Kings of War Week: Demo Game Part 2!
November 1, 2013 by dignity
Time for the conclusion to what has been an amazing game of Kings of War! Let us see how it all comes to a close and who will stand victorious upon the field of battle!
My final thoughts on the game are that it's light and simple to pick up with a great depth of play and tactics. As your games scale up you'll only find more and more you can do with your armies and it will never feel too heavy unless you go insane and try to play a two player 10,000 point game! Even that could be managed by getting some friends around. That gave me an idea! Could it be done to set a world record for the largest single wargame ever played using Kings of War?
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Kings of war is such a good game,also great game lads, I wasn’t sure about KoW at first but now I really like it
I think your game took a little over an hour. Nice work guys.
Good job guys.
Ok I’ll be honest I’m completely sold on this game now. One self present for xmas is allowed isn’t it? 🙂
Cracking stuff, love this game. Really like being able to finish a game quickly without feeling like anything is missing. Very satisfying!
Looks good. My finally try fantasy.
The game looks like so much fun and easy to get into!! Great demo guys!!
I love Kings of War and this video proves it… a full game in an hour with new players. My group routinely plays 2000 point games (equivalent to 3000+ of WHFB) in two hours… the set up and clear away time is almost nonexistent! And the rules have timed games too.
Nice simple mechanics…no wasted time removing models, and I love the one player, one roller idea. Seems to really speed things up. If there is some depth to this game, I can see it replacing WFB for me.
Thanks guys, Kings of war Week has been great!
Ok, definitely need to start thinking of starting this game
Why not just put army rules into the statlines data as already added in. KoW has a few too many little rules and you just keep adding more with each new book.
Yes, it looks like fun, I think I can get my whole family to play.
It does look like a very quick game, indeed.
Great game, love the rules. Simple rules=higher degree of tactics and strategy, no room for the rules lawyer.
I second that
Epic
Thanks for the video guys.
OK, KoW week is a slam to the dunk however you guys need to start including very convincing reasons why we need to start another game system. At the end of each game week,
To smooth the wife over and make our descent further into the hobby a more trouble free time.
We need a “how to mislead and snow the wife over” section
or
How to deal with wife agro. and shiny syndrome at the sametime” section
in backstage or something 🙂
Buy stuff in Mantic’s video cassette style cases. Just tell her that they’re DVD boxsets.
LOL that’s creative
I guess we will work the details out later I’m thinking full on orc army…
I already got a few in paint with all my armies in paint I need a winter project…
…and yes I am bragging, how many guys here can say that all there armies are in paint for every system they play, not many atleast at my LGS.
Great game week guys love the coverage one of your better ones in my opinion
Just buy and store for a month or two “what this old army dear no no no it’s not new fire sale three months ago…”
Excellent video guys.
Great game , well played by both of you!
Nice straight forward rules that let you get on with playing the game.
Excellent chaps I am all enthused to get that Basilean army assembled now well done!
Wonderfully played game that is a real simple system I am going to have to get it.
Very well presented guys – it is so obvious that Justin really enjoyed such an uncluttered game (the rules are straightforward and make sense). The pace is great, and the accumulation of damage on units is a nice mechanic. I would like to adapt these rules for (ahem) other paradigms 🙂
Loved every second of this batrep, need to see more.
Really like the demos.
I believe the current record for largest KoW game stands at 36,000 points (I assume per side). Having seen the pictures though there was a few unpainted regiments, which I’d say shouldn’t be included in that total.
Still shouldn’t be -that- hard to beat that score if one was to gather enough players.
Something for a future open day perhaps?
Oh and In depth analysis (such as it is), the Mummies could have turned to face the fleabag riders after dispatching the Trolls, which would probably have changed the outcome in the center pretty drastically. It made little difference, but James forgot, that individuals (such as the Wiz) do not double or treble attacks for being in the flank or rear. Still, a good demonstration of an excellent system. Be nice to see more like it, particularly as it’s so fast moving (we saw something like 2/3s of the game in this second part once both players knew what they… Read more »