Clash of Kings 2017

Last weekend Mantic Games hosted the Clash of Kings 2017 event at Firestorm Games in Cardiff. A two day, six game Kings of War tournament in the UK. I attended last year and had a great time and as such decided to fly over once again. Having only won one game last year with my Elves, I set myself the target of at least two wins. In order to give myself the best possible chance I painted up a new army, which I had never played before and contained sub-optimal choices. It’s the price one pays for being a hobbyist first and gamer second!

Team Map Pack™ with Ronnie Renton - I'm second on the right.

Herd Army for CoK 2017

In preperation for Clash of Kings 2017 (a ~100 player tournament in the UK) I decided to create a new army. Last year I played Elves with a nice mix of infantry, cavalry and shooting. This year I decided to resurrect some of my old Warhammer Beastmen miniatures and repurpose them for Kings of War.

In addition I added some wonderful new models, like the War Bull from Scibor Miniatures and an awesome looking charging pig (called a Torvax) from Mierce Miniatures. I then rebased everything onto new multi-bases, added some incidental skulls and arrows and I was done.

Clash of Kings 2016

Last month I attended the largest Kings of War tournament in Europe - Clash of Kings 2016. It was once again held in the UK at the Sanctuary and with only 80 tickets available was a sell out (next year there will be 120 tickets available).

Kings of War is currently my favourite wargame and although we have a nice (if small) community of players here in Berlin, the chance to attend such a large event was a chance not to be missed.

Clash of Kings Preparation

At the end of the Week I'm flying over to England to play in the Clash of Kings 2016 event. This is the largest Kings of War tournament of the year with 80 players and the largest I've ever attended -  I'm expecting the standard of play to be pretty high. I'm really excited and hope I don't get destroyed too badly!

Kings of War 3500 points

A few weeks ago I played in a 3500 points game of Kings of War. It was Elves (me) and Brotherhood versus Varangur and Night Stalkers. The game was played on a 8' x 4' table with plenty of terrain. A basic kill scenario was used, but the main aim was simply to have fun. In the end the bad guys were victorious, crushing the Human - Elf alliance and destroying all in their path.