Mantic Reveal The Cover For Kings Of War: Uncharted Empires
October 21, 2015 by brennon
Mantic Games have been powering on behind the scenes with Kings Of War and have released the cover art for the Uncharted Empires book which will give you lists for playing armies that Mantic don't make models for right now...
The armies that you'll be getting inside this book include...
- The League of Rhordia (Human/Halfling Army)
- Ratkin (Former Slave Race)
- The Brotherhood (Good Knights - Water/Elemental Theme)
- The Empire of Dust (Evil Skeleton Army)
- Reptilians (Good Salamander Army)
- The Herd (Neutral Beastmen, Satyr, Centaur & More Army)
- The Varangur (Shattered Clans - Evil Humans Worshipping Dark Gods)
The eighth and ninth lists that will also make an appearance have yet to be revealed but I'm sure that the educated amongst you could make some very good guesses.
This is a good step in the right direction from Mantic and each of these armies has been fully absorbed into the fluff making them an essential part of the geography of Mantica. I'm sure we might see models for these armies in the near future too.
Will you be getting this?
"I'm sure we might see models for these armies in the near future too..."
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So let’s see, empire, skaven, bretonnia, tomb kings, lizardmen, beastmen and warriors of chaos. I hope someday they move beyond doing just proxy armies of Age of Sigmar.
This book was specifically designed for “orphaned” warhammer armies. The main KoW book has a mix of “inspired by” armies and original ones. The Nature and Basilean armies in particular have no corresponding WH ones and the rest have grown in their own directions rather than mirroring the WH armies they were originally based on.
It’s a company not a charity and yes I do understand that it’s target audience is disgruntled, disillusioned and cast aside employees and clients. I for one support up and coming companies such as Mantic, if I like what they present. I’m glad that they have there own direction, but what I just seen from the cover and titles listed seemed almost a mirror of GW fantasy line. I wish to share a time in my personal life. You may have experienced it as well. For years I loved watching cartoons in my youth (and still do to this day)… Read more »
LOL “proxy armies of Age of Sigmar”
I don’t like people being thumbs down, I guess I am a little soft like that. I understand your comment, but I think a lot of people have mixed feelings to say the least about Age of Sigmar. I really like it, the rules are pretty simple, I don’t need a protractor for games and I really only play to show off my cool models 😀 . I am not everyone however, and I do like that Kings of War is providing an alternative to Age of Sigmar, it just means that there are more games out there and that… Read more »
Thanks for saying that. I get the feeling that what I said was just the elephant in the room. I have no ill feelings for Mantic in any way other than when Orcy smashed a GW model with a hammer. That was rather distasteful on Mantics part, but that’s water under the bridge. I really do wish them best.
Yea mantic arent doing models for these, just so people who have a warhammer army can play, instead of putting on some death metal and setting fire to their army
I don’t see why this is being viewed negatively. It’s a good business move on Mantic’s part, and it gives people a living rules set for their GW fantasy armies. Obviously, for most Warhammer fantasy players, AoS isn’t scratching that itch, or there wouldn’t be a need for this alternative
I appreciate that mantic is giving me a game in which all of my sad masses of warhammer models may once again take to the field in a bid for glory.
“Will you be getting this?”
Not until I’ve got my Kickstarter rule books.
Definitely buying this, if only for the fluff.
Orrrr…. I could go for League of Rordhia.
No, I don’t own an Empire army but I bought a bunch of Pygmees from Kallistra years ago and used them as Dwarfs for WaShammer, so if I add Warlord Game’s Zulus and use the Pyggies as Halflings…..
Yup, could work a treat :-p
Loving the cover art.
Yup, this is a move no different to that done for Warthrone. Which is a good thing. Grab the player base, then give them something new to add on to those armies, or whole new army concepts.
awesome news and a great addition to a fantastic game!