![]() ![]() War of the Ring isn’t a wargame, it is more in the line of Risk or Axis and Allies. After all, the game has been out of print for a few years now, so there is a whole new segment of Tolkien fans that do not have copies of the game. Improve the areas that fans and critics didn’t like, and leave the rest intact. ![]() What Ares did was to keep the changes to a minimum. The FFG version has long been considered one of the best adaptations of the struggle between the shadow and the inhabitants of Middle Earth ever made. It was a beautiful game, complex, and had victory conditions achievable by either side.įast forward to 2011, Ares games received the rights from defunct NG International and decided to publish the game in the United States on their own. In 2004 we saw the release of a new War of the Ring from NG International (Nexus) and published in the USA by Fantasy Flight Games. It was the version released from SPI, and featured a hex map and could actually be broken by the shadow player so that the Fellowship player would almost certainly lose. I played the first War of the Ring game back in the 80’s. Game Name: War of the Ring Second Editionĭesigner: Roberto Di Meglio, Marco Maggi, and Francesco Nepitello ![]()
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