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Entertainment Editor (1988 KP) rated War of the Ring (First Edition) in Tabletop Games

Mar 7, 2018

War of the Ring (First Edition)

2004 | Adventure, Book, Dice Game, Fantasy, Miniatures

7.0

(6 Ratings)

Tabletop Game Rating

WAR OF THE RING REVIEW

This game is huge in more ways than one. Firstly the board is 41 by 54 inches so you are going to need a big table. Then there are a mass of plastic figures representing military units, blue for the Free Peoples and Red for the forces of Shadow. There are also figures for the main characters and others, and four decks of character and event cards. There is a 48 page reasonably well written and illustrated rule book. War of the Ring is a complex game and after set up which can take some time, play takes somewhere in the region of three hours.

So is it worth it? In my view yes.

Reviewer: Ashley Perryman
Read the full review here: https://www.board-game.co.uk/war-of-the-ring-review/

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Ross (3284 KP) rated The Boys Volume 9: Big Ride in Books

Oct 31, 2019

The Boys Volume 9: Big Ride

Garth Ennis | 2011 | Comics & Graphic Novels

8.0

(2 Ratings)

Book Rating

Exposition ahoy!

Hughie is back from his sabbatical and contemplating rejoining The Boys in their crusade against capes. He spends some time with Colonel Mallory, the man who set The Boys up in the first place, and learns more about the history of corrupt corporation Vought American, and their attempts to use superheroes in the military.
Meanwhile, one of the Seven, Jack from Jupiter, is being framed for the murder of a trans prostitute. This story was harder to read, because of the language used by Butcher in speaking to and about the trans people.
Things are starting to come to a head, and it feels like Ennis has his eyes on the finish line, and is now putting in all the back story and setting up the inevitable conflict.

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Deborah (162 KP) rated Wars Of The Roses in Books

Dec 21, 2018

I think the title of the book is rather misleading - it's not really about the Wars of the Roses per se. The blurb on the inside of the dust jacket tells me it's a book looking more at the impact of this civil strife and the political, social and military situation. It does, as it claims, include many primary sources; 'English and European writings, diplomatic correspondence, personal letters and propoganda', but it is the promised 'detailed interpretation based on modern research' that I must have missed while reading this! To me this was a series of unconnected original documents linked with short paragraphs of text by Lander. In many places the book is so bogged down with inumerable footnotes that the flow of the text is completely lost.

Nice idea, but it doesn't work here.

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Matthew Krueger (10051 KP) rated Den Of Thieves (2018) in Movies

Feb 4, 2020

Den Of Thieves (2018)

2018 | Action, Crime, Drama

7.6

(29 Ratings)

Movie Rating

The Heist

Den of Thieves- is a decent action heist thriller, its also very slow at many points throughout the movie, only when the action hits thats when the movie is good.

The Plot: Nick O'Brien is the hard-drinking leader of the Regulators, an elite unit of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. Ray Merrimen is the recently paroled leader of the Outlaws, a gang of ex-military men who use their expertise and tactical skills to evade the law. O'Brien, Merrimen and their crews soon find themselves on a direct collision course as the criminals hatch an elaborate plan for a seemingly impossible heist -- the city's Federal Reserve Bank.

Gerald Butler, Pablo Schrieber and O'Shea Jackson Jr. are all good in this film.

What else can i say.