And there is even a Robin Hood style unit which will allow me to use my 'Bowmen of Bergerac' minis again. There are different flavours of knights, including the long lost and much asked for foot knights and some cool flying knights. These are classic good guy knights and peasents, very closely following the Bretonnian mould, except with added water elementals. This knightly Brotherhood guard the southern realms from the depravations of the abyss. Lets take a brief overview of the Lists one by one.
There are nine new lists for some of Mantica's minor factions, and whilst a lot of them are shall we say 'Inspired' by Warhammer fantasy armies the included background section for each list grounds them firmly within the Kings of War world. This is all for the good, I like things to match, it makes it feel like there's a bit of thought gone into the range. The footprint is the same as the gamers edition of the main rulebook and the interior is done in the same style.
The book is just over 70 pages, softback and in full colour, plenty of art and photos, some new some reused. It sounds like a giant win-win, lets take a closer look. This will ultimately encourage even more people to give KoW a try and allows those of us who already have extensive Warhammer collections to use a lot more of our minis in our games, and ultimately for our group pretty much signals our complete conversion from Warhammer Fantasy to KoW. This book of new lists by Mantic is a very clever move, they don't make minis for any of them, but quite a few bear a striking resemblance to armies from the now defunct Warhammer Fantasy Battles. I've been eagerly awaiting this book, Kings of War has been very well received in my gaming group and we've been having a lot of fun experimenting with new army lists.