Armies of Middle Earth: Goblintown

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How to play Goblintown!
This video on Goblin town is the first in a new series of videos where we will share the tactics and strategies we have picked up and used for and against each of the armies from Tolkien's Middle Earth!
- new rules!
- tactics and strategies!
- new character profiles!
- faction rules!
- updated army lists!
- where to start in building/collecting this army!
- Middle Earth Strategy Battle Game!
Games Workshop recently released updated rules to their Middle Earth Strategy Battle Game (SBG), combining the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings SBG games into one and giving much-needed updates to the core rule set and to most of the model profiles. We've been practicing with the new rules (and the fabulous new boxed set "Battle of Pelennor Fields!"), and this video series will focus on the major armies in the game. We'll show you tips and tricks we have picked up, how to build a list and what allies to bring or not bring. Join us in this epic adventure to explore the Armies of Tolkien's Middle Earth!
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22 фев 2019

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Комментарии : 33

@Zorpazorp 5 лет назад

This is such a great video guys, I always pass this on to new players keen on gobbos!

@ERRACuinCaladrim 5 лет назад

Thanks Zorpazorp! That's what we did it for :-)

@bazejholisz837 5 лет назад

Wow! And here i was thinking Goblin Town was no use ;D Really interesting commentary, with an awesome insight on how the army works, accutaly made me want to try one! Awesome video, keep it up, the series is deffinitly a great idea!

@ERRACuinCaladrim 5 лет назад

Thanks for the feedback!

@jimyoyoma8956 4 года назад

awesome video thanks guys!

@ERRACuinCaladrim 4 года назад

Thanks Ken!

@worldchronicles4818 5 лет назад

Look forward to more of these, very insightful. I got the Escape from Goblin Town box set so i think im going to grab another box of goblins and try these tactics out.

@ERRACuinCaladrim 5 лет назад

Thanks for the feedback! Let us know how it works out for you!

@theministryofminiatures 5 лет назад

Great video... you’ve got a new subscriber! Well done guys, keep up the good work.

@ERRACuinCaladrim 5 лет назад

Thanks Leonardis!!

@pc1491 4 года назад

Great video. Managed to pick up the escape from goblin town box set last week. used but in complete and excellent condidtion for £20 $33 Canadian. Best bargain I've had with SBG

@ERRACuinCaladrim 4 года назад

I'm so jealous! What a great find!

@Fritz21X 5 лет назад

Awesome video and eye opening. Would have liked to know a little better how to play in reconoitre and agains terror causing armies. Thanks for the tips.

@ERRACuinCaladrim 5 лет назад

Estanesse may change my comment here, but I'll say first that his strategy for reconoitre is to burn might on heroic marches with the goblin captains, and use the scribe to call more goblins onto his board edge (which is where they are required to enter) to block and stall your opponent from getting off the board... if your opponent can get past your hord! For terror causing armies, he literally throws the horde at them. You have so many models that can take courage tests that some of them are bound to pass, so just roll until you can charge successfully, and then leverage the chittering horde special rule to make sure that you always have spear supports, and make sure you swarm around behind as many models as you can so that they become trapped. If you fail to charge, then you can at least try to make sure that you trap your opponent so that you'll have more dice rolling to-wound in the fights that you win.

@Fritz21X 5 лет назад

@@ERRACuinCaladrim Thank you so much. I think that cleared my question pretty well. Im planning on getting a 500p goblin town army and this video came at the right moment.

@ERRACuinCaladrim 5 лет назад

@@Fritz21X glad to help where we can! Happy gaming!

@alankorhonenable 5 лет назад

Great video, make about Rohan next ;)

@ERRACuinCaladrim 5 лет назад

Thanks Gessekai! We have to play Rohan more before we'll be able to do that one properly, but we have a few more coming that we're excited about. Stay tuned!

@jackruby6696 5 лет назад

Do one on sharkeys rogues!!

@bobbyboyfreed3785 4 года назад

I just found this video. Thanks for the info. I do have a thousand point Goblin Town Army (with 150 total models), but it isn't the best for a two-hour time frame. It is fun to play with, though. I have another thousand point tournament coming up in a couple of months and was considering taking the Trolls and 600 points of goblins to make it a more manageable number. Losing the Army bonus, I will only have 57 goblins and the 3 trolls, which is still a lot of models. Any experience with this or recommendations?

@roenansatnik864 4 года назад

At a thousand points I personally would never play Goblintown. Just too many models to keep track of. If you do want to run it though, the three trolls would a fun but not necessarily strategic include. They add some serious hitting power, which isn't necessary for the strategy of Goblintown but it gives you something fun to play with. At a thousand points I would strategically take as many goblins as you can + the king, scribe, grinnah and Gollum. Even at this point level people will struggle to grind through 75 models to break you, and the only scenario you need worry about is Lords of battle (1 of 12!). I wouldn't take the three trolls. Past experience would lend me to believe that at 1000 points people tend to take bigger expensive models, not more models. This allows Goblintown to absolutely dominate in all missions. Goblintown is a good choice for 1000 point events, but I just don't do it b/c it is far too much monotonous play. That's my take, hope it helps!

@ERRACuinCaladrim 4 года назад

Thanks Roenan! @Bobby Boy, you're right that 2hr games with high point values don't lend themselves well to horde armies. The higher the point values and shorter the game time, the smaller the army you need. If you wanted to talk about strategic alliances with Goblintown then you might consider taking red allies and adding in Azog/Bolg. Roenan is a Goblintown champ and knows that army well, so his comment has some authority, but that's my two cents. Either way, the Three Trolls are fun, and a great add to any collection, so go ahead and give them a try. You'll still have a boat load of goblins either way, and that's where the heart of the strategy comes from. Happy gaming!

@bobbyboyfreed3785 4 года назад

Thanks for the responses... I am currently experimenting with 730 points worth of Goblintown (91 models with no army bonus) and taking only Bill and Tom the Trolls (Bert was sick that day) to get me to 1000 points. With 93 total models instead of 150 it seems a good compromise of still having a lot of models without being quite as annoying to my opponents. I play more for fun than being competitive, but I obviously don't want to lay down and die, either. We'll see.

@Spartan9095 Год назад

Let the kid talk, yikes. Can't even get a full sentence out before being cut off.

@michwis 5 лет назад

Weaknesses, fking ugly minis :P

@ERRACuinCaladrim 5 лет назад

lol yeah, I won't argue with that. As GW's sculpts go, they're not the prettiest models they've made... but they are faithful to the depiction in the movies, so I think they work. Now if you meant that we need to improve our painting skill then I'll swallow that with a laugh and say that yes, we definitely have room to improve in our painting ability :-) This was one of the first armies Estanesse painted, so we're growing as we go.

@michwis 5 лет назад

@@ERRACuinCaladrim Question how would you buy this army for 500 points, i can buy goblin part of goblin town starter wery cheap.

@ERRACuinCaladrim 5 лет назад

@@michwis We actually addressed this in the video at around 29:26

@michwis 5 лет назад

@@ERRACuinCaladrim i mostly mean how many captains beside king and grinah.

@ERRACuinCaladrim 5 лет назад

@@michwis it depends on how much you'd like to spend. Captains are key in this army, so you'll need several of them, but you can easily convert them from warriors by building up a special base under them to make them stand out a bit and look more important than the standard warriors. Estanesse may correct my reply here later, but I'd suggest four captains, including the two generic captains that come with the Goblin King.