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4th edition has been teased. More details were shown at the Clash of Kings event.

Photos and more here: https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/9900/445605.page#11777489

I really don't see why Mantic keep pumping out new editions. They're not GW and the KoW rules are pretty damn solid (and have been for some time).

At some point in the last year or so Mantic bought out River Horse and so Alessio is at Mantic now, able to do what he does best: write games, without needing to focus on the admin side of running a company.

I haven't played any games of third edition, so I'm quite looking forward to the refresh and being able to use some of the Kings of War Champions armies I've already built.

I do need to get on with painting my dwarf army, but I'm also keen to see new dwarf miniatures that are apparently on the way.

 Azazelx wrote:
I really don't see why Mantic keep pumping out new editions. They're not GW and the KoW rules are pretty damn solid (and have been for some time).

3rd is now 6 years out and saw several factions added or changed that would make a "consolidation" of the rules worth doing
and a new Edtion every 6 years is still far from GWs "new game every 3 years" (1st Edition KoW was 2010, 2nd in Summer 2015 and 3rd end of 2019, so 5, 4,5 and 6 years)

From what we have seen so far it is more of a streamlining/simplification of things rather than changing the game, but more in the line of getting the rules that belong together back together and going with the easiest version that gives the same result

like currently moving + shooting is -1 to hit except if you have steady aim, which by now shooting units have
so they decided to change things around, and standing still gives +1 to hit while moving+shooting is the default without the need of a special rule

To me it looks like "sales are stagnating*, let's do a major shakeup and hope for the best" sorta deal here.

*they usually do in balanced, static systems

Sales of what though? Rulebooks?