Every War of the Ring Game Ever
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- Опубліковано 27 лип 2021
- The Lord of the Rings perfectly summarized as a board game… just with some ridiculous what-ifs. The lotr trilogy may have become a tabletop board game perfect for two players, but there’s definitely still some quirks since players can do some whacky non canonical things with the shadow armies and free peoples. Cards that incentivize good strategies may cause certain events that go way off how the movies play out, and the free peoples are hilariously reluctant to go to war, even when attacked first!
Also the rulebook can be a little crazy, and Middle Earth has a ton of locations that you might take some time to find while playing during board game night. As a two player war game with a bunch of different win conditions and abilities, there’s bound to be some hilarious jank like Gandalf in Fangorn for some reason; who knows what shenanigans you can make heroes like Legolas and Gimli do!
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The "placing Gandalf in Fangorn" got me. That was when I was sure this was a gem.
Totally not got ents
I love this game. The fangorn gandalf bit was perfect - every damn game it happens.
“THE HORN OF HELM HAMMERHAND WILL…never mind you got it” LMAO 😂
+1 for reminding me about the "they're taking the Hobbits to isengard" shenanigans.
where are they going?
They're taking the homeboys to lazertag
The binoculars bit cracked me up. Great video.
This game is amazing. First play with my fiancée we got halfway through and paused, I went and watched a 4 hour playthrough taking notes the whole time, and then finished our play. We've been using my notes with the player aid ever since and this is now one of our favorite games!
Playing it for the second time coming friday, many a rule will be missed.
search around on BGG for player aids, it really helps! -Ashton
The ending was perfect. A mad scramble of chaos. This game is so well balanced, every game feels desperate and down to the wire.
Too relatable. Last time as Shadow my armies killed themselves since I was throwing only 1's and Aragorn went and took Mordor like 40 minutes into the game. After that I angrily threw all my dice onto the table and I kid you not, I got only 5's and 6's. Haven't played since :D
hahahhaa, the 5 and 6 delight is real -Ashton
I can't tell you how many times I realize at the end of the game thinking wait we totally did that part wrong
My first game was an UTTER wash ahhaha -Ashton
I had this game for like 4 or 5 years and I played like maybe 6ish times. Then this past week I played it like 3 times in a row. I just REALLY got back into this game. It really is timeless and the LoME expansion really adds stuff in a way that it is not overwhelming for a large game but gives you a LOT of really cool alternative options for you to keep games fresh and still keep its great balance. I truly love this game haha.
awesome man! This game just continues to get better for me as well, I'm trying to brainstorm different openings all the time. I wanna get the LoME expansion and the new one at some point too! For a game without variable player powers and a static setup, I just keep coming back, its sick. -Ashton
@@Shelfside haha Ares actually has a whole strategy guide on their website with statistics of certain hunt rolls and everything. I really got caught up on a bunch of the subtle strategies in this game after seeing it resurface a bunch (plus I got the BoFA collectors edition which is absolutely STUNNING and got me back into the game series). And LoME I think rocks things with a change in how you want to start the game changing things up a bunch. I am definitely excited to see how the new expansion will be as well!
Thanks for all your videos! Keep it up!
OMG YES WOTR FOR THE WIN
for real tho you can’t play this game without the music
Wow, didn't expect my favourite board game to be featured in the sketch! Thank you for the gorgeous vid!
Absolutely spot-on, loved it. Will we see a "Why I Sold War of the Ring" a few years from now? Haha
oh gosh, I hope not actually. Maybe if a 3rd edition comes out? :OO -Ashton
@@Shelfside Will you give Unfathomable a try?
@@rafhalimaxd yep, 100%! eagerly waiting for our copy to come -Ashton
I've felt identified XD. The last turns of the game, both players stood up by the excitment...
A very accurate video for a game that I love.
This is one of the most entertaining videos I have seen in a while. 😂
Great video. Super accurate for one of my fav games that doesn’t hit the table too often.
