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Middle Earth - Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game

Middle Earth Strategy Battle Game - The Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game, is a tabletop miniature wargame produced by Games Workshop. It is based on The Lord of the Rings film trilogy directed by Peter Jackson, and the book that inspired it, written by J. R. R. Tolkien.

Game Overview

The standard game is played with two or more armies on a board generally 4 feet long and 4 feet wide (16 square feet, or 1.486 square meters), usually deployed within 6 inches of opposite board edges.Similar to Warhammer Fantasy, the game uses a "points-system" to assign values to each miniature, allowing players to ensure that their armies are evenly matched. The game is primarily a skirmish game, but can be played in varying scale:

The turn-system game was played using four phases originally, but is now played using five under the current rules: While the game is designed usually for play by only two players (as the force lists are divided into "Good" and "Evil"),[34] very large battles (generally with more than 100 models each side) become easier to manage with multiple players working together on teams.