Minas Tirith Under Siege! | MASSIVE Lord of the Rings Warhammer Battle Report

[@zorpoftherings]

What battle report would you like to see next? And thank you for supporting this new little venture to bring Middle Earth gaming back to Zorpazorp. Make sure you hit the subscribe button for me fam

[@wongogwaldock7689]

Not necessarily a battle but would be cool to do all the fights and battles from all 6 films 😊

[@degencatgaming]

So the first edition Return Of The King rulebook by Alessio Cavatore had a really cool "two part" scenario for the Battle Of The Black Gate. On one side of the board, it was the good side's heroes and warriors against the Mouth Of Sauron, two ringwraiths, and sundry orcs, trolls, and easterlings. But the other side of the board was meant to be set aside for the path to Mount Doom leagues away, which Frodo and Sam had to take up to the fire chamber and fight off Gollum so that they could throw the ring into the crack of doom, which would give the good side a win. In the movies the battle at the black gate was intended to be a distraction so I think the way we played it the evil side had endless models, but they needed to take out the entire good side, and if they did, then Sauron realized what was happening and that let the Evil side add one ringwraith on a fell beast over on the "mount doom" side of the board to go after Frodo and Sam the following turn. I don't know if that scenario is different in the current edition of the game but I thought that playing basically two different battles at the same time where one is the primary one but the other has a meaningful impact on it was a really cool design and I'd be interested in seeing the way that plays out.

[@unkleram]

I’d love to see the Moria Goblins attacking Lothlorien, as they chase the Fellowship after Gandalf’s apparent demise. Filmed, but as yet unreleased

[@samuelmoore5763]

I’d love love to see some more battle companies! ‘Season 1’ was so much fun!

[@kevin-ux5qk]

Id love to see a reimagined battle of pelennor fields. That was the first video i watched on your channels so itd be awesome to see it with all your new terrain as a nice back drop.

[@brutalfunkcore]

Babe wake up! The beacons are lit!

[@zorpoftherings]

Hahahahaha thanks mate

[@innocentBystander19]

Some people may disagree, but I think this is the epitome of good sportsmanship. Friendly shit talking, but not taking it too seriously, and then each guy will also help the other guy out and remind him if he forgot to use a power, etc.

[@Jodneah]

I want to see that orc Dday landing battle report that keeps getting teased in the videos

[@zorpoftherings]

Coming verrrrry soon :) just adding some finishing touches!

[@lorddraconum]

Nice seeing Imrahil on the tabletop.

[@zorpoftherings]

He is a legend!

[@lorddraconum]

@@zorpoftherings Very true

[@chengarqordath]

I'd like to see something with Rohan, in honor of the recent passing of Theoden's actor. Considering we're doing the siege of Minas Tirith, it feels like Pelennor Fields would be a logical follow-up.

[@zorpoftherings]

Agreed

[@LiliaArmoury]

"buildings from the colaboration of the zorp last month" oh hay i've seen this battle report back when youtube wasn't punishing multi topic channels. good to see this battle again

[@zorpoftherings]

Haha yeah a bit of voice over here and there might not ring quite true :)

[@LiliaArmoury]

@@zorpoftherings honestly i am sad that i am having to do something like you are and split my content across channels so it gets seen thanks to how algorithms work

[@KnudAutlermann]

Seeing a Minas Tirith BR at the Gate with Gandalf holding the line will be utterly epic!!!

[@jeymannschneider]

Those trebuchet misses were crucial.

[@travisskane5459]

The enthusiasm on display here keeps me watching even though I have no idea how this game plays. Fantastic board, Fantastic minis, Fantastic editing and voice over work!

[@Biggles369]

This is how you want to see games played. Loved seeing the board being used

[@kylemckiernan1445]

Definitely wanna see the trolls barging through the gates of minas tirith after grond knocks it open

[@zorpoftherings]

Going to look so cool aye!!!

[@soccernerd27]

These games are so insanely cool. It fills me with childish joy seeing all these beautiful models on such a fantastic board. Keep up all the great work mate!

[@AvalonSteelsheen]

Love this one! Can’t wait to see Gandalf defending the gates of Minas Tirith.

