I went to the largest MIDDLE-EARTH tournament in North America 2024
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 มิ.ย. 2024
- Richard recaps his experience at Adepticon 2024, one of the largest Middle-Earth SBG tournaments in North America, sponsored by Games Workshop! Will he have what it takes to compete for gold?
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00:00 Introduction
00:34 The Beginning
01:21 January 2024
02:59 February 2024
05:23 Before the Tournament
07:03 The Grand Tournament
07:25 Round 1
09:05 Round 2
11:25 Round 3
14:11 Round 4
16:37 Round 5
20:22 Round 6
23:03 Conclusion - เกม
Thanks for this report, I found it very educational as a new player that has never even been to a tournament and your recounting of how the battles went kept me well entertained!
Glad you found it helpful!
Loved the report! Just started the game and have been really enjoying the competitive side of it. Apart from the green dragon podcast, your channel is probably the best when it comes to learning strategies & tactics. 🙌🏻
A YT video suggestion: Play a competitive game & take a picture each turn of the map vertically from above. In the YT video, show these pictures one at a time to share your thoughts behind your decision-making. These thoughts could be split up into kind of a macro-level (e.g. why deploying more units to the left to apply more pressure there, your intentions of utilizing the terrain, how to play the tempo of your vs. The enemy army etc.) and a micro-level (e.g. why does hero A call a heroic move, why does spear guy X support front guy Y instead of front guy Z etc.). I think this would be quite novel in the MESBG content space and could teach a lot about the game :)
Best from Groningen NL 🙋🏼♂️
Thanks for the kind words!
That's a great suggestion that I would love to implement one day, I may have to give it a good think how best to go about it first - it's always a challenge to gauge how deep into the tactics the audience want us to go! We tried to find a balance of that in our battle reports but doing a deep dive analysis could be very interesting to do.
This is a fantastic tournament report - thank you for all of the work you put into it, and congratulations on doing so well with an inventive list! I'm already looking forward to the next one, and I wish you the best of luck.
Thanks so much! Wanted to try a different style of video, so glad people are enjoying it!
Great video! I need a tactic video on Warbats. How to utilize them etc.
Congrats on 2nd! Limosine warg for the win
Well done Richard! Way to represent the Canadians well!
Hey Richard,
Was great meeting you and the rest of the guys and hanging out the weekend!
Hope to catch up soon.
Greetings from Germany!
Max
Great meeting you too! Kept my promise that you'd be in the video lol
See you next time!
-Richard
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Azog's is a nice army, fast and attack heavy but fragile. Fun to play fun to meet (unless Azog/Bolg chews on your "my army really is all about these 1-2 heroes". :)
very well presented video, I was actually feeling nervous myself. I liked the graphics for the army lists and the battle report. Six large and tough battles in a row, to keep playing let alone winning must require a lot of mental concentration as you can't afford to make a mistake and need to keep pushing your positives. Although this army is new to you having played a lot there must be a lot of tactics that cover all the armies, do you ever feel you are on auto pilot.
Thank you!
Absolutely these games took a lot of mental concentration! There were a few moments in the first few games that I could go on autopilot a bit more after I felt secure of a victory, but I still tried to maximize my points so it still took more concentration than usual for sure!
Awesome recap Richard! Thanks for sharing your experience.
Loved seeing Scott repping the NorCal MESBG Shirt!
Thanks for watching!
He said he was "undercover" lol
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Great event report, loved the layout and your explanation of how things unfolded and the choices you where thinking at the time of them. Congratulations on second! Out of 85 people is an amazing feat. Keep up the great work! :)
Much appreciated! 🙏
This is probably the best tournament report I have ever seen! (And I watch quite a few) Not much to improve on here. I love the breakdown of the tactics with the visuals. Don't know how good your editing team is but if you can continue to "polish" up the tactics breakdown you would be outclassing any other content out there. Again, really great video and great job on your performance!!
Thanks for the feedback!
The "editing team" is just Charles and Richard alternating between videos (this one was all Richard). We are just a couple amateurs googling "how to edit TH-cam videos" lol but we are always looking to improve!
Great video, very well done!
Great report really detailed and interesting. Congrats on the 2nd place seems like you piloted the army very well.
Thank you, it was a super fun list to play!
