Uncharted Empires

€60 for the KoW rulebook and Uncharted Empires bundle, too rich for my blood. Especially as the changes to the core rules seem small.

I’ve only just got people into KoW, they bought 2nd edition rulebooks, so we may just stick with that for the time being.

Like the look of the tribal spears. Not sure about minotaur chariots - I see minotaurs putting their heads down and charging, doing damage with their horns. Hard to do behind some steeds. Unless they are the steeds…

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honestly if i was making minotaur chariots, i’d use minotaur models pulling chariots filled with smaller warriors.

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Speed 6 + wild D3 seems like a good speed for a minotaur on foot. I think I’d just use minotaurs sans chariots.

I guess that the minotaurs will be more heavy infantry sized. The chariots are height 3 and it would make sense for a large infantry chariot to be Ht 4.

Best idea I’ve seen so far were minotaurs wielding bits of chariots as weapons :wink:

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oohh… or backpacks!

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Ha!

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The profile for those that haven’t seen it.

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Reckon two minotaurs per chariot base would be fine. x4 and you’re good to go.

Minotaurs = Guardian Brutes. So Large Infantry.

I thought owlbears = guardian brutes?

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Think the quote is along the lines of ‘amongst the beasts’ that appear as guardian brutes - so the owl bear is simply an example.

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And @MarkG

No issue with the minotaur chariots being represented by actual minotaurs - but they would need to be visually different to avoid any possible confusion with guardian brute units (esp with the changes to chariot basing which is probably going to throw people for a while anyway)

I hadn’t seen that.

The mino cht keywords are Herd, Minotaur
The Guardian Brutes are Beast, Herd.

Maybe a beastman chariot or two mixed in - leading or goading them into battle. A big visual clue even if it’s mainly large infantry minotaurs.

As the minotaur chariots are Height 3, I suspect the minotaurs are more beastmen as large infantry on a chariot would be Ht 4.

That’s what they are.

You arent locked into Owlbears. Guardian Brutes could be anything appropriate. That’s what’s great about Kings of War.

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I get that. It will be hard to represent guardian brutes with minotaurs if minotaurs exist though.

They may not exist. If they do, they’ll fall in a very narrow gap between the brutes and the chariots.

I don’t know, even if minotaurs exist as a separate unit, the Guardian Brutes could be used as a “special” unit of minotaurs, emphasizing the “guardian” part of the name . As long as it is cleared prior to the game starting, I think it’s fine :slight_smile: