Wrath of Kings

A skirmish-level wargame produced by Cool Mini Or Not.

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The game comes in three sizes; intro, skirmish, and battle.

• Intro is two rank 1 leaders, twelve rank 1 infantry, and two rank 1 specialists.
• Skirmish is three rank 1 leaders, eighteen rank 1 infantry, and two rank 1 specialists and then you can have any mix of two of the following: three rank 1 infantry or one rank 1 specialist.
• Battle is five rank 1 leaders, twenty four rank 1 infantry, and four rank 1 specialists and then you can have any mix of four of the following: three rank 1 infantry or one rank 1 specialist.

Rank 2 units (such as your bigger infantry, monsters and special characters) are purchased as a trade, you swap two rank 1 things for a rank 2 of the same type (leaders for leaders, infantry for infantry and specialists for specialists).

This means that at the moment if you went balls to the wall, the largest army you could have at battle level would be 5 leaders, 36 infantry and 4 specialists, so 45 minis total. The smallest would be half that.

There are no minimum unit sizes so you aren't under any obligation to buy squads or have a set number of guys. You could have an entire army of rank 1 infantry except the one rank 2 you wanted to buy or whatever. Each faction also has a different mix of rank 1 and 2 things so this can affect your army composition. Hadross for example have one type of rank 1 infantry but two rank 2 types while Nasier have two rank 1 types and one rank 2.

The game is fairly cheap to get into compared to most. The rules and statcards are free downloads on their website (as is their lore novel), with only the starter box required to play a full game. There are very few extras to buy too, with most factions having three at the moment. All in all, only $76 is required to get into each faction (although it is notably easy to obtain starter sets from $40 up through other distributors; at the moment of this writing, Miniature Market has $52 starter sets). Starter sets come with 30 miniatures barring House Hadross which has 24, with said miniatures being made of Warhammer grade plastic.

See Also

• The Wrath of Kings website.
• The downloadable rulebook.
• Painting, promotion, and play videos.