You know how a couple of days I was being annoyed that Middle Earth Quest was terribly expensive? Well, I now own a copy – and it’s due to Good Games Ballarat getting it in (now the Australian dollar is better) and having a 15% off all boardgames sale. So, instead of costing $120-140, it only cost $95.
We had a game this afternoon. First (learning) game took about 3-1/2 hours, with me reading the rules as we went. I think it’ll take about 2 hours with people who know what they’re doing.
It’s a fun game – I rate it a 7 on BGG (War of the Ring is an 8). One player plays Sauron and advances three plots; whilst the other players (1-3 of them) race to foil the plots whilst becoming stronger themselves. Either someone wins decisively, or it goes to a final combat. Nash got himself strong enough that when I didn’t win decisively, he was able to take out the Ringwraiths and win the game for the heroes.
