainted models don't do well in game -Sean

Nah just experimenting mate. We have a video where I paint irolas, that goes over how I did everything. -Sean

We were absolutely knackered after filming this batrep. -Sean

What’s crazy about that is when I started the competition games for 1500-1800 points 😂😂😂😂😂 lucky they were timed.

From memory he attempted a transfix and failed. -Sean

Mate I absolutely respect your choice. It's a sexy sexy army and a hard nut to crack -Sean

OP as fuck Ive seen Gandalf bolt thrower combo and it's cooked. -Sean

@@NoobsandMen give your boy Irolas some buffs in there too and we'll really be cooking

@@AtomicCards I'd love to use irolas he's such a cool model but just really lack luster compared to others. -Sean

The whole bloody game was a struggle. We had played about 3 games before this one, we were just exhausted mainly tho I wanted to die. I dunno man, in the hands of a great player like Jacob a troll at 1000pts backed up by saruman can deal damage. Tho I know for a fact the troll is a decoy for the bomb. Get the troll in to a big hero or 2 or 3 and then send the bomb and blow them all to hell. -Sean

@@NoobsandMen Huh that's not too bad a thought actually. Still a pretty expensive decoy though. Are you telling me you had played three games before that *the same day*!?

Difference between a good player and a great player are things like the troll play. Same day no break and we ended up playing about 13 games over 3 days -Sean

@@NoobsandMen Jesus fing christ my brain would be melted after that. Probably pretty good endurance training though

Yeah man it was wild. Not to mention the heavy drinking hahaha. 5 of them games were tournament games aswell. -Sean

I'm pretty sure they are shields from the Khazad Dum dwarven warriors. -Sean

*Copy and pasted from a comment I responded to also on this video* It's partially the psychological effect it has on your opponent. Boz is seen as a massive threat when on horse back and is thus Targeted early from bow fire, this will usually kill the horse anyway so he's basically a foot troop and your down 10pts, give me an extra model plz. Your opponent will also save might to deal with him, we want that might drained by heroic moves, strikes, combats and so on. When boz is off his horse sitting behind his lines your opponent doesn't see him as a major priority, especially if you don't keep throwing him into combat. They will also be alot more liberal with their might usage. 90% of my games with him, he sits behind my line buffing the troops. My other hero's drain might where possible, I always have a lot of strikers, this is a great way of draining might, I also call heroic moves in hope my opponent will counter. If my opponent finally breaks through my lines with their big hero, now it has to face a F7 boz who has used maybe 2 might all game. He's also great for making spell casters waste Will transfixing him whilst I have no intention of him doing much, as I'm focusing on my troops and my smaller heroes. Boz isn't a killing machine, he is a hand grenade, throw him at a hero or a monster with a bunch of support and he will kill anything. Boz is a late game hero, none can deal with a F7 Boz, with a bunch of might during the late game. -Sean

Jacob came 4th and I came 8th I think. Got a bit drunk after day one. The hangover was legendary hahaha. -Sean

It's a good one mate -Sean

That could definitely work mate. I know a dude who built his own from bolsa wood. But also the DnD miniature usually have some cool models to proxy with -Sean

I've seen one made of sprue plastic and green stuff. If painted well it can look alright.

Could be a good live stream idea

From memory there was a mistake in my shooting with the bolt thrower, allowing sarumans horse to stay alive. -Sean

41:14 This is what I was referring to. But honestly, once Jacob hit that drum and opened up shooting for you again, we could all tell how excited you were! Loved the BR. Hope that tournament went well!

If I could read Jacobs mind I'd tell ya. -Sean

Is it cause boz is on foot ????? Hahahaha -Sean

Usually that would be the play mate, -sean

No cause the bomb attempt happens at the start of the fight phase before anything else. -Sean

It's a doosy mate. -Sean

@@NoobsandMen absolutely! I still have an old metal bolt thrower lying around. This batrep definitely convinced me to paint it ASAP

They are bonkers good. Maybe too good. Just remember if you are gonna use it always pay the 20pts for swift reload. -sean

Hey mate there is a video where I painted irolas. That will give you a detailed explanation on what paints were used and how. - sean

That is very true but it takes all bloody day to film 1000pts and by the end you wanna die hahahaha We do endeavour to do more 1000pt games -Sean

hope u guys agree! with "functional" i mean more verity cause there are like "fewer" options in lower points. some of the heroes/models are too expensive points wise in lower point games. Me and my friends always play like team games like 2v2 each have 1k points so 2k vs 2k

@@NoobsandMen yup. i know the feeling we also play team games Warhammer Fantasy 8th Edition. Everyone has 2,7k 3 vs 3 and it takes like 6-12h. And after that your brain is veeeery exachausted. Ofc we have a quick lunch break for like 30 min. but its a lot of fun! but anyways love the content! Defintley Top-3 mesgb content on youtube, so keep up with the good work!

