 Hello, I'm Matt from Mantic and I am Rich from Goblin and today We're taking a look at the Kings of War boxes for the Northern Alliance starter army We've got them both out because we're both playing these two armies against one another in a series But we wanted to talk to you about what we have made from our boxes So this video is all about the Northern Alliance. So if you're interested in the Nightstalkers, sorry Next time exactly next time This is a really good way to get cracking if you're not using the shadows of the warbox which actually has two warbands in it for these Maybe you want a slightly different unit count. This has got ice elementals. Whereas the other one has snow trolls It's a great start if you're just getting a box for yourself, and they're also awesome value So from this we have built force from each one to go against one another comes to around what the 700 points yeah around about without any artifacts And I've loaded up on spells. Yeah, Northern Alliance tends to be quite a costly army from well, maybe it's just my choices But I digress What I've chosen to do with this box and this is an interesting one is Start off with the clansmen and just do a troop of 20 of these clansmen now You get 30 units in the box So using minimum model count you can get like you can have a horde of 30 Which would allow you to use a slightly different makeup of troops because it's a smaller army box You normally disregard that unlocking structure. Yeah, so normally this army These guys my pack hunters wouldn't actually be legal, but in games below a thousand points you would disregard that Because you'd need another 10 of your clansmen in order to have 30 and then 10 here That said this was still works fine, and I think this is quite nicely waited So I've gone for a regimen of pack Clansmen who allow me to unlock if I was using that rule the leader or the Bolt throw because we're doing it, you know with less than a thousand points I've got them both and I've got my troop of pack hunters, and I've got my ice elementals There's not a huge much more to say than that other than these little critters who snuck into the board You always seem to be yeah, they don't get mentioned on any of the boxes now these things people people like they're like gold dust They're on your pack hunter spruce So every sprue of pack hunters you basically you get 10 pack hunters and With that you get another sprue with the weapons on like the shields or the javelins now The javelins also have these snow foxes on so you get two per sprue So in this box you'll get two four six because you've got one two three sprues Yeah, we intend to include the swarms on on the sprues for your tree because then you have them with it and You know look around so you because usually you're gonna have a lot of clams men or a lot of a lot of throw So you're gonna have snow foxes as well. Yeah, so it's always helps It's given me enough to have an actual regiment of snow foxes now I've also got one extra one which I've managed to pinch Because normal alliance troops can take a snow fox with them as one of their upgrades is very cute It is very cute. It gives them an additional attack So my lord who is leading up the army has that additional attack on the snow fox now The reason why I've decided to build them like this is because I wanted more ranged troops rather than one block of Obviously they've got a lot of staying power in the very heavy hitting. I wanted those range troops So these guys with their javelins, you know, they can move through whatever train they want. They've still got their wild charges Javelins the upgrade to javelins is more accurate than the bows and they've got that piercing so they can do a bit more damage And it allows me to spread my army out a bit more Always get your snow foxes because those are gonna be so they look awesome But they're gonna be really useful in tying up the enemy units because they're quick They're nimble so they can do multiple pivots And you know people people like oh you got snow foxes, which is always nice talking. Where did you get? So you touched on those like the opposite your ice elementals are new what yeah, so the ice elementals are pretty awesome They are they're a large infantry aren't they I believe yep, so the snow trolls are monstrous infantry Mm-hmm ice elementals a large infantry The Northern Alliance have this ability with a lot of their models to apply frozen Debuff I suppose yeah to the enemy unit so the bolt thrower can do that as well On a hit and that reduces the enemy's movement speed down to well by one point. It doesn't stack. It just occurs the ones Because you could have a lot of them So the ice can hunters the master hunter for example when they deal damage can slow down the troops What that allows you to do is almost control the board So you're guys who are gonna be trying to get in up close in my face I'm ideally gonna be either meeting them with my foxes to slow them down Or hitting them with the bolts to slow them down while my guys get within for example Their charge range or their shorter range for the javelins are 12 inch Yeah, because they've got a shorter range than the bows if I can keep you Distance or get you where I want you before I charge in with my yeah crushing strength thunderous I make so it makes a little