First impression on Kings of War + House rules and army lists

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First impression on Kings of War + House rules and army lists

Marchomer
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Maybe I can not be too objective about koW, for several reasons: free rules highly customizable for other types of wargames, the miniatures of the mantic are beautiful and cheap, the game designer is Italian and to test this game I finally put my old Lizardmen and Bretonnians back on their feet.

The game is fast, funny and very flow, the "time component" does really improve the gameplay!
Maybe at the first time it seems quite "strange", there are no wounds, the game isn't oriented on the single miniature but on the entire unit, the spells are managed like a skill (and practically you can only wound and heal) and a series of very lucky Nerve rolls (6+5 on 2d6) can virtually defeat everyone.
Although... In my opinion this game system is more effective with 15mm miniatures.

As usual, I feel compelled to post some pictures (to be precise in my hobby cellar while I am happily massacred by a friend of mine)




^ Me and my 100% routed orcs army


Some useful links I found:
[DOWNLOADS]

Dark Elves, Wood Elves, The Empire (Italian)
http://www.wargamesforum.it/documenti/ARMYLIST_elfi_oscuri_elfi_silvani_impero.pdf

Humans (Bretonnia / The Empire)
http://www.hourofwolves.org/content/articles/HUMANS.pdf

Lizardmen
http://www.hourofwolves.org/content/articles/REPTILEMEN.pdf

Skaven
http://www.warseer.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=108249&d=1301602980

Mercenary Companies
http://dinosaur-wars.webs.com/Mercenary%20Companies%20v2.pdf

Rome Rising (Ancient Rome rules)
http://www.hourofwolves.org/content/articles/KoWHAC_RomeRising.pdf

Rules for 17th century battles
http://www.warseer.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=108170&d=1301447428
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MortiS-the-Lost
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How did you find converting Warhammer armies over to KoW lists?

are there any units you would have difficulty finding rules for?
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Marchomer
MortiS-the-Lost wrote
How did you find converting Warhammer armies over to KoW lists?

are there any units you would have difficulty finding rules for?
I found everything in an Italian forum, I update the first post with all the things I found for Kings of War
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MortiS-the-Lost
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Excellent!
people have no excuse to be playing WFB 8th now lol
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Marchomer
MortiS-the-Lost wrote
Excellent!
people have no excuse to be playing WFB 8th now lol
WFB 8th?!? I thought WFB had stopped at the 6th edition!
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