Kings of War A Veteran Wargamer’s Newbie Guide

I’ll start the review series with some tournament basics.  Dice being the most basic requirement of the game and I’ll need lots.  I’m an Amazon Prime member so the day after I ordered them these arrived:

Two packs of 30 dice in six colours, five of each colour in a pack giving me 60 dice in total.  Advice from the community is that counting dice isn’t something to waste time on so having dice in easy to count groups is best.  With these I have six sets of 10 in clearly different colours, so counting will be very straightforward.

The maximum number of attacks I can muster from any single unit in my army is 25, and in a flank that’s 50.  I’ve got enough dice to cover that so should be able to manage any possible single roll requirement in any game with these.  I’ve gone for 14mm.  That’s quite big as you are expected to hold all of the dice for a single roll at the same time.  My reasoning is that my eyesight isn’t getting any better and I’d like to be able to see the pips easily without having to resort to putting my glasses on every time.

On to a new device for me, a chess clock.  In tournament play a chess clock is used.  Having read the information pack for Clash of Kings it makes it clear that each player is expected to provide their own clock.  I was going to get one anyway as I’ve not played games with them before so want to get used to using one in my practice games.  Again this was here next day from Amazon.  It is a non-branded one but there are branded versions available for 20%-50% more.  This one was £17 and was amongst the least expensive.

They are pretty straightforward to program and use.  I figured mine out in a couple of minutes.  At Clash the time limit is 65 minutes per game so I’ll set mine to that and practice accordingly.

A Veteran Wargamer’s Kings Of War Journey Part 2: A Newbie’s Guide To Game META!

Part 1 is here.

A Veteran Wargamer’s Kings of War Journey Part 1: Where Have I Been All Your Life?