Angmar vs The Grey Company in To the Death at 1000 points. | MESBG Battle Report

[@joshmortimer3433]

Mental - i thought once Angmar had chased the Grey Company down that would be it but wow. The Rangers player played that game perfectly.

[@thefinalseries]

Great batrep chaps, what makes your videos so great is the friendship and banter that is apparent in each of your videos. Definitely up there with the best mesbg content creators. Keep it up ❤️

[@NowForWrathGaming]

Thank you so much! Very much appreciated. Open to any feedback if there's something you'd like to see!

[@sog242]

GG! Loved this one. Keep it up!

[@Competentetyler]

The dice by Andrew were so on brand for shooting. Tons of 6’s on In The Ways, tons of 1’s to Wound. Then, BOOM! Combat starts and it completely flips!

[@NowForWrathGaming]

Sometimes you eat the bear... sometimes the bear eats you.

[@tschutz]

Bye bye Gully! yea Andrew!

[@craig3111]

Those rangers being 30pts each is just crazy. Love to see them play but never seems competitive. Their might gets used in the first round usually just to kill one enemy. Then they’re just squishy

[@NowForWrathGaming]

Yeah 30 points is a bit rough. But with 29 might plus a free one every turn, spending a might to get a kill doesn't feel so bad. I just wish they were F5, really. I don't think they'd be great, but at least they'd feel like they were worth a shot at a tournament. As it is, I can't imagine facing elves or DE with them and being horribly outnumbered AND outfought. -Andrew

[@Competentetyler]

@@NowForWrathGamingLet alone facing Assault on Lothlorien 🙄

[@craig3111]

How angmar didn’t just swamp them astounds me. Gully waiting a few turns and then getting flash killed is crazy.

[@NowForWrathGaming]

How was I to swamp them? I marched twice and had to contend with woods :) It was a perfect storm for the dang rangers! -S

[@ThirdAgeWargaming]

@@NowForWrathGaming Same issue I have with Angmar. With Gully being such easy cannon fodder now i have moved over to more of a swarm of orcs which then justifies the price of the shade even more. However, its hard to write an Angmar list because almost every hero feels like a must take!

[@NowForWrathGaming]

@@ThirdAgeWargaming Yeah, Angmar is ridiculous in its choice, but I DO think it's easy to fall into the trap and then lose focus! I'll have to try a horde of orcs... maybe with TWO shades...

[@ThirdAgeWargaming]

@@NowForWrathGaming I like the idea of two shades but a shade and two barrow wights seems to discourage the opponant from churning you up with heroes more effectively. If only shade debuffs stacked!

[@NowForWrathGaming]

When I was running the numbers in my head... I figured 23 bow shots with a heroic accuracy had a very very good chance of killing Gulavhar in one round of shooting. Just couldn't risk it... but in hindsight probably just should have! -Steven

[@RabtasticPaints]

I love The Grey Company so much. That 6" Fearless banner should just make Dead March Spectres irrelevant.

[@NowForWrathGaming]

Me too! I want them to be good so bad. I think they're a blast to play, especially after Steve had the great "put bands on them to represent spent might" idea, so the tedium is gone. And yeah, that banner helped a good bit! A compel or two on Halbarad helped a little, but it still worked out.

[@RabtasticPaints]

@NowForWrathGaming if you name then all, it's easier to track! I'll name my next to after you lads! The Rangers have been done dirty though. Should be F5, elven cloaks, longbow, and 2 attacks as standard.

[@NowForWrathGaming]

Hoo boy, I'd be taking them to a tournament if they were F5 with longbows.

[@NowForWrathGaming]

@@RabtasticPaints Agreed! -S

[@braveryisavirtue]

Wow Gully got crushed. Great game from the rangers. The dice gods did not grace Steven this day.

[@NowForWrathGaming]

You win some you lose some. Honestly, I'm always happy when Andrew has a good dice day. They're rare and should be cherished. -S

[@joelparslow5807]

I thought if you had a penalty to you duel roll (such as 2 handed, banner, shade) then you were effectively capped at 5? But you guys are mighting up to 6, so I assume I was mistaken.

[@NowForWrathGaming]

Yep you can might back up to a 6. Same for two handing.

[@joelparslow5807]

@@NowForWrathGaming good to know

[@Pussuf]

Hi there, great battlerep. Just have one question. With the errate from Feb '24 monsters with the fly special rule don't have in-the-ways (if not engaged). So Gully should have been targeted earlier. Am i right or am i missing somethin?

[@NowForWrathGaming]

Hey, so he does still get in-the-ways for terrain/buildings, but also you still have to have line of sight to him and I rarely did because of that one dwarf building he was behind. Wings and tails don't count, so I could pretty much never see him. I was ready and waiting and he knew that a turn of shooting probably meant a dead Gully haha. Glad you liked the batrep and thanks for watching!

[@oliverbolden7926]

Shoulda got gully in sooner :)

[@NowForWrathGaming]

I was way too scared of 23 bow shots with might behind them!

[@oliverbolden7926]

@@NowForWrathGaming aye, Andrew did more with his shooting than causing wounds ;) the fear factor is real, I lost a couple tournament games from being scared of shooting and got shot to shit anyway 😭

[@NowForWrathGaming]

@@oliverbolden7926 Yeah I probably should have just risked it. Found a spot with an in-the way and gone for it

[@CaptnLoken]

I feel like you ought to pick better armies. So many of your games end up with one army sitting back and shooting, or some other cheese thing.. Are you guys actually having fun?

[@NowForWrathGaming]

This game? Not fun. BUT we like putting ourselves in situations too. As competitive players it IS nice to sometimes face off a situation that could be rough. This game in particular was rough. The "stand and shoot" army has also gotten old- and after this game Andrew and I had a think about how to address this very issue moving forward. First and foremost we are going to pre-plan a little better and decide ahead of time what are "tournament prep" games and what are "for funsies" games- which will somewhat dictate how we approach it. We did not predict this matchup being as absolutely garbage as it was; though. In fact we thought the opposite- so in a way seeing this play out in such a dire and surprising way was neat in hindsight!