My first three posts on improving the Kingdoms of Men army (here, here and here) in future editions of Kings of War focussed on shooters, finantry and war machines. There's something to be said about the kingdoms of men's characters, so I'll be doing that here. first things first While the first two posts in … Continue reading Improving Kingdoms of Men – Characters
Lord Darvled came to power after the victory over the Abyss in the Edge of the Abyss summer campaign in 2017. Here's the official canon description from Clash '18: "throughout the war against the Abyss, the Kingdoms of Men never faltered" shouted Lord Darvled. The cheers from the gathered crowd almost drowned out his speech. … Continue reading Lord Darvled – Mantica’s own populist
I've been on holiday with the family. Two weeks of relaxing with the kids and wife somewhere in the forest, kinda nice. That said, very little painting has been done during that time. After holidays, I managed to finish my reconnoiterers. Here's the four of them. They still need basing, but I'm pretty happy with … Continue reading Hobby update – holiday painting
Just a short update to show the gift my wife got me for my birthday. It's a battle mat from battle mats europe. I'm really happy with this princely gift which shows that my wife supports my hobby (somewhat). As I posted recently, one of the reasons I don't do battle reports is because my … Continue reading Nice birthday gift – battle mat
Remember those reconnoiterers that got finished last week? Here's them (without their riders at the moment) while I'm basing them. That said, I also finished one of these slotted multibases where I can fit a number (in this case seven) individual models for my 3rd regiment of knights. Here's two pictures: I must say I'm … Continue reading Hobby Update – Recons and multibase slots
I play humans mainly because I like the aestatic of the average bloke with some nifty tool taking on the horrors in Mantica. It also helps that I own 2 once GW empire armies. (one shown above) One advantage of playing humans is that I can use my models for at least 2 different armies … Continue reading Using the same minis for more than one army
I don't do battle reports. The reasons for this are twofold. First of all: I do enjoy playing games. I don't enjoy keeping the records to recreate it afterwards, so doing so will lessen my enjoyment of the game. So I don't. Kuddos to those who can. I'm thankful, since I happily read about your … Continue reading Why I don’t do battle reports (yet)
An important part of the Kings of War hobby is Multibasing. In this blog post I'll write down what multibasing is and how best effects are achieved. First a bit of history Wargaming (especially historicals) the base unit in a wargame is not a single model representing a single soldier, but the unit. (usually represented … Continue reading Multibasing – What and how
EDIT: This post was written under Kings of War 2nd edition rules. Kings of War 3rd edition army composition may be different, thereby invalidating some of the below post's army composition. picture from Mantic website Recently, I posted an article on how to build a goblin army on a budget. This post is one of … Continue reading Building on a budget – Abyssals
A few months ago, I got the brainwave to update my brotherhood army to Kings of War. You can find everything about it here. One of the things that needed doing, was the rebasing of my Forsaken beast. He's the guy on the left. It's just a varghulf model that I once bought as part … Continue reading Hobby update and Brotherhood progress
