Summary

• Middle-earth Strategy Battle Game has a passionate community who believe it's the best wargame by Games Workshop.
• The game focuses on individual models instead of units, with simple rules that make matches interesting and easy to learn.
• Games Workshop is releasing a new edition with reworked profiles and new miniatures, showing support for MESBG fans.

If you walk into any 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Warhammer store and ask the patrons what game they play, the majority would probably say 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Warhammer 40K. A few might say 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Age of Sigmar. Some might even say both. You’ll be hard pressed to find anyone who says 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Middle-earth Strategy Battle Game.

That’s because Warhammer stores, for the most part, don’t carry any Middle-earth miniatures any more, nor do they offer tables for players to battle using the system. But if you dig into the game a little deeper, there’s a passionate community who believe they’re playing 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Games Workshop’s best ever wargame. Because they are.

I’m not a part of the in a🔯ny meaningful way, but I enjoy lurking in its Facebook group and writing prospective army lists for when the kids are grown up and have moved out (16 years to go…). And, when I get a chance to play the game, I’m aware that the ruleset is a far better system than 40K or AoS.

MESBG does away with units, instea🏅d focusing on individual models. Whether that model is a gargantuan Ent or one of a mindless horde of Goblins, it can act independently of any models around it. While the most striking difference between Games Workshop’s licensed game and its own IP, it’s not actually the best part of the game.

To understate the beauty of the game, it’s the simple rulesetﷺ that is the best bit. Simple isn’t always good, but MESBG has enough depth to keep matches interesting while also being easy to learn. It’s like chess in that regard. It makes your heroes feel powerful, not just dudes with a buff aura like in 40K. This is never more apparent than in the Duel mechanic, where Aragorn, Gothmog, or anyone else can single out an opposing hero to fight them one-on-one. It’s a beautifully thematic scene that 40K can never replicate.

There’s more, from the turn sequence to the simple rosters and smaller armies to collect, but I won’t go into it. Because, until recently, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:I believed the game to be dead.

Over the past week, however, Games Workshop has revealed an enormous number of new Middle-e♊arth miniatures. Mostly hailing from Angmar in a time period before the events of the War of the Ring, when the Witch-King was amassing his forces in the north, the new miniature🌠s are as surprising as they are exciting.

The Warriors of Carn Dûm seem to take design inspiration from the 2🤪011 classic video game The Lord of the Rings: War in the North, and their leader, Aldrac, looks ripped﷽ straight from Age of Sigmar, which will be controversial for sure.

My favourite announcement was the trolls. As well as two new Hill Trol💃l sculpts, chieftain Buhrdûr is getting a new model alongside two werewolves. While only one Good model was announced, Aranarth First Chieftain of the Dúnedain, I wonder if we’ll get some regular troops to bolster🌃 the good guys’ roster with the Rise of Angmar supplement.

If that wasn’t enough, Games Workshop confirmed we’re getting a whole new edition of the game. Traditionally, new editions of MESBG have only made minor tweaks – changes to Legendary Legions and that sort of thing – and I hope that this precedent continues. The line in the that says, “every profile has been reworked”, may worry some, but I’m crossing my fingers that it’s throwaway marketing hyperbܫole.

Middle-earth Strategy Battle Game is finally getting some love, and it’s not going to st🧜op any time soon. As a final teaser for the loyal fans who’ve stuck by the game through this half-decade dry spell, Workshop reveals that MESBG will ꦅbe getting miniatures to support The War of the Rohirrim, New Line Cinema and Warner Bros. Animation’s forthcoming anime prequel.

This must be a new licensing deal with New Line, which hopefully gives players more hope that the game will continue to be supporౠted in the coming years. It’s a constant worry that Workshop’s license will aꦛt some point be revoked or not renewed due to the small community, but a new collaboration is a positive sign.

We don’t know when any of this is releasing, other than a vague “soon”, but MESBG fans are in for a treat over the coming months. Games Workshop has finally remembered that the game exists, and the hard꧃core fans are being rewarded for their patience. Feast, MESBG fans, your time has come.