Select your heroes and warriors to forge an all-conquering army! Step into the War of the Ring's fiercest battle and take control of the forces of Rohan and their spectral allies or command the legions of Orcs who serve the Dark Lord Sauron. This set includes 84 finely detailed plastic Citadel miniatures, as well as all of the rules you need to play your first games.
The valiant warriors of the Free Peoples stand ready to defend the White City. The legions of Mordor prepare to bring ruin and death to the world of Men. All the rules you need to master the art of warfare in Middle-earth. Begin your journey into Middle-earth with this handy starter guide. In the multi-player you choose your faction and start off in a base on the map and your objective is to destroy the other players armies and bases before they destroy yours.
The games are not necessarily "free-for-all", players can make teams before the game 4v4, 2v2v2v2, 3v3 etc. The multi-player mode is essentially a Skirmish game but with players controlling the opposing teams instead of A.
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Disable this feature for this session. What's surprising is that there's a lot of plastic to go around, and you used to get a shit ton of dudes models compared to 40k's per basic troop choice in the boxed set.
Yes, there's quite some metal and finecast to go around, but it's surprisingly cheap to make yourself a LotR SBG army. One obvious downside is there isn't much customization with the LOTR miniatures, but that's the trade-off for not having to sell your liver to get into this game. With the Hobbit movies dragging everyone's fat asses to the cinemas this game looks like it's making a comeback! If you've been hankering to play any of those cool-ass armies, now's probably a good time to get started.
It's Lord of the Rings. That's about it. Well and all of GW and Peter Jackson's fetish stuff. Choose an Army to select all your Heroes and Warriors from, each army will also have a juicy Army Bonus if your force isn't using certain allies. Start with a Hero and give him a retinue of usually about 12 Warriors. Certain Heroes can't have warbands and are taken as solo models, some are Minor Heroes who can only take up to 6 warriors, whilst others are Legendary, taking up to 18 Sauron and the Goblin King can take up to 24 but they're special.
Each warband is treated as a group for deployment but become individual models after that. Note that you don't have to completely fill out a Hero's group before you move on to another.
Once you have all your Heroes and their respective warbands choose one to be your army's Leader; your Leader must have the highest Heroic Tier in your army, and if there are multiple heroes with the top tier than you can choose which to take as your Leader. Most lists can only have 1 in 3 models with bows, but several lists have special rules that change this the Serpent Horde and Azog's Hunters have a 1 in 2 ratio while Riders of Rohan don't count towards the limit.
You can also ally multiple armies together, so long as they share being Good or Evil. Each army must have separate warbands so no Bilbo leading a dozen Ents and have their own Bow Limit.
Different armies will have different ally statuses with one another which are found on an Ally Matrix. There are three types of alliance: Historic Alliances, which represent actually alliances that happened in either the books or films eg.
Lothlorien and Rohan , in this case both armies keep their Army Bonus. Isengard and Far Harad , in which both armies lose their Army Bonus but nothing more. Last you have Impossible Allies which represent alliances that couldn't have happened eg. Angmar and Sharkey's Rogues , in this case you not only lose your Army Bonus but each allied forces has it's own break limit and can't benefit from another allies Stand Fast!
The supplements have added another way to make an army with Legendary Legions. These are more restricted army lists that are built to represent particular armies in Middle Earth's history eg. In return you get some special army bonuses that make your army feel more fluffy as well as perform better on the board.
Unfortunately not all armies have Legendary Legions available to them as of writing there are only three supplements available but as more supplements come out this will probably change. They also can't take allies.
The game has four phases: Priority, Movement, Shooting and Combat. The turn structure in this game is radically different then either of GW's other 2 big systems in that the players don't take turns, but they instead play phase to phase.
This turn determines who goes first: each player rolls a D6 , the winner goes first. The guy with priority moves his models first, then the other player moves all of his. This system of alternating phases continues through the shoot phase. The player with Priority also decides which combats happen first and who fights whom in the case of multiple models in a single combat.
This is rolled again every turn. The only thing that alters this order is if certain models, usually Heroes, use Heroic Actions which will be talked about more later. Nearly everything moves 6" in this game: Dwarves and Goblins go 5" explaining why Thorin and co get captured by Elves but Goblins can't catch them , Hobbits go 4", Cavalry usually goes 10", and various Monsters and fliers go different speeds.
Movement is halved in difficult terrain, though certain models are immune to this through a few special rules. Charging takes place in this phase as well and uses your regular speed: if you're not charging you are to remain 1" from the enemy. Throwing weapons can be used even if you charge, and you stop 1" away from target to use them: if you kill your target you may freely charge another target within your remaining movement. Most kinds of magic are cast in this phase as well: spend a Will point more on this later and roll a D6 against a spell's value: if it's equal or higher than the number the spell is cast.
If you want to shoot, you get to move up to half of your regular movement, rounded down before you shoot.
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