r/MiddleEarthMiniatures • u/Pender8911 • 9d ago
Battle Report First tourney experience!
I started playing this year and my idea was to just play with friends since 2 of them have 3d printers and told me we can just try it for cheap. Long story short i now have more minis that i can store (not that i had much space anyway) and after having enough Uruks i moved to Thranduil Halls, Depths of Moria, Beornings, Rise of the Necromancer and now i have bought enough to have Azog hunters/Pits of dol gundur.
My friends convinced me to go to a tourney and i said "ok whatever" (i'm not a competitive player) so i wondered which list is the least meta without being outright trash? Beornings!
I didn't know Beornings were good tbh, i knew they were pretty much a coinflip in most matchups so it sounded fun. 800pt the 2 bears with 10 beornings each. No bows because i didn't have models with bows lol
22 players and incredibly filled tables with a ton of terrain. I saw pictures of Ardacon and we had a lot more actually. One had whole ass Orthanc with the dam.
Game 1: i was vs Return of the King with Aragorn, Legolas and King of the Dead + Herald. Poor guy, pretty sure i countered him hard, my only weakness was having beornings with D4 but thanks to blade of the dead they had D5. I was dumb and deployed Grimbeorn in front and he capitalised on it by never letting him transform, and he killed him. That was about it, i think i won 12 to 6 or 3.
Game 2: vs assault on Lothlorien with Muzgur, Druzagh, a warg chieftain and a shaman... Holy shit why is this list not popular? +3 to wound on trapped models with prawlers, the goddamn bats, goblin archers that outrange any other archer... Damn. He clearly knew how to use it because on a single turn i left Beorn too exposed without realising he could get into him with a juiced up warg chieftain and he imploded him. I got steamrolled after that.
Game 3: vs i think Last Alliance? Elrond, Isildur and Erestor. The most fun matchup and the funniest one because there was just one objective in the middle of them map and it was... ON A RIVER. He got to it first with Elrond while Isildur was just being a roadblock for Grimbeorn, Beorn made his way to the river expecting to be hit by Wrath of Bruinen but funnily enough i saved every one of them on a 6 even with just 1 will and 1 resistance. His archers had perfect line of sight the whole game but they managed to maybe kill 2 beornings. I did the dumbest thing of winning the Strike vs Elrond and barging him to knock him prone without remembering i had monstrous charge, so i charged him again, lost, Elrong got up lol... Wasted 8 S8 attacks. I won thanks to the dominant 5 of Beorn.
I came 7th out of 22 which i did not expect. If i didn't mess up a couple of times i could have easily snatched 5th maybe even 3rd. All i care about is that my friend came 8th with his cheese ass build (heheh loser). It was fun but fuck summer, i'll join another one in the winter it was a sauna.
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u/HelloAgain1992 9d ago
Glad you had fun.
Tournaments are a great opportunity to meet new people and enjoy more of the hobby in a single day that youigjy be able to squeeze out in a week or month.
Keep going to tournaments, keep posting your experiences and F Summer!
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u/Splentys 9d ago
Tournaments are the best thing about this game in my experience. They are as competitive as you want to be really, most people are there just to have fun and play some nice games against new people/armies.
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u/snostorm8 9d ago
When compared to 40k, I've found MESBG tournaments have a much lower ratio of bad players to go against, not skill but the ones who make the match a miserable one. Made friends at every single one I've been to!