Lance invited me over for a game of War of the Ring on Friday 6 January. This was my second game and this time I played the Fellowship and Lance played the Shadow side. This time as far as we know we didn't forget rules or make any major blunders.
I moved the ring quite frequently except when Lance committed lots of dice to the hunt box. I skipped my strongholds but made a mistake in not declaring when passing through Moria and hence got hurt by the Balrog.
Lance concentrated on Minas Tirith and took the stonghold. In the defense I used most of Gondor's forces and he had little trouble taking the rest. Then he tried to take Helms Deep which held out for awhile due to Ent attacks on Isengard with help from Gandalf the White. As the fellowship reached Mordor Lance concentrated on taking Lorien. Lance was close to a military victory so the ring bearers recklessly charged towards Mt Doom to be finally corrupted on the second attempt to fling the ring into the fire.
So Lance won again, but this time it was a very close run thing.
There is plenty of theme and replayability in this pretty war game.
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