The possible future of Twilight Kin (dark elves) in KOW
Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2016 8:14 am
I don't know if this is the correct subforum, apologies if I posted in the wrong one.
First some background : When Mantic started the public beta test for the second edition of Kings of War, all armies from 1st edition were available at the start except for one, the Twilight Kin, their "evil elves" army.
The problem was that Mantic was not satisfied with their existing theme, background and gameplay, as their elven part was too close to the normal elven list and the rest of the army was mainly some demons from the Legions of the Abyss army.
While this same general idea had worked rather well for the abyssal dwarves, the darves made it work with their own units like the golems and the abyssal part was unique, with things like the halfbreed and grotesque (~bull centaurs in cavalry and large cavalry versions)
As players still wanted to play dark elves in KoW, Mantic released a temporary army list (that was also beta tested with the others so the list is balanced) that is still available to download as a PDF, but not printed in any book for now.
The plan was and still is to release (probably later this year or more likely early next year) a supplement that will include 3 new major factions, one for each alignement, the evil faction being the reimagined Twilight Kin army.
As Mantic has not yet started really working on this supplement, it's still too early to know what the final version of the army will be exactly, and this has made many dark elves players warry of jumping to KoW fully for fear of seeing part of their army become obsolete with the new version.
There have been however some recent infos about an idea that seems more and more likely to be used for the final version, were the theme of the Twilight Kin would switch from "abyssal elves" (elves + demons) to elves thematically aligned with the new "night stalker" army from the uncharted Empires supplement, meaning that the final list would be something like "elves + nightmare creatures".
(And as part of the night stalkers existance comes from the destruction of an elven city during the fall of the gods, elves where already linked to the nightstaler fluff)
This would bring an interesting developpement for the army, link the nightstalkers with a major faction of the Mantica world, and open the way for new ideas and units.
As a bonus, many demons models can also make fairly decent night stalker units (especially with a dark or glooming paint job).
And of course at worst you could still ally demons to your evil elves if you really wanted to continue using them.
As I said, this is absolutely not final yet and the idea might change again, but it's very likely that this will be the new theme of the Twilight Kin, so I though that the information might be of insterest to fellow dark elves players.
First some background : When Mantic started the public beta test for the second edition of Kings of War, all armies from 1st edition were available at the start except for one, the Twilight Kin, their "evil elves" army.
The problem was that Mantic was not satisfied with their existing theme, background and gameplay, as their elven part was too close to the normal elven list and the rest of the army was mainly some demons from the Legions of the Abyss army.
While this same general idea had worked rather well for the abyssal dwarves, the darves made it work with their own units like the golems and the abyssal part was unique, with things like the halfbreed and grotesque (~bull centaurs in cavalry and large cavalry versions)
As players still wanted to play dark elves in KoW, Mantic released a temporary army list (that was also beta tested with the others so the list is balanced) that is still available to download as a PDF, but not printed in any book for now.
The plan was and still is to release (probably later this year or more likely early next year) a supplement that will include 3 new major factions, one for each alignement, the evil faction being the reimagined Twilight Kin army.
As Mantic has not yet started really working on this supplement, it's still too early to know what the final version of the army will be exactly, and this has made many dark elves players warry of jumping to KoW fully for fear of seeing part of their army become obsolete with the new version.
There have been however some recent infos about an idea that seems more and more likely to be used for the final version, were the theme of the Twilight Kin would switch from "abyssal elves" (elves + demons) to elves thematically aligned with the new "night stalker" army from the uncharted Empires supplement, meaning that the final list would be something like "elves + nightmare creatures".
(And as part of the night stalkers existance comes from the destruction of an elven city during the fall of the gods, elves where already linked to the nightstaler fluff)
This would bring an interesting developpement for the army, link the nightstalkers with a major faction of the Mantica world, and open the way for new ideas and units.
As a bonus, many demons models can also make fairly decent night stalker units (especially with a dark or glooming paint job).
And of course at worst you could still ally demons to your evil elves if you really wanted to continue using them.
As I said, this is absolutely not final yet and the idea might change again, but it's very likely that this will be the new theme of the Twilight Kin, so I though that the information might be of insterest to fellow dark elves players.