Gen Con Indy 2014 ended yesterday, August 17th, and in the four days of the show Ares Games presented the new game The Battle of Five Armies and a preview of Dino Race. The booth was also busy with demos of recently released games – such as Sails of Glory and Galaxy Defenders- as well as WW1 and WW2 Wings of Glory, Inkognito, Aztlán and Micro …
Ares Games had a great start at Gen Con Indy 2014: the Sails of Glory Record Breaker Event, just after the convention opening, was very successful and the record of largest Sails of Glory game ever was set with 53 players taking part to the battle on a very long table. The game had a length of two hours, and all participants received a ship pack …
This file includes the complete rules of The Battle of Five Armies, the new game in the War of the Ring line, which recreates the fierce struggle witnessed by Bilbo Baggins at the end of his quest for the Lonely Mountain, in “The Hobbit”. (Updated in December 2022 – version 1.2)
In this last article, we’ll tell you about the development of the final two elements making Battle of the Five Armies unique from its predecessors included in Battles of the Third Age and we’ll set you up with the full PDF Rules. The Goblins An important strategic element in the battle’s story is the two-pronged attacks of the goblin horde. Bolg did not simply count on …
There are moments in Tolkien’s novels, which remain engraved in the reader’s memory forever. One such moment in “The Hobbit” is, without doubt, the epic scene where Bilbo spots the Eagles… “The Eagles! The Eagles!” he shouted. “The Eagles are coming!” Bilbo’s eyes were seldom wrong. The eagles were coming down the wind, line after line, in such a host as must have gathered from all …
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