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War of the Ring: Battles of the Third Age: Rohan (Scripted)

This is the Rohan scenario, the siege of Helm's Deep, from the expansion to the first edition of War of the Ring.

It is fully playable and scripted.

The Gondor scenario, the siege of Minas Tirith, has its own mod:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2666989911

And here's the new mod, Battle in Balin's Tomb:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2698739698


How to play:

- Change the players' colors to blue and red.

- Press the central Setup button to setup the recruitment tokens.

- Press the Cleanup button at start to deal generic and story event cards.

- Press the Cleanup button at the end of each round to reset the shadow leader, the leadership tokens, action dice and tokens and to deal cards.

- On positioning the Shadow Leader at one of the three shadow box positions, the corresponding number of dice will be transferred there too.
Dice put into the shadow box will automatically show the character side.


Process:

- [UPDATE] first try out of 3D models of Helm's Deep and Orthanc. I've modifed them for a better fit, but no textures yet.
Credits:
"Helm's Deep" (https://skfb.ly/6T6Ov) by Mitro123 is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
"Izengard (lotr)" (https://skfb.ly/6SXNx) by Mitro123 is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

- [UPDATE] scripted:
- Automatic transfer of dice into the Shadow Box.
- Free Peoples action tokens reset stacked beside the dice.

- [UPDATE] scripted:
- Shadow Leader Saruman position reset at Cleanup.
- Action dice and tokens reset at Cleanup.

- [UPDATE] I added the tactics cards provided by Krieghund on https://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/17698/wotr-botta-tactics-cards-v1zip. They have the backs of the generic deck, similar to TBOFA. The event card was skipped, as you are supposed to play a battle card directly. I didn't include the Dunlendings because they have no special ability, although you probably could play them as a fake maneuver, I guess?

- I've taken scripting inspiration from Daddy Wil's "[Scripted] The Battle of Five Armies w/ Miniatures" for it is much the same type of game, and substituted the original shadow leadership tokens and the look of the damage tokens with theirs.

- And like them I populated the game with miniatures from eternal3lade's workshop.

- There's some variation of minis of the same unit type, but you can easily delete one flavor and clone the other to get a more homogeneous look. I can change that or make it optional on popular demand.

- Maps were provided by Felix at https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/2637969/high-resolution-scan-board
which saved me a ton of troubles of scanning them myself.

- Wallpaper taken from: https://wallpaperaccess.com/lord-of-the-rings-landscape

- There are some translations included, mostly from boardgamegeek.com, German rules in the original format, German compiled player-aids, some versions of Polish rules and translation of cards etc. These are the languages I'm familiar with, but boardgamegeek has several others like Spanish..


Roadmap:

- I'm experimenting with adding a Helm's Deep 3D miniature. Probably Orthanc, too?

- Since the Shadow Box and the dice box are on opposite sides the latter is hard to reach for the shadow player and should be switched over to the left side. But that would mean swapping everything like the three card decks and the combat dice, too. I'm not yet ready to do so.

- Automatic transfer of dice into the Shadow Box is done with random positioning, which could be improved.

- Should I exchange the recruitment tokens with these?: https://boardgamegeek.com/image/586794/war-ring-battles-third-age Opinions?

- Since this is the first attempt the cards are sloppily cropped en mass. Proper cropping would need to handle each card separately and I don't know if it is worth the trouble..

- I've scanned the cards in high resolution and scaled them down pretty heavily, so I could upscale them, but see above..

- There will be a scripting error shown if any deck space is empty and Cleanup is pressed. Some tokens have also code from WotR or TboFA which show errors. This can be ignored. I'll clean it up eventually.


OTHER:

I've also made a mod for the Zen Garden game from 2013:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2728280233