Sleep Easy As Kings Of War’s Nightstalkers Go Up For Pre-Order
January 25, 2019 by dracs
You feel that trickle of fear running down your spine? That's because a new army is coming out for Kings of War. The nightmarish Nightstalkers.
The Nightstalkers are a horrifying mix of folk-horror and eldritch, other-worldly creatures. Souls who have been torn from their physical lives, the Nightstalkers try to claw their way back, trying to gain life from the pain of others.
The Nightstalkers have been around as an army list for a while and first received miniatures for Kings of War: Vanguard.
Now you have the opportunity to expand upon that small warband, with more units and massive monsters.
The Shadowhulk
Scarecrows
Terror
Needelfangs
Fiends
The Nightstalkers were the army that most interested me with Kings of War. I love folk horror, and the background and style of the Nightstalkers was one that really appealed to me.
However, I will admit that the models are a bit of a mixed bag for me. They are all excellent sculpts, with The Terror being absolutely fantastic, but I was hoping for more of a twisted fairy-tale vibe with this army. The Shadowhulk, in particular, stands out as a bit goofy. The head is great, but overall it could have benefitted from being a bit less humanoid.
All the same, I definitely want to pick up a unit of those Scarecrows and start bringing games of twisting terror to the table.
The Nightstalkers go up for pre-order from Mantic today.
What do you think of the Nightstalker horde?
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Those are really nice.
A god set of figure horrors to game with the shadowhulk is great.
Did you notice that it was a cyclops once and it’s had that single eye sewn shut
After you posted it i thought it was a row of eye’s until I zoomed to see the stitches.
I have a ton of these already from Vanguard I can’t wait to add to them to make them properly gribbly as a full army
I’m not a massive fan of the Nightstalkers – not entirely sure how they really fit. They just feel like they’re stealing the Abyssal’s Thunder.
That said the sculpts are good and their new Abyssals, Dwarfs and Northern Alliance faction are awesome. Mantic doing some really cool stuff at the moment
Like Mr @avernos , I have a swag of Nightstalkers from the kickstarter and they are lovely the stuff. The newstuff looks the business too. Looks like I need to finish the Basileans so I can crack on with these lads. Well done as always Mantic, I love what you are doing with your vanguard / Kings of war range.
Damn these are cool.
That trickle of fear is running down my leg, not my back! Creepy stuff!
Tentaclacular!
They’re ‘different’ from most other ranges visually and an interesting faction. When I first saw silhouette placeholder graphics for the facti0n in KoW books etc I probably expected something else visually – not sure that these match up to expectations of what my warped mind was able to imagine; but then practicalities such as being able to sculpt, mould and produce robust miniatures to a price point takes over sometimes…
I really like these – all of them. Perhaps it’s Mantic’s miniatures just getting better over time and/or perhaps its the paint job, but they look better than I was expecting. I especially like the Terror.
The only downside for me is that they don’t feel like a coherant faction, although perhaps that’s because I don’t know the developing setting for their game and I’m viewing them through the lens of what I could see myself doing with them for games I do play.
Still, good to see such good stuff coming out.