
Epic high-fantasy grand strategy campaign across Tolkien's Middle-Earth.
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Custom high-fantasy map relief, mythical creature unit types, and unique hero unit abilities.
War of the Ring: Middle-Earth Scenario is a community add-on for TripleA. Complete fantasy total war conversion bringing the War of the Ring to the TripleA engine. Download from the in-game map browser or place in downloadedMaps/ directory. Mods are versioned separately from the base game — match the recommended engine or client release before joining multiplayer, and keep a clean backup of your settings if you experiment with several packs at once. PlayBound only lists projects that publish redistributable archives or clear external download pages. Always read the upstream README for credits, required assets, and known incompatibilities.
Compatibility: TripleA all versions
Install with the PlayBound Launcher
The launcher installs this into downloadedMaps/middle_earth/ for TripleA. If the base game is missing, it will install that first.
Install TripleA first if you have not already — War of the Ring: Middle-Earth Scenario is an add-on and needs the base game.
The quickest route is the PlayBound Launcher: open TripleA, find War of the Ring: Middle-Earth Scenario in its mods list and press Install. The launcher downloads the official release and places it in the right folder for you.
To install it by hand, download the latest release archive from github.com/triplea-game/triplea/releases.
Extract the archive into the "downloadedMaps/middle_earth" folder inside your TripleA installation directory.
Start TripleA and enable War of the Ring: Middle-Earth Scenario from the in-game mods or add-ons menu. The download is roughly 35 MB.
Yes. War of the Ring: Middle-Earth Scenario is released under Open Source (GPL-3.0) and costs nothing. Neither it nor TripleA has any paid content.
TripleA, which is itself free. War of the Ring: Middle-Earth Scenario is an add-on and will not run standalone.
The PlayBound Launcher installs it in one click from TripleA's mods list. You can also install it by hand — full steps are on this page.
Roughly 35 MB, on top of the base TripleA installation.
Yes. The source is published at github.com/triplea-game/triplea under Open Source (GPL-3.0).