Even if my experience with Minas Tirith differs from yours i found the video entertaining and i heard some interesting and valuable ideas. Thanks you for that. I noticed that you only made a video for isengard and Minas Tirith and that those Videos were made years ago but still i hope that you continue this series at some point and exemplify some more warbands with their pros and cons and strategy in the future.
AWESOME SAUCE!! This is the next army that I am painting. Your brake down will effect my hero choice and army composition for MESBG play and in match play.
I love these videos! Dunland with their changes going to be covered? Or Sharkey's rogues? Conveniently, allegedly, the spear men with shield can promote to knights according to the FAQ? That would be a lot of lances in Battle Companies!
Great content, thanks for this! Very timely as well as you have now covered 2 out of the 4 Battle Companies that I am planning to build =). For me, the content and length of these are precisely right. My only question would be: how do you rate the Osgiliath Company compared to MT, as they are quite similar? My wishes for future factions to cover are: Minas Morgul, Angmar and Moria Expedition.
Glad you enjoyed it Erik and thank so much for the comment. Obviously Osgiliath is very similar to M.T. Basically they replace Citadel Guards and Fountain Court with Osgiliath Vets. Different army rule and Advancements also of course. In short I'd say it's not going to be as competitive, but maybe just as fun to play with. The loss of the Fountain Guard is a big hit to the competitive side. I'll definitely be doing Moria Expedition at some point, because who doesn't love Dwarves? Maybe combine that one with Durin's Folk. PS have you watched our Journey to the Blue Mountains series yet? The other two I'll try to get to at some point. I notice they both include Dead Marsh Spectres....nasty - Don
@@ontariostrategybattlegamel3558 I have indeed watched that series! That is part of what got me so hooked on Battle Companies in the first place, and I don't even have anyone to game with yet :D!
Hello Don. I like your video and i wish i would have seen it earlier. A Friend of mine used to play BC with me. He plays Isengard and i play Minas Tirith. I couldnt believe that you gave MT a competition rating of 5 and only 4 for Isengard. I dont have as much experience as you do (specially late campaign) but i just cant stop whining and complaining about how incredibly unbalanced those warbands are. My Gondor boys are getting raped out there. When i win a game its pure luck. im not a strategic genius but this executions i have to witness over and over again are just simple math. if we roll for duell and got the same numbers, orcs win. they hit on a 5 but wait i can improve y defense with a shield from 5 to 6. whoops orcs still hit on 5. i can form a shieldwall. yes great idea. i get outnumbered and the shieldwall gets pushed apart from lost duell rolls. my shieldwals barely hold for one phase. due to my weak strength of 3 i also hit on 5es even on the weak scouts. if i face a uruk warrior with shield its like a one man shieldwall. good luck rolling 6es. oh yes and they have the best range weapon. lets humiliate them even before they get overpowered in melee. when you said that there is an erata chaning the scout bows to strength 3 i thought it was a april foolsday joke and the only involved person died. I was losing my mind thinking about how i can get any advantage that would give me a slight chance and now i saw your video. Needing horses and special reinforcemens sound logic and of course they wont be aviable in the first games. the ralley horn sounds really geart. i didnt had that on my mind and i will definetley give it a try. But... The horn costs 5 and a horse 3 if i remember right and you gotta collect those points with loses most likeley, which means that isengard gains like... idk double as much points? That would be 5 new orcs added to that band and even if its only three. MT wouldnt get a single model and the new and only rider would be the range target number one and even with the ralley horn rolling on the chart is still nothing but gamble. So then i got a warband of still 6 minis who get rekt by 7 minis wich are now 10. i cant see at wich point i am going to catch up. even if i get my hands on some fountain guards. they have equal fight value wich make duells finally fair but still only 3 strength. i can spent even more points and buy them a shield, defense 7 would be awesome but still they are not really that much better than the uruks. (i once had a berserker slaying two fountain guards with one strike. i know its a dice game and things like that allways can happen but it pretty much summs up how playing minas tirith on isengard feels for me) So I need to wait till Isengard hits its maximum of 15 minis, then i have to reach that by my self and then i buy the wardogs and then i pray for good rolls on the reinforcement chart to replace the weak units with ok-ish ones. how many games do i have to bite the dust untill i can start a new round with a little bit of confidence?... wow what a wall of text. i got carried away quite a bit. Long story short: i regret picking Minas Tirith as my warband.
If your warband is doing so poorly that probably means you're gaining a LOT more than just 2 rep per lost game because there will be a large disparity in the warband ratings. Use that to your advantage. Just playing against (and with, they were my first) Isengard I know how tough Uruks are. You're right it's an uphill battle at first, but you need those lances and that cavalry and your heroes to do the heavy lifting (just like in the full tabletop game)
Loved the breakdown! Would love to see the Osgiliath and Fiefdoms review please! :)
Even if my experience with Minas Tirith differs from yours i found the video entertaining and i heard some interesting and valuable ideas. Thanks you for that. I noticed that you only made a video for isengard and Minas Tirith and that those Videos were made years ago but still i hope that you continue this series at some point and exemplify some more warbands with their pros and cons and strategy in the future.