Your videos are sooooo good love em!
My all-time favourite board game! But yeah, feels like we remember how to play about 10 minutes before the end every time
I'm setting up for a game right now while I wait for my friend to arrive I'm so ready for this!
Best player’s guide ever :D
Best.... video.... ever!!!!! Loved it!!
Haha very well done! I expected you would end with a Free People military victory though… “Oh nevermind, we don’t need to destroy the ring after all” 😂
I finally play this for the first time last week. The Gandalf at fangorn thing is hilarious
You nailed it. God I love this game...
A terrific game indeed.
I got a gaming table with a removeable top just to play this game with my wife as children rampage all over the house.
We use the Ralph Bakshi animated version sound track... and everytime, when ever the music changes to theme of the Free peoples or The forces of Sauron, that side started winning.
that's sick! Will look into that for our next playthrough -Ashton
While I prefer Shore's music, Rosenman's score is really underrated
lol. This was awesome. Thanks
01:40 Politics in "War of the Ring" seemed gamey until full scale war struck my homeland and no faction wanted to do anything about it. And then I remembered war actually started in 2014. But we were not "in war" yet, for foreign partners did not wanted us to.
You should do “every game of the resistance: Avalon”
I will start brainstorming ideas on that! Though I haven't played avalon, so it'll just be stock resistance -Ashton
Accurate lol. You missed mixing up the unpainted minis
Just unboxed and went through the rules today. Wooo boy!
yeah, in my first two rounds, Saruman has taken the helm's deep already while Rohan has not been at war yet for recruitment T.T
This video is true on so many levels.
This was perfect 😂
Forgot the part where you get the wizard staff card well after gandalf has left the Fellowship and it becomes completely useless and just takes up a slot in your hand forever
ooooh! That's a good one. I've had that happen to me twice, but generally later in the game where it doesn't clog for long. Time to play again it here! :D -Ashton
“POTATOES” 😁
“FAT HOBBIT!”👹
POE TAY TOES!
@@Shelfside”Boil em, mash em, stick em in a stew.”
Pretty accurate XD
Cool video! I liked the originality and subscribed to the channel, but... I haven't played War of the Ring just yet (although I own a copy) so I must ask: Don't the players have some mitigation capabilities for the dice? - Because thinking of a situation in which you are yearning for a roll of 6 that never showed up - does looks quite frustrating...
Cheers! The mitigation really comes in through the battle cards, which are the second half of cards you hold in your hand. I've never found luck to be too much of an issue in determining who wins or loses, since you end up rolling a lot of D6's across the course of the game, and positioning and card usage is more important. -Ashton
"Did we miss a rule?" No, several.
Do you play with expansions? If you do do you recommend an expansion?
heyo! I don't actually play with any expansions, and have been very satisfied with the base game for many many plays. Perhaps after 20+ games I will look into expansions -Ashton
now imagine playing the first edition, I thought I had gotten a great deal on the game, and now I know why, the cards are a quarter of the size with fonts to match. Yea it is a torture to play.
oh sheesh. One of the newcomer hurdles we have to keep going through is how the cards don't show the location they reference, so first games can get slowed down a LOT. I imagine 1st edition is just more yuck in that, and I heard that the DEW line was not as balanced? -Ashton
Wonderful video....
But the Ent cards are in the character deck, not the strategy deck.
;)
oh wow! Great eyes man, oopsies there :) -Ashton
Very accurate
Thanks man! -Ashton
boil em mash em STICK EM IN A STEW
stuuuuuppiiiid hobbit!
