The three-player game uses the same rules as the fourplayer game, but there is only one Free Peoples player, who plays normally as in a standard two-player game, with the following exception:
— The Free Peoples player cannot use two consecutive actions on the same Nation (e.g., he cannot use two consecutive actions to recruit and move Gondor troops). He can use two consecutive actions on mixed Armies but not on the same individual Army (e.g., he can move a Gondor Army once and then a Gondor/Rohan Army, but cannot act twice with the same Gondor/Rohan Army).