Middle-earth Strategy Battle Game: Battle Companies

About this expansion

Middle-earth Strategy Battle Game: Battle Companies is a two-player expansion for the Middle-earth Strategy Battle Game, with games taking around 30 minutes. Assemble a small warband and follow its members across linked battles as they gain experience, learn skills, acquire equipment, and face the consequences of war.

The 80-page hardback provides rules for mustering your Battle Company and preparing it for battle. After each game, the War’s Aftermath section helps you resolve injuries, determine experience points, tailor Hero skills, and calculate the strength of your company. Warriors may improve, gain new abilities, or die from their injuries.

An extensive Armoury offers additional equipment, including armoured horses, elf bows, concealing cloaks, company standards, wandering elves, and whips. A Battle Companies Roster Sheet lets you record each member’s stats, experience, wargear, special rules, and injuries as your force develops.

• 12 Battle Company Scenarios for testing your warband against those of your friends
• Special rules for battles in Lake-town, forests, Goblin-town, fallen Dwarf Holds, and haunted ruins
• The Quest to Fornost, a five-scenario narrative campaign against a predetermined force
• Guidance for using your Battle Company in larger Points Match games, plus the Grand Battle scenario
• Eight hobbyist Battle Company examples for inspiration

The book includes 22 Battle Companies from The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, covering forces such as Minas Tirith, Rohan, Rivendell, Moria, Mordor, Isengard, Goblin-town, Angmar, and the Corsairs of Umbar. With its linked scenarios and progression rules, Middle-earth Strategy Battle Game: Battle Companies turns a small force into the focus of an ongoing series of battles.