Battle Record - Middle Earth Goblin Town Vs Easterlings, Game 3 #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. But this time we went down the day before, had a game and stayed overnight, so we were fresh the next day to do battle. But the 

Here's my 500 point warband with the 'might bank' from the captain's to buff the King with the Scribe.

• The Goblin King with 10 Goblins and Gollum
• Grinnah with 10 Goblins
• Goblin captain with 8 Goblins
• Goblin captain with 8 Goblins

Last game and I was up against Bryn Soane, he'd faced Ben in round one and lost 9:2. I assume he'd lost his second game and dropped to the bottom with me, still on table 19 [I couldn't go any lower]

• Amdur, Lord of the Blades
• 9 Easterling warriors, halberd and shield
• 6 Black dragon warriors, halberd
• Easterling Dragon Knight
• Easterling Captain
• 6 Easterling warriors, halberd and shield
• 2 Easterling warriors, bow

As you can see To The Death and we're both already on 2 VPs, because neither of us have banners. But the next victory condition makes it even worse. If you have a banner and I don't your scoring another 2 VPs at the end of the game. That means I have to take out the banner, else I allow you the score AND, there's no way I can score that because I can't take them! Luckily neither could Bryn, and I don't usually swear on the blog, but it's bull💩! 

Anyway, we faced off and I discover a couple of the Easterling Heroes have Elven blades, because of course they would. With the Goblin King once again at risk I will have to tread carefully.

We eventually managed to meet in the middle and the Lord of Blades issued an Heroic Challenge to the King, which he promptly dismissed. If they faced each other he'd be at a disadvantage but someone called the Lord of Blades with and Elf weapon was not a challenge I fancied. He did face the Captain though and managed to kill him, stuffing him into a sack as a prisoner for a VP.

Grinnah tried his best too, but wasn't able to double up on prisoners. I think it was a pretty even battle at this point. The Easterlings were hard to kill and with Halberds Bryn could often get 2 spear supports to my one. But every loss he took was a bigger deal, because I had Goblins just waiting in the wings to join combat.

As more of my Goblins died I was able to spread out and start tri-point trapping units. This gave me lots more to wound rolls, which started to turn the tide. But Grinnah was killed and Gollum put on the ring walked through everyone and tried to kill the Lord of Blades who'd got into combat with the Goblin King. Unfortunately he couldn't separate him out and would subsequently succumb to the Ring and wander off. But it didn't matter as the King wone the duel, bashed Amdur silly and took him prisoner instead of the Captain.

With more traps happening I was able to whittle down the Easterlings to quarter and the Goblin King kill the last remaining Hero, but he wasn't as fancy as the Lord of Blades and we definitely wanted to remove that Elven blade to protect our Goblins.

So the end result, with prisoners was 19:4. Unbelievable how this went. I can't quite work out if it was good dice. Maybe it was having all the Goblins together? I think if I go again I'll not take Gollum. He didn't seem to do very much. Although his chance to peel off Amdur had my heart racing for a moment.  Another 8 Goblins feel like they'd be more useful and even easier to manage - no extra rules to contend with.

With that result we ended up with Otty 32nd, me 22nd, and Ben 15th out of 38. I think that's my best ever result. It was only the massive score at the end that allowed me to jump from the bottom to the mid-league. Once again though I never felt like they didn't have a chance. OK, maybe just a bot with Otty as I knew the Wargs were more mobile to secure the objectives and cavalry charges would be my downfall. But, I did much better with them than the objectively more competitive Army of the Dead. So it just goes to show. I think with more practice I'd be stronger with Goblins, so that's what I'm going to do.

Battle Record - Middle Earth Goblin Town Vs Sharku and Wargs, 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. But this time we went down the day before, had a game and stayed overnight, so we were fresh the next day to do battle. But the 

Here's my 500 point warband.

• The Goblin King with 10 Goblins and Gollum
• Grinnah with 10 Goblins
• Goblin captain with 8 Goblins
• Goblin captain with 8 Goblins

Second game and just look who I was drawn against! Can't get away from this guy! However, I had been curious to see how Goblin Town would fare against his army after the trouncing I had with the Army of the Dead the previous week.

• Sharku
• 5 Warg riders, shields and throwing spears
• 2 Warg riders, shields
• 2 Warg rides, bows
• 2 Wargs
• Orc captain with warg
• 4 Warg riders, shields and throwing spears
• 1 Warg rider, throwing spears
• 2 Warg riders, shields
• 2 Warg rides, bows
• 2 Wargs
• Orc shaman with warg
• 6 Wargs

Alternating warband setup and Otty had positioned to capture the drum on my left. I had half a mind to setup opposite and just bash him. Or I could set up on the right which was empty. Instead I did neither and sat on my home objective. So inevitably he took the right objective so I just threw all three remaining warbands at the right side trusting that inexplicable palisade would cause him more problems than me. 

