The War of The Ring Online Campaign - Aftermath

Aftermath

The campaign received a positive response, both in participation and comments by mail. Alessio Cavatore, one of the designers of The Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game and a contributor to White Dwarf, described the campaign as a "fantastic rollercoaster", with a "perfect ending" in a "highly climatic, breathtaking, neck-and-neck result!"

Later in 2005, Games Workshop ran a similar, smaller War of the Ring campaign based in Canada. However, this was nowhere near the scale of its UK counterpart (with only 100 games recorded in Gondor, for example) and was ignored by many who viewed it as a "watered-down" version of the original. In December, Alessio Cavatore hinted that Games Workshop might eventually run another online campaign for The Lord of the Rings:

As soon as we have recovered and rested a bit, we'll certainly be making plans, and who knows what the future holds? Some other Captain may come forward to lead the armies of Evil against the Free Peoples, and Middle-earth will face another dire threat!

There has been no official sequel event to date. However, the Dark Council went on to run an unofficial "Campaign of LoTRs" with Cheeseweb; while a campaign was run by The Last Alliance website and another was in development on The One Ring. The Dark Council itself was ultimately closed in summer 2007 after a long period inactivity.