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It looks fun and interesting, and I love LoTR... but no time for another game system, especially one that's not all that popular.

I chose "other" because it's "Not interested, it looks like it sucks"

i got a load of goblins a cave troll and a couple ringwraiths when they 1st launched the lord of the rings minis.
never learnt to play it though, just got it to paint, but i was an awefull painter at the time, making the whole thing pointless really

I don't know.

On one hand, I loved Lord of the Rings and I like the models, but the selling point for me is just how fast one player can get into the game. I'd need like 1-2 boxes of troops, some blisters, etc.

However, no one really well truly plays this game at my FLGS, and perhaps I might get some people into the game, but until then, I really want to work on my other armies, knowing at least that I can get a game in.

Not interested and not keen on minatures

LOTR got me started in wargaming and I still enjoy the odd game or two. On a small skirmish scale it is great but larger games tend to get a bit fiddly with moving all troops around separately due to a lack of units.

Curly wrote:LOTR got me started in wargaming and I still enjoy the odd game or two. On a small skirmish scale it is great but larger games tend to get a bit fiddly with moving all troops around separately due to a lack of units.

That is why there is now war of the ring. on a average game of 1000 points Ill have about 96 goblins on the table and some trolls. The game plays really well and is much more balanced say compared to WFB.

Got me into GW stuff. I never played the game, but I still buy lots of the minis to paint & sell. I prefer 40k by far, though.

Mouse wrote:I will never play this game because of the ghastly ent figures. Those are the worst models in the history of table top wargaming.

OH GOD! Your right! Bad bad GW.

Loved the books and movies, but my current armies deserve my full attention.

Other - I owned the game when it first came out, collected it, well bits and pieces for a few years, had the monthly magazine that came with the odd rare fig, rarely played it due to my wife not liking the setting.

Then when I moved up here in 2004, (packing it up and then unpacking it) I noted I had a fair bit collecting dust, by mid 05 I realised that I hadn't played it in two years, so made the call and sold everything.

Its a nice game, really nice ruleset, but at the moment I have nothing for it.

Although give it another year, maybe two, I will consider picking it up again as my boys get older.

Not interested,minis are nice and all,but it's just not my thing.
Also feel the time and resources spent by GW on LOTR could be better spent on 40K/Warhammer...but that's just my opinion.

Not interested because of its source material.

Lord of the rings bores me to sleep.

It could have the most fantastic models in the universe, and the best ruleset EVAH! but as long as it involves hobbits and sauron, it's just not going to appeal to me.

Nobody around here plays it. One guy built and painted some of the factions, but still couldn't find anyone to play it.

Would play, but I have not heard much good, mainly because of rules.

I'd maybe play but nobody around my area plays it.

There's three reasons why I don't like LOtR SBG.
1: I find the combat system horrible. Fight values makes pathetic little impact(at least they didn't the few times I played) and I find the whole concept of only one guy attacking bad.
2: It takes an eternity and a half to actually kill something.
3: The models look OK, but it's so few different poses. Especially when it comes to infantry.

I haven't played WOtR, so I can't really judge that, but I'll probably never try.

Dont like it, loved the movie hate the game and system seems like to much of a hassle

I voted 'Dont have/collect it but will someday', but it was between that and 'Not interested - dont want to get started with another game system'.

Only for a few people I know who do collect it and say its a good game.

The models are nice!

Mouse wrote:I will never play this game because of the ghastly ent figures. Those are the worst models in the history of table top wargaming.

um....what about the baby ogryns the catchcans, nagash, lord solar macharius and dozens of other horrid sculpts

Not interested - expensive, medocre minis, bucket o' dice = win, the system itself is not brill.


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I' also rather they dropped it and supported mordheim, necromunda, gorkamorka, space hulk, epic, warmaster and warhammer quest.

really, it takes ages. 300pt games last about 4-5 hours. Every combat is done 1v_ individually, and every model needs a 6 to wound, and if not, they go back an inch. wheee.

Lord of the rings was the first miniature game i ever played, to be honest it was a great game i liked how cheap it was the only thing that it lacks is army building as like not much different equipment to get, the models would sell better if they were customizable in stead of just making an arm go down or up. But over all id play it again if other people would to.

Its a fun fast pace game and i like the combat when you fight in close to see who wins the battle, to me its more realistic instead of just going by Initiative, i mean what fighter charges and lets the other guy attack first.

I started out with LOTR,it was fun and simple.

Although after a while all those added rule books came out and it lost the appeal. So I moved up to 40k.

LOTR is fun for beginners.

I started with LotR, and played it a few years, then I saw that there where other wargames form GW. xD

I like the models, and I'd have got some to use as bits, but they're not in heroic scale, so that put me off...I've just never met anyone who plays it either, so yeah.

I like the models, and use the Orcs and warriors of Harad in my D&D sessions. The Harad make great highwaymen and Thieves' Guildsmen. The orcs make good "darker fantasy" orcs than the GW type. Never had any interest in the wargame rules though.

The same reason I don't want to play IG or Empire... who wants to paint a bunch of humans?
Other than that, it's old territory for me and I'd rather play something fresh and new

When I was 10 or 11, some friends and I ''played'' it. AKA we would paint and set up terrain and then, just like toy soldiers, moved them around.
Not like a game, more like "This soldier attacks him, but he dodges and stabs him".
We all wanted the good guys to win (Gondor!) and thus had maybe 20 Rohan warriors fighting against 5 Orks.
Eventually we all quitted, due a variaty of reasons, too expensive, stupid shop owner and the miniatures broke too easily.
I still have the miniatures, although most of them are broken/bended.

When I was 14, I picked up a box of Cadians.
I ain't sure if this counts as ''getting started because of LotR".

Still, why would people refuse to play a game because ''it's too mainstream''?
I would love it if 40k was regarded as somethign normal and not as a "creepy old guy or hyper little kids"hobby

Almost 70% not interested

Phototoxin wrote:
I'd also rather they dropped it and supported mordheim, necromunda, gorkamorka, space hulk, epic, warmaster and warhammer quest.

I completely agree. I actually dread turning the page in my new WD to discover more LotR BS. The game is dead. There are no new minis. They can't just make up mini's that don't exists in middle earth. It really needs to just go away. If they want to revive it in some way when The Hobbit comes out, fine. Maybe we'll get some cool dwarf minis. Honestly, the minis, with the exception of the Balrog and the Flying Nazgul, are just uninspired. The game appears to be drawn out and boring, though I never had an interest in it, so I have not played it, nor would I. I understand that it probably got a lot of people interested in table top gaming and more so GW, but how could you go to the store to buy LotR stuff and pass up WFB stuff which is way, way cooler? Not to mention, that you just passed on the box that has 10 power armored spacemen with huge guns...
Ditching LotR, or at least this focus on it, and concentrating more emphasis to Specialist games, would be a godsend from GW.

There.

There's my rant.