As we wrote in the previous article of this series, it’s been almost ten years since we designed War of the Ring. Now, we finally have the chance to follow a dream we’ve had for a long time: to create a strategy game based on “The Hobbit” by J.R.R. Tolkien. There is not a lot of military action in that book… but as you know, there …
“The Battle of Five Armies” is the upcoming new game from Ares Games, the first entirely stand-alone new game in the “War of the Ring” line, and created by the same design team – Roberto Di Meglio, Marco Maggi and Francesco Nepitello. This is the first article in a series of Designer’s Notes, where the authors tell us about the development of the game. We designed …
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 …
Since the very first draft of what was to become Lords of Middle-earth, we started to work around the idea of including alternate versions of the Companions. The idea of alternate versions of existing characters was already featured in Battles of the Third Age and we had already decided to revisit it in Lords – it is a good way to include personalities which are new …
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