2007.09.09
Lord of the Battlefields
Today Jason and I played a game of Lord of the Rings, and decided to try out the Battlefields expansion for the first time. To make a long story short, the fellowship crumbled in Isengard, Sauron ragained the ring, and darkness covered the land.
It was a struggle from the get go. Jason made a mad dash for Sauron during the Bree board. I think he hit 9 or 10 on the corruption line before we even got out of Bree. And it just got worse from there.
The new Battlefields boards definitely up the difficulty level of the game considerably. As with most of the expansions and variants that make the game more difficult, Battlefields makes the problems with resources (cards) even more acute. We struggled the entire game with very few movement cards, and our luck ran out in Isengard. Despite using multiple Gandalf cards, and suffering the indignity of using Watchful Peace rather early in the game, we still lost miserably.
I enjoyed the game, but it was definitely a lot of work. I felt rather battered after we lost. We’ll have to try it again. Maybe with more than two players it will be a little easier. At least I hope it will.
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