Battle Report - Middle Earth Goblin Town Vs Uruk-Hai Siege Crew, Game 2 #MESBG

Afternoon #WarHamFam and #WarhammerCommunity I've been playing MESBG again at Warhammer World! We had signed up for a midweek event again, just 500pts, 3 games, done and dusted. So, with my correctly costed warband at 500pts. 

• The Goblin King with 10 Goblins
• Grinnah with 6 Goblins
• The Scribe with 6 Goblins
• Goblin captain with 6 Goblins
• Goblin captain with 6 Goblins

We were sat having a coffee at lunch and I could see Otty and I had similar scores... The second game involved 6 objectives, 3 each just outside our deployment zone and I got paired with Otty. Time for him to bring some revenge against an equally costed army. He had:

• Uruk-Hai Siege Captain
• 12 Uruk-Hai Berserkers

• Uruk-Hai Captain
• Isengard Troll
• 6 Uruk-Hai Berserkers

Not sure how much a battle report these are going to be as I can't remember much [as usual]. But I think I did an Heroic March straight off the bat.

This got the Goblin King to my middle objective of the supplies treasure, passed my Intelligence test and captured the treasure. Meanwhile the left and right treasures had Goblins closing in. I think the right one failed its intelligence test and the left one was out of range of the March so still had a ways to go. I think Otty failed all his intelligence tests, but that Troll was making his way to me.

For some reason I thought the best idea was to palm the Goblin King's treasure off on a Gobbo and have it scuttle out of the way. The other two treasures remained beyond my intelligence and that Troll had got to my lines as I'd tried to shield the war drum so he couldn't get to it. Meanwhile I had just 5 Goblins holding the centre against 5 Uruk Berserkers!

The Troll managed to wipe out my speedbump and suddenly that Goblin with the treasure looked vulnerable. Prior to this a Berserker had got through and stolen the War Drum on the right. But then I surrounded him and managed to steal it back. It was no 6 Uruk's to 4 Goblins in the centre, but I'd moved some reinforcements to back them up.

While on the left I decided to ignore the treasure and use my Captain to heroically fight a Berserker and then take down a second one. A war of attrition but I was doing OK. Otty was struggling with dice rolls again.

The Goblin King was able to kill the Troll, but not before he was wounded, failed his Blubbery Mass but passed his Fate point to remain on 3 wounds. I scarpered with the Ward Drum and the supplies treasure. I was able to kill the Uruk Hai captain with my Goblin Captain and captured their treasure while I cleared the left flank and my other Captain secured the skull treasure. I think Grinnah was killed by the Uruk-Hai Siege Captain

So I think you got 2 VPs per treasure, I'd captured 4 so got 8 points. Otty only managed 2, so was on 4 VPs. But I think I was broken, which got him another 3 VPs. This was 8:7 except for he scored an additional VP for wounding the Goblin King, despite it being fated.

So a draw 8:8, and Otty's face says it all. Clearly my bob of unruly Goblins are just as good as his finessed brutal Uruk's. Absolutely fantastic game.

Battle Report - Middle Earth Goblin Town Vs Lake Town, Game 1 #MESBG

Afternoon #WarHamFam and #WarhammerCommunity I've been playing MESBG again at Warhammer World! We had signed up for a midweek event again, just 500pts, 3 games, done and dusted. However, last time I went GoblinKing2025 commented on the blog that my list was 587pts. I queried it but they never followed up, even though I did check back on some of my points. I recently played that list again with Otty and savaged his Uruks, but when I submitted the list to the tournament I noticed other people using different list builders and decided to check again. And yes, I had been using the wrong points. THE SHAME! Not least because my second game that I won in that tournament was against Ben! I felt so bad, obviously not about the game with Ben, because he deserved the beating but yeah I screwed up. 

So, here's my correctly costed warband at 500pts. Although I would have loved to still have Gollum, I need the 'might bank' from the captain's to buff the King.

