The Middle-earth Strategy Battle Game is the tabletop game for two or more players set within the world of Middle-earth. With it you can play through the events from The Lord of the Rings™, The Hobbit™, and The War of the Rohirrim™, and muster armies from these movies using your collection of miniatures. Take control of your favourite heroes, villains, and armies from across Middle-earth and recreate epic battles. Gather your forces and challenge your opponents in a test of wits, strategy, and tactical prowess.

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:

Introduction
An overview of the wider hobby of collecting, painting, and playing with your miniatures.

Rules
The 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 Play
Recreate 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 Play
In 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.

Scenarios
This section includes six Matched Play Scenarios, each with their own layout, starting positions, initial priority, objectives, victory points, and special rules.

Model Showcase
Photography of armies and miniatures playable in the Middle-earth Strategy Battle Game.

Index
The 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.

Armies of The Hobbit is a gaming supplement for the Middle-earth Strategy Battle Game that provides profiles and rules for all your favourite heroes and villains from The Hobbit™. Muster grand armies from the movies using your collection of miniatures and recreate your favourite scenes on the tabletop.

From the great Dwarven realm of Erebor, to the depths of the forest of Mirkwood, and the ruined fortress of Dol Guldur, gather your forces and prepare to do battle with your opponent in a test of generalship, strategy, and tactics. This 160-page hardback gaming supplement features over 120 profiles, 15 forces of Good Army lists, and 7 forces of Evil Army lists.

Contents:

Forces of Good: Unit profiles, special rules, wargear, options, and Heroic Actions for the following units.
– 41x Dwarven Holds profiles
– 16x Kingdoms of Men profiles
– 17x Elven Kingdoms profiles
– 8x Free Peoples profiles

Good Army Lists: Photography, background information, army composition, additional rules, and special rules for the following 15 armies – Thorin's Company, Army of Thrór, Iron Hills, Erebor Reclaimed, Army of Lake-Town, Survivors of Lake-Town, Garrison of Dale, Erebor & Dale, Rivendell, Halls of Thranduil, Rangers of Mirkwood, The Battle of Five Armies, Radagast's Alliance, and The White Council.

Forces of Evil: Unit profiles, special rules, wargear, options, and Heroic Actions for the following units.
– 24x Gundabad and Dol Guldur profiles
– 9x Misty Mountains profiles
– 1x Smaug profile

Evil Army Lists: Photography, background information, army composition, and additional rules for the following 7 armies – Army of Gundabad, Pits of Dol Guldur, Azog's Hunters, Rise of the Necromancer, Goblin-Town, The Three Trolls, and Desolator of the North.

You will need a copy of the Middle-earth Strategy Battle Game Rules Manual, available separately, to use this gaming supplement.

© New Line Productions, Inc. All rights reserved. MIDDLE-EARTH, THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING, THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS, THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING and the names of the characters, items, events and places therein are trademarks of Middle-earth Enterprises, LLC under license to New Line Productions, Inc. (S24)

© Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All rights reserved. THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY, THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG, THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES, THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE WAR OF THE ROHIRRIM and the names of the characters, items, events and places therein are trademarks of Middle-earth Enterprises, LLC under license to New Line Productions, Inc. (s24)

Middle-earth, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings and the names of the characters, places, items and events therein, are trademarks of Middle-earth Enterprises, LLC used under license by Games Workshop. All rights reserved. (S24)

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.