In The Lord of the Rings: The Confrontation, you will relive the epic battle between the Fellowship of the Ring and Sauron's servants as told in J. R. Tolkien's classic trilogy, The Lord of the Rings. The master game board indicates both the physical progress of the fellowship across Middle Earth and the corrupting influence of Sauron on the hobbits. Each side has nine units at its disposal, with varying strengths and abilities, and each player has cards that augment his or her units' strength values. The other thing that weakens Sauron is that I think it is harder for Sauron to reach the winning conditions. Exception: if the Warg participates in the fight, the Fellowship character's text is ignored). At least based on the games I played this is not very likely since both players will generally have a similar number of characters at a given time and the Sauron player needs to keep characters back to prevent Frodo from sneaking into Mordor. This review is based off the 2013 "Deluxe" edition of the game). If the players are playing the classic game they will use the character tiles and cards with the ring symbol and if they are playing the variant game they use cards and tiles with the star symbol.
Warg (2): In a fight against the Warg, the Fellowship character's text has no effect. Frodo can move into Mordor even if Sauron has characters in it without having to fight them. If that player has no discarded Combat Card, that "Magic" card has no effect or strength. Combat follows four steps. Large tarot-size playing cards. The powerful Gandalf, valiant Aragorn, loyal Sam, and many others will help him on his journey, and are prepared to pay the ultimate price to ensure that Frodo destroys the One Ring and brings peace back to Middle-earth! Ideally, play two games, with each player alternately playing Fellowship and Sauron. The Fellowship player, and only the Fellowship player, can move a character along one of these arrows. We investigate how games can aid those both in and especially outside the hobby to be more immediately appealing. While Lord of the Rings The Confrontation is similar to Stratego, I think it improves the game significantly. Boromir (0): In the event of a fight with Boromir, both Boromir and the character of Sauron are immediately eliminated. Cards can either outright kill the other character or they could make a weaker character defeat a stronger character.
After a fight, used Combat Cards are discarded and placed face up next to the game board. These movements count as normal "forward" movements. To start the game, each player takes their 9 units and places them on their side of the board to where their opponent cannot see them, with 4 of them in their back-most territory (Mordor or the Shire). Each player has a hand of cards and though they are very similar, they are just different enough. One of the only issues I had with Lord of the Rings The Confrontation was that despite quite a bit of strategy in the game, luck will generally have some impact on the ultimate winner. 2 Resolve Character Abilities: Every character has a special ability in the game which may affect the battle. Created by Reiner Knizia, and most recently released in a deluxe edition by Fantasy Flight Games, The Confrontation is an ingenious and very strategic game that uses plastic stands, into which slot various characters from the books that remain hidden from your opponent as you move them on the board. Each unit has two different sides that can be played, and there are also some "special cards" that can be used in a couple of different ways. If players reveal two Power Cards, the Sauron player's card is read and applied first, followed by the Fellowship player's card. The Fellowship player gets to resolve their ability first followed by the Sauron character.
I think I was overly ambitious, looking for those 3-6 hour slug fest epic games that I thought made up a majority of the hobby. Players then simultaneously reveal their cards face up on the table. The Fellowship wins if they get Frodo into Mordor. The Fellowship player reads aloud and first applies the text present on his Character tile, then the Sauron player does the same. Like the character pieces, the Fellowship player's cards rely more on tricks then strength. I won't go into every detail but pretty much every character is thematically appropriate in the Classic Version, though not as clearly thematic in the Variant version. On your turn you must move one of your characters forward from one region to another, with the caveat that you cannot have more than two characters on the same space. Sadly I was never given the opportunity to get a game in of Stratego. One of Reiner Knizia's most highly regarded games, Lord of the Rings: The Confrontation, is back!
0% found this document not useful, Mark this document as not useful. From the Shire, Frodo and his companions plan their perilous route. The Sauron character also has 9 cards, 6 of them are strength (giving them not only one extra strength card but one with a higher value of 6) and 3 of them are Text Cards. LORD OF THE RINGS CONFRONTATION BOARDGAME. I'm looking for some opinions on these games - both are for sale used in my local market for a pretty fair price, but I haven't played either.
Okay, this end of the BGG top list starts to get weird. Report this Document. The Confrontation game is the "regular" (non-deluxe) version. There are still plenty of thematic wins in the Variant version though, like Treebeard's buff while in Fangorn or Wormtongue who, despite the fact that he has -1 strength, can retreat backwards even if defeated. The biggest difference in the reprint is the size of the characters. The variant game also has the following rule differences: - Sauron can win automatically if the Witch-King enters the Shire.
The fate of Middle Earth is in your hands. You are on page 1. of 2. These characters have some really neat playing twists to them. I've played this game a lot since getting it. This game doesn't necessarily have the best components but for the price you pay I think it could've been a lot worse. Noble Sacrifice: if no character has retreated (including Sauron player's "Retreat" card), this card automatically kills both fighting characters.
If one player is better at guessing what cards the other player is going to play, they have a good chance at winning the game. This makes for a wonderful balance as the Sauron player typically starts with much higher base numbers but the Fellowship player has characters that can defeat certain Sauron characters should they meet in battle (Legolas defeats the Flying Nazgul, Gimli Defeats the Orcs, etc). Save LOTR the Confrontation FAQ For Later. He only lacks the One Ring, an artifact of ultimate power... and it hangs around the neck of a humble and unassuming hobbit, Frodo Baggins.
Note: All prices in US Dollars. Orcs (2): When attacking, Orcs immediately defeat the first Fellowship character attacked in the region. Each player has 30-40 different soldier pieces (depending on which edition is played) which each player secretly arranges on their side of the board. If their unit enters the same region as an opposing unit, then they will battle. Is there room in a collection for both, or should I be picking just one?
It's a lot of fun and simple with a lot of replay value thanks to the cards changing all the dice's powers and 2 double sided track boards. 1 Reveal Characters: Both players reveal the character that is in the battle. But we've seen that it's available on Amazon currently for only $26. Excellent expansion.
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