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Cirdan unveils German LOTR board game - Lord of the Rings news - J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings

September 05, 2000 at 01:55:02

The much-discussed board game based on J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, with artwork by artist John Howe, has been reviewed by Cirdan on his German-language Web site.

The article is also appearing on Spielbox-Online.de, which also provides a translation link that brings up this page.

The translated page doesn't make much sense, so we thought we'd put it through Alta Vista's Babelfish (which, sadly, doesn't do well in translating English to Deutsch, according to our German readers). The result is a javascript-based page we cannot link to, but here is the translated text. Between the two, you may be able to figure out what the game is about. But the pictures are pretty.

Gentleman of the rings board play

PHOTO: PLAY BOX

The play box of

THE MR. THE RINGS




PHOTO: PLAY BOX

The play plans




PHOTO: PLAY BOX

The figures




PHOTO: PLAY BOX

Barad dûr, that

darken tower with the eye.

Just arrived, unpacked and photographs: A Preview copy of pure Knizias new cosmos play " the master of the rings "!

Nerves it not equal the play dealer of your confidence: The play will be available presumably only toward at the end of September. You will read a detailed review in output 5/00 of the play box. A short first impression of the play follows shortly here. For today we are limited in photos and a few describing words.

To the play equivalent 5 play plans belong: One main play plan (on the top right in the picture) and 4 adventure play plans, which are successively taped. In each case 2 plans divide a spielbrett, are thus shown on front and rear side.

The players do not pull naturally as elevation bits in the adventure, whereby - suitably the topic, but surprisingly for Knizia - only the group can together win, the particular, because the master of the rings is a cooperative play. Sauron, which is as meat-become... - no, play-stone black eye in the play, only thus can be defeated. As version also a competitive play is offered, whereby " the competition " is limited to the point distribution.

To the further material cards of the most diverse type, elevation bit cards, Gandalfkarten, local cards, to it to event small card, belong life wafer, sign and naturally also " the ring to drive and eternally bind it to farmhands to find it all in the darkness in the country Mordor, where the shadows drone. "

More over the play shortly here!.

The master of the rings of pure Knizia, diagram: John Howe, 2-5 players starting from 10 years, spieldauer 60-90 minutes, cosmos (2000)