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 …
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 …
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