Kings of War and Other Fantasy Fun in Chicago. 11/14: 28 Cent Beastmen

[eilif]

Chicago Skirmish Wargames is gearing up for a Fall Kings of War Campaign (more on that coming) and I realized I should take my nose out of "Future Wars" and start a thread over here.

In the meantime, I've been playing a bit of Song of Blades and Heroes with my kids.

Most recently, an off-the-cuff cenario developed into quite a cool game.
https://www.chicagoskirmishwargames.com/blog/2022/08/aar-the-imprudent-kidnappers-a-song-of-blades-and-heroes-battle-report/
A Band of Chaos attempt to enter the enchanted forest and kidnap an elf...

The scenario itself is fully written up here:
https://www.chicagoskirmishwargames.com/blog/2022/07/the-imprudent-kidnappers-a-song-of-blades-and-heroes-scenario/

[Reed]

Nice to see your blog still rolling after so many years. Must check it out more often.

[eilif]

Thanks!
We had some slow times, but I'm back and updating regularly!

[eilif]

I'll have a proper battle report up at some point, but here's the table I setup for a KOW game using a modified version of the WHFB Battle of La Maisontaal Abbey.

[Reed]

Pure oldhammer goodness, even if it’s in KoW form.

[eilif]

Pure oldhammer goodness, even if it’s in KoW form.

That pretty well describes my ideal game.
If you like that you'll love the BatRep.

[eilif]

In the meantime, a teaser...

[eilif]

Just wanted to see if there were Building or Seige rules for third edition Kings of War or of I should continue to pull those from 1st edition. Luckily the books are still sold. As a PDF set.

I was comparing the two editions and as much as I like 3rd edition, I'd sacrifice any amount of Panithor fluff for updated versions of the building, seige and Campaign rules from first edition.

[Kelly_]

There are a couple of different takes on updating sieges that I have seen at the Kings of War forum, several are linked through the below post, with a test battle report as well.

https://www.kowforum.com/t/how-to-do-sieges/3527

[eilif]

There are a couple of different takes on updating sieges that I have seen at the Kings of War forum, several are linked through the below post, with a test battle report as well.

https://www.kowforum.com/t/how-to-do-sieges/3527

Thanks for that!  I've downloaded those pages and will give it a read.

[eilif]

Working on another batch of Daqan figures for my Kings of War Good Human army.

Basically another set of the figures I already finished here ...
https://www.chicagoskirmishwargames.com/blog/2017/05/runewars-daqan-army-finished/
...except that for variety I've swapped every figure's weapon with replacements, mostly from Essex and GW.

Progress on the 12 knight who will be fielded in ranks of four to fit the 125mm frontage required.

[eilif]

Got distracted by a sprue of WGF hobbits I bought from McDougall who sells them separately. With allot of fiddly cutting, converting and gluing of hands and weapons (check out the axe) and the addition of Eccentric Minis bits and a few others, I've managed to build a mix of adventureres with mostly hand weapons from the sprue that normally favors pole arms, slings and archers.

I don't think I'd recommend this sprue for building hand weapon adventurers unless you already have extra bits on hand. If you have to order conversion bits there are cheap metal halflings you can buy instead. However, my bits box is deep so I've now got 5 charming Hobbits to add to my random fantasy skirmish collection. Not bad for 5 bucks.

[eilif]

The Fantasy train chugs along.   

Monday was the kickoff of our Kings of War Campaign.  Haven't got a blog post put together, but it was 6 guys on 3 games.  Two KoW battles with the main factions. 

The small table is a side skirmish game using a member's homebrew rulest.  In an effort to involve members who don't have a massive KoW army in the campaign, we've made space for skirmishes fought in the name of larger factions.  Usually a roll off before the game determines which main factions are able to hire the smaller warbands and the outcome of the skirmish game gives some minor boon to the larger sponsoring faction.

Also a picture of the campaign map we're using showing the territory occupied by the 5 main factions. The setting for our Campaign is the Border Princes area of the Warhammer Old World.  After a few different attempts for mounting, we settled on holding it and the various markers to a metal folding table with magnets so it can easily be modified, stored and displayed upright when desired.

[sir_shvantselot]

Some nice games; thanks for sharing.

[Kelly_]

Six players sounds like a great start to your campaign, congratulations!

Have you checked out the Kings of War 2022 compendium coming out next month?  They have new balancing designed for smaller point levels that is still tied into the standard rules (unlike Vanguard), along with siege and larger scale battles (past 3K) as well...

https://www.manticgames.com/news/ambush-a-great-new-way-to-play-kings-of-war/

https://www.manticgames.com/news/siege-the-day-its-going-to-be-legendary-kings-of-war/