• The Goblin King with 10 Goblins
• Grinnah with 6 Goblins
• The Scribe with 6 Goblins
• Goblin captain with 6 Goblins
• Goblin captain with 6 Goblins

The first game was Assassination against Euan Hogg and his Lake Town. He didn't submit a list but it included:

• Master of Laketown
• Bard the Bowman with Windlance
• Alfrid the Councillor
• Two large units of Lake Town Guards

Not sure how much a battle report these are going to be as I can't remember much [as usual]. I was attempting to assassinate Alfrid. I did some decent positioning to avoid the Windlance on the right hand side.

And the left hand too, thanks to the trees.

It worked as Bard left the Windlance and tried a more direct approach, getting into the melee on the right. Meanwhile Alfrid was out in the open and conferring with the Master of Laketown.

I was desperate to get to him and the King barged through, so Alfrid went round the back of the building and had a bunch of guards form a roadblock. My only way to take him out was to hurl one of them. I had to win the duel, pass the intelligence test, Alfred had to be wounded and fails his Fate check, not to mention the additional [successful] wound rolls on the hurled victim inbetween.

Amazingly all these things went off and Alfrid was killed. I managed to score 9 points, however I think Euan killed his target [Grinnah] with Bard for 12 points and he was also the unit he wanted to keep alive too. Somehow I completely failed to deduce that, when it was so obvious.

A 13 to 9 loss, but a lot of fun. Despite all the nervous energy, jittery hands and not winning I had an absolute blast and Euan was a great sport.

Battle Record - Adeptus Titanicus 05/02/26

Afternoon and we're finally back playing Adeptus Titanicus in Otty's shed. Firstly an apology, there aren't many pictures, you can barely even get a sense of the game. In fairness we only managed 2 turns over the whole night. It's a complex game and it's been a while, so remembering how to play was a challenge in itself

Otty was using his Eldar Titans for the first time. I was trying to use new stuff too, with a Warlord, my Atrapos and Questoris Knights.

Otty's Questoris Knights in the bottom right did attempt to make a move toward the middle. But once again with these things [a bit later on in the game rather than this setup shot] they got hit by a Plasma Cannon on Maximal Fire from one of the Warhounds and wiped a lot of them out. We'd also done some damage to void Shields, but I think they'd managed to get them back up.

So, Otty and Ben had lost a few Knights along the way but in return managed to do wipe out the Void Shield on Liam and my Warlord. I think the Reaver also went into the Orange on its Reactor. So when we get back to the game I suspect we're going to have a rough activation.

My dice had abandoned me with a few command checks failing, leaving our titans less effective. Luckily the maniple at least allows you to attempt further orders. It was a good game, but we need to get better at it.

Terrain is everything - Middle Earth Osgiliath Ruins - Tower

Afternoon #Warhammer Community I know it's been a while but I've actually been #PaintingWarhammer on some MESBG terrain I was lucky enough to get for Christmas. These were all 3D printed sets on Amazon that my wife and my mate Pete got for me. Alternatively you can pick them up at www.qp3dwargames.co.uk The tall tower got it's dome blessed with Verdigris 🗽and is almost complete.

This ruin is a little further behind.

I wanted to put some 'soil' on the walkway, there'll be some grass on there too.

 It might not make a lot of sense but it will help it match up with the MESBG boards at Otty's when they're complete.

Particularly when the top piece is used separately.

This corner ruin is a bit further on.

The B&Q Ottawa emulsion paint is working really well for the drybrush, even if my brybrushing is really rough - it's good enough.

The viaduct is behind. This is in part du to the added basing material on top. All the additional sand glued on, then painted brown and highlighted. 

The corner tower ruin also was textured up.

The top piece was highlighted. I suspect I'll use this separately too. 

It seems unnecessary as a vertical extension. Whereas it would be more useful as additional low-level terrain. 

The brown is bold, but I didn't want anymore grey adding to the terrain.

Not to mention that most of Otty's exposed dirt in a tan colour and this would help me blend it in.

