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Hey folks, by now I imagine all you diehard kings of war players and some newbies that have maybe come into the hobby the last few months have seen and are super excited about the amazing new hard plastic empire of dust range, the new hard plastic ogres and the other bits and bobs that have been accompanied in them. One of which is a brand new two player starter set. This is a fantastic way of getting hold of all of those new hard plastics with both empire of dust and the ogres and obviously a fantastic way of getting into the hobby and getting started within this box as well is the new big red book, the compendium. That has everything you could possibly need in it to get started in terms of rules updates from previous FAQs, all the army lists that you need that are currently available, everything that you could possibly need to get gaming and that is why this is quite a hefty beast. So I'll stop blabbering and let's get it open and have a look inside. So first of all I'll give you a quick show of the contents at the back there, I'll run up the images as we go through them as well on the screen but you get a whole heap of infantry for both the empire of dust and the ogres, multiple different ways of combining them you've got your boomers for your ogres, within the empire of dust you've also got your cavalry as well so there's a lot in here to really get you started with those two armies. Set that down there, wow look at that, talk about full, wow it's done a very good job of fitting all of that in there, lots and lots of bases, you can tell that there's ogres in here because there's a lot of 40mm bases and then some cavalry bases as well, set all these to one side, we can get to the more interesting stuff, start out with these two little bags, your resin ogre warlord and your resin empire of dust Pharaoh, I won't get these out because they're obviously unbuilt, a bit boring to look at but I'll pop up some images on screen, really nice new models and lots of ogres, now if you haven't already seen these new sprues, there is a blog on it go check them out, they are absolutely stunning, by far I think in my opinion the best sprues we have done to date, the goblins are beautiful, the rakein are beautiful, there's some really nice frames for firefight as well but these are just absolutely amazing, I think the proportions of them are brilliant, we joke about them not skipping leg day but these look like beasty ogres, all your different weapon options on a frame which I think is fantastic, saves the need for a lot of metal or resin upgrades, everything's already there, two different types of frames, so there is a male frame and a female frame, it's nice to see that we've mixed the two in there and of course you play your games however you want to play them, they could be whatever gender you want them to be but it is nice to see that there's representation there in two different forms and then moving on we have, let's just get these into some order, your empire of dust cavalry, now these are really nice, again this is two frames per bag, you've got your bodies of your horses on one and then you've got your heads and your riders with all their weapon options on there as well, really really nice, lots of detail, the shields have so much detail in each different one and there's varying different, lots and lots of different varieties of the shields are not all the same which is always good, it can often be the case with rank and flank that it's tricky to try and add some sort of personality into your ranks of troops if they all look the same, well having different shields, having different faces, things like that really does help, lots of different head options down here as well, same with the horses, all the horses look different as well which I think is fantastic and then your empire of dust infantry as well, these have got shields, they've got bows, so they've got spears and they've got bows, they've obviously got shields as well, again fantastic detail, they're just that right level of not being too spindly that they're going to break but not being too chunky that they don't look like skeletons, I think these are really nice, I would have said these are one of the best sprues we've ever done but then we went and did the ogres immediately afterwards so they've just been superseded in my eyes but they are still stunning, yeah four bags of those and then get started booklet which I'll just flick through for you now, this is great if you're picking up this two player starter set as someone completely new to the hobby really just gives you a good overview of everything you get in the box and also within the hobby, there's a little piece in here about how to assemble your armies, again if you're completely new to the hobby, always very handy, little assembly guides and then the same for painting, some really nice little painting guide there, there's also a fantastic painting guide for the ogres just gone up on our website this week so do check that out, Ken Strower has done a fantastic job of painting with his ogres and then there's a nice little fluffy section about the world of panophore just to get you really set in the immersion if you're very new to the world of panophore, a bit of background on the ogres and a bit of background on the empire of dust and then we've also put all the stats for the ones that you can build out of this box in this little get started booklet so if you're wanting to just dive head first without you know fully going into the whole rule book and making lists and that sort of thing you've got a nice starter point at this point here same with the example game actions that's really useful to just have this little book for when you're getting started you know the big book can be a bit daunting maybe to new players so to be able to just follow this as a guide is really really helpful and a little bit about playing a campaign as well so fantastic little booklet for anyone that is completely new to either kings of war or to hobbying in general always nice to have these in in a starter set just makes things a little more accessible for those that are new to it and then of course there's also this great big beastie thing the previous two player starters when they came out they had what was known as the gamers edition which was maybe a third of this size and I just had the how to play and your lists and that was it really nice simple list but then this came along and this supersedes those books because this has absolutely everything in it up to date so we decided that going forward with this two player set and all future two player sets so all future made two player sets in terms of sets that are already out that had the gamers will now get this this is a fantastic booklet because it has absolutely everything you need in it there's plenty of blogs we shouted and raved about this when when it came out plenty of blogs for you to go check out if you want to learn a bit more about this but I think in terms of value having this inside the two player set is brilliant because you know there's a there's a heft of your value right there in in this book you know if you to buy all of this separately there's quite a saving in buying a two player set so you know even if you are a hardened kings of war player but you still to pick this book up and you're thinking of playing ogres or thinking of playing empire dust or both or you have a friend that wants to wants to start then this is a great opportunity to get hold of the new book and lots of fantastic new hard plastics so there we go as you can see you get a fantastic range of brand new hard plastic sprues for the empire of dust and the ogres in this set and also the new rule book so in terms of value it's it's a no-brainer really if if you're looking to pick up either of those two armies and the rule book as well and particularly if you you've got a friend that wants to play the other army you can go halves and fight it out over the rule book play your very you could play your very first game of ogres versus empire dust and the winner takes the rule book but yeah it's a fantastic fantastic value and fantastic way of getting new people into the hobby which of course is always one of our main aims both as a company but also as as the community as well as hobbyists ourselves you know we we want to see more and more people getting involved in our hobby because then that's more and more people we can lose to and thank you ever so much for joining me and we shall see you again soon