Building MESBG Armies: The final Battle Companies checklist

This is it, the final checklist before I start my campaign through Middle-Earth for the Battle Companies ruleset during the course of 2021.

I have been painting a lot of the models in tmy hobbit hole, printing up a heap of scenery to clutter the table, using the spare baby time this year again to paint up Lord of the Rings figures amongst others and get more companies into the fray in a bid for glory.

If you go to the bottom of this blog, you can find a list of previous posts, and in there for May 2019, December 2019 and June 2020 the previous checklist as how my forces stood once the book was released, so you can see if you like the evolution made on them.  The key for the models remain the same, in italics are the completed bands, the (B) means which models I still need to buy, and the (P) means which models I have, but still need to paint up...

Good Battle Companies

Minas Tirith: completed

Osgiliath: completed

Fiefdoms: (B) Man-at-Arms of Dol Amroth (P) 2 Blackroot Vale Archers, Knight of Dol Amrod on foot

Rohan: completed

Men of the West: (B) Knight of Dol Amorth, (P) Knight of Dol Amroth

Dead of Dunharrow: completed

Arnor: (P) 5x Warrior of Arnor, 2x Ranger of Arnor

Rangers of the North: (P) 2x Ranger of the North, 2x Ranger of the North with Spear

Lake-Town: (B) 3x Lake-Town Guard, 2x Lake-Town Militia with Shield, 2x Lake-Town Militia with Spear, 2x Lake-Town Militia with Bow.

The Last Alliance: completed

Erebor and Dale: (B) 2x Warrior of Erebor with Shield, 1x Warrior of Erebor with Spear, 1x Warrior of Dale with Shield, 1x Warrior of Dale with Shield and Spear, 1x Warrior of Dale with Esgaroth Bow

Lothlorien: completed

Rivendell: completed

Halls of Thranduil: (B) 2x Mirkwood Elf with Shield, 1x Mirkwood Elf with glaive, 1x Mirkwood Elf with bow, 1x Mirkwood Ranger

Iron Hills: (B) 2x Iron Hills Dwarf with shield and spear, 2x Iron Hills Dwarf with mattock, 1x Iron Hills Dwarf with crossbow

Durin's Folk: completed

Moria Expedition: (B) Dwarf Ranger with bow, Dwarf Ranger with two-handed axe, (P) Dwarf ranger with throwing axes

The Shire: (P) 8x Hobbit Militia, 4x Hobbit Archer

Wanderers in the Wild: (B) Dwarf Ranger with two-handed axe, (P) Dwarf Ranger with two hand axes, Hobbit Militia

Evil Battle Companies

Mordor: completed

Cirith Ungol: completed

Minas Morgul: (B) 2x Black Numenorean

Isengard: (B) 2x Uruk-hai Scout, 3x Uruk-hai Scout with shield, (P) 2x Uruk-hai Scout with bow

Warg Riders: (P) 2x warg Rider with shield

Dunland: (P) Dunlending Warrior with two-handed axe, 2 x Dunlending Warrior with Shield, Dunlending Warrior with Bow, 4x Wildman of Dunland

Sharkey's Rogues: (P) 3x Ruffian, 2x Ruffian with bow, 1x Ruffian with whip, 3x Wildmen of Dunland

Moria: completed

Goblin-Town: (B) 10x Goblin Warrior, 2x Goblin Warrior with two-handed weapon

Angmar: completed

Gundabad: (B) 2x Gundabad Orc with shield, 2x Gundabad Orc with spear, 4x Goblin Mercenary

Dol Guldur: (B) 2x Hunter Orc, Hunter Orc with Bow, Hunter Orc with two-handed weapon, 2x Fell Warg

Denizens of Mirkwood: (B) 2x Mirkwood Spider, 3x Fell Warg

Harad: completed

Karna: (P) Watcher of Karna with twin blades, Watcher of Karna with bow

Far Harad: (B) 2x Mahud Warrior, Mahud Warrior with blowpipe, 2x Mahud Warrior with spear (P) Mahud Warrior with blowpipe

Corsairs of Umbar: (B) 3x Corsair with shield, 2x Corsair with spear, 2x Corsair with bow

The Easterlings: (P) 2x easterling with shield, 2x easterling with pike and shield, 2x easterling with bow

Khand: (P) 5x Khandish Warrior, 2x Khandish Warrior with Bow

So yes, that is a nice amount of Companies now ready to be played during the campaing, as players will be spoiled as such with bands in the game if they like, and I can host to about a half a dozen players in it to prevent it from becoming to unmanageable to get them all together.

For the expanding options of bands and the likes, I also have figures ready, or will be painting them up once the advancements are rolled, though it might be at times I just don't have the model.  But if that is the case, we will work around it as we come to the point, because in the first place it's all about having some fun in the gamesystem and tell epic stories... which you will be able to read here of course.

So this won't be the last time this list will appear on this blog, once the campaign for Middle-Earth takes off I will be showing the players and which band they picked for the show!  From then on, it will be of course the reporting on who achieved what after a (I aim for) monthly game session.

But keep an eye out, as the bands which aren't done yet, will be looked back at at the end of 2021, where hopefully more of them will be rounded out!