The battle of Dini'Tabal - Kings of War play through

I pointed out two 2000 point armies for a Kings of War first play through with Snake-eyes and Steedo.

Steedo took command of the Hobgoblins (Orcs) and Ogres, while Snake-eyes lead the Elves and Men. 

The scenario was Invade from the rule book.

Initial deployments - below. 

Steedo moved first and fast! Had too really as only 2 troops of archers and one wizard!

Snake-eyes unleashed an arrow storm ..... We'll sort of and charged the Orc horde in the centre!

The elven light cavalry were unable to destroy the Orc wizard. 

The Hobgoblins put many hits on an Elf spear unit only to see it hold wavering (double 6!) on the re-roll due to the inspiring rule! It got worse for Steedo when after inflicting 16 hits on the Elf artillery he rolled double 1 - steady! Much amusement was had!

However the Elven Knights did have to withdraw wavering....

Then shock horror for the hobgoblins - now up to 28 hits on the Elf spear unit and Steedo roles double 1 and they are steady and can attack on Snake-eyes turn! This unit eventually took 41 hits before being routed!

Mean while over on the other side of the battlefield the humans are making steady progress to invade the Hobgoblins' side of the board ....

Turn 7 and the Elven left flank and centre has creased to exist! Only the Prince and Mage are on the table!

The Hobgoblins are closing in .....

In a final flurry the Elf Prince sees off the Hobgoblin horde, human Knights ride down a unit of Ogres and the Ogre Captain. 

At this point time was called (although Snake-eyes had roll a 6 so we could/should have played another 2 turns) - 8 turns played in about 2.5 hours - not bad considering this was the first time any of us had played Kings of War. 

According to the victory conditions - basically have 200 more points on your opponents side of the board than they have in yours - meant that Steedo and the Hobgoblins were the winners!

So what did I think of Kings of War?

It was a fast playing game with lots of dice rolling. The different traits for the races were interesting and added to the fun. The horde units are tough to kill and the flank attacks were generally lethal. The rolling of double 1 or 6 caused some interesting situations - but created the cinematic fighting to the last man against hopeless odds! And much laughter as Steedo managed a double 6 then a double 1!

Although Snake-eyes managed snake-eyes in the horde which meant they were able to destroy his Knights. 

All in all Kings of Wars if a fast and fun game - will have to work out a set of games to play and get it to the table again. 

Other games we managed to squeeze in - 

Codename - a nice little word association game. Will consider getting this as the Better-half and Things might play it! Win to Morts and Steedo

Dead of Winter - a cooperative game about surviving a zombie attack in the Winfer. This was a tough game, where we lost due to the order I did things in the last turn! Lots of things to do without enough resources or actions to it!

And we played a couple of rounds of a dungeon builder game - lots of bluffing. Cant remember what it was called. Anyway Steedo won, so a good night for him 3 out of 4 wins!

Morts