[@roadgoeseveron7128]

i think your boards will have many "fairly lenghy reach arounds" moments :D with all those lovely buildings in the way... its honestly impressive how playable this massive part of the board still is, i think thats one of your strengths - to keep playability in mind when crafting

[@terrainaholic]

Very IMPRESSIVE board Big Guy!!!!! Loving those siege towers!!!!!

[@43jayboe]

Ohhh baby!! Love me some Minas Tirith goodness!!

[@NickSibz]

Amazing report. Cannot wait for the massive gate battle coming. LOTR battle reports are back on the menu, boys!

[@patrickzepf1658]

If someone asks me, why i love tabletop gameplay - i'll show them your channel. I love ur work, man!

[@mrlukesir486]

Love to see the return of Mesbg I’d also love to see a Laketown board in the future

[@NothingToSeeHere32]

This is shaping up to be a mighty Minas Tirith campaign!! Would like to see a Grey Havens bat-rep, that board is beautiful, no idea why the algorithm didn't favour it.

[@muesliman100]

Maybe we could get some corsairs with fire bombs to recreate the Bfme 2 game for that

[@peterk4626]

With boards like this I don't think I'd ever stop playing! One Batt rep I'd love to see is the Last Alliance of Men and Elves vs Mordor and Sauron himself, just to see that opening shot of the line of Elves as Mordor charges done Lachie Scale!!! But that would require more epic landscape builds.....this man works hard enough without an idiot like me suggesting things like this :)

[@Kumerachips]

Great Scott! Batrep madness!

[@beanzeani2440]

After years of knowing about all the stuff you do thanks to my interest in 40k being pretty adjacent to this, I've finally decided to get into MESBG and am picking up the battle of osgiliath tomorrow. Thanks for all the inspiration you bring to the hobbyists of lotr

[@TiagoRamosVideos]

Absolutely stunning scenario, paint job and video 👌 this is pure art 👏 thanks 🙏

[@Morgulvale_]

It's just so cool just seeing all the figures on all the walls during a batrep.

[@grahamward7]

Love to see great battle reports on a shiny new channel! Well done!

[@zorpoftherings]

Thank you so much mate!!

[@saltytyranitar6981]

Just throwing out a comment for KZbin algorithm reasons. I really want to see this channel succeed!

[@Scotch5ailor]

Good on you, stay strong!

[@hunsler1006]

Man i firgot how good these were, I'm hyped for the upcoming ones!

[@zorpoftherings]

Thank you mate :)

[@itubemeandyou]

A battle report in the Grey havens would be a interesting battle

[@wunderwaffle2564]

I'd absolutely love to see more of your Maccragge campaign of the 40K games you did. I was really invested in those videos and was sad when there weren't any more of them. I love your themed campaigns

[@daigloomminiaturepainting303]

I'd love to see the battle for the Fords of Isen

[@zorpoftherings]

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS good taste swampy!

[@jmc7034]

A pleasure to relax and watch this again

[@Mini-wargaming9002]

I recently started collecting minas tirith after my 500 strong mordor force. I would absolutely LOVE to play on the fantastic board.

[@EntmootVideos]

Glad you reuploaded this one - it was great to see it again! I know your instinct is to go massive, but I actually like the smaller battle reports where it’s less about huge swathes of dudes chopping each other. I’d love to see some lesser known arnor scenarios or something, Arathorn killed by Burhdur in the old ruin of arnor book would be cool. On your fornost board!

[@TylerStein-p4i]

Truly incredible yet again! A cool scenario (or 2) could be the death of Arathorn and Aragorn's revenge from the old Fall of Arnor supplement

[@degencatgaming]

Excellent battle report once again! Brilliantly done with both the play and the terrain design!

[@matthewscott6543]

Absolutely love these battle reports, they really inspire me to build, paint, and play with the MESBG models I bought growing up!

[@seanowens5423]

Always a treat to see the boards in action, Lachie! It's great to see the work you put into keeping it playable pay off. Can't wait for more!

[@jackson1matt]

Yesssssssss! Just in time for my lunch break. Last battle report was fantastic im sure this one will be just as good 💥

[@silveryoyo2293]

Good to see some Battle reports again! I'm down for any Battle Reports, Rohan, more Minas Tirith, Moria. It all sounds good to me!

