- rank: 946
- rating: 6.7
- published: 2000
Print Status
- in print
Why It's On The List
- There had been cooperative games before this one... but Knizia broke the mold and created a sprawling (and gorgeous) cooperative masterpiece that reflects the tensions & storylines of the books in a highly abstracted way. And my wife likes it.
Tips & Tricks:
- There are three expansions to the already meat-y base game...
- Friends & Foes (which added Foes as well as two new "locations" - boards - to work through) - yes, it did make the game longer by almost half.
- Sauron (which added several different ways to play the game, including a "one player - Sauron - versus everyone else" variant that works like a charm)
- Battlefields (which added another board for each location... and is highly abstract... I played once and then sold it for a ridiculous amount of money.)
- Suggestion: don't combine the Friends & Foes and Sauron expansions - it's just too darn long.
- I've played 65+ games of this... and will happily play it again if someone asks. Especially my wife.
Extras
- Here's what I wrote about the game for The One Hundred: both my personal entry and the group entry.
- This is the fourth of seven (!) games on the countdown designed by Reiner Knizia.
1 comment:
This was _the_ game that got me into the hobby 22 years ago. It will always have a spot in my heart and my collection.
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