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 Alfred. 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 - 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.

#MESBG Middle Earth Goblin Town Goblins - Big Build and Base TO DONE!

Afternoon #Warhammer Community I recently celebrated a birthday which included some gifts from my gaming crew. This included a Goblin Town warband, including the Goblin King himself from Otty. There's even Goblin Town terrain piece from Liam, but I'll get to that further down the line. I built the heroes...

And the 32 goblin warriors. These were a dream as they are not multi-part kits. You just snip them off the sprue and glue them to the base - my kind of build. Even basing this many figures seemed much quicker than I bargained on, ready to prime. 

Another Great Big Wooden 'BIG BUILD' Stamp of Approval.

I realised that I already new how to paint the 'pale and interesting' effect common on these goblins as I'd done the same on my Poxwalkers.

This was a simple division - 16 primed grey, 16 primed Skeleton Bone.

The a quick squirt of white as a zenithal highlight on the face and shoulders.

I then did a quick mask and got the bases with Matt Black (hero of the imperium).

I'm not sure this was the right choice as the overspray caught things I didn't want and even the mask dripped onto models, which would require fixing.

I used burnt umber for the bases, dark wash, burnt umber highlight and then added skeleton bone for two further highlights. Now you can see the front two ranks are paler/cooler looking. This was something I was unhappy with. I decided to risk a VGC Beasty Brown drybrush and you can see the top ranks are much warmer looking, which is what I prefer.

I added the drybrush to all the rest. Then I had a very weird experience trying to work out if I needed more goblins to create a 500pt list. It revealed a box of warriors is 36 figures, not 32. I looked at pictured of the sprue and counted them all up. But I only had 32, what gives. I looked back in the box I had clipped them into and found 3 more figures knocking around, so 1 is still AWOL. That still meant I had 3 to base and prime to bring them up to speed. Luckily I'd also been volunteered to base about 40 undead warriors from Scott's Middle Earth Army of the Undead so I'll add them to that task...

In the mean time, another Great Big Wooden 'BIG BUILD BASE' Stamp of Approval.