How about to play The Battle of Five Armies really big? At Gen Con Indy 2014, you can, thanks to four special demos to be held by Steve Fratt, one of the playtesters of the game. He will take to the show a mega-size battlefield he created using terrains and figures in 300% scale, which will be combined with official cards and other components of the …
Ares Games will attend Gen Con 2014 (Booth #459, August 14-17, Indiana Convention Center, Indianapolis). The long-awaited new game The Battle of Five Armies, will pre-release at the show, with a limited number of copies arriving just in time for it. Dino Race, a new Family Game coming soon. The activities at the Ares Games booth will also include a preview of the upcoming family game …
As we wrote in the previous article “A Long Journey Begins,” one of the design goals of The Battle of Five Armies was to give a more important and definite role to the characters in the battle. In our previous designs in this series, War of the Ring and Battles of the Third Age, characters are very streamlined. These designs are more strategic in scope. Differences …
As we started to discuss in our previous article, Fate is an important concept in Tolkien’s works. Without drifting too far away from the purpose of these notes, we should remember the history of Middle-earth is deliberately reminiscent of classical epics, where the action of fate and gods influence, and ultimately determine, the action of men. At the same time, the approach used by Tolkien in …
As we told in our previous articles in this series, we had the opportunity to create a game inspired by “The Hobbit,” to be published as a new entry in Ares’ “War of the Ring” line. And we decided to design the game to be a tactical-level simulation of The Battle of Five Armies, using a modified version of the game engine we first used in …
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