[@hijodeleif]

This was incredible guys, total respect for all the love on all the details and the edition of the video. For another battle report I’d like to see I’d say the Warg Attack of Rohan! Thanks so much for the content! ⚔️🛡️

[@christopherszynkowski2524]

The riders of Rohan in exile vs the orcs on the border of fanghorn forest.

[@mattiasgamin3891]

Excellent stuff! 🥰 Maybe switch to a more subtle colour on your dice tray? It distracts a bit from the beautiful miniatures and buildings.

[@TrainedHealth]

can't get enough of these great battles! Keep it up!

[@morgoththedark1]

Love to see a return of that campaign style game where you all leveled up between battles (can't remember the name of the game mode) but that was a lot of fun to follow along with

[@Ruggfish]

I'd also love to see an Easterling/ Orc attack on the gate. You can just about see them in certain shots but it'd be coll to see it played out in full view!

[@unjointedgoose8]

Loving the return of the middle earth battle reports!

[@SCMitchell]

So good to see battle reports back. I'm here for the long haul. Thanks!

[@insomnerml1987]

My first LOTR battle report ever, last time I played was in 2002/2003(?) with the book of the two towers

[@zorpoftherings]

That's amazing!!! Glad to have tempted you back haha

[@harazhangf5782]

It was great to rewatch that battle report. I am impatient to see the new ones. And I will say the same thing here that I said on the previous BR. I wanna see the Battle for Azanulbizar and some action on your Arnor board.

[@zorpoftherings]

Yes yes yessssssssssss, Really want to ship Arnor over soon!

[@GoodEggGuy]

Once again, what an amazing team effort and a great battle report. Awesome!

[@stormsorrow4142]

Love this board, the whole collab building it was such a good series of videos

[@mennorach]

Cool batrep. I really expected the blades of the dead on all of the orcs to do much more. It has always been bit op rule, but it seems that with clever dicerolling the players can mitigate its effect :)

[@TheLoneQuester]

Would be great to see a campaign of sorts where the results of battles affect the next one. Similar to the battle companies series but on a grander scale. Keep up the good work!

[@stalkunseenterrain]

Ah dam. I’ve already seen this one. Still be fun to watch and get those views up

[@zorpoftherings]

New ones to come soon Wadey!

[@SwordlordRoy]

Black Knights of Sauron You're made of iron Black Shadows of Mordor Wield one-eyed Shields! Personally, I would love to see some Smoke and Shadows, but I fully admit that I love Dwarves.

[@irishtom30]

All those trebuchet misses! It hurts the soul. Great stuff

[@davidm.corbin4643]

MESBG is such a cool game system I wish it was more popular in the United States. Thank you for such an immersive and fun battle report. I am going to continue writing this comment because I think longer comments create more algorithmPoints TM. Anyway keep up the awesome and fun work

[@Kathandros]

Doing my part for the algorithm!

[@samsterrett6066]

I see Zorp content, I click on Zorp content.

[@alexburns2982]

The game with such an amazing background looks so good dude !!! Well done

[@Ruggfish]

I know this likely won't happen for a long time but I'd love to see a defence of the north battle to cleanse Dol Guldur. I can't see it happening soon if the boards not with you!

[@Lerod644]

Good to see this video bacjk, good to see Ryan too; also maybe a battle on your grey havens xith elves agaist goblins or Umbar Corsairs ^^

[@MrMinnimonster]

Love it! Super coool BatRep.

[@Faramirvongondor]

Awesome game, can't wait to see action on the new board with the main gate. Also I would love to see game on Dol Guldur xD

[@zorpoftherings]

You and me both!

[@patrickcoyne1960]

Not sure if there is terrain available for it, but a Battle Report of the Black Gate would be amazing! Bonus if there is a small separate bord with Frodo, Same and Gollum in the Chamber in Mt. Doom.

