Monday, January 6, 2020

Ancient artefacts the object of a jolly good battle

First Kings of War game in quite a while, with Andy's Kingdoms of Men lining up against my Empire of Dust army, each at 1500 points. The scenario we were playing was 'Loot', determined on the roll of a die. We are still using KoW v2, having not yet bothered to update to the newest 3rd edition. Frankly, I fear the old rules creep that was so off-putting for various other rules systems that I have played over the years.


Andy held his centre with two heavy pike regiments, flanked by regiments of Foot guard

Each flank saw a regiment of knights

On my right I deployed a regiment of Mummies, and two Reanimated behemoths

On my left, a regiment of Enslaved Guardians, and a regiment of spear

My centre was held by a Spear horde, two spear regiments, and a regiment of warriors, supported by a Swarm horde

The Empire left advances

The Empire centre. The swarm used the Vanguard rule t advance into the woods, upper left

The Empire right facing the knights

The swarm advanced toa ttack a unit of foot guard, needing that first atack

Andy supported the knights on his right with a unit of bow

The knights crash in on the Empire right, but clip the bad going, resulting in ahindered charge

A unit of Mummies advances out of the woods to attack the other unit of bow (upper left)

The swarm and Foot Guard in combat


The knights attacking my right are flanked by the two Reanimated behemoths, and are routed. The right hand loot counter is open to capture by the Empire

Mummies bounce back from the bow

Swarm, bounce back

Foot Guard counter charge...

And the swarm are routed

The Mummies are atacked by the bow, and flanked by the hero

The knights attacking the lft bounce back

Meanwhile a unit of Andy's Foot Guard on the left of his centre routs a regiment of spear

Things have heated up .. the spear horde  (which had captured the loot counter in the centre) has ben eliminated, and the heavy pike block turns its attention tom the warrior regiment that had previously eliminated a Foot Guard regiment

Mummies from the right flank attack the left hand pike regiment, having eliminated the other regiment of Foot Guard

They are eliminated
However it is the end of turn 6, and Andy controls two of the three loot counters, so a well fought victory fo the Kingdoms of Men.. but be assured.. we'll be back.. mwahahahahahahaha

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