"Favorite Lord of the Rings Miniatures Rules?" Topic

Which are your favorite? GW's The Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game? GW's War of the Ring? Something else?

Armies of Arcana. Straight forward, plays fast and has options from the books and movies for your armies. Our last game we had between 2-300 figs on the table and the game ran 3 hours. Orc units ran about 30 figs. It was a smaller battle.

Thanks,

John

FUBAR Medieval: War of the Ring Subsystem.

I like The Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game.

War of the Ring

There is more than one?

There are the Nine Rules, given to Men:

"Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die"

Seven Editions, published by Dwarves:

"And a Seventh Edition, to make the former players cry"

Warhammer, third edition (if that is the one with the barbarian type clobbering the chaos goblin on the cover) followed by our home rules version of Chainmail.

I'd play Song of Blades and Heroes.

War of the Ring

Songs of Blades for me.

I just watch it on tv.

GW's War of the Ring

Chainmail

Ringbearer

No mention of Hordes of the Things?

Song of Blades & Heroes

Almost any game that has a figure/army construction system – you can simply stat up your own LOTR match-ups based on your idea of their relative worth!

Song of Blades is good for skirmish, am looking at Hostile Realms and Rally Round the King for larger battles.

Battle lust from Columbia, a Dark age skirmish set, but should really be called Ring Lust!
William

Ring bearer from gamescience.

Chainmail by far!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Song of Blades, with the Tales of Blades to devlop th heroes.

My favourite is still GW's The Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game.

I bought WOTR but did no play it.

Don't game LOTR. (Anymore.)

It's a well written, epic peice of fiction, but as such, there are many different perspectives and interpretations of it: What is most important? Why did things happen they way they did? Where is the most exciting focus? And most importantly, what would result if different things happen? If you want to spend 3/4 of your time arguing over "what ifs?" (which is a noble endavour in itself), it's a great catalyst; if you wanna game, not so much.

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I kill Gandalf, indeed.

I like playing Chainmail, SoBaH, and other fantasy games, though.

The SBG is pretty good for the smaller fights of the fellowship.

WotRing is really good for mass battles and important characters. In fact, it does such a good job with that task that I'm looking at modifying it for playing a Samurai game.

AD&D BattleSystem, Second Edition.

The strategy skirmish game is my all time favorite followed closely by Silent Death

Song of Blades

I'm a fan of WOTR, as long as your playing it with friends, not power gamers. There is a lot of room for abuse in the system, but it's tonnes of fun if your playing with sane people.

David S.

I've been using modified Strandhogg and have run a Battle of Hornburg game at the last two Historicons with them.

GW's Battle of Five Armies, which is basically modified Warmaster. You do have to work up stats yourself for forces not covered by the root game, like Rohan, Gondor, ents, huorns, uruk-hai, mumakil, Haradrim, etc., but that's not that hard to do. And it's just a great game.

AD&D BattleSystem, Second Edition

so YOU are the guy who bought it – I wondered who it was.

Pat

SELWG Middle Earth Rules

Leicester Micro-Models Wizards & Warfare

Necromancer's Bane

SBG for me

Song of Blades and Heroes for skirmishes. My own rules (Fantasy, Ancient & Medieval Battles) for large battles. Once I've got some more wolves painted and based I'll be putting on a BOFA game with my rules – I'll post the AAR on here. On that subject, any links to suggested army lists for BOFA ?

It's probably considered more of a board game because it's hex-based, but Sabertooth Games' LotR Combat Hex Game is a lot of fun.

Kevin

Battlesystem Skirmish rules for, well, skirmish.
AoA for mass battle

I use Crusader Rules. Have done Pelennor Fields with about 1000 figs, mostly modified historical minis(except for the orcs and trolls of course!) and like it quite well.

Never played any. Mostly because I cant afford the minis!

Did a 'put together from what you've got' game using the L5R Clan War rules that worked rather well…we had fun, anyway.

; )

Milgamex
SELWG

Dux Britanniarum from TooFatLardies, slightly adapted into Dux Gondorum.

Not to roam off topic but can anyone give me a readers digest version of the difference between "War of the Ring" and the "LotR" battle strategy games?

I know absolutely nothing about either beyond what ive read at the Geek.

LOTR: Contested priority between opposing sides. Priority winner moves, loser moves, Winner Shoots, Loser Shoots, simultaneous combat. Minis with circular individual bases individually move; combat between paired minis – 1 versus many (1:1, 1:2, etc.). Mini that takes the hit is the one that dies. Heros can expend "might" points to move, shoot, and fight out of order. Games can bog down with more than 50 to 100 minis per side or too many heros (although I ran a game with 965 minis).

Typical Game:
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Monster Game:

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WOTR: Similar feel and philosphically the same, but units are moved and attack as units. The units consist of rectangular multiple movement trays each holding 8 minis (cavalry are in smaller two-up trays). The minis are removed from the rear ranks. More cumbersome, than SBG, but designed for combat between units with anywhere from 16 to 48 minis. Lots of opportunity for munchkinisms, but fun between non-competetive opponents that are more interseted in the feel of the game instead of winning by loop-hole.

Typical Game:
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Lost Pict

Lostpict, perfect info for me. Thank you and sorry for the poll divergence. I've been intersted in playing some type of LotR mini game since the first triliogy came out but never moved on it. I know nothing about the rules and appreciate the input.

WotR sounds more like my bag as Im not into the WHFB hero type stuff.

Cheers.

LotR:SBG for skirmish

Warmaster/BOFA for the big battles

Curse this poll! Ive now purchased LotR SBG, the Moria book, 1 troll, and 2 boxes of goblins.

Curse you all!

The Dark Lord has cast the "compell" spell on you….

Lost Pict