Lord of the Rings, in 20 Mins? (SU&SD Review Duel for Middle-Earth)

2024-10-24T19:34:21Z

Well, I’m sold on this after that review.

A 20-minute, 2-player gateway game with a theme a lot of my friends will enjoy, done.

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Yep, this is going on my Christmas list. No points to deal with, just green set collection, area control, or collecting rings to determine victory sounds intriguing, and should make military more interesting than the original 7W:D game.

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This looks fun. I’ve never played 7 Wonders Duel (why have a two-player version of a game we already really enjoy two-player?), but this looks like an excellent excuse to get it (or something very like it). We’ll keep it next to LotR: The Confrontation. And Vincent Dutrait’s art is always splendid.

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The art looks lovely. I’m a little perplexed that they’ve made 7 Wonders Duel take up that amount of table space, and I’m even more confused that Matt’s suggestion for people who thought the game looked great but didn’t want the LOTR theme was… Compile? I have 7WD so I believe I’ll pass on this, but it looks nice.

(Edit: Just watched the review of Compile, and it looks incredibly complicated by comparison with this. I’d happily try Compile if the opportunity arose, but it seems like a very different kind of game to 7WD.)

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I hate 7 Wonders and am not a fan of LotR as a property to be exploited (I quite like the original books). So this is really not for me.

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Efka pretty much guaranteeing that I’m going to buy this now.

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