Building up your army takes time, and the battlefield is a constantly evolving arena in which only the astutest long-term strategies are likely to pay off. NetEase Games describes The Lord of the Rings: Rise to War as a “geo-strategic seasonal wargame”, and seasonal is the key word. The only limit to your tactical options is your imagination.īut whatever path you take, you’re in it for the long haul. It takes time to toughen up.Īs you expand, you can head in any direction you like, cutting off your opponents’ marching routes, besieging their cities, or whatever.
The Lord of the Rings: Rise to War is a tile-based strategy game in which your movement is confined to points on a giant grid.Įach square you take involves a battle, with the most valuable tiles putting up the toughest resistance. The rest of your time you’ll spend striking out across the vast continent of Middle-earth. Of course, every successful military campaign relies on a solid base of operations, and so you’ll spend a lot of time building up your fortified settlement by levelling up your buildings, training your armies, and recruiting new commanders to lead your troops in battle. Either way, your goal is the same: to expand across Middle-earth and frustrate your enemies. You’re in the race, either as a saintly Fellowship or an ugly, grunting Warband.
