War of the Ring – Warriors of Middle Earth
Expansion of: War of the Ring (Second Edition)Warriors of Middle-Earth, the new expansion for War of the Ring Second Edition, brings a whole new level of strategy to all players of the award-winning Lord of the Rings boardgame, with many fresh and exciting gameplay possibilities to explore.
2 - 4 Players
Ages 13+
Batchat
The factions feel generic and dont make for a good addition. I recommend only using the corsairs and the eagles as those are the only factions which really add anything to the game.
briannholli
This seems way to powerful for the fellowship overall. In addition, it has one card where one eagle can move the entire fellowship to the crack of doom and win immediately. This is no where close to cannon. The eagles were just victims to the nazgul and feared them greatly in the book. Sure, in the last battle, PJ had the eagles show up and fight. but he changed the cannon because the eagles did not enter Mordor until after the one ring was destroyed in the book. During the war with the witch king most of the original eagles died to orc arrows and the witch king himself. Nazgul should be able to kill eagles at will. Also one eagle can carry like one human or maybe two in weight. Probably no humans in armor. How one eagle can carry the entire fellowship makes no sense either. Pjs eagles are just way more powerful than tolkien's and the eagles in this expansion are more powerful than PJ's. .
cradleofmilk
Doesn't add much complexity, but it certainly gives more options. Together with LoME, WoME creates a very open game. The pairs of Battle Cards bring some good bluffing to combats too. Definitely an hour longer when the first two expansions are included. After 4 games of WotR with LoME and WoME incorporated, I can say that I would probably prefer to play with only LoME added (or just the base game alone). But only by a little. I do like the factions. I like that the WoME Ents help keep Isengard in check, and that the SP has greater mobility options with the Corsairs. Eagles battling Nazgûl is great thematically. However, the game becomes a bit fiddly, sprawling, and unfocused. Will have to play without WoME and see if I miss it.