kings of war

Digitising Kings of War in the Mantic Companion

G’day Goonhammer readers! For the unaware, Mantic is moving into the 21st century by moving online with their new Companion App. The Mantic Companion is a progressive web application that brings all the components of their biggest games to...

What else is in the new Kings of War (2022) book?

G’day, Goonhammer readers! By now, most of our Kings of War readers will have the Kings of War (2022) book (aka The Big Red Book) in their eager hands. We have already covered the various new game modes; Legendary...

Compact Kings of War with Ambush!

G’day Goonhammer readers! The new Kings of War (2022) rulebook (aka Gamer’s Compendium aka Big Red Book), the final new game mode we have yet to cover is Ambush: smaller, quicker games of Kings of War. Thus far we...

Laying Siege With Kings of War

G’day Goonhammer readers! The new Kings of War Gamer’s Compendium is bringing all of the rules needed to play the core game, but it’s also stacked with extra rules for new battle modes. Already we have revealed how to...

Taking Kings of War up a notch with Legendary Games

G’day Goonhammer readers! If you’re not aware, almost the entire Kings of War community is counting down the days until October 24th and the release of the new Kings of War Gamer’s Compendium. This is going to be a...

Kings of War: Post-tournament army analysis

G’day Goonhammer readers! Having finished our recap of ConVic 2022, it is time to critically assess the army lists we took. We'll explore what changes we feel are needed, but also how we can improve our own gameplay -...

Goonhammer Event Report: the 2022 Michigan GT in Lansing, Michigan

The Michigan GT happened this past weekend (Sep 30 - October 2) in downtown Lansing, Michigan at the Lansing Center. The event has been going for about a decade, first starting small as a Warhammer 40k GT and now...

Kings of War Tournament Reports: ConVic 2022 Day 2

G’day Goonhammer readers! The ultimate Victorian Kings of War tournament, ConVic, continued into Day 2. Urr with his Varangur has a very respectable score of 3 wins and 1 loss, while Cytoplasm and his Goblins have been a bit...

New Kings of War: A massive book, Orcs, Ogres, and even an App!

G’day Goonhammer readers! In the last week Mantic has revealed a huge range of upcoming releases for Kings of War, from a new book to models and even an app! We summarize all that is known, sprinkling a little...

Kings of War Tournament Reports: ConVic 2022 Day 1

G’day Goonhammer readers! We, Urr and Cytoplasm, finally participated in ConVic 2022, the biggest Kings of War tournament so far this year in Victoria, Australia. We have spent the last 7 months preparing our totally new armies for this...