Robert’s Kings of War

Saturday, 18th January was Paul’s, Gerry’s and I’s monthly meet up at OTT HQ.  The agenda was Kings of War and we were joined by another 2 very fine chaps, Paul and Clive.  These were our first 2000 point games in 3rd and we got two games in before 5.30 and that included an hour for lunch and plenty of bullshitting – showing again how east it is to get large games of Kings of War in.

First game I played Paul (Lordsanes), while Gerry played Paul (not Lordsanes).  Gerry’s Ogres drew with Paul’s Free Dwarfs in a very close encounter.  My Imperial Dwarfs defeated Paul’s Gobbos…. mainly due to my dice rolling and cannons in the first three turns.  Even Lloyd’s special dice wouldn’t have matched how disgusting I rolled.  The Goblins battled bravely to the end but the first three turns gave me too much of an advantage and Paul narrowly failed to pull it back.  I failed nerve checks on my Shieldbreakers twice and they were only saved by my Army Standard Bearer giving a re-roll.  If they had of been removed my centre and left flank would not have held.

All the pictures are from my first game as my phone was charging during the game with Gerry and I was too lazy to walk across the room to grab it to take photos.

The second game against Gerry was a different affair.  My plan was to hold the line, blast the Ogres with my cannon and Ironwatch missile troops, before counter charging and racing to hold the objectives.  Ogres are tougher than Goblins and a few rolls didn’t go my way, and Gerry won in the end.

While I battled Gerry, Paul (Lordsanes) battled Clive.  Clive is an experienced player and Paul learned a lot from his game and I’ll need the same levels of luck to beat Paul next time.

Learned a lot from both games.  Dwarf Shieldbreakers aren’t as durable as I thought.   They hit hard but compared to the rest of my infantry they are squishy.  As such, I need to be more aggressive with them.  While I got lucky against Paul, the same didn’t happen against Gerry.  If I had of been more aggressive with them against Gerry, the game would have been closer.

Fun day out, great games, played on great tables with great people and me!

Have gotten quite a bit done since my last update.  A few highlights.

But in six months time, I can go back to these posts and realise I have 12 trolls built and it might save me from buying 12 more!  Also for the Orcs and Goblins there is a War Drum, reading the rules for it yesterday and for the points, think it will be a very useful addition to any Orc army.

For the Naughty Dwarfs, more Immortals/Black Souls and Decimators.  Lots of green stuff on the Decimators, they really were a terrible kit but good practise with the knife and green stuff.  Kids have it too easy these days with those easy build push together kits!  A wee special character built as well.

The Undead get more Ghouls… 19 more, I also have another 9 sprues to go for another 18 and I think that is all the Ghouls I have built…

For the swarms that the Undead can field, I have started trying to sculpt a few rats.  Going to add some Reaper bats as well.  I actually think these swarms could be very useful in the game, so might need to do lots!

First things first, this bad boy arrived!!!!

Lots of internet moans about it but loads of interesting army lists in it.  The Free Dwarfs have me intrigued!

All the PVC/Restic Immortal Guard are now all built.  Some I didn’t sculpt anything onto their shields, they will get a nice paint job instead.  I also did a standard bearer as well.

Decimators have also been started.  Nice when built but a pain in the arse to build.

I also found some Ogres that will grace the battlefield someday!

I have been keeping up and doing 30 minutes everyday on my Kings of War.  It has mostly been building units and I have got a lot of Zombies and Ghouls sorted for my Undead.

I’ve also been searching for models, so have found a few things I didn’t know I had including quite a rather lovely Undead cannon that I am going to use as a Balefire Catapult and some Ogre Command!

Have got plenty done over the past couple of days – especially this afternoon chatting with Laughingboy in the CoG discord (Torros also popped in as well).   Hopefully more people will pop in and out of the chat as the discord and community grows.