AWESOME SAUCE!! This is the next army that I am painting. Your brake down will effect my hero choice and army composition for MESBG play and in match play.
Thanks for watching Raylorn, and thanks for the comment! - Don
I love these videos! Dunland with their changes going to be covered? Or Sharkey's rogues?
Conveniently, allegedly, the spear men with shield can promote to knights according to the FAQ? That would be a lot of lances in Battle Companies!
Great content, thanks for this! Very timely as well as you have now covered 2 out of the 4 Battle Companies that I am planning to build =). For me, the content and length of these are precisely right. My only question would be: how do you rate the Osgiliath Company compared to MT, as they are quite similar?
My wishes for future factions to cover are: Minas Morgul, Angmar and Moria Expedition.
Glad you enjoyed it Erik and thank so much for the comment.
Obviously Osgiliath is very similar to M.T. Basically they replace Citadel Guards and Fountain Court with Osgiliath Vets. Different army rule and Advancements also of course. In short I'd say it's not going to be as competitive, but maybe just as fun to play with. The loss of the Fountain Guard is a big hit to the competitive side.
I'll definitely be doing Moria Expedition at some point, because who doesn't love Dwarves? Maybe combine that one with Durin's Folk. PS have you watched our Journey to the Blue Mountains series yet? The other two I'll try to get to at some point. I notice they both include Dead Marsh Spectres....nasty - Don
@@ontariostrategybattlegamel3558 I have indeed watched that series! That is part of what got me so hooked on Battle Companies in the first place, and I don't even have anyone to game with yet :D!
Superuseful review - please do new!
Thanks for watching and commenting. Glad you enjoyed it. - Don
Hello Don. I like your video and i wish i would have seen it earlier. A Friend of mine used to play BC with me. He plays Isengard and i play Minas Tirith. I couldnt believe that you gave MT a competition rating of 5 and only 4 for Isengard. I dont have as much experience as you do (specially late campaign) but i just cant stop whining and complaining about how incredibly unbalanced those warbands are. My Gondor boys are getting raped out there. When i win a game its pure luck. im not a strategic genius but this executions i have to witness over and over again are just simple math. if we roll for duell and got the same numbers, orcs win. they hit on a 5 but wait i can improve y defense with a shield from 5 to 6. whoops orcs still hit on 5. i can form a shieldwall. yes great idea. i get outnumbered and the shieldwall gets pushed apart from lost duell rolls. my shieldwals barely hold for one phase. due to my weak strength of 3 i also hit on 5es even on the weak scouts. if i face a uruk warrior with shield its like a one man shieldwall. good luck rolling 6es. oh yes and they have the best range weapon. lets humiliate them even before they get overpowered in melee. when you said that there is an erata chaning the scout bows to strength 3 i thought it was a april foolsday joke and the only involved person died.
I was losing my mind thinking about how i can get any advantage that would give me a slight chance and now i saw your video. Needing horses and special reinforcemens sound logic and of course they wont be aviable in the first games. the ralley horn sounds really geart. i didnt had that on my mind and i will definetley give it a try. But... The horn costs 5 and a horse 3 if i remember right and you gotta collect those points with loses most likeley, which means that isengard gains like... idk double as much points? That would be 5 new orcs added to that band and even if its only three. MT wouldnt get a single model and the new and only rider would be the range target number one and even with the ralley horn rolling on the chart is still nothing but gamble. So then i got a warband of still 6 minis who get rekt by 7 minis wich are now 10. i cant see at wich point i am going to catch up. even if i get my hands on some fountain guards. they have equal fight value wich make duells finally fair but still only 3 strength. i can spent even more points and buy them a shield, defense 7 would be awesome but still they are not really that much better than the uruks. (i once had a berserker slaying two fountain guards with one strike. i know its a dice game and things like that allways can happen but it pretty much summs up how playing minas tirith on isengard feels for me) So I need to wait till Isengard hits its maximum of 15 minis, then i have to reach that by my self and then i buy the wardogs and then i pray for good rolls on the reinforcement chart to replace the weak units with ok-ish ones. how many games do i have to bite the dust untill i can start a new round with a little bit of confidence?... wow what a wall of text. i got carried away quite a bit. Long story short: i regret picking Minas Tirith as my warband.
If your warband is doing so poorly that probably means you're gaining a LOT more than just 2 rep per lost game because there will be a large disparity in the warband ratings. Use that to your advantage. Just playing against (and with, they were my first) Isengard I know how tough Uruks are. You're right it's an uphill battle at first, but you need those lances and that cavalry and your heroes to do the heavy lifting (just like in the full tabletop game)