The into the west shirt goes hard I can't lie
Gotta do a jersey swap in the future!
Richo is back!!! 😎
Love your channel and your vibe !! :)
That army combo has been gettin around a bit in our local meta, run by solid players too (has had good results).
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More! Give me more of this content!
We will definitely do so with all this positive feedback! :)
That was a great watch, thanks for making - looking forward to you going one better next time! 😁
That's the goal, thanks for watching!
Fantastic tournament report! Highly entertaining. Thank you and congrats!!
Thank you!
Awesome recap! Loved the brekadown of veto choices that was really helpful!
It was great meeting you at Adepticon Richard!
Thanks for coming up to say hi!
This was a really good video, thanks for the tactics graphics breakdown!
Great video! Thanks Richard
Glad you enjoyed it!
That was a very insightful video. Thanks a lot and congratulations!
I strongly consider playing a version of this list on my next 600p tournament (instead of Pits of Dol Guldur). Would you recommend simply downgrading the list by dropping a bat and a few orcs from your 650p version?
And I would love to know why you chose to drop the ogre in the tournament-list. What role would it take in a 600p list? Would two bats perform better from your point of view?
Or is your list not playable at 600p anymore - would you rather pivit to Pits then?
Thank you!
I'd downgrade the 650 list by dropping the Ogre and then adding an Orc so the numbers are the same. I think it would still work well (but no Narzug compared to my 750).
The Ogre can be an extra threat and utility piece in theory but I found in most of my games he didn't end up doing too much. Too often his 3 attacks aren't even enough to win a fight, very rarely will he get his points back. 2 bats will almost always do more work.
I like Pits but I also think my list works very well still too, my issue with Pits is that it's a bit more one-dimensensional (reliant on the Ambush and Azog going off), so it's harder to beat more experienced players who are looking out for that.
-Richard
@@intothewestpodcast thank you! I'll paint up the army and then will see to some test matches soon with it. I'd also love to watch a tactics video on how to make the most of your warbats like hyberias stated before (maybe a whole video on flying monsters or generelly monsters to make it longer?).
Well done
I myself will be playing hunters allied with legion myself soon. Just won a tournament with hunters 500 and been wanting to scale it up.
Awesome, congrats!
Congrats man well deserved. Whats your thoughts on no bolg or azog and full mass orc spam?
Thanks! I like it a lot but probably only up to 700 points! Above that and you start to have less answers in certain situations like a big mounted heroes + blinding light or elite armies in a choke.
@@intothewestpodcast sweeet was thinking about trying it at 600ish
It's so good, throw in a Merc Captain warband too!
Where do they do tournaments on east coast I'm in ga
There are lots throughout the year - notable ones being NOVA Open in Washington DC, a number in Philadelphia and Nashville as well. We recommend joining the American page on Facebook (ASBGA) for details of upcoming American events! Unsure if there are any events in Georgia, but you should be able to connect with players in your area in the ASBGA group.
Congrats, you think Yazneg would worth it if you lose 2 berserkers 1 bat?
Thanks. That would be interesting, I liked what my 3rd bat provided. Though knowing my matchups now, Yazneg might've helped but the beserkers were there to help me against terror matchups which luckily I didn't have to face a lot of.
Hunters + Legion is good. Not great but good.
That's what I thought before I started playing them but they are definitely better than people think!
Generally Hobbit armies are mostly unbalanced and not fun to play against. Hopefully there will be turnaments breakouts to compete within LoTR and within Hobbit armies to scale the nonsense sometimes...
Hmm that's an interesting take, the Hobbit armies definitely play differently so I get where some people don't find them fun to play against but I'm not sure I agree that they are unbalanced or overpowered.
I play armies from both eras and I find certain LOTR armies just as good if not better, especially the Legendary Legions. I also agree that the statlines can be ridiculous like F7 orc heroes and 2 attack orc warriors of 8 points but the Hobbit armies tend to have less viable options to round out a list.
Statistically (using data from longshanks) lord of the rings armies outperform hobbit armies at tournaments. Hobbit armies definitely tend to have more special rules but they pay for them heavily in points/other limitations such as some more costly/less efficient troops.
@@intothewestpodcast If GW eventually switch sides to focus on delivering new units (to compensate lack of tactics to some of armies that desparately need it; Arnor, am looking at you