Castellan of the Ring

Lately on the MESBG Discord server I frequently visit, there were some discussions and talks about older versions of our beloved system. I am kinda a hobby historian and I have always been fascinated about the past and development of things/systems over time. And therefore an idea started to take form, on how to combine these two things with each other on this blog. I would like to collect experiences and tales from veteran players and then bundle them together per eras, in order to allow a view back into the past. So my first question to my dear readers would be, how to best categorize the time periods/versions of MESBG? I know there was a White Dwarf article with details about that but I don't have it. So I came up with this: First Age: Release of the first sets till the wrap up of the Peter Jackson LOTR movies Second Age: From the end of the movies till the blue ONE RULEBOOK Third Age: Everything released from/for the Hobbit movies Fourth Age: From the beginning of the current v...

Die  "Der Sturz des Nekromanten" Erweiterung aus dem Herbst 2021, brachte uns vier neue Legendäre Legionen. Zwei davon waren Helden LLs. Eine ist die verrufene "Vernichter des Nekromanten" - sie hat die Turnier-Szene aufgemischt und für Aufregung und Diskussionen darüber gesorgt, wie weit einen LL gehen sollte und ob diese Richtung nicht das Gegenteil davon ist wofür unser System steht. Während die anderen LL (Waldläufer des Düsterwaldes und Gruben von Dol Guldur) wiederholt und oft besprochen wurden in diversen Podcasts, Blogs, YT Videos etc, blieb die vierte bemerkenswerterweise unerwähnt oder nur am Rande - die "Aufstieg des Nekromanten" LL. Selbige war die einzige LL und der einzige Grund weshalb mich diese Erweiterung überhaupt interessiert hat. Ich hatte meinen Blick bereits auf eine Dol Guldur Heldenarmee gelegt und bekam nun die perfekte LL für meine Wünsche. Ich möchte mit euch meine Erfahrungen mit dieser Streitmacht teilen und was ich im Detail ...

The "Fall of the Necromancer" expansion from autumn 2021, saw four new LL releases. Two of them were hero-only LLs. One was the infamous "Vanquishers of the  Necromancer" - mixing up the tournament scene and stirring up quite a turmoil and discussions about how far a LL should go and if this is not the complete opposite of what the game stands for. While the other LLs (Rangers of Mirkwood and Pits of Dol Guldur) were frequently covered and discussed in podcasts, blogs, YT videos etc, the fourth one was notably absent from all this  or received only a fraction of the time- The Rise of the Necromancer LL. This one was actually the only LL and the only thing of the expansion I was interested in. I had my eyes already set on a Dol Guldur hero-only army for quite some time. And now I received the perfect LL for my needs.  I want to share with you my experience with this force and what I think about it in detail. Let me take you on a journey to the dark paths of Dol Guldu...