Last Saturday, Paul (@Lordsanes), Gerry (@avernos) and myself (@Robert) played some 1000 points games of Kings of War.  Paul brought his Goblins with a few Werewolf allies, Gerry brought tryhard filth from the Abyss and my Dwarfs tried to save Coleraine from all the evil that abounded.

Paul won 2 out of 2, destroying me and snatching victory from the jaws of defeat against Gerry.  In the clash of Dwarfs v Forces of the Abyss, a fairly balanced game was decided by my ability to sit on objectives and not budge.

Great fun was had by all.  Pics below.

Recently I have been in a bit of a hobby rut.  No interest in painting, and just cleaning up bits and pieces and getting them ready for priming.  So, with this in mind I am going to start doing a little bit of Kings of War everyday.  It worked with my Nurgle project and I got loads done, so hopefully it will work with this.  The idea is to try and do at least 30 minutes of KOW hobby everyday.  This Saturday it will be hopefully playing a game, but that counts.

So I have raided the shed and found the following to add to my Dwarfs, Undead and to finally start on my Naughty Dwarfs – I might have collected a few things over the years… and this is not all of what I have for these armies….

So you can see I will have my hands full over the next wee while.  Plan is to do something everyday for the rest of the year.  Even if a miracle happens and I get through all this, I can then make a start on the Elves, Orcs and Goblins I have.

Recently I have also got a couple of units for my Dwarfs ready to prime and then paint.

So myself and Lordsanes made the trip to Coleraine, to OTT HQ, and got a game of Kings of War second edition in.  Boy it was fun.  I managed the win, but I got a few rules wrong, and my dice were disgustingly good so the poor Gobbos didn’t stand a chance.  Not long to 3rd now.

Some photos of the epic clash on a great table below.

Needs more badgers, needs more dwarfs to ride the badgers (not that kind of ride…), more drilly things and more heroes!

These haven’t been used in many years… I didn’t realise they were as dusty until I saw the photos.  They are clean now!

I do have quite a few more riflemen and crossbowers plus lots more artillery in a box.  Will be interesting to see what 3rd Edition does.

Dear KoW 2nd Edition

I write to you to express my sadness and regret that I only got one game with you.  Grand plans were hatched for you, great armies planned and campaigns dreamed off.  I apologise to you for not following through with these plans.

Yesterday I played my first game of 2nd Edition and probably my last.  My opponents, Goblins and Forces of Nature put my Skeleton horde to the sword and comprehensively sent me back to the Necromancer Social Club licking my wounds.  Despite my shame of letting the Royal Society of Undead Generals down, I thoroughly enjoyed myself because you are a great ruleset (and my opponents, despite shooting at me with invisible units, were also great).

Your better looking younger sister approaches to replace you, but that should not worry you, as you are not the older ugly sister, for you served the world of Rank and File fantasy well.

My kindest regards

Robert the Necromancer

Ghoul Troop – 70

Ghoul Troop – 70

Wights – 155

Wights – 155

Wraiths – 120

Werewolf Regiment – 155

Balefire Catapult – 95

This was a 1st Edition army, when Wights weren’t Large Infantry and Wraiths could be taken in units of 5.

Update on 14/11/2019 – Points are now 3rd edition.  I will replace the Wights with more suitable models, perhaps even the tasty looking ones from Mantic.  The 6 guys can either be used as Revenants or Soul Reaver Infantry.

Wraiths will get rebased sometime to create a troop (10 models on a 100×40 footprint).  I’m sure I have another 5 to make into another troop at some stage.

Executioner (Necromancer) – 50

Revenant King – 80

Undead Army Standard Bearer – 50

Necromancer – 50

Mounted Vampire Lord – 200

I thought I had more Necromancers type models painted but they must be in a box somewhere.

Skeleton Spearmen Horde – 175

Skeleton Warriors Regiment – 85

Skeleton Warriors Regiment – 85

Skeleton Warriors Regiment – 85

Skeleton Archers Troop – 70

Skeleton Archers Troop – 70

Revenants Regiment – 125

Revenants Regiment – 125