difference if you're lowering the speed then you're lowering the charge range as well And as you said with with the thunderous and wild and wild charge if it stops me Proccing my wild charge before you can then it's gonna be absolutely amazing in combat Well, the game I played against Rob for example if I had had that just that inch difference You wouldn't have been able to get a charge on me So it can make all the difference in that and keeping you where you want to be for my anticipation of where I'm gonna move But yeah, they they are pretty powerful they haven't it's an icy breath attack spell that they have And they also have crushing strength. So they're pretty tough, which is always good anything with crushing strength I like yeah, so you get you get three of them in the box Obviously, I'm gonna base two of them because multi-basing and I'm gonna take this guy from my vanguard Because you can do ice elementals in vanguard. Yeah, very good. And he's gonna be awesome So I don't have to worry about that because they're quite big all the northern lines. They're quite big Yeah, I don't know anyone that's gonna be using full model count and With what's great about you in vanguard is you do get a large unit that you get to use so you're perfect for that Yeah, so that one of the rules for northern lines in vanguard is you get to take one additional large unit You know, I would say I guess technically that means you could run with a Snowtroll prime. Yeah, and an ice element or yes, 100 point Amazing in that in that smaller scale. So we're looking forward to that because I'm gonna be taking advantage of that in our games Yeah, we've got some games lined up in vanguard I feel my caravan would be well protected by Frost I'm excited to see how they do so With with them coming in obviously you can build them in different ways So what if you want to touch on that? Yep, so I built so the Klansman can be built as Klansman with they've got so many heads What I've tried to do with mine if you'll notice my pack hunters are all ladies I didn't actually notice that. They're all ladies heads. I love the costumes. I love that They just you know that you haven't got the elf nakedness. Yeah, just look they look hardcore They are awesome. So you've got so many different spear hand grips angles And I think I've got like purse brew like five different Options leftover dozens of different shield options These guys can have bows and arrows, but they the options they have in the box are spears the upgrade is spears Or Javelins rather mm-hmm the regular Klansman their sword and board You have a selection of like bone axes steel swords and like regular axes Yeah, I got a good mix through they've got all sorts of different backpacks that they can have some of them We've got like bones coming out Some of them have got like little actual carrot. They're carrying things. There's bundles of javelins on the spoon There's loads. I've got another one which I'm building in progress to make this a full set of 40 And they've all got like the bundles of javelins on their backs and stuff And I like the idea of that because you know, maybe the Klansman aren't holding the javelins But why would they not have a bundle of them exactly they seem they seem to carry everything that they might need for yeah And they're remarkably detailed and the northern lions to paint them has been really quite simple Actually, there's a lot of dry brushing involved on the northern lions So my snow trolls are just drybrushed and they look I think they look fantastic No, we've seen a lot of different ways to do it, which is amazing. Obviously, we've got Duncan our graphic designer and layout artist He's really happy. I remember this full job time. I'm very proud But yeah, he's he's done them sort of darker and more mute So this chap for example is paid up by one of our sponsors the painting coach He's got a tutorial video on this very model on his YouTube. Yeah looks fantastic. We're gonna have some close-up photos Obviously, we got it He does look fantastic and these guys there are several tutorials floating around. I'm gonna take this board out one. Yeah Tutorials floating around on these believe Luke's APS does a really good one. Oh, yeah Yep, how to paint these very very fast Basically just using several different primer cans from different angles The frost effects like I was really afraid of these frost effects and Lloyd's still said on the the ball thrower and He was like, yeah, it's really easy. This is how you do it Especially like three steps and the frost effects look ace and I've managed to recreate them on my Slam dunk basketballs ice queen. She is she's she has got a slam dunk Yeah, and the same with the frost wolves, they're just dry brushed to a sort of whitish gray. Yeah, sorry That's no foxes But yeah for one they are pretty hoofing big But for one army box, I think that's awesome It gives it gives you a lot of options how you want to play it Especially and as you pointed out in in the book We do recommend that if you're playing a smaller game Then you ignore the troop unlock rules because it lets you have a bit more variety It lets you have a wider board, which I think is important for getting used to how flanking works Just how maneuvering works. So you're not just using like And it lets you have a