We had another try out with Kings of War increasing our army sizes up slightly to 1500 points. Slightly more variety and as you'll see from the couple of photos I included a monster from the south lands in my army, together with a few more gunners.
We picked out two more scenarios. The first was a land grab with both sides attempting to get into the enemies half of the battlefield. Again we found the rules fairly easy to play, shooting does seem pretty powerful especially when you can hold back with 'men' or Empire type troops.
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| Initial setup two armies face off...... |
This first battle ended in a fairly dramatic central combat with two units of abyssal dwarves looking to charge through the middle. The Dwarf general again riding his monster landed in the combat and it was at this point we realised it really wasn't a good idea to allow anything to charge you in the flank, especially not a horde unit..........
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| Decisive battle in the centre |
......why not, well we had to check the rules as it really didn't seem fair but we couldn't see anyway around it. The Horde gets 30 attacks as standard and these are doubled when they attack something in the flank ! 60 dice. Now even bearing in mind my gaming buddies all think I have more luck than I deserve with 60 attacks you are going to kill stuff even if it is 6's followed by 6's .
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| Yes 60 attacks ! |
So first battle was a victory to the men. We had time for another scenario which involved capturing objectives, This proved much closer and a very tight struggle to hold/capture 3 objectives out of 5. The dwarves winning through in the last turn although we had some friendly debate on just exactly how far 3" was.
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| 'Empire' cavalry charge for the objective in the woods. |
Think there may be some scope to play a larger KoW game just using WFB armies at some time.
Did you roll the dice or just weigh them! Looks like a lot of fun
ReplyDeleteI had to pose the photo as at the time I didn't have enough dice to hand !
DeleteThat looks like good fun. Overall would you recommend it to WFB refugees?
ReplyDeleteWell we have had had 4 battles so far and only play with men vs abyssal dwarves, so fairly limited. On the whole I do think it has potential. Whilst I really like WHFB they have developed over time to being very detailed so even though we are quite experienced we find ourselves having to look up something which can slow things down a lot. I would like to try KoW with some slightly larger armies and perhaps some different factions. Certainly worth a try...
DeleteNice looking game, this gun is reallly impressive!
ReplyDeleteThanks Phil not quite sure what you meant, if it was the 'gun' then they are definitely quite powerful in KoW, mainly as they are no misfire rules.
Delete60 dice? Scary stuff! Another impressive-looking game!
ReplyDeleteThanks Gordon we played IHMN this week so from 60 to 1 !
DeleteHi thanks for posting, always nice to see people playing KOW. We have played up to 4000 points per side recently in 3 hours and we are all X WFB, I'm really enjoying the game has got me back into playing mass battle games. Try a bigger game its great :-)
ReplyDeletePS. I don't work for Mantic by the way :-)
Thanks for posting, 4000 is a lot ! But sounds like an idea for the future.
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