Author Topic: Dux Arda - Middle Earth with Dux Britanniarum (Read 7451 times)

SBMiniaturesGuy · « **on:** January 04, 2019, 11:11:53 PM »

Dux Arda – Gaming Middle Earth with Dux Britanniarum
My favorite Dark Ages gaming system, Dux Britanniarum from Too Fat Lardies, just got better. Gunnar Lopez over at the War to End All Blogs has been whipping up a mad genius project that takes the game into J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth setting. This fan mod is called “Dux Arda,” and he’s been busy creating all the factions that fought in the Hobbit and the War of the Rings. I really like what he’s been doing, so I’ve started making faction cards for all of them!

I’ll post the faction links from his blog below, and then the first faction cards.

The Free Peoples:

Eriador: https://wartoendallblogs.blogspot.com/2019/01/dux-arda-lard-of-rings-free-peoples-of.html

Elves (Rivendell): https://wartoendallblogs.blogspot.com/2019/01/dux-arda-lard-of-rings-elves-of.html

Gondor: https://wartoendallblogs.blogspot.com/2018/12/dux-arda-lard-of-rings-men-of-gondor_65.html

Rohan: https://wartoendallblogs.blogspot.com/2018/12/dux-arda-lard-of-rings-men-of-rohan.html

Dwarves (Durin’s Folk): https://wartoendallblogs.blogspot.com/2019/01/dux-arda-lard-of-rings-durins-folk.html

The Forces of Sauron:

Angmar: https://wartoendallblogs.blogspot.com/2019/01/dux-arda-lard-of-rings-remnants-of.html

Mordor: https://wartoendallblogs.blogspot.com/2018/12/dux-arda-lard-of-rings-orcs-of-mordor.html

Orcs of the Misty Mountains: https://wartoendallblogs.blogspot.com/2019/01/dux-arda-lard-of-rings-orcs-of-misty.html

Orcs of Gundabad: https://wartoendallblogs.blogspot.com/2019/01/dux-arda-lard-of-rings-orcs-of-gundabad.html

Isengard: https://wartoendallblogs.blogspot.com/2018/12/dux-arda-lard-of-rings-orcs-of-isengard.html

The Men of Harad: https://wartoendallblogs.blogspot.com/2018/12/dux-arda-lard-of-rings-men-of-harad.html

I’m sure he’s busy on more factions!

Here’s the first set of faction cards, I’ll work also on creating the general Fate cards in a Dux Arda format.

https://sbminisguy.files.wordpress.com/2019/01/dux-arda-durins-folk-cards-1.pdf

Codsticker · « **Reply #1 on:** January 05, 2019, 02:36:35 AM »

Brilliant idea- well done.

Sunjester · « **Reply #2 on:** January 05, 2019, 08:18:21 AM »

Superb, I'll be watching this with great interest. Thanks for your efforts.

Captain Blood · « **Reply #3 on:** January 05, 2019, 08:45:36 AM »

Love this

So many brilliant figures on your blog too.

Although the ruleset is medieval (well, just about) the subject matter is Lord of the Rings, so I think it probably sits more comfortably on the fantasy board, so I’m popping this thread over to there. Hope that’s okay.

SBMiniaturesGuy · « **Reply #4 on:** January 05, 2019, 04:13:21 PM »

No worries, I wasn't sure myself where it went, though some past threads on this were carried on the Middle Ages section.

arget8 · « **Reply #5 on:** January 05, 2019, 06:39:29 PM »

Gunnar here! I've finished Dunland and I'm currently working on Thranduil's Realm.

SBMiniaturesGuy · « **Reply #6 on:** January 05, 2019, 11:24:38 PM »

Fantastic!

SBMiniaturesGuy · « **Reply #7 on:** January 06, 2019, 05:11:57 PM »

Here are the Unit cards and Force description the Orcs of the Misty Mountains.

Forces of Sauron – the Orcs of the Misty Mountains: https://wartoendallblogs.blogspot.com/2019/01/dux-arda-lard-of-rings-orcs-of-misty.html

https://sbminisguy.files.wordpress.com/2019/01/dux-arda-orcs-of-the-misty-mountains-cards.pdf

SBMiniaturesGuy · « **Reply #8 on:** January 07, 2019, 04:27:28 PM »

Quote from: arget8 on January 05, 2019, 06:39:29 PM

Gunnar here! I've finished Dunland and I'm currently working on Thranduil's Realm.

Hi Gunnar, I've started to play around with some ideas on creating campaigns for each faction, starting with the Dwarves. I'll post something when I have more.

Montefortino · « **Reply #9 on:** January 07, 2019, 04:30:22 PM »

This looks really good. Middle Earth always feels like the dark ages to me, rather than the middle ages. I don't know the Dux rules (although I like a lot of the Lardies' stuff), but I'm planning something similar using Dragon Rampant.

arget8 · « **Reply #10 on:** January 07, 2019, 08:13:50 PM »

Once I have all of the forces written up, that'll be my next step. Those will obviously be pretty in depth, so they'll take a lot longer.

SBMiniaturesGuy · « **Reply #11 on:** January 07, 2019, 10:09:32 PM »

Quote from: arget8 on January 07, 2019, 08:13:50 PM

Once I have all of the forces written up, that'll be my next step. Those will obviously be pretty in depth, so they'll take a lot longer.

Why don't you pick a force and do the campaign, and I'll do one and we'll compare and end up a final version? I've got some ideas going for the Dwarves right now, so I'd like to start with that one.

arget8 · « **Reply #12 on:** January 08, 2019, 09:59:58 PM »

What I would like to do is internally balance them against their typical opponents, so Dwarves vs. Gundabad or Misty Mountain Orcs or Gondor vs. Mordor. That way, I could push out campaign supplements in a logical manner, since they'll take a while to write up. Based on how long it took me to write up my Domain of Soissons conversion for Dux Brit last year, I'd estimate that I could do 1 campaign every week or so. I'll be starting tomorrow and should hopefully have something to show for it come Monday or Tuesday.

SBMiniaturesGuy · « **Reply #13 on:** January 09, 2019, 01:24:02 AM »

Cool, we'll compare notes -- I'm doing the same thing.

Here's the updated Dwarves cards: https://sbminisguy.files.wordpress.com/2019/01/dux-arda-durins-folk-cards-3.pdf

SBMiniaturesGuy · « **Reply #14 on:** January 09, 2019, 03:48:13 AM »

Here are the cards for the Men of Dale. Maybe I should just have a single page with these??

https://sbminisguy.wordpress.com/2019/01/08/dux-arda-men-of-dale/

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