Confessions of a 40k addict: 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 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

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?