[Red Corsairs]

I've been talking about this with a few people at my LGS as to whether people think it'd be possible to make the Might Empires set into a LOTR map.

What does everyone think?

I personally don't see anything stopping it from working, sure enough some of the tiles wouldn't work and you'd probably need a fair amount of extra Mountain and Forest tiles but with these and perhaps some customised fortresses/buildings it could make a very interesting LOTR campaign board?

 

[Lord Rahl]

That is certainly a good possibility, Red, if not a map of middle earth, maybe just certain areas of the land like Mirkwood or The Shire maps to set a mini campaign and then go from there.

 

[Red Corsairs]

Exactly. The whole of Middle-earth would be tricky but you could easily do forests or the Shire/Rohan with the farmland tiles.

It'd probably be pretty easy to do an Amon-Hen based map, with the river tiles representing the river and grassy/forest tiles representing the rest of the area.

I'm tempted to buy a set and try it out myself

 

[Lord Rahl]

They seem abit exspensive for what you get to be honest, but if you want to do a campaigne then hell yea, why not spend the money. You could even do one which tracks the Fellowships movments throughout the whole trilogy.

 

[Red Corsairs]

It seems expensive for what it is but if you actually think about it it's not that bad. There's a hell of a lot more plastic in that box than there is in a Land Raider. It's just to most people, a Land Raider is much more use.

I might see if anybody else at my LGS is willing to put money into it, as I'm not that interested in doing this that I'd buy one or two for myself.

 

[Lord Rahl]

It would be a good little thing to run in a local club and amoungst friends, its well worth looking into it. I wouldnt ever buy a land raider, they are way over priced for some cheep shity plastic tank. A rhino however is just the right value.

 

[Red Corsairs]

I see your point. I bought a few tanks in my time (a lot actually) but Games Workshop get away with it cheekily because people buy them based on how good they are in the game more than how worth it they are or how they look.

This is possibly why the Mighty Empires set doesn't sell as much because it's not as useful in games and isn't much use to the majority of gamers/hobbyists.

Anyway I'll have a look into this idea and post here if anything happens.