kings of war

Clash of Kings 2025 Rules – The Goonhammer Roundtable Review

Alright, it’s the big one. Once a year, Kings of War gets its main update in Clash of Kings (not at all confusing to have an event with the same name), and today we’re looking at the 2025 edition!...

Clash of Kings 2025 Command Dice – The Goonhammer Roundtable Review

In an entirely uncontroversial turn of events, Mantic Games have introduced Command Dice into their flagship fantasy wargame, Kings of War. This mechanic, used in the company’s other games, is an optional rule in the latest Clash of Kings...

Competitive Innovations in Pannithor #0: Clash! A-ah!

In a new feature for Goonhammer’s Kings of War coverage, Stephanie Bee reviews lists from Clash of Kings 2024, the largest Kings of War event ever (so far!).

Road to Clash of Kings 2024

When I was asked to do a ‘Road to Clash’ article I must admit to some confusion. Clearly I’d be taking the M1 straight up from Oxford which doesn’t provide much insight into the tournament. Then I read some...

Tournament Report: Clash of Kings 2024 – The Varangur Bus is Coming

Stephanie Bee walks us through a strong showing at this year's Clash of Kings event in Nottingham.

Games Industry News Roundup- September 10th, 2024

Here at Goonhammer, we know that it’s hard to keep track of all the news happening all the time in the games industry. So much is always going on with games of all sorts, and their related media, it...

Wargames Atlantic Werewolves – The Goonhammer Review

Thank you to Wargames Atlantic for providing a box of their Classic Fantasy: Werewolves for review. If you’d like to pick up this kit and support Goonhammer while you’re at it, get it through our affiliate link. The Contents Each box...

Riftforged Orcs March Forth: Kings of War Tournament Debut

G’day Goonhammer readers! Over the last six months, both of us (Cytoplasm and Urr) have been preparing new armies for Kings of War. First we covered Urr's performance with one of the early iterations of his Twilight Kin army,...

Dawn of Urr’s Twilight Kin: The Tournament Debut of a New Kings of War Army

G’day Goonhammer readers! Over the last six months, both of us (Cytoplasm and Urr) have been preparing new armies for Kings of War. We built, painted and very nearly completed these armies for a tournament in early May; a...

It’s High Tide For The Trident Realms: New Rules, New Models

G’day Goonhammer readers! The Trident Realms of Neritica, a vast subnautical empire of numerous aquatic races (and monsters), are the next to be receiving mid-year updates in Kings of War. Similar to the mid-year updates of the Nightstalkers and...