In 11 Days, We Ambush

It has been so long since I played a full game of Kings of War that I honestly couldn’t’ tell you the extent to which Ambush feels like the same game. It is really fast to play and very killy. Or maybe that’s just going against an army where every army has Crushing Strength 2 or more on it. Either way, in three and a half hours we managed three games at a fairly easy pace.

We played scenario each time but we never really got to a point of scoring them, my army was so decimated by turn three or four that we called the game and reset.

Now those of you who know Kings of War, and in particular know the Nightstalkers have probably been screaming at the screen for every entry in this porject up until now. Because you probably all noticed something that I, using only the companion app, hadn’t. Those lovely spectres that I pivoted to make a second regiment of because it was easier than dealing with the restic reaper kit? They don’t exist in the new version of the Nightstalkers list. My mistake was selecting Nightstalkers, not Nightstalkers 2023 when list building or I would have realised they have been taken out and the models reclassed as Dopplegangers. It was my very lovely opponent who pointed this out when we were chatting in game two or three and wondering what exactly they were firing for their ranged attacks.

Going forward I definitely need to look at my options for dealing with crushing but on the whole, I’m having a blast with the game. I’ll do conclusions on the project in a separate post but to close out this one, here are some photos.