Middle-earth PBM (MEPBM) is a Turn-Based Long-Term Multi-Player Strategy Team game, run by ME Games Ltd, under licence to GSI: Players work together in two teams, the Free Peoples and the Dark Servants, to battle for dominance over Middle-earth. Various modules are set at different times during both the Third and Fourth Ages of Middle-earth. Each player controls up to 21 characters, plus armies, companies, population centers, etc. Each game consists of up to 25 players striving to achieve domination of Middle-earth.