There and Back Again - A Hobbit’s Podcast

This weeks email email goes through Loz vs Thorin - keep these emails coming in!

We are joined this week by the number 1 player on Longshanks for Men of the West - Ric Calladine. Ric shares his experience will the list and offers advice on list building and strategies to use with this army. As always with our deep dives, we do a somewhat related quiz - this time on 'men' and 'the west'. Please let us know if you enjoy these episodes as we have plenty of people in the community...

Join us as Rich again reads through some amazing feedback and insights we received from someone regarding the Loz vs Thorin episode

We have discussed some of the best armies to start with in this hobby, this week join Dan and Rich to go over some of the worst. Reasons could include, cost, rarity of models, complexity, competitiveness, or a combination of the above. https://linktr.ee/ahobbitspodcast

In this mini episode Rich goes through some feedback we had on the episode Rich vs Aragorn - can the debate finally be settled?

This week we take a step back to understand the basic stats and to discuss any characters in the films that have too much, or too little resources!

We haven't done a tournament review for a while and its the first GBHL100 we have been to for a while. Tune in to find out how Loz and Rich got on. We also hope you enjoy Rich's new quiz format. Linktree for all our links.

Mark joins us this week to go over more new armies that are perfect for beginners!

Join us for Rich talking us through Minas Morgul - should you take the Morgul Blade, Trolls, a second Ringwraith, a drummer etc. As always with the deep dives we have a quiz that's slightly related to the army, can you guess what this one is?

This week we go through Fight Value, starting at Fight 1 and going up to Fight 10 discussing the models in each bracket, what it means to be each Fight Value and offer our opinions on whether we think its correct. We also have Daniel Scott on who is promoting a charity event he is co-hosting with Rich in Worksop on 6th December 2025. To find out more please see: Minas Merryth.docx The charity is f...

We have been there and are now back again for season 3. This week we warm up the season with some stories of whats happened in the off season (legacy, new book, new scenarios) and chat about what our plans are for season 3 (we have lots of plans!)

Apologies for Richs mike - he needs a new one for S3! Here we bring Season 2 to an end with an episode going through the Hobbit films. Should Thorin be F7 and have free combats, should he have Barrel Riding as an ability? should the Oakenshield be better? where are the dwarf songs? and the Arkenstone?!?! We go through the significant scenes in the trilogy to try and understand what should be in Th...

This week its just Loz and Rich catching up on the mailbag and discussing upcoming tournaments - can anyone join us???

Over the recent bank holidays Rich has been teaching people some other LOTR board games and this week we have 2 guests to discuss them with. A massive welcome to Richard Calladine and Olliver Hammond!  The games we are discussing are the 2000s co-op board game The Lord of the Rings and the 2019 app based game Journeys of Middle Earth https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/823/the-lord-of-the-rings ht...

This week we complete our epic trilogy of spells. Listen to the end for a quiz and news about the upcoming season 3 of the podcast!

Just like the Hobbit films...we have drawn out 1 episode about spells into an epic trilogy. This week we continue to go through all the spells in the game, adding our thoughts and tactics to help explain which are the best to use.

We have all been playing spell casters over the last couple of months to truly understand how they work, when you should call a Heroic Channel and when to use them. We thought it was time to return to the rules and go through each spell in order to say who can cast them and explain tactics in using them.

We move way from the game this week (boo), to take a different look at the Return of the King movie (yay!). What Oscars did it win? Why was this significant? What elements of the film led to so many wins? Join us for a nostalgia episode, discussing all the filming elements that made RoTK so amazing.

Join us this week to hear all about the Breaking of the Fellowship army. Dan goes through his tactics and the best way to build the army, for example Boromir vs Gimli - who would you choose? Also hear how Rich got on at Masters...and Loz has a quiz on breakups!

We googled how to be sporting at MESBG events and couldn't find anything so decided to discuss our thoughts on how to play the game in a sporting way. Do you vote for the player who was most sporting, or most fun? What makes you vote for someone to win most sporting? Let us know! 

Our first deep dive into the new edition starts with the Eagles. Thinking of playing them? Want to know strategies against them? Fancy an eagles based quiz? Join us as we listen to Loz sharing all his secrets in this weeks episode.

Adam Bird joins us to discuss the doubles event held last weekend. Adam has great knowledge of all things MESBG and if you want to find out more please check out his Youtube at: https://www.youtube.com/@birdiesworld5755. 

This week Rich talks us through the classic military book The Art of War by Sun Tzu and tries to apply some of the lessons from this 2500 year old book into the game we all love.

This week we quickly discuss our doubles lists for an upcoming tournament  in Sheffield and then Loz goes through his epic quiz from the GP - get a pen ready! There are still places available at Honour that Alliegence, if you wish to attend on the 23rd March 2025 please follow this link https://www.the-outpost.co.uk/product/ticket-honour-that-allegiance-2025-eve-22-03-2025/

This week Rich is back from Australia to hear how Loz and Dan did at the GP - a tournament with over 120 attendees