Occasionally Serendipity visits my hobby den, and even more occasionally I acknowledge she may have a great idea. Over the past couple of months, I’ve been trying to get my head around what I should take to Clash of Kings. I was hoping to take Basileans, but the timing of the new book landing is probably going to leave me with too little time to settle on what I want to do and get it all painted.
So, after a bit of back and forth between rats and Halflings, I’ve decided the time has arrived to give Kings of Men a whirl. I’m not aiming for any trophies, but I do want an army I’m going to feel comfortable playing for six games across two days. At the moment I’m not convinced I’m comfortable enough with the new edition to get an army on the table I’m both excited about and won’t get me tabled in most games, from my existing factions.
Kingdoms of Men, or at least some sort of human faction that isn’t Basilea, has really appealed throughout third edition. The problem was the various different lists just didn’t seem to offer the right combinations of units to support the sort of army I really want to play. However, the new list hits all the right notes, what’s more the games I’ve played against Kingdoms of Men have convinced me that they have a really solid selection of units.
Excitingly this army is going to give me the opportunity to resurrect the first army I ever played, when I started rank and flank gaming, namely The Empire, all the way back in the fourth edition of Warhammer Fantasy Battle (is that a sign of some sort?). Sadly, I don’t have the army to simply rebase. Happily, I have been picking up a few of my favourite models from back in the day, and the return of The Old World means it’s much easier to come by the rank-and-file troops. The cherry on top of all this is that since those days there have been a range of other cool Empire models which I can also add into the army, creating an aesthetic best of all world’s force.
Over the next couple of months I’m going to be sharing progress as I get ready for Clash and spend absolutely no time at all wondering if I shouldn’t be working on a completely different faction.
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