The little Azogs received a late joint birthday present from their
Auntie in Glastonbury today. (8th October)
It's a strategy board game for 2-4 players called
"War of the Ring" made by Fantasy Flight Publishing - American company and featuring illustrations by John Howe. She was waiting for it to come out so it's new Sept 2004 I think in UK.
The board is massive, about twice the size of typical boards
(actually 2 boards laid together that fold in half again.
It features 204 plastic figs , 137 counters, and over 100 cards
also 21 different types of dice.
It looks like it was created by Nexus Editrice at
www.nexusgames.com
and manufactured in the EU by the combined efforts of Dice & Games Ltd (UK) and Ludwig Scheer GmbH & Co (Germany). Plastic figures made in China
despite the Fantasy Flight Publishing logo.
I don't know if anyone is interested but Christmas is coming.....
I will feedback what we think of it when we get around to playing it.
I has a basic game and more advanced rules so might take a while to do it all.
If anyone is interested you could try
www.fantasyflightgames.com (USA)
or
www.gameslore.co.uk where their auntie got it from.
also a link I found to one of the playtesters websites
http://home.rixtele.com/~charmtroll/wotr/wotr.htm
It looks like it retails at £36.99 in UK and $59.95 in USA
USA Blurb below from fantasyflightgames website.
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The War of the Ring board game is a grand strategic simulation of Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy.
While the Fellowship of the Ring advances towards Mordor, the Dark Lord Sauron tries to find the location of the Ring-bearer, and unleashes his armies against the last strongholds of the Free Peoples.
Faithful to the epic flavor of the books, characters and strongholds play a major role in the flow of the game and represent the main focus of the action. A simple and fun, dice-based, resource management mechanism is used to determine the various types of action possible for each player. Smooth, original mechanics have been devised to handle the hidden movement of the Fellowship and the Hunt for the Ring.
This enormous game includes a gameboard depicting a large color map of Middle Earth; 200+ plastic figures representing the Armies and Characters of the War of the Ring, including the Nazgûl, each member of the Fellowship of the Ring, Shadow Army units, Free People Army and Leader units and Minions of the Shadow; 135 die-cut cardboard counters; 100+ cards for Events and Characters; and over 20 dice!
LTR07
$59.95
Available in September
phew I think this must be an Azog records for a post
long even by my standards ...lol
Azog