Dwarf Kings Hold: Green Menace Game Play
July 21, 2011 by beerogre
Andy and Jake have a quick game of the new Dwarf Kings Hold... I wonder if Andy's going to finally win a game...?
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Love seeing games getting played. MUST BUY this now. Love the mechanics and it looks a lot of fun…need to trample some elves lol.
Agreed. The last game had dwarfs smacking undead into piles. Smacking around elves, such a satisfying sound… and confounding orcs sounds kind of fun too.
Dear oh dear Andy…shield bash!!!
Fun to watch the dice gods at work as well
Watching this, it was odd the way we’d say something then the dice gods would make it so. No camera trickery here guys, this is how it went. Maybe the dice gods really do hate Andy. And here’s me thinking that was just a rumour…
I’m lucky in love… 🙂
Just not with dice!
You are too. She’s a lovely lady.
Yeah… I get all worked up about hitting stuff and forget about shield bash…
I did the same thing in the first DKH. 🙁
We’ve just played Scenario 8 and I totally forgot about Shieldbash and got bogged down for several turns in which all but 2 of the Orcs were slaughtered by Elves. By ELVES I tell thee! 🙁
Luckily the dice gods were with me and the tide was turned and in true R(orcs) Drift style the remaining Orcs butchered the entire Elf party and stomped out with 2 treasure. 🙂
Great game, simple to play, hard to master.
Shieldbash! Must remember shieldbash!
Shield bash does dramatically increase your tactical options in a turn. Always worth considering, even when you decide to just batter the opponent anyway.
I’m kind of confused. The orcs are hard to kill, get stronger when wounded, and can shield bash. The elves are fast and can dodge. The skeletons can be brought back to life. What makes the dwarves special?
The Dwarfs are better at fighting, have more armour and move faster than the Undead (who are the ones they meet in the first box).
Sorry I should have been more specific. I meant that in the future when new scenarios are created that bring the two sets together (so you can have dwarves against elves or orcs) what makes a person want to play the dwarves over the orcs? The orcs seem to be better in every aspect.
And it was also said that there are plans to do a four player scenario using the two sets what is a person’s motivation to play the dwarves if they don’t do anything that is unique to them?
boromirandkermit (below) lists several differences. However, you make the mistaken assumption that they will be fighting on a one-to-one basis. Compare a Skeleton to an Orc and they look pretty feeble, but you know they will not be fighting in equal numbers. Nor will the Dwarfs be. In addition, the Dwarfs in Dead Rising are lightly armoured non-elites. There are more heavily armoured and better fighting Dwarfs coming to add to the mix (along with Dwarf shooters and berserkers). The aim is to have what amounts to a points system to balance the sides so that all have an equal… Read more »
Dwarf’s have Son of Stone which can be powerful and they have one more movement than the Orcs as well. Their Action Chits are different remember too.
most important question.
Where do I get my “I’m not Lazy I’m out of action points” shirt?
It was actually given to me a couple of years ago for something completely different, and I’ve been waiting for the right moment to wear it ever since. This was it 🙂
If anyone’s played the Dwarf King’s Hold AND Incursion, please PM me. Thanks.
I Have 🙂
Well then, if you’d be so kind as to name the elements you prefer in DKH and some you like more in Incursion, that would be really helpful. 😀 (Either here or privately)
Well I’m obviously a little biased as I wrote DKH, but for my 2c I’ll tell you what I think (in brief). Just for reference, I’ve played DKH hundreds of times, and Incursion only twice. The chap who had it at the club said it was broken and that the Germans couldn’t win. We played with me as the Yanks (I won) and then swapped sides (I won again – he only got one model off when I pointed out how he could do it). This isn’t to say that my opponent is dense, far from it, just that the… Read more »
The fairness you’ve shown does you credit. In truth, I prefer the theme of Incursion. But all the minis one gets with DKH are a major pull, even though it wouldn’t be too hard to proxy the zombies (Mantic! :D) and Apes on a budget. Still, one could spend the resources on building a cool 3D DKH board instead.
From what I’ve seen I’m leaning towards DKH.
Thanks for your thoughts!
You’re welcome Lucas. You could indeed proxy the Zombies relatively easily, though I’ve not seen nicer models for the APEs than the real ones. There are also a handful of character models for the Germans that you’d need. Nice models again, it’s just the cumulative price. Of course, if you already play a tabletop WWII variant then you may have some for that. A 3D DKH board would be fun. I’m told that Ainsty have suitable bits, and I’ve seen people make dungeons for other things out of Hirst Arts moulds, so there are a few options apart from scratch… Read more »