Take A Peek At Kings Of War 2nd Edition Art & Rules
July 1, 2015 by brennon
Mantic Games have been chatting about the coming of Kings of War 2nd Edition which will be out in August. A new post over on their blog shows off some of the fantastic new artwork for the main rulebook AND a bit of a sneaky look inside the book itself...
Awesome Art
The first piece of awesome news is the fantastic artwork below by Ralph Horsley. It pictures the Goblins and Ogres facing off against a force of the Undead on a huge battlefield. I think the art is looking superb and really serves to bring to life the mass battle feel of the game.
I particularly like the fact that they went with at least one faction that you wouldn't normally see on the front of a rulebook. You'd assume Humans or Dwarfs would be the focus but they went with the Goblins and I think that is a neat little twist.
Talking of armies, these are the ones that are going to be available within...
- Abyssal Dwarfs
- Basileans
- Dwarfs
- Elves
- Forces of the Abyss
- Forces of Nature
- Goblins
- Kingdoms of Men
- Ogres
- Orcs
- Undead
Inside The Book
Of course the rulebook is a lot more than just art. See what you think of some of the page previews below which show off the magic, magical weapons and more that will be available for you. You might even spy some Dragon type creatures...
I think the presentation of the book is looking very nice indeed and it's good to see some full colour artwork AND miniatures in there to give you a taste of how the whole world meshes together. I actually sometimes completely forget looking at the rules to look at the pretty pictures!
Did you spy those Dragons there too? I think they're looking awesome and it will be fun to see how that army grows over the next few months.
Kings of War seems to be coming out at about the right time when you think about it. With Warhammer changing there is a need for a full on mass battle Fantasy game and Kings of War has proved that it more than competently fills that role.
Will you be picking up this new edition?
"I particularly like the fact that they went with at least one faction that you wouldn't normally see on the front of a rulebook..."
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So can’t wait for my kickstarter stuff to come in for this. I’m so happy I can barely contain myself. Got an elf force I’ve been painting for a while now and I have been preparing bases for the Salamanders. Also looking forward to getting my hands on the Abyssals as well.
Seems like 2nd could be edition that brings me around KoW.
Seeing as Warhammer: Age of Failure feels increasingly like a punch in the face – it’s time to jump ship methinks. This looks great.
yes search your heart Poosh, you know it to be so
Ahhh thank you Ronnie. Thank you Mantic. First Dungeon Saga and now this.
You’re really spoiling us these days!
Its gonna be a busy August for me!
Definitely a must buy. Also going to get an Abyssal army!
Kingslayer !
So you killed Warhammer Fantasy Battles ?? You and you accomplice in the gestalt of “GWs ridiculous pricing policy” ???
And now the artwork has caught up to GW’s. Their Age of Failure will see the exodus of rats… er… Skaven, from a sinking ship. Thanks for the life preserver, Ronnie!
I will pick up the new rules for KoW but I’ll be using other minis cos I just can’t seem to fall in love with theirs. Dwarves and Abyssal Dwarf sculpts just don’t do it for me.
they’re an acquired taste I really like the abyssal sculpts remind me of my classic chaos dwarfs. The regular dwarfs have some nice sculpts and to be fair I did get a massive force of them anyway. The nice thing is being able to make your force from whatever you want though =)
I do like the Abyssal Dwarf commander sculpt. Maybe I need to see them in the flesh in order to make a better decision. I do love that Mantic have no problems with you using other companies minis though.
I happen to be a big fan of King’s of War and Have preferred it to War Hammer for several years now. I started out playing War Hammer back in Second edition. While I own a copy of 7th it was seldom played as I had found King’s of War by than. Bottom line I want to play a game with grand armies on the table. The problem is that life no longer allows me to take all day to play a game. My group meets once a week for game. We have about 4 hours start to finish. Warhammer… Read more »
As to the new edition, kick-started it 🙂
I am blaming BoW, well, mostly Justin actually, for getting me interested in KoW through the new series. I have picked up an Orc army and the missus has gone for Goblins. I’m seeing a lot of green in our future!
Nice art.
Sad that the miniatures can’t live up to it.
I will be picking up the rulebook, but will be using other companies models.
I’m genuinely looking forward to this rule set so I can get to playing. 😀
Mantic really are improving with the quality of their art as of late.
Hopefully we could see their models improve too as the company grows. 🙂
the nature and abyssal armies look to be a big step up, time will tell, I think that the ogres are currently the best on the market, the other forces are hit and miss depending on taste. The (f)Undead minis are spankingly good though.
Are those Lizardmen/dinomen 😮
I cannot believe the awesomeness I am seeing. PLEASE be a good production this time and not the clusterf*ck that was your human faction.
Nice stuff, great to see Mantic upping their game and supporting their great games with quality material 🙂
Even more excited for the arrival of KoW2 having seen this-Can’t wait for my KS stuff! Lots of Abyssals and Succubi (and Salamanders) to look forward to, not to mention paint! Yay Go Mantic!
My fantasy game of choice. I was going to possibly get into the new Warhammer Fantasy as I had been feeling left out never have played but one short demo game years ago, but the new game looks to be 40k with swords, I will stay with my favorite game KoW.
Still can’t get my head around not removing models when they die. Still seems odd to me and the main thin that puts me off KoW.
I am sure it is a great game though and that if I played some games it would soon make sense.
I would have said Warhammer is the last large scale game in either historical or fantasy out there that used figure removal to keep track of casualties
I am prepared to be wrong though
Nothing stopping you from removing models to count casualties. If that’s how you like to play, do it. It’s highly improbable that Ronnie will show up to your game and scold you for “playing wrong”.
I tend to pass over Mantic stuff due to the low quality of the models. Being the anti GW isn’t going to win me over when I can play with Wrath of Kings and many other games with high quality pieces.
Now if that changes over time and the line looks better, I may come on board.
Feel free to use any miniatures you want for KoW. I believe they even have had Warhammer figures turn up at Mantic’s in house events and no one even got the stink eye much less thrown out!
Personally I think about half the old KoW stuff was to my liking and half was a pass but they get better and better. I’m really looking forward to the new stuff.
happy to see the salamanders are looking good.
but again, that depends on if the production models hold the details or not. I expect the pictures to be of the resin masters, as they usually are with mantic.