[@mrvinc908]

Amazing battle I have always love your videos ! I would love to see a battle in the port where Frodo, Gandalf and Galadriel leave the Middle Earth. Again, amazing batlle

[@Tahnee-T69]

Loving this 😮😮😮❤❤❤ so beautiful and amazing 😍😍😍 so many people are jealous of you 😁😁😁

[@C0m3TSw1tch]

Awesome battle report. I would love to see a game on the new Elven harbour (Valinor/Grey Haven/the one you used the 3D file on - sorry my Tolkien lore isn't great). That board is beautiful.

[@mrogface]

I love how you said "a bit of a yeet"

[@christiankoppang8296]

Lighting the beacons to signal the algorithm that zorp calls for aid

[@smoessmee]

I've always liked Arnor, it'd be cool to see the Rangers or Arnor fight over the ruins of Fornost. I'd forgotten how much I enjoy watching SBG battle reports :)

[@everettlefebvre4985]

I just got some Dale minis, I'd love to see a Defence of the North bat rep with the lords of Dale and King Dain holding off Easterlings and Orcs!

[@TheGenRex]

Recommended to me after watching the recent Zorpazorp build episode! Im doing my part!

[@brandononeill48]

Hell yeah middle earth! Let's see Gandalf ride out to rescue Faramir + co. from the wraiths with wings.

[@toejamkook]

is this a repost from an old report? i feel like i have seen this one. not that im complaining. These reports always get my mojo going and love watching them. And the terrain is amazing.

[@perreyalsdam7994]

Another great game. You really got the feel for the size of the thing when You see the diffrence in height. Battlemats go home.

[@cbthemetalhead]

Is there any plan to do minas morgul? If so, will we expect to see a battle report?

[@brettschow1191]

The first time I've seen a feral uruk-hai model in a battle report, but it's zagdush😂😂

[@bradcraig6676]

Highly entertaining!

[@mech0p]

i wish i had people around me that were into stuff like this.

[@RabtasticPaints]

That's my lunchtime viewing sorted!

[@chrispape7969]

Great battle report !

[@owaindavies8364]

When does pipin get called down to fight 😅. Awesome board! Looking forward to seeing the statue of anarion/ isuldur in the courtyard by the gate.

[@themanabroad7800]

Seen this one before, but no absolutely don’t care. I love your MESBG battle reports. Can’t wait to see more, this was one of the reasons I first subbed to you way back when.

[@zorpoftherings]

Thank you so much mate, I'm really stoked you enjoyed it again :)

[@themanabroad7800]

@@zorpoftherings you’re one of my favourite content producers

[@JanusZudnik]

Just returned from an epic 8 hour War Of The Ring boardgame session. This will go nicely as aftermath, even though I lost Minas Tirith, but won the game.

[@zorpoftherings]

I was playing that just last week mate! So much fun aye!

[@TomWainwright1]

Bloody love this battle report - great stuff!

[@rickycallan425]

Mate this channel is phenomenal! I'd love to see what you could create for a mines of Moria campaign arc! 👌

[@BazztheBazz]

This is great! While it's not a big city mega-board, I'd love to see the Warg attack from the Two Towers, maybe as a precursor to a bigger Helm's Deep battle

[@zorpoftherings]

Bazz you are going to be a happy man next year hahaha

[@sheildingepicness]

It would be awesome to see a separate series which recycles these maps for a dnd campaign or something similar, such well made sets and minis

[@aidanhart9871]

Another cool video. For a sec I thought Ryan flew to NZ lol. I think another scenario from ring bearer would be cool because they're smaller scenarios with models that I have haha 🤣. Good job man

[@RedViperOnTop]

I would love to see a batlle on your dol guldor terrain, maybe the destuction of dol guldor

[@zorpoftherings]

Me tooooooooooooooooo

[@BeardClipper]

Zorp Middle-earth batrep notification BEARDY WEIRDY WILL ANSWER THE CALL!

[@angrenost1410]

Great game guys keep it up!

[@zorpoftherings]

Thanks! Will do!

[@andymarchant9422]

Epic stuff lachie! I know those siege towers.. haha

[@zaleth]

Sucha sick and epic board!

[@toddjarman542]

So are you excited about the new movies . I can’t wait you need to get in there mate how cool would it be to be part of it

[@zorpoftherings]

Especially thrilled they're happening here in NZ mate!!!

[@Erunerr]

I would love to see Theodreds (Theodens son) last stand.