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The New Age Is Begun: The Garrison of Ithilien Army List
Good morning gamers, We're kicking of a review of several Minas Tirith factions today and we're starting with a faction that I'v...
Monday, September 22, 2025
The New Age Is Begun: The Garrison of Ithilien Army List
Thursday, September 18, 2025
The Road to THRO 2025: Tiberius's List
Monday, September 15, 2025
Top 10 Most Improved Evil Profiles in the Armies of Middle Earth Book
Hey Reader!
(Okay before we begin, you should know, because he won't tell you, so I will: Tiberius has a birthday this week! So leave him a comment below telling him how much you appreciate everything he does for this channel! Okay, back to the article)
- We're ranking the most improved profiles in The Armies of Middle Earth book, so we won't be looking at profiles beyond that book.
- We're ranking the top ten most improved profiles for the Forces of Evil in the book, so only evil profiles will be considered here.
- We're ranking the most improved profiles, not the strongest profiles: just because a model is strong or powerful doesn't mean it will appear in this ranking, because if they're basically the same as they were last edition, they won't be much improved.
- The "Most Improved" means that the profile had to exist last edition, which is not really an issue with this book, but again it's something we're looking for in this ranking series.
- There were more profiles than this list can hold, so yes, I couldn't include all of the ones that I thought were interesting/useful. There will be some honorable mentions, but suffice it to say, if you really thought that someone should have made the list and didn't, there's a good chance that they were considered and just didn't break the top ten.
Thursday, September 11, 2025
The Citadel of the Stars, Part I: The Defence of Osgiliath
Good morning gamers,
Centaur and I are pleased to be bringing you another campaign series this year, running on alternate Thursdays through the rest of the year! While we've done Fantasy Fellowships as well as the Scouring of the Shire, we decided this year to show off the Kingdom of Tor Ithilas terrain that I picked up last year and play through eight scenarios centered around the city of Osgiliath (home of the Citadel of the Stars). Three of these scenarios will be from the old Gondor at War supplement (including today's scenario), four will come from the Battle of Osgiliath starter box, and we'll be replaying the Osgiliath scenario from Quest of the Ringbearer as well.
Normally, we follow the scenario participants list closely, but we decided to have some fun with this and a) use the new ruleset instead of the old one, and b) use the scenario participants to provide a baseline for two game-legal army lists from the new edition. As such, the models we'll be using might change slightly from the original list - but where we could stick to what was originally given to us, we have. Let's see who we have for the Fall of Osgiliath scenario!
The Defence of Osgiliath (Gondor at War, p. 8)
We've decided to use the following models in today's game:
- Forces of Good: The Garrison of Ithilien
- Faramir, Captain of Gondor
- Madril, Captain of Ithilien
- Damrod, Ranger of Ithilien
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4Warriors of Minas Tirith with shields - 6
4Warriors of Minas Tirith with shields and spears 4 Warriors of Minas Tirith with bows- 8 Rangers of Gondor
- 4 Rangers of Gondor with spears
- Forces of Evil: The Army of the White Hand (I know, right?)
- 3 Orc Captains
- 12 Orc Warriors with shields
- 12 Orc Warriors with spears
- 6 Orc Warriors with two-handed weapons
- 6 Orc Warriors with Orc bows
The board is a 48"x48" setup, with the Orcs within 12" of one side of the board, and the Gondorian models within 6" of the center of the board. There are three objectives that the Orcs are going to try to destroy (in base contact without fighting or shooting) before 10 turns have passed - one objective is set up in the center and the other two are space equidistant from the center objective and the left/right board edges: