Kings of War 2 Kickstarter

[TheImp]

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/17 ... nd-edition

A short campaign, only 18 days. It's already over $100K though. I didn't realize KoW was that popular.

[nikgreen]

After my experience of the first KoW Kickstarter I am not remotely interested. Piss poor models and piss poor customer service.

[Norton C Wongpower]

I take it you're not a wide eyed 12yr with zero attention span though?

Are a lot of these figures cast in chewing gum or are they still doing metal along with their hard plastic?

[Duff]

What are the rules like?

[pedro]

What are the rules like?

they are free and available to download,
I gave them a quick read the other day and seem simple and only about 20 pages long (not sure if they are fun, though) and they try to be something like warhammer fantasy where you battle with a dozen of units per side

[Sylvain]

Are a lot of these figures cast in chewing gum or are they still doing metal along with their hard plastic?

metal for the heroes/characters and hard plastic for the big troop unit.
could be some restic for more obscure troops I guess (nothing confirmed)

[TheImp]

Mantic's Free Rules Page

The most interesting aspect of the KoW rules, for me, is that it's pretty much mix and match.

You are free to mix units from different races in your army, as long as you always keep in mind that you need a solid unit (at least 20 infantry/ 3 large infantry or 10 cavalry/ 3 large cavalry, excluding irregular units) of a specific race to include each War Engine and Hero or Monster of that race.

That allows poor degenerate FUUKers, like myself, to use more of our collection to play.

[sOOp]

I didn't realize KoW was that popular.

I don't think it is. I assume people are using them for cheap Warhammer armies. $150 is way cheaper than buying from GW.

[Celt]

The rules are quite good. Really simple but allow a decent amount of tactical depth. A few things like warmachines aren't balanced but I guess the point of the kickstarter is to sort that out. Games are really quick plus the main game rules and army lists are free.

Mantic do have some shit models, but also have some good ones - the Undead are brilliant.

[SpaceCudet]

I didn't realize KoW was that popular.

I don't think it is. I assume people are using them for cheap Warhammer armies. $150 is way cheaper than buying from GW.

KoW has completely replaced Warhammer in my local club.