Army and Profile Reviews (Current Edition)

If you're looking for army reviews since the release of the Middle-Earth Strategy Battle Game, you've come to the right place. Click the links below to check out several series tackling tons of factions:

• General Principles (2025-): These aren't exactly "tactics" posts, but they cover things to think about when writing lists or how to write specific kinds of lists.
• First-Impressions (2024-): Big-picture overviews of each profile, grouped by faction, tracking changes from prior editions, who's received a power-boost (or nerf), and how these changes affect their overall value in their army lists (without an in-depth look at the army lists they're in).
• The New Age Is Begun (2025-): In-depth look at each army list, its profiles and rules, and a comparison to previous edition iterations of this kind of list to see how things have changed.

List Building - General Principles (2025-)

• Top 10 Soup Lists in MESBG (May 2025)

First Impressions: Profile Changes (2024-)

• ARMIES OF THE LORD OF THE RINGS 
• The Free Peoples, Part 1 (December 2024 - Fellowship, Bree)
• The Free Peoples, Part 2 (January 2025 - Shire, Ents)
• The Kingdoms of Men, Part 1 (January 2025 - Dunharrow, Numenor)
• The Kingdoms of Men, Part 2 (January 2025 - War of the Rohirrim Rohan)
• The Kingdoms of Men, Part 4 (February 2025 - War of the Ring Rohan)
• The Elven Kingdoms, Part 1 (February 2025 - Lothlorien)
• The Elven Kingdoms, Part 2 (April 2025 - Rivendell)
• Isengard, Part 1 (February 2025 - Uruk-Hai)
• Isengard, Part 2 (March 2025 - non-Uruk-Hai)
• The Hill Tribes (March 2025)
• Moria (March 2025)
• Mordor, Part 1 (March 2025 - Orcs and Uruk-Hai)
• Mordor, Part 2 (April 2025 - Men, Spirits, Monsters)
• Harad and Umbar (April 2025)
• ARMIES OF THE HOBBIT 
• The Kingdoms of Men, Part 3 (January 2025 - Dale and Arnor)
• The Misty Mountains, Part 1 (February 2025 - The Three Trolls)
• Gundabad and Dol Guldur, Part 1 (March 2025 - non-Spirit Stuff)
• The Dwarves of the Hobbit, Part 1 (May 2025 - Thorin's Company/Champions of Erebor)
• ARMIES OF MIDDLE-EARTH 
• Angmar (April 2025)
• LEGACIES
• Coming soon!

The New Age Has Begun: Army List Reviews (2025-)

• ARMIES OF THE LORD OF THE RINGS 
• The Fellowship (June 2025)
• The Breaking of the Fellowship (June 2025)
• The Road to Rivendell (June 2025)
• ARMIES OF THE HOBBIT 
• Coming soon!
• ARMIES OF MIDDLE-EARTH 
• Coming soon!
• LEGACIES
• Coming soon!