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 …
A new character is soon going to appear in the War of the Ring board game: Treebeard, the eldest Ent, is the first promo item created for the game. Packaged as an individual character card together with the related plastic figure, Treebeard will be available free to customers through selected promotions. The figure of Treebeard, a new character for the War of the Ring board game …
Gollum is one of the most fascinating characters in The Lord of the Rings. Many critics consider Tolkien’s mythology to be a world of black and white, where the good is always unshakable and evil is absolute evil. Gollum, however, definitely proves that this is not really the case. This tormented figure, torn between his residual humanity (as shown by his feelings toward Frodo, the only …
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