Lord of the Rings strategy game

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Well, LOTR has been one of my special interests since the first movie came out, and I'd always wanted to learn how to play those strategy games where you paint the models and build up armies. And today, a local shop was running a workshop and I learned how to play, and it was...AWESOME!! !

So now, of course, I'm hooked. But it's rather an expensive hobby...

Does anyone know where I can get sets, scenery, characters, etc. for cheap - not already painted, I want to paint them myself (that's half the fun!). My little sister is looking them up on eBay, but the shipping is pretty pricey (except Ents, but I can't build up a whole army of them!).

Also, buying individual characters wouldn't come with a rulebook... Anyone have a PDF of it? A generic one with character stats, etc.

I don't play the game myself, but my friend plays Warhammer 40k, that's similar. He also finds it a... rather expensive hobby. He tends to get his models using online websites such as Amazon and eBay... Apparently you just need to keep a look out on eBay and there will be a good deal eventually.

Good luck with your hobby, it's not going to be cheap.

My hobby is much cheaper. I grow plants from seeds...

Ooh, Amazon has them too? Great, thanks! (I grow plants from seeds too, by the way. Carnivorous ones and edible ones - both of which are useful for small rooms in halls of residence at university.)

GW will eat your wallet no matter what!

I play their tabletop games using paper instead of models lol.

BWAHA! I have transcended the problem via the purchase of a large lump of clay!

And my sister will play with me if I make her a clay model of Alice Cooper!

I hope you find someone to play against you, SamwiseGamgee.

If I am ever fortunate enough to visit Canada, I'll hunt you down and your elves will perish at the might of my homemade army led by the Dark Lord Alice Cooper!

I don't play the Games Workshop game, but I play a couple of the LotR games from Fantasy Flight Games.

War of the Ring is a 2 player game pitting the Free Peoples against the Shadow. The Free People can win by successfully sneaking Frodo to Mt. Doom and destroying the Ring or by a military victory. The Shadow wins by corrupting the ring bearer or via military victory.





I also play a game called Middle Earth Quest. It's a game where 1 player plays as Sauron and commands his forces and up to 3 other players each play a hero. The game's story takes place between that of The Hobbit and The Fellowship of the Ring.

Games workshop is a big money suck. The models are sooo expensive. We used to wait for the annual sale where they would auction off alot of stuff at every store. I don't think they do that anymore

Wow - those board games look epic-ly awesome! Thanks fir the info - I'd never have heard about them otherwise. To TradeMe, I go!

SamwiseGamgee:
Aah...LOTR parody films. Me and some people at school once got hold of a video camera and made one - "Lord of the Bouncy-Balls". The Dark Lord Schuster (a science teacher we had at the time) had one of those little rubber bouncy-balls, and whenever it bounced, a student dropped down dead. Aragorn was a dumb blonde (because the person who wanted to play him because she had a massive crush on him was blonde), we only had 6 people so half the Nazgul were on maternity leave, and the Ford of Bruinen was renamed the Ford Orion, and shot at 2am by a little trickle of water in my back garden. We spent WEEKS on it! And then Aragorn took the video camera home and accidentally taped over the WHOLE THING with a video of how clean her room was for her mum!

Avarice:
I have chillis too. My puppy ate one while I was repotting them - funny, she hasn't eaten a pot-plant since!