Kings of War Beta Rules Out Now – Download them here!
September 10, 2010 by lloyd
So the Beta for Kings of War is finally kicking off and you lucky folks here at Beasts of War get to be at the forefront of it all.
We are giving members access to download the beta rules and access to the exclusive Beta Feedback Group where you get to complain, moan, argue and basically act like the expert rules gurus you all are (deep down!)
Start by setting up a free account with Beasts of War by clicking here. Then you will be able to download the following PDF's:
Finally head on over to the Kings of War Beta Feedback Group to leave your thoughts, feelings and wisdom for Alessio and the Mantic Team.
We we'll be taking some of your feedback and turning it into video debates so we can all get into a few interesting disputes 😉
Visit the Kings of War section for more.
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Undead army list shows a horde as 50 Zombies – I think that should be 60 now.
I have said this in another thread, but if I had 2 armies and someone to play against, we’d be playing within 30 minutes as the rules are very straight forward (and honestly look a fun way to spend an evening).
Rules look nice and simple and quite fun. Got them in my email an hour or so ago and my friend and I are already planning a battle for later(ironically I have to proxy some GW High Elves because my mantic ones aren’t done)
Pretty good looking rules, can’t wait to playtest them.
The Dwarven Throwing Mastiff and Elven Saber Toothed Pussy made me laugh out loud 😀
It’s nice to know that the more fun side of Mantic has been maintained in the rules.
Wish I had someone to play against – or even a full army to play with. got my rules earlier and giving them a thorough read
OK – elven saber toothed pussy? Am I the only one who had a giggle?
pussies always hit on a +4
made me snigger.
oo-er Mrs.Slocombe!
Wow
just had a skim through and I got the giste of most of it.
If I can understand the rules, they must be simple! lol
Look forward to trying it out soon and also get me hands on some dwarves. 😀
We have just started WHFB at our after school group. I hink most of them will find KOW easier to pick up and enjoy. My daughter will like this too!
Ah, I can see her wanting an undead army Yikes! not only more minis to paint but scary ones too!
I had concerns after the video coverage that the rules might be too simple – after an initial read through I don’t think that concern is justified – knocking some unit templates up in the morning for a quick playtest – looking like a nice set of rules for mass battles though
Looks rather simple in an elegant way, the special rules seem to add enough flavour to make the difference…
I’ll be testing them solo this weekend and hopefully with an opponent later on.
looks nice, have to try this with my friends Mantic Elves army, my Dwarfs will surely thriumph ;P
ok that now nails it… a huge ironwatch army is on it’s way for me.
Am I being really thick here. To test these would I not need at least a few more unit stats? Not looking for a full army list but at the moment it only has three Elf infantry units stats.
On first reading I do like them though.
Ignore me. I found the army lists….. doh….
Lol it’s the excitment of a new rules set mate 😀
OK it’s official. I’m thick.
I read through the rules and then started reading the arm lists.
It was not until I got the ‘Revenant King’ that I realised that everyone in this game is immortal.
There are no hit points, wounds or anything like that. A unit, hero or monster simply run away once they have had enough.
Makes you wonder were the undead come from?
Nice simple set of rules , very warhammer like but with a few unique differences !! Will try this set with my Dwarfs and Elves with my mate next week !
I’ve got a question about the rules maybe someone can help me. How are skeleton archers supposed to hit something? they have a RA of “-” and the rules say a value of “-” means they cannot make a ranged attack
Was a question on the site somewhere regarding this,
General concensus is that it is a typo.
Downloading rules….excited. Looking forward to trying them and giving feedback
Nice and short rules. on the first look it have big potential. iam looking forward to test them at a game.
I think Mantic should have a cool looking chess clock web app on their site.
Mantic should certainly release an iPhone app for their game! A timer would be great!
Why not also include a dice roller!
Free online chess clock here :-
http://chess.knowledgehead.com/
Love the line and the rules so far my only request… a non mounted vampire hero when they create the official undead listing! will be testing the rules in depth this afternoon. just skimming over the rules i can tell mantic has a winner here.
I am sure there will be many a call of.
Fear my PUSSY!………………………………………………………………………………cat.
But aside from that we have some really interesting rules here I enjoy line of site rules they are simple and uncomplicated.
If the champ can see them they the unit can if theres a debate roll a dice on +4 they see them simple as pie.
Not π, cause π is not as easy as pie….
Thats a math joke by the way…
man these rules are simple, i learned them in about 10 minuites 🙂
but the best thing has to be is that its free 😀
i love these rules so easy to lern carnt wait to play test them 😀
Wow… I think I may have to try this.
I forsee KoW being a gateway into the GW hobby.
the rules are alright but i have a few niggles about them as wolflorld68 said all of the heroes and units seem to be immortal and invincible they never die just take damage which decreases their morale so they run away units can not it seems be wiped out! which to me does not make sense. Another thing is that musicians seem to inflict a minus leadership modifier upon the enemy but i thought musicians were there to keep the troops morale up or even to make them march faster. So unlesss the musician is playing his instrument incredibly badly or that its some kind of evil trumpet of woe which makes all enemies quake with fear (works for undead) i do not understand this rule. the magic system too is a bit boring just zap? ): although i am used to the warhammer immensely complicated system but couldnt mantic have gone with a similar thing but just a bit simpler maybe not as many spells or lores? also all undead seem to have the shambling rule even wraiths? which according to another rule also fly now thats something ive never heard of shambling flight? anyway i have to say im a bit dissapointed but gush over
im sorry i think i was possibly a bit harsh on the rules i think theyre good but they seem a bit TOO simple it seems like mantic was trying to make the game so simple they forgot about a lot of the elements which make up a good war game i understand that this is only a beta and a first draft of the rules but there do seem to be a few prolems that need addressing.
The game is an abstraction – there are definitely people dying. It only treats one event as important – when does this unit cease to be effective? That could be a morale failure, or being destroyed to man (or elf). The effect is the same, at least as far as the game is concerned.
The musicians were also there to make lots of noise to scare the Bejubses out of the other chaps.
The instruments would be pointing at the enemy. Celtic Carynx were shaped like dragons or wolves, the bell being the mouth of the beastie, so it symbolises the beast’s roar. Not to mention bagpipes. or was it bagpuss? I get so confused these days!.
I’m sure there will be stories about certain airlines that could be described as shambling flight lol
Looking forward to some games as have a pretty big undead force and dwarfs just turned up, where did I put those clippers….
Agree it looks quite simple on the face of it, but would like to get some games in before I comment too much. For getting going in the hobby it is definitely a much easier entrance. I would have liked to see a little more magic too I guess and perhaps a little more diferentiation between the armies, but as I said will reserve real feedback until I have played a few times. Like the idea of an iPhone app for the timer but not for rolling – you can’t beat that feeling of rolling loads of dice in my view.
Nearly “Flames of War” rules plus, GW type minis. We house ruled this exact idea last year with 40k in mind and called it “Flames of 40k.”
Not to forget this is only Beta stage so things can still get tweaked?
downloaded it later than most however the rules are pretty good and easy to pick up