Ares Games has partnered with five international game companies to publish the upcoming game The Battle of Five Armies. The game will be published in six languages: French, with Iello; German, with Heidelberger, Italian, with Raven Distribution, Polish, with Galakta, Portuguese and Spanish, with Devir. The Battle of Five Armies: editions in English (above) and other six languages (below). Ares Games will publish and distribute the …
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 …
The War of the Ring section has been updated with the upcoming game The Battle of Five Armies. To see the game description, box contents and other data, visit the new page here.
A new game will come soon in the War of the Ring line. “The Battle of Five Armies”, announced last year, is a stand alone, self-contained game, that recreates the epic conclusion of The Hobbit, the world-renowned masterpiece by J.R.R. Tolkien. Battle of Five Armies is scheduled to release next Spring, and it’s time to know more about the game. In this article, we present the …
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