A couple of battles played on a new 6x4 reversible battle mat from battlemat.eu. This one has a ruined imperial city on one side and a 'fall-out’ zone on the reverse side. Two mats for the price of one (almost)!
A 2,000 point Warhammer 40,000 Necrons vs Death Watch Space Marines Chapter
A 2,000 point Kings of War game between blue Ogres and some Daemonic Forces of the Abyss
I think we have mastered the basics of the game, game play and combat mechanisms of this system now. It's al pretty logical really and you can run an online army builder for your force, which will collate all of the unit stats on one sheet, which you can then print off for ease of access.
In this 2,000 point encounter, the rancid Orcs defeated the blue Ogres by concentrating their force in the centre and punching through in dramatic fashion. The Ogres wasted troops on the flanks that didn't really achieve anything.
All in all, Kings of War is a good fun game that provides the ability to try out different tactical ideas, with enough randomness to make battles suitably unpredictable to generate some excitement.
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| Kings Of War Wargame |
We've been painting up some Mantic Games Orcs and Forces of the Abyss to play their very popular 'Kings of War' rules.
To be honest, I was sceptical at first. That said, Mantic are Nottingham based, so I was absolutely determined to give the system a go.
I have to say that the figures are great value for money, a lot of them of them (especially the hero/characters) are fantastic sculpts, and the rules are instinctive, sensible and GREAT fun!
This system is highly recommended!
(Excuse the 'stat cards' littering the battlefield. This was our first game and we had to refer to the unit stats quite a lot).
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