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Sauron (game)
''Sauron'', subtitled "The Battle for the Ring, S.A. 3434", is a licensed board wargame published by Simulations Publications, Inc. (SPI) in 1977 that simulates the battle between Sauron and the Last Alliance of Elves and Men mentioned in the fantasy novel '' The Lord of the Rings'' by J.R.R. Tolkien. Description ''Sauron'' is a two-player wargame that deals with the battle at the end of the Second Age between an army of monsters led by Sauron, and the Last Alliance led by the heroes Elendil, Isildur and Gil-galad. Components The game, packaged in a ziplock bag or a folio, comes with *17" x 22" paper hex grid map of Minas Tirith and the surrounding plains *100 die-cut counters *two 4-page rulebooks (one with rules common to both this game and SPI's '' Gondor: The Siege of Minas Tirith'', and the other with rules exclusive to this game) *two charts Gameplay Both forces meet on the Plains of Dagorlad, and engage in combat using alternate turns. The winner is the player who c ...
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Cover Of Sauron The Battle For The Ring 1977
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Tim Kirk
Tim Kirk is both a professional artist and an American fan artist. He worked as a senior designer at Tokyo DisneySea, as an Imagineer for the Walt Disney company. He began his professional art career during the mid-1970s as an illustrator at Kansas City's Hallmark Cards company. He earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts, with an emphasis in commercial art, and his Master’s Degree in Illustration from California State University, Long Beach. His Master's thesis project consisted of a series of paintings from ''The Lord of the Rings'' trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien; 13 of these were published by Ballantine Books as the 1975 Tolkien Calendar. Today, Kirk is retired from his design firm, Kirk Design, Inc., located in the Los Angeles, California area. He also sits on the advisory board of Seattle's Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame.
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Board Games Introduced In 1977
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Board Games Based On Middle-earth
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Phoenix (wargaming Magazine)
''Phoenix'' was a magazine primarily focussed on board wargames. It was published in the UK in the 1970s and 1980s by Simpubs Ltd., the British subsidiary of American game company Simulations Publications, Inc. (SPI). History In 1974, SPI started to ship some of their wargames to J.D. Bardsley in the UK, who acted as a sales representative using the name SP/UK. Bardsley sold the games either via mail order or face to face at games conventions. Sales increased rapidly, and by March 1976, SP/UK had sold 25,000 units. To handle the increased sales, SPI formed a formal British subsidiary, Simpubs Ltd. in June 1976. In much the same way that SPI published their own house magazine '' Moves'', Simpubs immediately created the bi-monthly periodical ''Phoenix'' with J.D. Bardsley as managing editor. In the first issue (June/July 1976), Bardsley editorialized that "''Phoenix'' is not envisaged as a 'house magazine'", and foresaw a publication of "game reviews, play strategy, game reports w ...
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