Bill and I set up another game of War of the Ring over at Games To Die For. My excitement for this game is pretty high right now. It seems a l lot simpler and much quicker than Warhammer Fantasy. The only real downside being the lack of variety in races for the game. A lot of the evil armies have Orcs, but they are all pretty much the same. Within each army, I guess there is some variety since you have the monsters and such. Maybe it just seems like there’s a lack of variety? I mean in the Mordor army you have Orcs, Uruk-Hai, evil humans, Trolls, etc. but in Warhammer it’s a little more segregated (i.e., Orcs and Goblins have Squigs and Giants, but that’s about it besides the Orcs and Goblins themselves).

Anyway…we played 750 points so that we might actually complete more than just a couple of turns. We restricted our lists such that there was only the possibility for one Epic Hero and one Legendary formation for each of us. Read the rest of this entry »

Bill and I decided to play 1500 points for our first game. I thought I had a lot more assembled than that, but as it turns out, that wasn’t so. In either case, we felt like it’d be best to go through all the rules rather than play a smaller game and only use a portion of them. Bill didn’t have any characters, so I lent him my Saruman and Lurtz figures that I’ve had since way back when the skirmish game first came out. Rather than worry about scenarios for this first game, we decided to just do the classic “pitched battle” game.

There are a bunch of rules disputes on the forums around the ‘Net, one of which is whether models/units with the Terror special ability are immune to Terror from other units. Bill claimed he had seen somewhere that Games Workshop had stated that was true, so we went with that, even though I had never heard any such thing. That’s the only rules issue we cleared up prior to the game.

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