IMO I would like to see everdell in this series next
ahaha I've only played it once, will have to consult Daniel more on that -Ashton
_a wizard arrives precisely when he means too_
Solid recreation here! Which side is your preferred
thought I responded to this! I certainly prefer FP, but honestly playing both sides is awesome (unlike SWR where I only like playing as rebels). I find the shadow army management to be a little bit on the heavy side for me, but always too stressful because it is such a delight moving the pieces around, and you get to dictate the fights. -Ashton
Me while clicking the video: I wonder if I'll be able to relate to this after only 2 games
Me in the middle of the video: BEING ATTACKED IS NOT ENOUGH TO BE AT WAR? WHAT IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE????
ahaha, it feels so bad when you're the FP and those idiots are just not mobilizing! -Ashton
Really funny
thanks man! -Ashton
Fuck yes
"So you're telling me I'm being attacked, but I'm not a war yet?" - Russia agrees.
Lol I love this game
In my first game I was going through Moria......it was an error.
ahahaha same here! It actually is a pretty good strategy if you have ways to heal the fellowship, but of course that all depends on your hand :) -Ashton
Potatoes 🤣
I need to make more time for this game…
its worth it! It's worth it! -Ashton
Do one for Rebellion 😂
this has been running through my head lately. But I just don't know how I would approach it, because the games are so much different! Maybe eventually -Ashton
I love this game but i find one thing annoying if the shadow player atacks a faction it should automaticly be at war... thats how i play it in my lets play.
Every TI4 game ever next?
ahahhaha that will be VERY hard to do, I'll think about it :) -Ashton
I love this game, but I can't find anyone to play it with me.
You could try playing through discord with some folks, the TTS mods I've tried are great! May you have many a great session -Ashton
@@Shelfside That's a great idea, thanks for letting me know about that.
And then the expansions come…
Those player aids are bigger than the ones I have
hmm, maybe you have 1st ed? My player aids are just as big as the rulebook in terms of length x width -Ashton
@@Shelfside I definitely have second edition, but it's the Spanish edition, maybe it's different? In the video they folded the player aids but mine are just a big sheet each
@@Skarpo89 aah I see. Well either way, I would recommend using printouts on BGG to help learn the game for newcomers! Cheers! -Ashton
We have only ever played with both expansions.
I don’t recommend this for a first time.
bahahaha. I haven't even come close to touching the expansions yet -Ashton
Still playing?
hoping to cover the expansions one day! -ashton
Not accurate, didn’t include both players going fucking apeshit after just one dice roll that ended up unexpectedly for both players.
ahaha dang that's a really good one. I actually had this fight where I rolled all hits at helm's deep as FP, and my friend's Uruk-Hai rolled all misses even after rerolls and I just wiped his entire army, including a bunch of nazgul. Then I walked into orthanc :D -Ashton
Can't see the attraction myself, long, convoluted and loosely based on the films rather than the source material. There were relatively few battles in the trilogy so why people keep trying to develop a wargame from the material seems weird to me.
Its almost like you havent read the books. The game is very accurate to the books and the politics about being attacked makes sense, especially when you consider Rohan constantly being attacked yet doing nothing about it because of the corrupted Theoden.
hey there! You are correct, I haven't read the 2nd and 3rd books :)
But the skit is more to depict how frustrating it can be to play as Free People and people not doing jack! Love how wormtongue is in the game! -Ashton
I'll be that guy;
I still think critically, Star Wars: Rebellion is just better. You can debate about theme, but in the end, as rules / tension go, SW:R just nails it.
I hate that I've been baited by the "multiple win conditions" aspect of War of the Ring. And change my mind on that; Free People war victory is only there to hold the Shadow player from zerging it down. It's barely a threat and if it ever happen, it's just that the SP did *a few* crazy dumb mistakes. It should never happen.
But hey, I'd rather play War of the Ring than not playing any of those two games. :)
ohhh man! You just had to bring up the SWR! Both are awesome in their own right, and I find them actually hard to compare in my head because SWR has such an emphasis on leaders and the cat/mouse chase, while WoTR is always the same exact setup every time, but lends to feeling VERY much like the original trilogy because of that static setup. Perhaps I will do a every SW rebellion vid one day! -Ashton
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