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Peter and Will are back with their most famous style of battle report - yes, a #WaroftheRing battle report! Beer, laughs, and much banter ensue!
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#WaroftheRing rules & reference v6.1 fixes some formatting errors on the setup reference sheet, and removes references to the Nazgul on the Free Peoples play reference sheet.
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We played an epic game of War of the Ring last night. It lasted until 1:00 a.m., usually with our start time it would last until 11:00, but somehow it just kept going. #boardgames #warofthering
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About ready to go #warofthering #boardgames
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About ready to go #warofthering #boardgames
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played War of the Ring last night, four player with Kings expansion. We won with the good guys, solid ring dunk. Basically, good guys always win with the Kings expansion in our group, we're beginning to think that just unbalances it too much.
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The Esoteric Order of Gamers #WaroftheRing rules & reference is one of my most popular and well known, and now I've added the #KingsofMiddleEarth expansion rules (and card replacement notes to the setup sheet)!
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June went by so fast! Here are June’s plays, courtesy of the #BGStats app. It was a slim month for solo plays, but there were some great plays with great friends!
In particular, my coworker and I spent an evening learning and playing #WarOfTheRing, ending with a slim victory for the Shadow over the Free Peoples. SUPER looking forward to playing again!
Also, I am loving the #Legendary Encounters games. They’re so satisfying!
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June went by so fast! Here are June’s plays, courtesy of the #BGStats app. It was a slim month for solo plays, but there were some great plays with great friends!
In particular, my coworker and I spent an evening learning and playing #WarOfTheRing, ending with a slim victory for the Shadow over the Free Peoples. SUPER looking forward to playing again!
Also, I am loving the #Legendary Encounters games. They’re so satisfying!
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War of the Ring: The Card Game from Ares Games is attempting to do the impossible. Read more in this Meeple Mountain review.
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Well, The War of the Ring is over.
I don't know what to tell folk back at the Shire, except to prepare themselves for an age of Sharkey's Rules.
The Mouth of Sauron and five Ringwraiths, including the Lord of the Nazgul, confronted the Fellowship at Mount Doom. Gothmog was killed by Boromir, but in the end even he couldn't protect the Halflings from the Lord of the Nazgul, who killed the Ringbearer, and quickly whisked the One Ring to Barad-Dur.
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The Ringbearer may be trying to cross into Mordor...
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Trouble brewing in Isengard
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Trouble brewing in Isengard
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#WaroftheRing is my favourite game of all time. But the question is, can cards alone capture the magic? Find out in the Esoteric Order of Gamers #WaroftheRingTheCardGame review.
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I've wanted War of the Ring for a long time but it has all the ingredients for not getting played: it's expensive, it's big, it's complex and it's long.
The card game version stands a much better chance: it's cheaper, it's smallish, it's quite easy to understand and it's quicker to play (especially with the Fellowship variant). It also helps that me and my group really like card games.
#WarOfTheRing #WarOfTheRingCardGame #WOTRCardGame #BoardGames #CardGames
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I've wanted War of the Ring for a long time but it has all the ingredients for not getting played: it's expensive, it's big, it's complex and it's long.
The card game version stands a much better chance: it's cheaper, it's smallish, it's quite easy to understand and it's quicker to play (especially with the Fellowship variant). It also helps that me and my group really like card games.
#WarOfTheRing #WarOfTheRingCardGame #WOTRCardGame #BoardGames #CardGames
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Fixed the layout a bit for v1.1 of my #WaroftheRing The Card Game rules & reference.
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Battle for the fate of Middle-earth in the #WaroftheRing Card Game by Ares Games. Here's the Esoteric Order of Gamers rules & reference, and they'll be a review in the near future!
