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Welcome to North of the Shire, a podcast where we discuss the Middle Earth Strategy Battle Game by Games Workshop, the Lord of the Rings in general and other sundry gaming topics. We will discuss all aspect of the game and the hobby. Favorite topics are new releases, army lists, competitive play, miniature painting, and terrain. Our four hosts are all active players in the OSBGL,the Ontario Strategy Battle Game League in Ontario, Canada and occasionally travel to international events. email: Northoftheshirepodcast1@gmail.com
Episodes
Sunday Feb 06, 2022
Episode 30 - Reigning over Lords of Battle
Sunday Feb 06, 2022
Sunday Feb 06, 2022
Are you interested in learning how to win at Lords of Battle? If you are, join Andrew and Don for the definitive analysis of Lords of Battle. They assess all the different ‘army types’ in this mission and evaluate each in turn.
They also get carried away in answering a listener question on ‘how to make Numenor great again’ in MESBG and nearly turn this into the main topic of the episode.
Saturday Jan 15, 2022
Episode 29 – Gazing into Galadriel’s Mirror for 2022
Saturday Jan 15, 2022
Saturday Jan 15, 2022
For the first time all four of our hosts make an appearance in this episode as we gaze into Galadriel’s mirror. I know, exciting right? Well anyway.... We look back into 2021 and try to look into the future of the hobby for 2022. Join us as we discuss how we all did with our hobby challenge for last year (spoilers, not too well) and the new challenge for 2022. Listen on as Chris goes all Azog, and challenges the team of Andrew, Garrett and Don to a painting challenge.
Sunday Dec 19, 2021
Episode 28 – Standing your Ground in Hold Ground
Sunday Dec 19, 2021
Sunday Dec 19, 2021
In this episode Andrew and Don take a close look at the Hold Ground mission. They rate how the different army types perform in this mission depending on if they win or lose priority on turn one. Of course, there is the usual banter and discussion around the all things Tolkien.
Saturday Nov 20, 2021
Episode 27: Surviving To The Death
Saturday Nov 20, 2021
Saturday Nov 20, 2021
Andrew and Don take a deep dive into the matched play scenario To The Death. They also discuss their recent hobby activity and in ‘What Have I got in my Pocket’, they touch of the new Vanquishers Legendary Legion.
Friday Oct 22, 2021
Ep 26 – Anniversary! Oath Bound, an MESBG story
Friday Oct 22, 2021
Friday Oct 22, 2021
Andrew and Don celebrate the one year anniversary of North of the Shire. They’ve also collected all the sections to their Oath Bound, MESBG narrative story, into one place and added the final installment to complete the first chapter.
Sunday Oct 03, 2021
Episode 25 – Dominating Domination
Sunday Oct 03, 2021
Sunday Oct 03, 2021
In this episode, Andrew and Don discuss the matched play scenario Domination. Don talks about returning to a tournament after an 18 month hiatus. Plus another installment of their original narrative story, Oath Bound.
Wednesday Sep 01, 2021
Episode 24 – Where Art Thou, Saruman & Gandalf
Wednesday Sep 01, 2021
Wednesday Sep 01, 2021
In this episode, Andrew and Don discuss the whereabouts of Evil Saruman and Gandalf the Grey in the MESBG meta....Where art thou Saruman and Gandalf? Plus another exciting segment of the TBD Chronicles.
Thursday Aug 12, 2021
Ep 23 – Aragorn, King Elessar and other Top Tier Heroes
Thursday Aug 12, 2021
Thursday Aug 12, 2021
Andrew and Don discuss four kings, and all of them top tier heroes: King Elessar, The Witch- King of Angmar, Thror and The Goblin King. They also answer a listener question about designing scenarios as well as much of the usual banter about MESBG.
Sunday Jul 25, 2021
Ep 22 – Isengard, King of the Micro Warband
Sunday Jul 25, 2021
Sunday Jul 25, 2021
In this episode Andrew and Don discuss the mysterious micro warband. Join them as they build a micro warband army using the Isengard faction, the best in the business.
In the All that is Gold Does not Glitter segment, the guys answer a listener question about their favorite un-competitive lists and how to improve the Lothlorien faction. Last but not least, Andrew steps up to the plate with the longest segment yet for our narrative short story.
Sunday Jul 04, 2021
Ep 21 – Silver Medalist’s - Tauriel, Balin & The Shade
Sunday Jul 04, 2021
Sunday Jul 04, 2021
In this episode Andrew and Don discuss the Silver Medalist’s, the Mid-Tier heroes of MESBG. Rather than taking an analytical approach to the topic they discuss six popular heroes in this bracket: Tauriel, Balin the Dwarf, King of Moria, Cirdan, The Shade, The Spider Queen and Gorulf Ironskin
In their other usual segments they give their thoughts on what we may see in the next edition of the MESGB rule set, how they go about building an army list and Andrew navigates through a little MESBG word association. Finally they revisit their narrative segment where they follow the adventures of Garthur the Dwarf Ranger and the mysterious nameless woman he’s traveling with.