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 Yonan wrote:
5 mins to go. Camping with this link (tabletop games sorted by newest).

You must be some sort of magician, or wizard, to wield such magics.

 Ahtman wrote:

 Yonan wrote:
5 mins to go. Camping with this link (tabletop games sorted by newest).

You must be some sort of magician, or wizard, to wield such magics.

Or knows how to use the KS filter...

Huh. I hadn't thought about the idea of dropping the command options, but the more I think about it the more it makes sense. You could just wrap it into the statline of irregular skirmisher/militia type units that their nerve stat is lower and imagine that might be because they're not drilled to follow musical commands and standards. Or not, and it would still be fine.

Yeah, seems like the sort of thing to streamline, and it makes unit entries that much shorter.

One thing I would really like to see as a stretch goal are cheap plastic movement trays with edges that come sized to troops/regiments/hordes of certain base sizes. I know plenty are available from accessory manufacturers, but if mantic can get them done cheap it would be nice.

Up!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1744629938/kings-of-war-fantasy-battle-game-2nd-edition

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EB $145 from $150. Not a huge deal missing out on it hahah. Only pledge option.

Hands up who wants 40 Basilean Men at Arms!

Note that it is a 17 day campaign, and 25k funding goal will be gone in seconds.

Those are some hefty armies for a starter player. Some of them have a lot of restic to clean up though...

Lol they got the Honest Trailers guy to do their video

and funded

Funding reached in 5 minutes. Slackers.

EDIT: Stretch goals??

Wow, I was F5ing the whole time and the first time the KoW2 page showed up it was already 97% funded.

I grabbed the page with just 3 backers and $400ish pledged, by the time I finished the process it was at $9k

Let's see if the Abyss army is going to be sweet. Pledged for one of those.. but will easily DROP MY PLEDGE OH MY GOD THIS KS IS GOING TO FAIL SO HARD. MANTIC'S MINIATURES ARE SO UGLY LOL

I love that the main image is on a RoBB. Stunned how quickly it funded though

Quick question, when is Kings of War going to be on a cinema screen near me?

You don't want to have that happen... Honest Trailers will rip it apart

Hello,
I am not a expert but i know that,
Mantic Games are working away on the next iteration of Warpath which will be out this Friday. Check out the new cover art for the rules below featuring the surly Corporation troopers...............
Gallery Votes. Can you suggest me how to do mini-kick ?
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Why would a robot post something from over two years ago?

http://www.beastsofwar.com/warpath/mantics-warpath-20-coming-friday/

Just in for the rulebooks for now as I have plenty of fantasy minis, I'll hold off on anything else until the PM the EB saving is only $5 and I can wait and see how the sculpts/sprues turn out. I could be interested in the forces of the Abyss if there's enough hard plastic in it the sculpts at least are digital (from the end of the video)

Is any of this going to be 'Hard Plastic'?

Because if this is all restic all the time here, well...

I really dislike mantic demons/abyssals so hopefully they can whiz past them and move onto something better lol!

The blog mentioned the Forces of the Abyss getting some hard plastic

The Forces of the Abyss were insanely popular in Dungeon Saga and we’re finally bringing them to Kings of War.

The newest army for the game will get a reworked army list with new units and the hard plastic treatment Deadzone has recently received, with some neat and characterful additions to offer choice and variety in your force.

not sure if any of the rest will get updated.

I think we will not know until any stretch goals go up, and I think the first few will be gamer aids (dice, measures etc) rather than miniatures. I am unsure as to why anyone would bother pledging for anything but the rulebook at the moment.

Where's the terrain?

Okay, now that the initial rush is over I can open my Mars Attacks package...

I put in for the early bird given that I was impressed by the size of the mega starter army. I'll be more interested to see if the two normal starter armies are as good of a deal as that would be more useful for getting new players trying the game.

May well step back down for the rules only, just a sucker for early birds. Well also depending on what if any accessories and individual add-ons they do.


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This was linked in the kickstarter comments:



Surely it is just fan-art, but I would so buy one

50K stretch army builder and chess clock app.

@Grim: Looks like the normal artist for some of the Mantic concept art Heath Foley, I would put in$1 to get the chance to buy one of them.

See this previous MA Blaine Concept art and note the signature:

 Vermis wrote:
I don't think I made it clear in my first post, but yes: I agree. There's a cottage industry out there for printed historical regimental standards and the like and they look really impressive, but I'm not sure if there's many historical games that actually have rules for them. Not in the few I've read, anyway. They act as set dressing and (appropriately) unit recognition; and like I say, I guess it's assumed everyone has them, and that the cancelling effect causes them to be ignored or they're subtly woven into overall effectiveness. (I assume the former)

Yeah sorry, hope I didn't step on your toes, but when you pointed it out I did indeed suddenly think "wait, why are these guys necessary anyway?". Removing them wouldn't make the system any worse, and would help to actually streamline it a lot more. The Army Standard Bearers stay around, so they can be represented by any kinds of banners you might want to carry, and the units can either have them or not, it's left to the discretion of the player. For example, you might not think they're worthwhile having in units of Undead or Orcs or Goblins, but might find you want a lot of pennants and the like in a Kingdoms of Men army.

Daedleh, any chance you can forward this up the chain and have them look into it? Currently most people don't use them anyway, so their removal wouldn't be much of a problem.

Thanks for the food for thought Vermis!

The miniatures tempt me not at all, but the rulebook is something I may be interested in in the future... by the time this releases, GW should have gotten through their "End Times" schtick, and I should be able to choose which system to use (eventually with my chaos dwarfs).

The second they update with the first 50k strechgoal.. that strechgoal is reached

Yeah it was wise to throw the digital stuff in there early while people are signing up like mad. Chessclock is probably pretty available in most appstores so hopefully they at least theme it in KoW flavor. Army builders are always useful.