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 …
The rules of Lords of Middle-earth, the first expansion for War of the Ring Second Edition, are available as a free downloadable PDF file.
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 …
The 2012 War of the Ring International Tournament, started on March 17th, ended on September 8th after almost 100 games and with over 50 participants. According to the tournament organizer, Michael Sosa (aka Belisarius88), a double elimination format guaranteed everyone at least two matches with different opponents every two weeks. The players were a combination of returning veterans such as the 2011 champ, Glenn Stanley (also …
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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