Ambush Week – Ambush, The Gateway To Great Fantasy Gaming

Hey Jonny here,

So you want to start playing the greatest fantasy rank and flank game there is, but don’t know where to begin?

FEAR NOT!

Ambush

Ambush is a brand new way to play our flagship game Kings of War! Played at a lower points level than standard games allowing that same joyful Kings of War experience but in a much easier to learn format.

Brilliant for getting started yourself, to introduce new players or even as a quick game for those experienced that are simply short on time.

The rules for Ambush can be found not only in the Kings Of War Rulebook but also on the Mantic Companion for free, including the list builder! (The whole App still has full free access until the end of this month too!)

Ready For War

As committed wargamers, we all love the great spectacle of a huge 2,000+ points Kings of War battle in full swing on the gaming table. Two massive armies facing up to each other across the battlefield is truly a sight to behold, and nothing creates that sense of awe and wonder quite like Kings Of War!

However, building and painting that amount of models can be quite the undertaking. You’ve got to choose your army, create the list, (tinker with the list an endless amount), then build possibly hundreds of miniatures, hopefully get them all painted, mount them all on fittingly cool multibases and then, ultimately, play with them. For some people this process can take several months. Plus there’s a strong likelihood they may lose the will to finish halfway through the project, or get distracted* by the next shiny new release.

*(Editors notes: I feel like I’ve personally attac… SQUIRREL…)

Now of course it’s worth saying, the reward of completing a large scale army is absolutely worth it…

Nevertheless with Ambush we have strived for a much faster, simpler way to introduce new players to the incredible experience of a Kings of War battle.

In Ambush we have made a ruleset that can be used to play games with as little as two or three units per side all the way up to a limit cap at 995pts. Then, once you have had that first titillating taste of rank and flank action, you can take the plunge and scale up to full scale games of  2,000pts and beyond!

The main advantage of Ambush is that the lower points tally for a playable army means you don’t have to paint up a huge amount of models in order to get started. What’s more, combined with a ban on hordes and legions of infantry at this level, you’ll be able to smash out a whole bunch of troop and regiment sized units to get your army ready for the tabletop in next to no time. If space has also been a stumbling block in your road to playing such games, you can even play Ambush on as small as a 3ft x 3ft table too, so there isn’t such a large demand on not only space but the amount of terrain you may need to build too!

Oh, and to make it even easier, we are introducing brand new “ambush sets” for you to pick up and get started immediately!

Each set comes with enough models to field a good sized force including new bases for quick multibasing, an Ambush Starter Book with quick start guides and a instruction manual for the models so building has never been quicker!

Out next week, you can pre-order and pick them up in your local friendly gaming store or online HERE!

As a result, we see Ambush as a wonderful new way to recruit new players into the Kings of War family. Local stores will be running demo games as well as our Pathfinders getting out into stores, clubs and the general community to demo over the next month (and beyond) so go give it a try, you won’t be disappointed!

Here at Mantic we’re super excited about Ambush and think it makes it easier than ever to start playing Kings of War. In fact, a number of us here at Mantic HQ are well on the way to creating armies specially for Ambush. Naturally these are armies we’ve always wanted to play, but haven’t had the opportunity to paint a full force, so keep your eye out for staff armies in the future.