The upcoming products of the War of the Ring line are now online in the game’s section, featuring the expansion Lords of Middle-earth and the new version of the Card Box and Sleeves, with a portrait of Gandalf the Grey in the thin box. Visit the War of the Ring section to check the new items.
Since the beginning of the development of Lords of Middle-earth, we realized how important to the new expansion the “Lords” featured in the title were going to be. Elrond and Galadriel are two of the most important personalities in War of the Ring, and possibly the most stalwart opponents of Sauron in Middle-earth, together with Gandalf. It’s surely not a chance that the three of them …
Where to start? To begin with, we decided to go back and take an in-depth look at what we had done when developing Battles of the Third Age – or, to be more precise, Twilight of the Third Age, the strategic expansion included in that set [Battles of the Third Age also included a separate game system – ed.] We started a poll on BGG to …
It was a dark and stormy night… Well, not really! The genesis of Lords of Middle-earth begins in a nice Autumn day during the latest Lucca Comics & Games show, in November 2011. The design team – Francesco, Marco and Roberto – met in a nice little cafe which was unusually quiet, being so close to the bustling show. Ares had just shipped out of China …
Good news for German, Italian, Polish and Spanish speaking players: now they can get the War of the Ring Second Edition in their own language. The international editions of the game, published in cooperation with the partners Devir (Spain), Galakta (Poland), Heidelberger Spieleverlag (Germany) and Red Glove (Italy) are now in distribution. The partners were in charge of the translation of the rulebook, cards and other …
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