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:IntroductionAn overview of the wider hobby of collecting, painting, and playing with your miniatures.RulesThe 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, which covers close combat, and Courage and Intelligence.– Unit Types: How Cavalry, Heroes, Monsters, Warbeasts, and Chariots work.– Weapons and Wargear: This section explains the variety of equipment available to your warriors, and the impact your choices will have on your tactical decisions.– Magic: This section explains targeting, casting, and resisting magical powers.– Special Rules: This section collects together 44 common Special Rules for easy reference.– Advanced Rules: Found in certain scenarios, these rules are handy when recreating scenes from the history of Middle-earth.– Siege Engines: Rules for fielding these immense threats, covering their movement, firing, upgrades, and crew (and their ability to launch severed heads as ammunition…).– Sieges: Throughout the history of Middle-earth, many sieges have taken place – these are the basic rules for creating your own sieges with your models.Narrative PlayRecreate your favourite battles and scenes from the movies! These scenarios are also great to play as part of a campaign, where you can re-enact a chain of events, from short scenarios, to massive Sieges.Matched PlayIn Matched Play games, you and your opponent gather your forces of heroes and warriors from your collection, up to an agreed points limit, before unleashing your armies for the fate of Middle-earth.ScenariosThis section includes six Matched Play Scenarios, each with their own layout, starting positions, initial priority, objectives, victory points, and special rules.Model ShowcasePhotography of armies and miniatures playable in the Middle-earth Strategy Battle Game.IndexThe Middle-earth Strategy Battle Game Rules manual concludes with an alphabetised rules Index for readers to reference and quickly find the rules they need during games.

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This 240-page hardback gaming supplement features over 150 profiles, 27 forces of Good Army Lists, and 19 forces of Evil Army Lists.Contents:Forces of Good: Unit profiles, special rules, wargear, options, and Heroic Actions for the following units.– 25x Free Peoples profiles– 22x Rohan profiles– 25x Gondor profiles– 15x Elven Kingdoms profilesGood Army Lists: Photography, background information, army composition, additional rules, and special rules for the following 27 armies – The Fellowship, The Shire, Road to Rivendell, Breaking of the Fellowship, Kingdom of Rohan, Road to Helm's Deep, Defenders of Helm's Deep, Ride Out, Riders of Éomer, Riders of Théoden, Army of Edoras, Defenders of the Hornburg, Minas Tirith, Garrison of Ithilien, Reclamation of Osgiliath, Atop the Walls, Return of the King, Defenders of the Pelennor, Men of the West, Númenor, Lindon, Rivendell, The Last Alliance, Lothlórien, Fangorn, The Eagles, and Realms of Men.Forces of Evil: Unit profiles, special rules, wargear, options, and Heroic Actions for the following units.– 25x Mordor profiles– 23x Isengard profiles– 8x Hill Tribes profiles– 5x Misty Mountains profiles– 8x Fallen Realms profilesEvil Army Lists: Photography, background information, army composition, and additional rules for the following 19 armies – Barad-dûr, The Black Riders, Wraiths on Wings, Army of Gothmog, Legions of Mordor, Minas Morgul, Cirith Ungol, The Black Gate, Army of the White Hand, Lutz's Scouts, Uglúk's Scouts, Wolves of Isengard, Muster of Isengard, Assault Upon Helm's Deep, Usurpers of Edoras, Besiegers of the Hornburg, Depths of Moria, Harad, and Corsair Fleets.

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The Treachery of Gollum is an expansion to the Middle-earth Strategy Battle Game that provides a series of linked Narrative Scenarios and engaging hobby content. It allows you to recreate some of the most iconic scenes featuring the creature Gollum and the vile spider, Shelob. Will you guide Frodo on his arduous quest to Mordor, in an attempt to destroy The One Ring and end the tyranny of the Dark Lord once and for all, or side with the conniving Gollum and lure the Ringbearer into a carefully laid trap and claim the Precious for yourself?This 48-page softcover expansion contains:– Nine Narrative Scenarios: Recreate some of Gollum and Shelob’s most diabolical and evil moments.– A Linked Campaign System: Connect each of the Narrative Scenarios so that the result of one battle will have an impact on the next.– Full Painting Guides: Learn how to paint your Gollum and Shelob miniatures so they look just how they did in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King™.– Step-by-step Hobby Tutorials: Create the winding tunnels of Shelob’s lair, the sewers beneath the ruined city of Osgiliath, the foetid bogs of the Dead Marshes, and more.You will need a copy of the Middle-earth Strategy Battle Game Rules Manual and Armies of The Lord of the Rings™, both available separately, to make full use of this expansion.

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