Free Peoples), but three or four can play with one or both sides working as cooperative teams: Sauron and Isengard / Men against Gondor / Elves and Rohan / Dwarves / North.Īt set up, the armies of each nation are placed as indicated on a two-page set-up map, which makes it easy to start the game. The game is designed for two players (Shadow vs. The game-truly, a burst of colors and fine artwork in game form-also includes 76 colorful counters for various game functions, 110 beautifully illustrated cards (Event and Character cards-big shout-out to artists Jon Hodgson and John Howe), and 21 dice consisting of five regular d6, and sixteen d6 with special symbols on their faces. The other Fellowship characters are placed on the board only if they leave the group. Frodo and Sam are a single figure and represent the Fellowship as it moves The One Ring from Rivendell to Mordor. The Free Peoples in addition get a few Leader figures, but be careful because they resemble the elite units.Īlong with the military units, miniatures also represent all of the major characters the Fellowship of the Ring characters (including Gollum), the Nazgul, Saruman, and The Mouth Of Sauron all get handsomely sculpted miniatures. The army figures represent either a regular unit or an elite unit, with elite units being mounted (or a hulking troll for Sauron’s army). Red miniatures are for the forces of Shadow (broken into the armies of Isengard, Sauron, and Men), blue miniatures (broken into Dwarves, Elves, Rohan, Gondor, and The North) for the Free Peoples forces. Over 200 plastic miniatures in about three dozen different sculpts are included. The edges of the mapboard also contain a variety of tracks including the important Political Track and various play aids.

This game is big the large 27 x 40–inch map (actually a mapboard in two sections, east and west) covers the whole of Middle Earth from the Northern Heath and Angmar to the southern coast of Far Harad. Their War Of The Ring, along with its expansion set Lords Of Middle Earth, provides players an outstanding opportunity to wargame in Middle Earth. Apt descriptions of Los Angeles, sure, but also easily applied to the games produced by European-based Ares Games. Passed Muster: beautiful artwork and sculpts, faithful to the novels and notes of Tolkien, excellent level of strategyįailed Basic: late game tends to military blitzkrieg by Shadowīig and beautiful expensive full of plastic.

Base game $79.95 Lords of Middle Earth expansion $24.95 Designers, Roberto Di Megglio, Marco Maggi, and Francesco Nepitello. War of the Ring boardgame and Lords of Middle Earth expansion set review. War of the Ring and Lords of Middle Earth Expansion – Boardgame Review By Sean Stevenson

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