WAR OF THE RING STRATEGY FREE

The Free Peoples player starts with the three Elven rings on their side of the board. Armies are distributed throughout the board as described in the manual. The Fellowship starts in Rivendell with all companions in the party and the party being led by Gandalf the Grey. Each player has two decks of event cards that need to be shuffled and placed on the board. Setting up the game is the same every time. The Shadow Peoples are Sauron ( Mordor, Moria, Angmar and Dol Guldur), Isengard, and the combined Southrons and Easterlings. The Free Peoples are the nations of Gondor and Rohan, the Elves (Rivendell, LГіrien, the Woodland Realm, and the Gray Havens), the Dwarves (the settlements in Erebor, the Iron Hills and the Blue Mountains) and 'The North' (the men of Dale, Carrock, and Bree, and the hobbits of the Shire). Some lands form nations while broad swatches sit unclaimed. The board depicts northwestern Middle-earth, divided into territories. A Free Peoples military victory is also possible, but the Shadow's power is overwhelming. The other player controls the Free Peoples and tries to hold back the Shadow long enough to move the Fellowship into Mount Doom and destroy the Ring.

One player controls the Shadow Peoples and tries to conquer Middle-earth or to corrupt the Fellowship's Ringbearer. The game concerns the War of the Ring starting from the Fellowship's forming in Rivendell. War of the Ring is a 2-player game that takes approximately 3 hours, though there are variant rules for 3 or 4 players where one or both sides play as a team.

14 Character Cards (10 Free People Characters, 3 Shadow Characters, Gollum).

96 Event Cards (divided into 4 decks of 24 cards each).

204 plastic figures representing the Armies and Characters of The War of the Ring (205 in the Second Edition, with the addition of Gollum).

The game board depicting a large map of Middle-earth (in two sections).

One simplified rulebook called 'The War of the Ring Begins Here' (only in the First Edition).

War of the ring strategy