At Stephens today and he chose to play MESBG and I took a force from the 'Army Of The Great Eye' list with a bunch of Wargs and riders and Mouth of Sauron to try alongside usual Witch King (on horse this time) a Troll and bunch of Orc types and an interesting Eye Of Sauron rule (eye acts like a search light that gives banner bonus to friends within 3").
First game was against 'Last Alliance' list so mix of Elves and Men with Elendil and Elrond in charge.
My Orcs mostly had 2HCW which I did not realise meant a -1 to hit in duel phase which of course saw them decimated quickly.
Elves in this list have a nasty trait of killing charging enemy on a 6.
The Wargs did not get to charge due to error on my part so did not really see them at their best and their throwing spears failed to hit anything.
Scenario had a target enemy hero, defend your own hero and capture a terrain piece.
I did manage to capture a target wood, but failed to defend my own and then despite transfixing an enemy hero 3 times I failed to inflict even a wound on him so lost 11-3 after my army imploded.
Second game was against Fargorn list so Elves and Men again but with that git Glorfindel and a few Hobbits led by a Ranger.
Also had that nasty hero (Kaster ??) who could blow figures down which he did twice to my troll and blew Witch King off his mount. I targeted him with Black Dart twice but he countered successfully both times.
I swapped my Uruk Kai with 2HCW for Morranan Orcs with spear and shield and made much better use of Wargs (on flanks) but still failed to win many duels (lots of drawn combats which went to enemy) and whilst things were fairly even early on a couple of horrible turns saw my army broken and then as usual destroyed due to failed rolls to stand (even though Witch King and Mouth issued stand fast to several units)
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