Looking Back at The Lord of the Rings Tradeable Miniatures Game

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5 жыл бұрын

Always Board Never Boring goes rooting around his cupboard and finds his old collection of The Lord of the Rings Tradeable Miniatures Game prepainted figures. This was a game from Sabertooth Games, who were under the stewardship of Games Workshop back in the early 2000s, and it's pretty good, with some really nice miniatures. Check them out.
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@christophercole8539 3 жыл бұрын

These LOTR-TMG were cool to play along with the Heroscape tiles! Some of the best painted minis that I've seen. Still playable!

@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring 3 жыл бұрын

They are really good for prepaints, I really don't think I've seen any better in that scale. The game is definitely fun, although I feel it starts to fall apart once you get to the larger scale battles.

@ratchetmechani2002 2 жыл бұрын

A comic shop near me had the starter set for as long as I've been in town. In 2019 I read the Hobbit, watched the Lord of the Rings movies and soon got said set. Then I made myself little armies of 5 melee troops, 5 ranged troops, at random on eBay, the rest of the Fellowship and other baddies like Saruman and Grima along with orc captains and such. Before I ever learned the fear that is list building and worrying about point compatibilities or whatever, that was kinda my intro to wargaming (besides X-Wing 1.0). Dunno if I'll get more maps or just use the movement numbers as inches on a normal battle mat but, in any case an underlooked gem of a game I say.

@darrenrichardson6146 5 жыл бұрын

I used to have that game, Sabretooth also made the Warhammer, Warhammer 40k, and Horus Heresy CCG's. Other games that had 'paper' playmats around the same time was of course Hero-Clix, the D&D Chainmail and D&D Miniatures games also had such mats (or in the case of Chainmail actual flat card terrain pieces!)

@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring 5 жыл бұрын

I recalled them making a CCG under licence, but I didn't know they had three on the go! This was the only game system that I actually specifically bought additional paper play mats for. Normally, for me, they're just something that's in the starter set.

@rey-o 5 жыл бұрын

I remember seeing this in stores but I don’t think it took off in my area. Didn’t realize they were the same sculpts, that’s pretty cool.

@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching. I think it might be that many of the tradeable miniatures were based on existing miniatures from the war game, rather than being directly scaled up versions. Either way, miniatures in both ranges were very similar in appearance. There's a good comparison photograph here: www.hodgenet.co.uk/old/LoTR/lurtz.jpg

@IDICBeer 5 жыл бұрын

Nice to see thanks

@wildkatze69 4 жыл бұрын

Nice to see this. Loved the game. Hey I was actually the UK Champion at the time ;-)

@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring 4 жыл бұрын

That's really cool. Well done. This was a fun game, but I didn't like it so much with bigger forces. With small skirmishes I had lots of fun.

@martyndragar7910 2 жыл бұрын

I had loads of fun with this. Played the breaking of the fellowship scenario l made up and it played out as the book!! I also sculpted a watcher in the water. Always wanted gollum but never could see myself paying £80+ for him.

@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring 2 жыл бұрын

It's a fun game, but I never enjoyed it much with larger scale battles. For little skirmishes and narrative scenarios like you describe it's great, and I really liked the action point and special ability system.

@joetabaka1590 2 жыл бұрын

I collected the game for my son. He has the entire game...every single piece, even the ultra rare. gobs and gobs of extra pieces too. Actually have about 40 extra Gimli that I was going to convert to a Dwarves' army...Then, hold the Battle of Five Armies :)

@evanpeleaux8273 Жыл бұрын

Any chance you have any you'd like to sell? I've started up a small community of players and we're looking to try and build up some armies. I used to play with my brother when I was a kid, but never found people in my area interested enough to play. It's been fun getting some people together to resurrect it after so many years.

@joetabaka1590 2 жыл бұрын

Red is Rare, Purple is ultra rare, the Argorn with the flame is a Promo Piece (I was Hurin Troll Slayer in the games community)....thanks for making this video!

@johnmiddleton4291 5 жыл бұрын

Paper mats and blind buy collectible minis...what a rebel you were in your youth!!.Galadriel looks like she's selling Coors Light at a ball game.

@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring 5 жыл бұрын

Ha. The wild days of my youth. When I was really young I used to colour without staying inside the lines. I think Galadriel would be a good salesperson for Coors. I can imagine the slogan now: "Coors Light: May it be a light for you in dark places."

@tablesaltgames 3 жыл бұрын

What scale were they?

@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring 3 жыл бұрын

They're bigger than 32mm. I think they were supposed to be 40mm, but scaling was a little inconsistent between models at times. They look very big against Games Workshop's Lord of the Rings miniatures.

@robertforrest8883 5 жыл бұрын

I used to have a full collection of these

@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring 5 жыл бұрын

It was a pretty cool collection. Thanks for watching.

@robertforrest8883 5 жыл бұрын

@@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring ....eventually fell on hard times......had to sell them........think I got 5 to 6 grand.....my PR's and RK's got me quite a bit.....Nazgul + Witchking and Mordor trolls to

@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring 5 жыл бұрын

@@robertforrest8883 Reluctant sales are always a shame, but that's a good chunk of change. When the game was cancelled I sold off all the miniatures from incomplete sets I had, and I did quite well out of that. Still some of the best pre-painted miniatures I've seen.

@robertforrest8883 5 жыл бұрын

@@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring the RK set was fantastic.........I also had the Shelob spider...It was to be the next BIG model released, There wasn't many of them made.

@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring 5 жыл бұрын

@@robertforrest8883 Oh, wow. I never even saw Shelob in the UK. I bet that was a great model; they always did a really good job on the big characters.

@rc-pm1fe 3 жыл бұрын

I played games workshop version, what years did this come out? If you want to sell them I'll buy them from you. Lol

@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching. I believe the core set came out in 2003 and the system ran for a couple of years before dying out.

@deepred6041 4 жыл бұрын

I gave my balrog away, do I regret that now

@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring 4 жыл бұрын

I know that pain. I got rid of my entire board game and miniatures collection many moons ago when I went to university. Spent 20 years since then trying to buy it all again! Thanks for watching.

@georgehoffman3439 4 жыл бұрын

I bought a Balrog for £1.5 around 12 years ago, still got it in my room.

@AlwaysBoardNeverBoring 4 жыл бұрын

@@georgehoffman3439 That's an amazing bargain.