And it did, he had to send a party back and round to come at my extreme right flank. I kept my home objective secure but had every intention of abandoning it

I think I managed to do quite well in the middle but my board control was shot to pieces. That palisade became my MVP keeping cavalry at bay.

I was totally convinced the Wargs had an 8" move, didn't move my goblins far enough away and they got charged afterall and I had to fight for my home objective. I think I may have killed Sharku with the Goblin King

So with Otty sat on most of the objectives he took the win 9:5

Battle Record - Middle Earth Goblin Town Vs Lothlorien, 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. But this time we went down the day before, had a game and stayed overnight, so we were fresh the next day to do battle. But the 

Here's my 500 point warband.

• The Goblin King with 10 Goblins and Gollum
• Grinnah with 10 Goblins
• Goblin captain with 8 Goblins
• Goblin captain with 8 Goblins

First game and it was Wyn Price who'd brought Lothlorien:

• Celeborn
• 6 Galadhrim Warriors, shield and Lorien guard
• 4 Galadhrim Warriors, shield, spear and Lorien guard
• Wood Elf Sentinel
• Lothlorien warrior with banner
• Haldir
• 5 Lothlorien warrior with bow
• 7 Lothlorien warrior with spear

Hold Ground was the mission... 😡 once again I start the game with my opponent scoring 2VPs because I don't have a banner. Or more accurately I CAN'T take a banner even if I wanted to! 🤬 Sure if I can kill his banner I get the 2VPs too, but you opponent shouldn't be scoring them for doing nothing before the game has even started. Rant over [for now].

OK, I only took two pictures so there's no report. I was deeply annoyed that these pesky elves were going around singing their own [so-called] songs! They were disgusting warbles to me, nothing like the Goblin King's beautiful voice. Ordinarily I'd have gone straight to the objective and forced him fight me off it. But with Maelstrom [the King decided not to turn up in turn 1] and no Scribe to call Heroic March across the entire board I thought I'd let him have it. I hid my right force in that ruin.

Which I then won priority in the second turn which made me regret not going straight for the centre to get position. But in the end that force Wyn to focus on my right and [mostly] ignore my left force. Except transfixing the Goblin King. Ultimately we ended up trying to surround the objective with what we had left. Wyn had done a much better job because his warbands all came on together. He could focus on half my army with support. That meant he thought I had much more Goblins on the objective than elves.

But I had 16 to his 21. Throw in the King and Celeborn - your warlord is Dominant 3, so worth 3 points but they cancelled each other out. So Wyn won out 9:0, was the wooden spoon within my grasp?

I then went for a coffee and cake in Bugman's, while Ben and Otty disappeared so I was all Billy no mates!

Some of the best painted miniature entries.

Gwaihir went on to win the competition.

The trolls were fun.

And a  custom Balrog, that did not miss leg day!

Imperial Knights - Cerastus Twins in manufactorum pt15. White background pics ⚪

Afternoon #Warhammer Community I've been #PaintingWarhammer on the Cerastus Knights. And they are TO DONE! Here are the white background pics, I already had someone asking for them after I shared pics of the Acheron on my Ferron Proxima backdrop. AI did help in in visualising the Tempest Power Sword.

There's not a lot to add to what I've already said except when I get to some of the close-ups so just enjoy.

The blessed verdigris 🗽 on the ammo box 😍 Although, I had seen one that was painted red, which would have been nice and mirrored the Acheron's yellow fuel tanks.

I used Daler Rowney white ink for the brightest glow effect. It's much easier to control than thinning white paint, so I was very happy [although missed it in a couple of places].

The kneepad had another Deathwing decal quote.

I think the amount of battle damage on the fuel tanks did help mitigate my feeling that it needed some red warning labels. They still could have been cool but I made it very busy anyway. 

I used Vernidas again to fill the dials. Some UV resin would have worked here, I need to get some.

The fuel cable is pretty cool.

I didn't use Tamiya Clear on the lenses. I think if they'd been bigger it would have helped but if I had they've have been much darker and harder to see.

I love the blade scratches.

I had serious doubts on the foot and shin colours but I am over the moon. So much so that I may consider more painted toes in future.

I painted the inside of the carapace vent so you can see the glow from the back.

You will hardly see the plasma generator through the slots when I finish the cockpit, but it shows a bit.

So many details that I love about both of these Cerastus knights.

There are definitely areas that could have been improved, or even space for more detailing but I'm so satisfied they're finally done and seeing them next to my other knights will be an absolute treat.