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Plan for the day: 4 player Scythe (digital) and War of the Ring on the table. #Scythe #WarOfTheRing #BoardGames
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Plan for the day: 4 player Scythe (digital) and War of the Ring on the table. #Scythe #WarOfTheRing #BoardGames
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The 2nd part of our #WarOfTheRing game took a sudden turn for the worse for the Shadow - I had terrible luck on the dice!
- Dol Amroth falls to the corsairs. (2 VP!)
- The Southron army moves from Osgiliath to besiege Minas Tirith.
- The Gondor army in Pelargir moves into Lossarnach.
- The Shadow army besieging MT attacks the army in Lossarnach but takes some casualties & cease the attack.
- The Witch King appears in North Ithilien at the head of an army of Easterners & Mordor Orcs.
- Free Peoples play the "Help Unasked For" card & drive the besiegers back to Osgiliath.
- The Witch King's army reinforces the survivors in Osgiliath & descends on MT, the defenders choose to fight a field battle. A combination of good luck & amazing cards for FP & awful luck for the Shadow means that the Witch King's army is annihilated & he dies (permanently) along with two Nazgul! Huge setback for the Shadow!
- Gandalf the White appears.
- Saruman's army besieges Helm's Deep! Rohirrim move out from Edoras into Westemnet. Saruman's army attack them from Helm's Deep, forcing them to retreat to Fangorn.
- The Elf army (+ Legolas) moves out of Lorien towards Fangorn, leaving it undefended. Orcs leave Moria & Dol Guldur to claim Lorien. (2 VP!).
- Ents attack Isengard (event), which only has Saruman in it (I left it unguarded, not knowing there was an Ents Attack card)! Orthanc falls & Saruman is removed from play - another huge setback for the Shadow!
- After that, the Free People are just mopping up. The remaining Shadow army in Parth Celebrant are wiped out by the elf army in Fangorn & the Rohirrim wipe out the Shadow army attacking Helm's Deep - that's where we had to end.The Fellowship barely moved (they got up to 4 on the track) & were never revealed!
Technically the Shadow won with 4 VP (we still had Dol Amrath & Lorien) but we lost the Witch King & Saruman. The FP could probably turn the tide if we had been able to continue the game. Still, it was a lot of fun! #boardgames
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The 2nd part of our #WarOfTheRing game took a sudden turn for the worse for the Shadow - I had terrible luck on the dice!
- Dol Amroth falls to the corsairs. (2 VP!)
- The Southron army moves from Osgiliath to besiege Minas Tirith.
- The Gondor army in Pelargir moves into Lossarnach.
- The Shadow army besieging MT attacks the army in Lossarnach but takes some casualties & cease the attack.
- The Witch King appears in North Ithilien at the head of an army of Easterners & Mordor Orcs.
- Free Peoples play the "Help Unasked For" card & drive the besiegers back to Osgiliath.
- The Witch King's army reinforces the survivors in Osgiliath & descends on MT, the defenders choose to fight a field battle. A combination of good luck & amazing cards for FP & awful luck for the Shadow means that the Witch King's army is annihilated & he dies (permanently) along with two Nazgul! Huge setback for the Shadow!
- Gandalf the White appears.
- Saruman's army besieges Helm's Deep! Rohirrim move out from Edoras into Westemnet. Saruman's army attack them from Helm's Deep, forcing them to retreat to Fangorn.
- The Elf army (+ Legolas) moves out of Lorien towards Fangorn, leaving it undefended. Orcs leave Moria & Dol Guldur to claim Lorien. (2 VP!).
- Ents attack Isengard (event), which only has Saruman in it (I left it unguarded, not knowing there was an Ents Attack card)! Orthanc falls & Saruman is removed from play - another huge setback for the Shadow!
- After that, the Free People are just mopping up. The remaining Shadow army in Parth Celebrant are wiped out by the elf army in Fangorn & the Rohirrim wipe out the Shadow army attacking Helm's Deep - that's where we had to end.The Fellowship barely moved (they got up to 4 on the track) & were never revealed!
