Kings of War - Vanguard

[Darkson (Simon)]

From their blog: https://manticblog.com/2018/09/14/kings ... e-mantica/

"YOUR WARBAND, YOUR STORY

We’ve designed Vanguard to be played as one-off games, but for those who want to go a little deeper, you can also play through an action-packed campaign. You’re able to create your company of elites (and a few grunts!), assign them special roles, equip them with the best items and then head into the danger zone!

There are 28 pages of detailed campaign rules in the rulebook, so as your fighters gain experience, they’ll learn new, more powerful abilities and become your warband, with your story.

We’ve been busy creating our own warbands here at Mantic. From next week you’ll be able to read about the progression of our warbands in a series of blogs (the tale of the 47 gamers).

LINKS WITH KINGS OF WAR

Vanguard and Kings of War complement each other and harmoniously work together. All the 12 missions in the Vanguard rulebook have optional hooks with Kings of War, so your Vanguard skirmishes can have implications in your larger battles.

Not only that but Vanguard is helping us create entirely new units and heroes for Kings of War that will be introduced via the annual Clash of Kings supplement. So, the bigger Vanguard gets, the bigger KoW becomes too! Oh, and the models are all compatible – so if you just fancy some new heroes for your KoW army then Vanguard releases have you covered "

[Dave]

Rulebook is half price until the 27th October so I’ll take a punt on it for £12.50.

[Tom]

Tempting... have you ordered yet?

You need special dice as well don't you?

[Dave]

Not yet, waiting to see if they bring anything else out that I might want. It’s only on pre order and won’t be dispatched until 22nd October.

Dice can wait for now I reckon, see what the rules are like and play with proxy the dice to start with.

[Darkson (Simon)]

It’s only on pre order and won’t be dispatched until 22nd October.

That's assuming there's no hiccups with getting the KS out - they've said they won't release pre-orders/retail until all KS are shipped (though I'm not taking that as gospel!).

[Darkson (Simon)]

If I've read it correctly I should be getting an extra set of dice with the Northman warband.

[Ray]

We'll be busy playing the next necromunda campaign by the time this ships so it really doesn't matter so much if there ends up being a short delay. The dice are just D6 with different markings so it should just be a case of making a quick conversion table and using normal dice.

[Tom]

The dice are the same as the walking dead aren't they?

Simon/Mike can hopefully lend us a few if they aren't using them.

[Darkson (Simon)]

According to the Mantic email the rules will be up for free on the website on the 8th, also be a quick reference sheet and Warband lists for 14 factions.

[Darkson (Simon)]

Rules are up on the Mantic site: http://www.manticgames.com/free-rules.html

Shipping should start Friday, but I'm not holding my breath.