Kia Ora, Shire-Folk, Welcome back from an extended hiatus for another  vivifying  instalment of the Middle-Earth in Middle-Earth blog. As a reminder, w e talk about various thoughts, topics, games, and many other things related to the Middle-Earth Strategy Battle Game published by Games Workshop, better known as MESBG. As another reminder, I am no professional, but read on regardless and you might find something that you can take with you into your future hobbying. Actual image of me trying to find ideas and motivation to finish writing this article amongst life going on. Source: Tumblr In this post, I'm aiming to focus on some of the most important considerations that go into building a list to take on the unknown! To be clear, this will not be new information to a lot of experienced players, but will hopefully go a long way towards helping newer players understand what is crucial to making sure that whether they are headed into a tournament or just having a casual game where...

Kia Ora, Shire-Folk, Welcome to a new blog, a blog set in Aotearoa New Zealand - the real Middle-Earth. Here, we will talk about various thoughts, topics, games, and many other things related to the Middle-Earth Strategy Battle Game published by Games Workshop, better known as MESBG. In the future, I hope to expand into including perspectives and some awesome work from the passionate members of the MESBG community. When teaching new players, it usually falls on us to build a list for them - they can build their own lists when they know what stats and rules actually mean . This post therefore focusses on building lists for newbies (and may also be useful for people reading this trying to learn the hobby for themselves), but will include some other tips and suggestions here and there. Disclaimer for this and all future blog posts: while I am solidly familiar with the rules, I am not the best player in the world, I am not the best player in New Zealand, to be honest, I might not even be t...