Kings of War v2 – Playtest and Thoughts

This would have been a post with a video battle report, but I totally botched shooting it and missed a turn, editing it and skipping stuff made it not very coherent, so it will be written in as a total abortion…sorry.

But, I did get a chance to play with the new Kings of War ruleset and it was Kingdom of Men versus Elves.  I don’t have anything cohesive review, but I do have a few points that I think are note worthy.

• Warmachines with the new rules of 1d6 needing a 6 to hit and then deal 1dX amount of damage is not good.  It’s impossible to hit anything and do damage.  I had 2 trebuchets fire every turn, 6 turns and 12 shots, and I didn’t do a single point of damage….not very useful at all.  The previous method worked just fine IMO.
• Elves having elite seem’s like it’s over powered, but I’m going to hold final judgement for a few more games.
• The rules change to ensure after a combat was over, and pushed apart 1″, that there is no option other than charging back in.  This prevents a unit from surviving and then opening fire instead of getting back into melee combat.  There has been lots of discussion over this on Warseer (you’ve been warned, this is a super long thread).
• Tripling attacks when engaging a warmachine in melee seems a bit much, but whatever works I guess.
• Rules are now in booklet form, this is great and way better than printouts, also, $9 is a great price.
• I would have liked to see more than 1 scenario, but it’s not hard to imagine up some other options really…..