Technically the Shadow won with 4 VP (we still had Dol Amrath & Lorien) but we lost the Witch King & Saruman. The FP could probably turn the tide if we had been able to continue the game. Still, it was a lot of fun! #boardgames
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Finally we've started to play #WarOfTheRing! We got through about 4-5 turns but so far it's pretty fun and starting to make sense! #boardgames #wargames #LordOfTheRings
1 - Southron armies immediately threaten Gondor! (they later forced the defenders to retreat from Osgiliath and are currently occupying it!)
2 - The Fellowship immediately split as Legolas, Boromir and Gimli headed for Mirkwood, and then Legolas went to Lorien to muster an army. The Shadow was building up forces in Dol Guldur and sought to destroy the Elven army, and thus began the Battle of South Anduin Vale, the first of the War! The fight was bloody but inconclusive however, with both sides retreating back to their strongholds to lick their wounds.
3 - Following the battle of South Anduin Vale, Corsairs from Umbar landed on the coast of Gondor and beseiged Dol Amroth! Meanwhile a new power rises in Orthanc, and Saruman's Uruk-Hai force the defenders of the Fords of Isen to retreat to Helm's Deep! Meanwhile, the Fellowship has remained hidden and their whereabouts are unknown since they left Rivendell (they were almost revealed but Gandalf deflected Sauron's gaze!)
We had the (complete) Two Towers and Return of the King OSTs on in the background so it was all very atmospheric :). It seems like a very fun game so far and certainly on point in terms of theme! We'll carry on next week :)
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Finally we've started to play #WarOfTheRing! We got through about 4-5 turns but so far it's pretty fun and starting to make sense! #boardgames #wargames #LordOfTheRings
1 - Southron armies immediately threaten Gondor! (they later forced the defenders to retreat from Osgiliath and are currently occupying it!)
2 - The Fellowship immediately split as Legolas, Boromir and Gimli headed for Mirkwood, and then Legolas went to Lorien to muster an army. The Shadow was building up forces in Dol Guldur and sought to destroy the Elven army, and thus began the Battle of South Anduin Vale, the first of the War! The fight was bloody but inconclusive however, with both sides retreating back to their strongholds to lick their wounds.
3 - Following the battle of South Anduin Vale, Corsairs from Umbar landed on the coast of Gondor and beseiged Dol Amroth! Meanwhile a new power rises in Orthanc, and Saruman's Uruk-Hai force the defenders of the Fords of Isen to retreat to Helm's Deep! Meanwhile, the Fellowship has remained hidden and their whereabouts are unknown since they left Rivendell (they were almost revealed but Gandalf deflected Sauron's gaze!)
We had the (complete) Two Towers and Return of the King OSTs on in the background so it was all very atmospheric :). It seems like a very fun game so far and certainly on point in terms of theme! We'll carry on next week :)
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That's a lot of setup :) #WarOfTheRing #boardgames
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That's a lot of setup :) #WarOfTheRing #boardgames
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Yesterday was the epic 2-player game War of The Ring, today was the card game variant (with two players playing two handed) (both times playing against my 9 yo). I do like both games, but the card game, which still retains the thematic feel, edges it by being quicker to setup and play. They both have a tight decision space where everything is a compromise. #BoardGames #WarOfTheRing #WarOfTheRingCardGame
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Yesterday was the epic 2-player game War of The Ring, today was the card game variant (with two players playing two handed) (both times playing against my 9 yo). I do like both games, but the card game, which still retains the thematic feel, edges it by being quicker to setup and play. They both have a tight decision space where everything is a compromise. #BoardGames #WarOfTheRing #WarOfTheRingCardGame
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Email notifications on the same day that my pre-orders for War of The Ring Card Card and Mash Gang's Anxiety Saint low-alcohol coffee stout are shipping soon. Just need Final Girl for the hat trick! #BoardGames #FinalGirl #WarOfTheRing #AF #AFBeer