bit more fun and Mix it up what you want to use. Yeah, we're not teasing it by doing this. It's just below that pinkie promise It doesn't necessarily make as much sense in a game But yeah, as you get to larger games, you need that it's like the core troops that represent that faction Yeah, it would make sense that that's the core of their army and then there's sort of attachments to that So that the Lord very inspiring. He's brutal some of his stats So he's got his frost wolf with him. So he's got six. Sorry snow fox With him giving him six attacks rather than his five crushing strength to which is amazing on Individual is an individual mighty as well. So he's not afraid of anything very inspiring and wild charge And he has other options too. You can have a aura which gives wild charge to heavy infantry and regular infantry So if you have the her skulls the big heavy troops and bigger armies They can also then have a wild charge, which is just gonna help you get in there This that the whole Northern Alliance army. It's just a bunch of angry Vikings charging at you. We do we do love the aspect of them. They are mad And they definitely look like they've been in the the wild waste for a while. They look like they're like, what are you doing? Yeah, our tundra. Yeah Yeah, he's just ace That that's basically all of his rules and then yeah, the bolt thrower has that frost fruit ability to apply frozen as well It's got a huge range. Yeah, which is which is ideally what you want to be doing with with your with your war engines And especially if you've got that ice tipped then from a massive range You're then placing that debuff on them And you can place that just completely out the way because you know if someone steps out of line Then you can launch an ice ball and put them in the place. It's for a bolt throwing device It's surprisingly accurate and dangerous as well and it's got blast blast is incredible So it hits essentially multiple times. Yes So the likelihood of you scoring that one point of damage needed to freeze somebody is If you hit with it, then you're more than likely gonna do that So it's pretty powerful. It does have reload though. So it is it's quite vulnerable Yeah, you're not really gonna be shuffling it around if you put it in a bad spot or if the enemy predicts where you're wanting to fire on But I mean it it works out with elite on it You're gonna be you are is surprisingly accurate and I do have a second one So I'm basically just gonna have a cross across the board You know Giving away my tactics here, but that's fine. I'm just gonna be writing them down over here But but that that's the entirety of the box I'm really looking forward to getting some more of the elves in so then yeah, and the nades So you've got the berserkers and the ice king In as we grow this so I think a couple more clansmen for me To build this out for the ability to have a just a solid chunk in the middle And then I'm gonna rely sort of on the ice king hunters And the heavy vegans and yeah, I want several pack hunter trees Yeah, especially if you're because you're kind of going for a nice tip centric Yeah, I think slow everything down so you can move which sounds amazing and I'm really scared but It's it seems like a good way to go and obviously building upon the the starter set Then it's it's gonna be you can build upon and have a lot of options Yeah, I think this is a really nice varied set Especially when you throw in the Foxes you dip your toes and move everything you've got your hero your war engines You're your large infantry you swarm So you get to play of everything see what you really like because I know there's some people that they they sort of center towards Other stuff wherever it is like that. These are a lot of war engines Yeah, stuff, which which can really work which will be interesting. I can see myself building out the elementals Ice Queen is gonna be in there as a hero. Yeah bolt throwers and you're just gonna be dealing with a lot of stuff tying you up Yeah, for me, which I feel plays to how the I feel the army is yeah, they're very it's like snow gorilla warfare Yeah, and then the worrying thing is when I finally get to you. You're still actually gonna be doing well So I anticipate these guys being able to stick around for quite a while. Yeah from experience. I know playing with Elvis They do stick around a lot and and so it'll be interesting to see what you do with them I'm probably gonna surprise myself to That is the box for the Northern Alliance of the just the starter army basically yeah simple army There is a there is the two set obviously, which gives you slightly fewer Actually stood at 40 clowns. Yeah, it's an awesome. Yeah, you still got a lot to play with it Which is fantastic, and then there's the mega army box, which gives you about a thousand snow trolls Absolutely incredible. They do not die Which we will look at eventually yeah future as well But for now that is how I have built my Northern Alliance army from this box I hope you've enjoyed seeing that and I'd be quite keen to hear how you've set yours up And whether my tactic is actually gonna work. Can I win through snaring and Tying you up. Don't give him any tips Investing a giant just to walk behind me. That's how I lost to Rob. Yeah, I didn't get a giant in that game, but did I?