Around this time of year I talk about my post-Christmas malaise. Usually, I suggest the feeling is different to the previous year, which is either true or me trying to convince myself it's not. Regardless I have found very little motivation to go out to the shed to paint. I'm tired so much, the weather is awful and I just don't want to. Then I feel guilty these aren't done as they could have so easily been finished by now. It's a tough one and it's made the blog pretty quiet for January. But I am not going to beat myself up about it. They'll be done eventually, patience and understanding for 2026!

Battle record - Middle Earth Goblin Town Vs Uruk Berserkers #MESBG - 22/01/26

Afternoon #Warhammer Community I've been playing MESBG again in preparation for going to Warhammer World! 

I got my Goblin Town boys, while Otty had rounded up his Uruk Berserkers. 

Even the Orcs and Troll have been converted/painted to look like their bigger brothers.

We were set up on Otty's LEGO Helm's Deep board. It was the Assassin mission. So I chose Gollum as my assassin, with only and Uruk Captain as the target.

My first dice roll was a 6 to begin deployment. I wasn't even that cautious with it. I didn't win priority, but Otty gave it to me.

And turn 1, once again my dice were on fire! 🎲🔥 I managed to kill 6 Berserkers in the first turn, only losing 2 Goblins in return.

And that had a massive impact on the remainder of the game. Gollum put the ring on and went hunting the Captain, over the other side of the rough ground. But he has Mountain Dweller, so ignores difficult terrain.

However, the Goblin King got to him first, literally standing on the invisible ring bearer to get to him.

Otty came back strong to kill a lot of Goblins, but he was running out of  Uruks and Might points. We called it here

Again, my dice rolling was the talk of the night. Closely followed by Otty now unsure his low-model count would prove costly at the tournament. Decisions still to be made.

Meanwhile, Otty and Ben had set up the Adeptus Titanicus board for our next game in a week or two.

His Aeldari force looks amazing on his snow baord.

Even my red buildings look cool.

Just because they're red doesn;t mean they won't work on a white board.

I mean he's heavily outgunned in this cinematic set up.

We'll have create a fair list when we get to play.

Terrain is everything - Middle Earth Osgiliath Ruins from QP3D Wargames

Afternoon #Warhammer Community I've been #PaintingWarhammer on some MESBG terrain I was lucky enough to get for Christmas. These were all 3D printed sets on Amazon that my wife and my mate Pete got for me. Alternatively you can pick them up at www.qp3dwargames.co.uk I started with prime with of yellow primer, filler to help cover some of the FDM printer lines. I should have read the supplied instructions that recommends 2 to 3 coats of this. But I didn't. That said, for FDM, the lines aren't that bad at all and one coat managed this.

I then sprayed it with a cheap grey primer and then a zenithal white to get the pale grey/white Osgiliath colour I was hoping for. I even added some splatter spray effect, to give the impression of  mottled stone. Two further coats of spray helped with the lines even more, but if we were up to 5 coats with 3 filler/primer who knows how smooth they'd look.

Each piece was then washed with a grey/dark tone mix. Here the top building has already had a Stonewall Grey drybrush. Here I realised I'd need to mix a similar colour from cheap grey and white craft acrylics, as I'd use all my Stonewall otherwise. I was a little disheartened that a fair bit of my spray pattern and zenithal highlights were erased by the wash and subsequent highlights.

With my Stonewall mix I drybrushed the entire tower. Then used my Miniature Paints Cream to highlight to top. Realised the same issue about using up my good paint and actually switched to a B&Q emulsion tester pot of Ottawa paint. It's an off-white and was great,

I then added some AP Green Tone wash to create mildew stains on the stone, with some Basilicanum Grey Contrast paint added to make some variety in the colouring.

The rest of the tower was still to be done.

Here I added Vallejo Game Effects Dry Rust [similar to Typhus Corrosion]. Its a fine texture paint, which did an amazing job of smoothing out the FDM Lines - the entire model would look great in this after a prime. It would give it that fine texture on the stonework too.

Naturally I want to paint the dome as Blessed Verdigris🗽but that brown does look awesome as a dull bronze, challenging my usual proclivities. We'll have to see what comes next.