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Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle Earth -The Official Strategy Guide

 
Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle Earth -The Official Strategy Guide book cover
I must say that while I couldn't play the game for a week after purchase this did fuel my appetite for it; yet that's not really the point!First things first, the stats are inherently useful and the maps are good in most situations. The walkthroughs are fairly detailed and I recommend only reading them AFTER you play the campaign.The layout is nice, the pages are glossy and smooth and overall it's a nice book as far as design goes.However...Whoever edited this deserves to be shot. The stats are not only inconsisent some seem to be way out. We don't have armour values for buildings for starters. Then take two profiles on the same double page spread - nazgûl and WK, both different. We can't see the Witch-King's damage ratings, we don't know his build time, we don't know the attack type for all his attacks, there's no experience value, no hint as to where he's trained, no command point value (even if it would be N/A), and no number of units in a horde. Unfortunately this continues ... read more.

Written by Prima Temp Authors and Bryan Stratton.
Published 19 November 2004.
Published by Prima Games.
rrp £12.99.
224 pages Paperback.
ISBN: 076154545X
ISBN-13: 9780761545453
 
 
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