That's a great pick up mate. Slip of the mind, happens a lot when filming. -Sean

Nah swift reload every day of the week. You're going from 4 opportunities for a 6 down to 3 and even then you're more likely to be rolling worse amounts of shots. Off two dice you have a 30% change of a six, opposed to 16 with one dice $wift R3L0aD -Liam

I don't own a 3rd bolt thrower, that's why I didn't do that 🤣🤣

@@NoobsandMen come on dude, you cant be dropping reality into my game math bullshittery😆had decimals and everything. get another one 🤣

It's partially the psychological effect it has on your opponent. Boz is seen as a massive threat when on horse back and is thus Targeted early from bow fire, this will usually kill the horse anyway so he's basically a foot troop and your down 10pts, give me an extra model plz. Your opponent will also save might to deal with him, we want that might drained by heroic moves, strikes, combats and so on. When boz is off his horse sitting behind his lines your opponent doesn't see him as a major priority, especially if you don't keep throwing him into combat. They will also be alot more liberal with their might usage. 90% of my games with him, he sits behind my line buffing the troops. My other hero's drain might where possible, I always have a lot of strikers, this is a great way of draining might, I also call heroic moves in hope my opponent will counter. If my opponent finally breaks through my lines with their big hero, now it has to face a F7 boz who has used maybe 2 might all game. He's also great for making spell casters waste Will transfixing him whilst I have no intention of him doing much, as I'm focusing on my troops and my smaller heroes. Boz isn't a killing machine, he is a hand grenade, throw him at a hero or a monster with a bunch of support and he will kill anything. Boz is a late game hero, none can deal with a F7 Boz, with a bunch of might during the late game. -Sean

Thanks for the detailed response. Makes a lot of tactical sense! If mounted it’s too tempting to fly him straight into combat to get shot at or surrounded

And aren't you glad that it did 😂 -Sean

Yeah man we done gone goofed. Happens to the best of of us. -Sean

Yes

Personally I believe the game is at its best around 600pts. I absolutely love the game so enjoy playing all pts lvls, even 1000pts. We recently played 5, 1000pt games over 2 days and it was bloody brilliant. I will say tho if your playing 1000pts, you need a timer, cause the game will turn into a slog with no timer. I'd recommend 2:30-3hr -Sean

I wanted it to kill my shit and it bloody well did hahaha -Sean

I apologise mate but we won't be cutting the swearing. This is who we are as ppl We don't swear for the sake of swearing it's just part of our vernacular and vocab whilst growing up. Im just grateful i grew up understanding words like shit, the Fword, the Cword, ect can't hurt me. In fact many of those words are ways we emphasize our happiness, excitement, sadness and use them as words of endearment. Once again i do apologise if this has caused you and your son any distress but we don't intend on changing our personalities. There are plenty of other amazing channels for you and your son to watch and we highly recommend W.A.R.G, conquest creations and reaper squadron gaming. We do hope you stick around -Sean

@@NoobsandMen I'm not prudish about the swearing guys, I'm from the UK and love a good swear but it's F bombs galore not just the odd one! That's fine, but makes it a bit difficult to to watch which is a shame. It's worth thinking that this might limit the number of views and also it would be handy to perhaps just update the description to note it includes quite a lot of swearing? Cheers D

You might be right mate but honestly we're just here for fun, not really in it for the views and stuff, it's more of a bonus. Plus we're well exceeding any expectations we had when we first started this channel so it's really not a priority for us. If we had to keep constantly self censoring ourselves it just wouldn't be as fun or genuine anymore. I totally understand if that's too much for you or your son, but it's just not something we're going to change. The videos are always marked not for kids and our main audience is well over 18+. Like Sean said, Warg, conquest, reapers, are all stellar channels that definitely focus more on keeping their videos more PG than us if you're looking for MESBG content to watch with your son. We still do genuinely hope you stick around despite this. -Liam