Terrain superiority lets you instantly draw an event card. The player with more units that share the defending space’s terrain as their favored terrain, gains terrain superiority. Each unit has one (or more) favored terrain. Mustering lets you flip tokens over and place the pictured unit in its place.Ĭombat uses a mix of cards and dice. They are placed face down during set up and by other cards and special abilities. Recruitment tokens are used and make mustering random. Mustering in the Battle of Five Armies is not an exact science. Players alternate using one die or you can pass if your opponent has more dice left than you. As in War of the Ring certain dice let you move or muster your armies, play event cards or move your characters. Giant bats can help shadow armies move or aid them in combat.īoth players roll all their dice. The shadow must assign leadership tokens or place giant bats up to the number of dice they have. If the tile has the fate symbol on it the free people player draws a Fate card and applies its effects. The last tile they choose to draw advances the Fate Track and is discarded. For each general activated the shadow player may draw another tile. Next the shadow player must draw a tile (numbered 1-3) to advance the Fate Track. These tokens let you re-roll misses in combat. Then they must add that many leadership tokens to their armies on the board. This enables the general’s to use their special abilities. The free people’s player activates up to three of their generals. If you have more than six cards you must discard down to six. The shadow player wins if they have 10 VPs at the end a round.Įach round starts with both players drawing an event card and a story card. Also if they bring out Beorn and the shadow player has less than six VPs the free people win. If the Fate Track ever reaches 15 they win. As the game goes along the free people’s player may add more characters to the game.
The main timer for this game is the Fate Track. It is not as epic or plays the exact same way, but it does share some aspects of this thematic classic. The Battle of Five Armies is the War of the Ring’s little sibling. Will the shadow or free peoples win this epic struggle? The Battle of Five Armies simulates the huge fight at the end of the Hobbit.
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