ME SBG: RULES MANUAL 2024

Contents:

Introduction
An overview of the larger hobby of collecting, painting, and playing with your miniatures.

Rules
The core of Middle-earth Strategy Battle Game:

– Code of Conduct and Fundamental Principles: A framework for players to follow, and an introduction to the basic concepts and terms used in the manual.

– Turn Sequence: Learn about the five phases – Priority, Movement, Shooting, Fighting, which covers melee combat, and Courage and Intelligence.

– Unit Types: How Cavalry, Heroes, Monsters, War Beasts, and Chariot Horses work.

– Weapons and War Equipment: This section explains the varied equipment available to your warriors, and how your choices will impact tactical decisions.

– Magic: This section explains targeting, casting, and resistance to magical powers.

– Special Rules: This section collects 44 common special rules for easy reference.

– Advanced Rules: Found in certain scenarios, these rules are useful when reliving scenes from the history of Middle-earth.

– Siege Weapons: Rules for using these massive threats, including their movement, firing, upgrades, and crew (and their ability to shoot severed heads as ammunition…).

– Sieges: Throughout the history of Middle-earth, there have been many sieges – these are the basic rules for creating your own sieges with your models.

Narrative Game
Relive your favorite battles and scenes from the movies! These scenarios are also great to play as part of a campaign, where you can recreate a chain of events, from short scenarios to massive sieges.

Matched Games
In Matched Play games, you and your opponent collect heroes and warriors from your collection, up to an agreed-upon point limit, before unleashing your armies on the fate of Middle-earth.

Scenarios
This section includes six Matched Play scenarios, each with its own setup, starting positions, first priority, objectives, victory points, and special rules.

Model exhibition
Photographs of armies and miniatures playable in the Middle-earth Strategy Battle Game.

Index
The Middle-earth Strategy Battle Game manual concludes with an alphabetical index of the rules, allowing readers to find and reference the rules they need during games.