Games Workshop’s The Hobbit: There and Back Again Up For Pre-Order
November 28, 2016 by stvitusdancern
With all the new changes that seem to be happening over at Games Workshop headquarters, there comes even more exciting news for fans such as Ben and me for The Hobbit Strategy Battles Game.
Up for pre-order is the new compendium, The Hobbit: Motion Picture Trilogy - There and Back Again that covers the second and third movie in The Hobbit trilogy . This beautiful hardbound full-colour book is packed full of material to include:
- A whopping 25 scenarios continuing those found in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Strategy Battle Game, following the flow of the movies on which they are based – including the Battle of the Five Armies itself;
- 66 new and revised profiles giving you the full range of heroes and monsters to use in your games;
- A detailed campaign system, linking the scenarios together in a way which follows the flow of the movies;
- 5 appendix scenarios;
- A collection of army lists, helping you to organise your miniatures into a cohesive force for Points Match games
The book is currently up for pre-order with a ship date of December 3, 2016, and if you pre-order now you can get a sweet deal of both volumes of the rulebooks.
I am very happy to see Games Workshop working on bringing The Hobbit and soon The Lord of the Rings back to life when many thought they were putting them to rest.
Will you be joining in on the adventure?
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That looks like one great book to get for Hobbit.
Forgot this was this month, and hobby funds are very low – may have to wait. Shame as bundle with hardback rulebook is great value.
Hmm time to see what money I can scrape together.
More importantly great to see the return of scenario books. My preferred way of playing the game.
I received my new forgeworld dwarf models in the mail the other day. Really impressed with quality, packaging and instructions. Needless to say this has already been pre-ordered
Those movies were such a tragedy… sigh. Hard to buy anything based on them.
I’m saving my money for some AoS Battleforces that are coming soon but this will be purchased straight after. Unless of course I get a good bonus from work:).
I love the cover the book looks great.
It also looks like they are re-releasing the Goblin town scenery in a multi-pack that makes it cheaper than the original release.
Combine this with the laketown houses Forge world are planning on releasing and you would have a nice table, even if it is a bit pricey.
Any ideas of what the rules changes would be?
Core rules the same this replaces the 2 mini books for films 2 and 3 and amends some profiles. Provides 20 ish scenarios and expanded models basically if its in the film or special edition its in here bar werewyrms. Some new bonus for selecting a force entirely from one list has also been introduced.
I thought there was also a plastic lake town house they didn’t release before. I seem to remember seeing pics of it after one of the shows this year.
There are due soon, maybe later in December.
would love to get my Tolkien on but it will have to wait for now.
the book would be a fantastic edition to a collection.
Everyone needs a ‘little’ extra gaming in their life…
Love it! Had the pleasure to flip through the book at Ardacon! And it sold out the first stock in four days! Hopefully it’s back soon!