Right, trying to understand the workings of Games Workshop in relation to their Strategy Battle Game is a bit tricky for an outsider. The current offering has the One Ring on the Cover and a box set called the Mines of Moria. This is the same turn based strategy based system. They then have the War of the Ring System, this takes your strategy models with their round bases and puts them on to trays, so that they are square. With a different set of rules, I presume, this allows you to play something similar to Warhammer with your LOTR figures.
But there are also a number of sourcebooks for the Strategy Battle Game, this is unclear if for the Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers and the Return of the King that you need the One Ring rulebook. Because these were also printed in the past as the films were being brought out it is unclear if older versions of these contain the rules to allow you a shortened or simpler form of the game. For example in the One Ring rulebook there are rules for Mumuk, which I doubt were in the first editions of the rulebook. Also from Ebay I purchased at a more reasonable price the One Rule book and Legions of Middle Earth. The One Ring version I have is in an A5 format, with only one scenario in it, the larger A4 version might have more scenarios, not sure.
Legions of Middle Earth, is useful though not essential, and contains army lists for the verious factions and who they can ally with. I guess it helps as you expand your attention away from the book and films and want to have some more involved games with your figures. To help in this there are some generic scenario rules at the end which are quite useful.
There are also a number of other sourcebooks, Harad, Gondor in Flames, Mordor, Ruin of Arnor etc. At the time of writing then these are all not available, which suggest that they are either having licensing issues, or they are getting ready for a revamp of the whole system, posssibly prompted by the upcoming The Hobbit films. A revamp and change of the rules to regenerate money is my bet based on the amount of different versions of Warhammer they have produced.
But there are also a number of sourcebooks for the Strategy Battle Game, this is unclear if for the Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers and the Return of the King that you need the One Ring rulebook. Because these were also printed in the past as the films were being brought out it is unclear if older versions of these contain the rules to allow you a shortened or simpler form of the game. For example in the One Ring rulebook there are rules for Mumuk, which I doubt were in the first editions of the rulebook. Also from Ebay I purchased at a more reasonable price the One Rule book and Legions of Middle Earth. The One Ring version I have is in an A5 format, with only one scenario in it, the larger A4 version might have more scenarios, not sure.
Legions of Middle Earth, is useful though not essential, and contains army lists for the verious factions and who they can ally with. I guess it helps as you expand your attention away from the book and films and want to have some more involved games with your figures. To help in this there are some generic scenario rules at the end which are quite useful.
There are also a number of other sourcebooks, Harad, Gondor in Flames, Mordor, Ruin of Arnor etc. At the time of writing then these are all not available, which suggest that they are either having licensing issues, or they are getting ready for a revamp of the whole system, posssibly prompted by the upcoming The Hobbit films. A revamp and change of the rules to regenerate money is my bet based on the amount of different versions of Warhammer they have produced.
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