Editing Kings of War/Tactics/Kingdoms of Men (section)

==Tactics==
Not really Tactics more some getting started advice. Check out Easy Army KOWV2 to build your armies with all their special rules in one place. 

One Tactic to use vs. shooty armies is to screen your key expensive troops e.g: cavalry. So when they are deployed they can be placed behind a cheaper unit to give them a -1 to be hit, or unable to be hit at all if the two units are same height. 

Kingdoms of Men are the most versatile army in all of KoW, brimming with options. Though to be honest only some units are really specialized. A good way to start an army is by using footguard, who are a very flexible unit, and then customizing the army according to your preference. You can try to build a gunline army, a melee horde, a mixed arms army or just an army that specializes in attrition. In a way your army build can be customised to serve as a reference to real life historical armies, which is amazing.

 -Gunpowder truly is a very good weapon for the kingdoms of men, but if you go that way be sure to have cavalry in order to approach your oponents chaff units before they can tie in your hordes of musketeers and hinder their shooting.Also always take siege artillery in this kind of army, if an oponent is 12" near your canons they are already dead most of the time anyways. This is a very napoleonic way to build an army

 -Melee hordes come in two flavors, one relies on cavalry and berserkers and focuses on being the aggressor, with the main problem being the absolute lack of survivability of the latter. So if you go this way make sure to always be in cover and protect your flanks(CoK 2018 has a great formation now that makes berserkers speed 6 which is excellent for this configuration). A very barbarian army that gambles all in having the first and most decisive charge.
 Another version of this army, similar to the Helenistic armies of antiquity would be to make the army into a hammer and anvil stile army, with Heavy pikemen serving as an anvil and heavy cavalry serving as hammers

 -Mixed arms armies, mix your troops musketeers with pikemen and cavalry for a very historically accurate 16th century army

 -Atrittion, a Legion of militia costs 170 points and has 25/27 nerve, unless  they get flanked there is no way any unit engaged to them can rout them in less than 2 turns, get 5 of these for 850 points with some standard bearers to make them more annoying, then spend your remaining points in USEFUL units(like cavalry and footguard), tie your opponents expensive units up with these tarpits and go grab objectives with your fast units. Overall this is a fun and sadistic build, very similar to medieval armies.
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