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The War of the Ring board game is a grand strategic simulation of Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy.

While the Fellowship of the Ring advances towards Mordor, the Dark Lord Sauron tries to find the location of the Ring-bearer, and unleashes his armies against the last strongholds of the Free Peoples.

Faithful to the epic flavor of the books, characters and strongholds play a major role in the flow of the game and represent the main focus of the action. A simple and fun, dice-based, resource management mechanism is used to determine the various types of action possible for each player. Smooth, original mechanics have been devised to handle the hidden movement of the Fellowship and the Hunt for the Ring.

Game Contents:

• Rulebook
• The simplified rulebook called "The War of the Ring Begins Here"
• The game board depicting a large map of Middle Earth (in two sections; join both sections to play)
• The Player Aids folder
• 10 red Shadow Action Dice
• 6 blue Free Peoples Action Dice
• 5 white six-sided Combat Dice
• 204 plastic figures representing the Armies and Characters of The War of the Ring including
  • 90 red figures representing Shadow Army units
  • 75 blue figures representing Free People Army units
  • 20 grey figures representing Free People Leaders and 8 grey figures representing the Nazgûl
  • 8 silver figures representing the Fellowship of the Ring (Frodo and Sam) and their Companions
  • 3 silver figures representing the Minions of the Shadow