Middle-Earth Strategy Battle Game: Rules Manual

This 176-page hardback rules manual is a comprehensive guide to the hobby of building, painting, and playing games with your miniatures – whether you choose the forces of Good or Evil.

Contents:

Introduction

An overview of the wider hobby of collecting, painting, and playing with your miniatures.

Rules

The core of the Middle-earth Strategy Battle Game:

• Code of Conduct and Basic Principles: A framework for players to adhere to, and a primer on the fundamental concepts and terms used in the manual.
• Turn Sequence: Learn about the five phases – Priority, Movement, Shoot, Fight (close combat), and Courage and Intelligence.
• Unit Types: How Cavalry, Heroes, Monsters, Warbeasts, and Chariots work.
• Weapons and Wargear: Explains the variety of equipment available to your warriors and the impact of your choices on tactical decisions.
• Magic: Explains targeting, casting, and resisting magical powers.
• Special Rules: A collection of 44 common Special Rules for easy reference.
• Advanced Rules: Handy rules for recreating scenes from the history of Middle-earth in certain scenarios.
• Siege Engines: Rules for fielding these immense threats, including movement, firing, upgrades, and crew (plus launching severed heads as ammunition!).
• Sieges: Basic rules for creating your own sieges, inspired by the history of Middle-earth.

Narrative Play

Recreate your favourite battles and scenes from the movies! Play as part of a campaign to re-enact a chain of events, from short skirmishes to massive sieges.

Matched Play

Gather your forces of heroes and warriors up to an agreed points limit, then unleash your armies to determine the fate of Middle-earth.

Scenarios

Includes six Matched Play Scenarios, each with their own layout, starting positions, initial priority, objectives, victory points, and special rules.

Model Showcase

Features stunning photography of armies and miniatures playable in the Middle-earth Strategy Battle Game.

Index

An alphabetised rules Index for quick reference during games.