That would be cool. If the Iron Beast is anything like the original, it’s less punchy and more tanky. I’d love to see something else for that role.
he is as they have a chef theme for the board game and the scenarios are based on dinner courses, but the minis so far for the range are
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I reckon the food theme will be way more downplayed as far as the KoW army goes. I expect that the Sauceror or maybe a “Master Chef” hero or something.
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yeah, I think we’ll see it in Vanguard, there was talk then that the chefs are like Steven Segal in Under Siege.
They go ahead of the main force to forage, scout and then get the dinner on before the main army arrives.
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Some Halfling ideas to make them more unique:
Slings - unique type of missile fire, steady aim?
Fearsome steeds - to give them some punch, experts in animal husbandry
War-wagons pulled by oxen/shire horses - more punch, Halfling ingenuity
Therennian Sea Guard style unit - mixed spears/bows, well-drilled militia
A burrowing/tunnelling unit of some sort - scout
Flying unit - riding giant birds, more expertise with animals
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They’ll be the cook/scout models as some sort of unit & handgunners being added - but yeah, they’ll need a few things to make the army play (rather than simply look) different
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I would also like to point out that Westfalia is coming out with another Halfling Kickstarter if you want something besides Mantic’s aesthetic. They have been releasing some for their Patreon Supporters (One Gold Piece) for 3D printing.
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I have a halfling one of those from Westfalia already, although I cut it down to make two because it was realistically sized and therefore too large for the table top
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yeah really looking forward to that kickstarter so I can get the models
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Regarding LOTR references I could see a few logical ones…
“Sheriff’s” as a hero character (these were the sort of county police in Tolkien’s setting, mostly dealing with lost animals and border patrol since there wasn’t much serious crime.) Perhaps a source of Rally?
Halfling militia as a cheap mass melee unit, comparable to the KoM militia unit. Fluffed as regular citizens banded together with improvised weapons. Lousy defense and attack but cheap and can be taken in regiments, hordes, and legions (no troops) . Good for use as chaff.
“Mayor” as the general equivalent hero.
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Again shamelessly nicking other company’s models, but militia as above (as plenty of suitable ones out there), a dog pack or similar as fast cav/swarm, slingers.
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I love the Westfalia models. They look more of a professional army which I like a lot as I don’t see league of rhordia sending halflings armed with ladles and spatulas to the front to fight unless they are defending a city or something .
I have a horde of the swordmen(braves) . A legion worth of spearlings a horde of the archers and a regiment of the goat cav. They all are great models, working on them now.
I would love to see some interesting hammer units for them made by their engineers similar to iron beast but maybe mixed with like goblin mincers. Also I think a great theme list would be Forest halfling giving them some of the Forces of nature options like earth elementals or forest shamblers.
Also a more professional infantry unit that maybe hits on 4s and not 5s please. Also a halfway useful melee hero. They don’t have to be Grokmagok or anything but the master sergeant as he is now is just so so bad.
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New Counter Charge episode out.
Halfling special for all the halfling fans.
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fascinating chat, my favourite part was when he thought Jonathon Rhys-Davis was Scottish and not Welsh. 
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Howdey folks, late to the party but those pantries won’t raid themselves…
So I’ve been a fan of Halflings for some time. I am one of those people who keeps backing the TrollTrader kickstarters for more of the diminutive little sods, so when I heard Mantic were releasing Halflings in Kings of War…
I’m not really sure what I’d like to see in the army as a whole, I still like the balance between serious practicality and tongue in cheek humour. Such as the Halfling cook-pot. I would, however, think a game mechanic similar to the old WHFB Empire State Troops would be characterful for a Halfling army.
Basically, you had parent units and support units. The parent unit was always a larger unit (Regiment/Horde) while the support unit was smaller (Troop/Regiment). The idea was if an enemy unit charged one unit, then the other could also react to the charge.
Example 1: A horde of spearmen supported by a regiment of rifles gets charged. The rifles could declare a ‘stand and shoot’, hopefully knocking a few wounds off the enemy while the spearmen held.
Example 2: A horde of spearmen supported by a regiment of swordsmen gets charged. The swordsmen declare a ‘countercharge’, which swings round into the enemy flank once they’ve made contact with the spearmen.
If the rules were balanced accordingly, then it could separate hordes of undisciplined Goblins from a more militaristic Halfling army, give a little character if not a unique mechanic, but also make opponents weigh up a combat before charging a relatively squishy Halfling unit.
But really, I just want Halflings riding Wolhhounds for those nostalgic Labyrinth moments.
IMO, if a unit can’t operate within the existing rules, it probably shouldn’t exist.
I played Empire and the various rules on detachments needed a lot of clarification. My most regular opponent, an Orc player, felt a bit put out by them - he had to work much harder to get the flank charge/extra shots in.
Everyone’s free to put their ideas out there but it seems worth sticking close to the ethos (not quite the right word!) of the game design.
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Yeah, a new game mechanic is tricky to bring in for a faction, but you could certainly use existing rules to enable units to buff each other.
With halfling infantry you could give hordes Rally 1 (halfling regiments/troops only), regiments Rally 1 (troops only) - so that big units provide morale support for smaller ones?
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Some of these ideas weren’t too far off!
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