The Lord of the Rings: Journeys in Middle-earth

The Lord of the Rings: Journeys in Middle-earth

Liev2kill Apr 27, 2023 @ 9:17am
Campaign length
How long is each entire campaign. Thinking about buying the board game with all the expansions. But want to know how long the campaigns are and if it's worth the investment.
Last edited by Liev2kill; Apr 27, 2023 @ 9:21am
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PrimeSonic Apr 27, 2023 @ 5:11pm 
I'd strongly recommend looking for answers for this game on the BoardGameGeek forums.
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/269385/lord-rings-journeys-middle-earth/forums/0
Most questions have already been answered and you can just search them up.
(There's also a lot of video reviews there if you need more help deciding if the game is right for you)

But while we're here, let me help you out on the question of campaign length.
The base game comes with the Bones of Arnor campaign, which has 12-14 individual adventures or scenarios, depending on whether you take on the extra side-quests or not.
Btw, I got that info from this post since my group is still at least 2 scenarios away from completing the campaign.
https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/2938686/article/40839816#40839816

On the subject of my group, we've played 12 scenarios so far and added up over 23 hours of play time.
The game is tuned such that each individual scenario should take around an hour to complete.
But it take longer if still learning how to play and if you have more people playing.
I suspect that for the next campaign we might be able to move faster, but we'll be adding a new player so it will probably all even out.
Account for snack breaks and other interruptions and I think it's fair to want to set aside 2 hours per adventure just in case.

If your main concern is how many hours of game time you'll get out of your investment, I don't think you'll be disappointed.
It's definitely been worth it for me so far. So much so that I've already bought one of the expansions (which can immediately be incorporated into an ongoing campaign).
Lanistra May 17, 2023 @ 3:54am 
I agree with that, and the journey continues.
Moreover, you get beautiful miniatures.
Jummi Jammi Jul 25, 2023 @ 3:43pm 
if you want to get your moneys worth pick all expansions to get more enemy variation, roles, heroes, weapons, etc... I have 151h in game atm and I havent played all different campaigns yet (I own them all), but have played first 3 multiple times with different builds and heroes. So yeah this game is 100% WORTH if you get everything, but if you only get base game I am not so sure, because if you play with 5 players then everyone is locked and no one can multi role so basically builds and combos are thrown out from experience at that point. First campaign is good there is 2 BS adventures, but luckily those cant end your run and base game is MISSING 2 MAIN boss figures that are used in first campaign you get them from mini-set.
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