Battle of the Five Armies (board game)

Battle of the Five Armies is a 1975 board wargame published by LORE / JMJ Enterprises.

Gameplay

Battle of the Five Armies is a game that simulates the Battle of Five Armies.[1]

Reception

Larry Pound reviewed The Battle of the Five Armies in The Space Gamer No. 3.[1] Pound commented that "All in all, the game [is] fair, but the total impression is not enhanced by the colors used for the unit counters or the way the terrain features are drawn."[1]

Martin Easterbrook reviewed the TSR version of Battle of the Five Armies for White Dwarf #3, giving it an overall rating of 5 out of 10, and stated that "The game's main strength is that it does possess something of the atmosphere of the book. The inexorably slow advancing sea of goblin warriors becomes quite hypnotic after a while and you really do begin bitting your fingernails whilst praying for the arrival of the eagles and Beorn."[2]

2005 Version

In 2005, Games Workshop released a Battle of Five Armies tabletop wargame, designed by Rick Priestley using highly detailed 10 mm figures sculpted by Mark Harrison, based on Games Workshop's Warmaster rules.[3][4]

2014 Edition

The Battle of Five Armies is a standalone game produced by Ares Games based on the rules for War of the Ring (board game), but with the rules modified to function on a tactical level as they describe a smaller battle rather than the entire war.[5]

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References
  1. Pound, Larry (1975). "Game Review: The Battle of the Five Armies". The Space Gamer. Metagaming (3): 20.
  2. Easterbrook, Martin (October–November 1977). "Open Box". White Dwarf. Games Workshop (Issue 3): 15.
  3. Jones, Rich, Battle of the Five Armies Rules and miniatures for recreating battles in Middle Earth, Wargames Journal 1, 2005 p.91
  4. More information can be found at: Games Workshop's Specialist Games site
  5. http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/135219/battle-five-armies
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