Conquest

Conquest Faction Focus: The Spires Updated 26/5/2024

  I'd like to take a moment up top to appreciate the Spires as a triumph of game design. They are a faction that exists in the intersection of many of the most tricky mechanical concepts to balance. They're the healing...

Scenarios in Conquest: How Para Bellum Shapes the Metagame

As with most wargames, Conquest is played using a scenario that sets the conditions of victory and shapes how players interact. Conquest’s core rulebook includes a series of scenarios for new players, but the meat of the game’s scenario...

Conquest Faction Focus: The Old Dominion

Updated 5 November 2024 “A common misconception amongst modern historians and their students is that the title of Dominion refers to the Dominion of Man. It most certainly does not. The original inhabitants referred instead to the Dominion of Hazlia,...

Conquest Faction Focus: The Hundred Kingdoms – Updated 24/3/2024

The Hundred Kingdoms are in one sense an extremely middle of the road faction. They're baseline humans, with average human stats, average human armour, and average human force organisation. There are no surprises here, no weird units that you'll...

Conquest: Updated Articles for 2nd Edition

A few updates from our previous Conquest content to keep it in line with the second edition, as well as adding in the new City States!

Conquest 2.0: The Rules Hot Take

Our roundtable hot take of the new edition of Conquest: The Last Argument of Kings

How To Paint Everything: Conquest Old Dominion OSL

In our How to Paint Everything series we look at how to paint well, everything, with different techniques and approaches. This wee we're looking at how to take on an airbrush-based approach to OSL painting for a large number...

Model Review: Conquest Old Dominion Mounted Strategos and Karyatid & Kanephor Dual Kit

January marks the release of two new kits for the Old Dominion in Para Bellum’s Conquest: the Last Argument of Kings. Despite the name, the Old Dominion are the youngest faction release-wise in Conquest, and these new kits significantly...

Conquest Next Steps: Adding to Your Army

Welcome back to our ongoing series for Conquest: The Last Argument of Kings. Today we're looking at how to add to your starter set(s) and which units are best/most useful for you to pick up for a full army.  What...

Unit Roles in Conquest

Welcome to our continuing series covering everything Conquest: The Last Argument of Kings! We have articles covering the skirmish form of the game, First Blood, as well but today we're looking at the big full-army rank-and-file format. Army Composition...