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
Normans vs Welsh
Some atmospheric Welsh terrain on display in this Dark Ages game. A Norman Lord leads his forces into the Welsh Marches, only for the cunning Welshmen to rebut them, showing them who's boss. The scenario was taken form the Wargames Soldiers and Strategy magazine.
Napoleonics
A Prusso-Austrian army narrowly defeat a French force in a classic river crossing based scenario.
WWII - Flames of War
A T34/85 Tank Battalion is massacred by a British army from the new 'Bulge' Book, raising further questions as to the ability of Soviet armies to compete against their Western counterparts, in points terms. That, or very poor table top generalship! Some interesting British units made an appearance, including 'Land Mattresses' and a jeep-born SAS unit.
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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