The “Council of Rivendell” rules from the Lords of Middle-earth expansion can alter the game play of War of the Ring Second Edition quite extensively. With Companions beginning the game outside of the Fellowship, you can make the military aspect of the game easier for Free Peoples of Middle-earth; with the alternate Strider guiding the Fellowship, the Hunt for the Ring can end up being less …
Lords of Middle-earth gives the Shadow player alternate versions of the two Sauron Minions (The Witch-king and The Mouth of Sauron) as well as two Lesser Minions (Gothmog and the Balrog of Moria) to further his plans. Let us look at some basic strategies to employ with these new Characters. The Witch-king The Witch-king, Chief of the Ringwraiths So you were lucky/diligent enough to reveal the …
Lords of Middle-earth introduces three very powerful Characters from Tolkien’s epic masterpiece that can help the Free Peoples in their effort to prevail against the overwhelming force of the Shadow. Lady Galadriel and Lord Elrond strengthen the Free Peoples military, and they add as well to the resilience of the Fellowship of the Ring. Gandalf the Grey, Keeper of Narya, provides a quicker route to an …
Next week, at the Essen Spiel ’12, Lords of Middle-earth will finally be in your hands, after one year in the making. So it’s finally time to complete this long series, which kept us busy in the wait, and provided you with some insight about what happened during the design, development, and testing (often intertwined!) of this expansion. Even with such a long series, it proved …
Strider is definitely one of the most important characters in War of the Ring. In the Fellowship, he opens the way to one of the “extreme” strategies that the Free Peoples player may use, the “Strider Sprint”, which uses his power as a Guide (hiding the Fellowship with any die) to get the Ringbearer to move towards Mordor using almost all the Action Dice available. At …
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