War of the Ring
2 to 4 players
Ages 12& up
Playing Time: 2+ Hours
Publisher: Nexus/Fantasy Flight Games
Author: Roberto Di Meglio, Marco Maggi, Francesco Nepitello

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 Nazgl, 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!

Contents: 1 game board, 10 Shadow action dice, 6 Free Peoples action dice, 5 6-sided combat dice, 204 plastic figures, 137 cardboard counters, 96 event cards, 14 character cards, rulebook, introductory rules pamphlet, player aids folder. Box size approximately 40 x 30 x 10cm

War of the Ring Expansion Battles of the Third Age

The first expansion to the best-selling War of the Ring game makes the greatest strategy game created from The Lord of the Rings even greater, with more figures, exciting additions to the rules, and a complete companion game which enables you to re-fight the most popular siege battles at the end of the Third Age!

War of the Ring - Battles of the Third Age introduces new armies and figures, including the Ents, Dunlendings, Siege Towers, Catapults, Corsairs, Southron Cavalry, and more! Galadriel and the Balrog take the field, with brand-new rules and new strategies.

You will have a chance to add these new figures to make your War of the Ring battles even more fun ... and to re-fight the battles of Helm's Deep and Minas Tirith on a new gameboard, with new rules which move the game from the grand-strategy to the tactical scale and add a whole new dimension to War of the Ring!

Contents: 1 double-sided game board, 77 plastic figures, 5 dice, 110 cards, 2 sheets of counters, rules, companion game rules, player aids.