Isengard Vs Army of the Dead! ~ Conquest Champions Game 2! ~ Middle Earth SBG Battle Report 

It really is 😅 i usually play Isengard and a friend of mine runs the dead LL. it's so hard to kill their soldiers while Aragorn tears apart your lines and calls Heroic combacts each turn, Terror is a problem too

I’d say the opposite! Army of the Dead hates F4/S4 troops, and C3 is an important break point as well. Berserkers are incredible, crossbows are incredible, ballistas/bombs are incredible, and Aragorn is the best possible target for Saruman or Grima if they're around. The particular lists here may not quite have that dynamic, but in general Isengard is one of the best possible armies into Dunharrow

The sad music should have queued in

Thanks for the comment, that was done on purpose!

Thanks for the feedback mate!

Thanks mate! I am trying my hardest on these

Thanks mate, the next video is on the editing table now!

That is an awesome coincidence!

Thanks mate! I can't wait to get the next episode out!

Glad you enjoy it! Thanks!

Thanks mate! Can't wait to get the next one released

I absolutely love mine, it's constantly going between home and the studio

Thanks for the comment! I believe they are resin cast bases

The next game with be very interesting, D8 is great against shooting but a horde of fight 4 going up against a small fight 3 army could be tough. We haven't filmed it yet but I am keen

@@ConquestCreations I expect the Betrayer to become a key model as long as the compel and transfix into Aragorn don't wiff.

Some of these will be weekly and some fortnightly

Thanks mate

Thanks for the comment. It was sad that it didn't pay off here! It would have been great to see how different the game could have been

I am at the editing desk now and just doing the final watch through of game 3 to check for any errors!

It's a strong list but has low fight value and low numbers. Aragorn is great but he can only be in one place at a time!

Thanks for the feedback, I could definitely add a few more visual ques in to hep with that!

Very good eye! That model was used in a gimmic tournament in Victoria where everyone had to use a version of Denethor. That was PJ’s.

Pretty hard to avoid the ghosts!

@@joshcable2240 Not avoiding themself, but avoiding them winning fights, since F5 heroes with 2 attacks, 2 pikes and a banner would win nearly every fight against 2 ghosts, so they don't kill your Uruk-Hai as fast.

Harbinger is the army bonus for Dead of Dunharrow so it is in fact still applicable due to the Historical allied in Minas Tirith

The Return of the King legion hasn't changed so its just as viable as it has always been. It's tough to get right with it and has a relatively low win rate with only 40% wins out of 381 games. I reckon that is heavily influenced by it being popular with new players so I think its quite a lot better than that.

You have managed to find it early! It is scheduled for release on Thursday, you just got lucky!

@@ConquestCreations Haha ok, thank you. You did a fantastic job with this one! The editing is really fantastic here, you make it very easy to keep track of what is happening in the game with the overlays.

It's just a regular army list alliance between Gondor and Army of the Dead

It's a Minas Tirith/AoTD green alliance

Thanks for the comment, if you think that these boards are made for elite armies it is very likely that you aren't using enough terrain in your games. In the rulebook's 'Matched Play' section it suggests 33% - 50% of the board is covered with terrain. In this game we were on the lower end of that at about 33%. I would definitely recomend playing with a bit more! I find it to be a lot more interesting

@@ConquestCreations@ConquestCreations That doesn't really convince me, TBH. Two buildings covering each flank of the front-to-back flank is definitely an advantage for the elite army. I don't see that in the rule book-basically forcing people to use cav with a march to wrap to get around the building? Obviously, the board does need terrain, but it still seems like a massive advantage to have two impassable pieces on either side of a front-to-back flank where the tokens are. The result somewhat supports this as well (do have to consider there were some horrific roles as well, and the heroes didn't do much for evil), does it not? Either way, the whole point is to show off the terrain pieces. Well, it definitely did that they look amazing while blocking a wrap haha.

From what I saw, he was. Just wasn’t hitting anything.

Yep don't worry he shot twice every time, he just struggled to get a hit!

I guess now watching it more its not a LL, its just a ally?

This was not the Legendary Legion. It is a green ally between the Dead of Dunharrow and Minas Tirith. That is why it was Aragorn, King Ellessar, rather than Strider and he was able to lead some fountain court guard

Thanks for the comment. The big weakness of the army of the dead is their low fight value so despite them easily wounding their opponents if they don't win the fights they will never strike blows. They are also very low model count meaning that if enemy armies play it correctly they should be able to surround and trap the army of the dead

Yup, Nathan should aim to surround AoD with his numbers and instead of pushing into fight focus on claiming all possible objective as main goal. So taking courage checks to charge is less important in this scenario than getting and claiming objectives..

How you beat them really depends on what you're using and the scenario. In Nathan's place, I woulda deployed further back to give myself a turn or two of proper shooting while trying to pull the enemy army away from the choke point. D7/8 is hard to crack, but if you throw enough dice, eventually you get wounds

Please accept my resignation

@@ConquestCreations 🤣 no you're not getting off that easy back to the content creation mine for you. We need more premium MESBG videos not less! *cracks whip*

Bomb crew is pretty good counter to Aragorn.

Thanks for the comment and feedback

@@ConquestCreations And thank you for engaging so much with your community! Can't wait for Battle 3 of the league (Especially as a Mordor player)