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The Green Knight. He showed up on the first turn, rolled a 9 for his charge, and took out an organ gun crew before it could even fire.

I don't really expect that to ever happen again, but it was game winning that time.

My Grimwrath Berzerker, hands down. Have the max of 3 for Clash Comp. I've lost about every game under official point scoring but I don't care about that. He has some awesome cinematic killing scenes and reaps a bloody toll. It's better to have him die in combat so he can deal one last whoopin' on his way out the door. I suppose if I paid more attention to scenario scoring I would be just fine but that's not nearly as fun as seeing (finally!) an army of slayers tear into the foe.


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endur wrote:
The Green Knight. He showed up on the first turn, rolled a 9 for his charge, and took out an organ gun crew before it could even fire.

I don't really expect that to ever happen again, but it was game winning that time.

Holy Crap! The Green Knight! I remember him!

 Siegfried VII wrote:
Well I have plenty of units I like, but I think I'll tell you guys about one that hasn't been mentioned yet.

My Knight Venator is one of my favourite models and one of my favourite performers in my Stormcast Eternals Army.

He's like a rockstar guitar player. He goes out on stage, delivers a wonderful guitar solo and then goes in the background supporting the band.

There are times when he does nothing but when his Star-fated Arrow his the monster/hero mark my opponents cry bitter tears as his damage potential is huge. And together his his 12 movement and his 30 inches range there are few targets that he can't reach...

I think that is the best thing I've heard all day

dragon host formation, teclis on balewin vortex and bolt throwers

 slowclinic wrote:
Last night I fielded my newly improved Night Goblin army combined with Ogres. For a local tournament I needed to make up a certain number of points (comp system) fast to have enoug, and one box of Ogres plus a Stonehorn was the cheapest and most straight forward way of doing so.

The Ogres stole the show, clearing up a number of River Trolls before charge an Araknarok (spelling?) Spider and taking it from 14 to 2 wounds in a single turn. Reduced to two models, they then went on to take out two Goblin Shamans and get me the win. I'll be investing in more Ogres soon!

Awesome to see the Ogres worked out for ya

In the end what made you go with the stonehorn over getting the extra shaman?


Back on to the topic, soon I hope to add some faithful units from Bretonia on here as I just picked me up a little force of them. Cant wait to try out the Green Knight and Pegasus Knights!

The Stonehorn is 18 pool choices and the Thundertusk is 13. The need to meet the required points cost without spending much money was the driving force behind my decision. That being said, I run a completely shoot-free army and I kind of like the fluffy aspect of a rampaging horde.

Back on topic indeed, my Night Goblin blob do me annoyingly proud. I say annoyingly because there's 40 of them with both banners, I usually give inspiring presence and cast a mystic shield. Plus the netters, they're reducing any hit rolls against them by one. It's a basic blob tactic, but can render quite a lot of things useless for a majority of the game... I just find it kind of annoying to do.

The two units that have been the thorn in the side of my opponents are Mannfred, Mortarch of Night and Morghast Archai. They have independently killed Skarbrand, Bloodthirsters, Soulgrinders and the like.

Trolls. They are beasts in melee and their vomit is pretty deadly! Can't tell you how many times just one of three has taken 8+ shots and lived to tell the tale.

Trolls are one of my favourite units in the game. I have six River Trolls, and run them alongside a unit of six standard Ogres. Tarpits and annihilates!

I like Ironbreakers as a cheap but tough shield wall.

Either the Ogre Stonehorn or Thundertusk... i can't decide!

Plague Monks.

2 attacks base
+1 attack on charge
Re-roll misses
Re-roll wounds of 1 (one-off)
6's to wound rend -1
Roll a dice for each 6 to wound; 6 = 1 mortal wound (one-off)
Roll a die for each Monk that dies; 6 = 1 mortal wound

They buff like crazy. And all within the unit itself. If I used these outside of our friendly group I'd probably double up on size too (unit of 30-40).

Sisters of the thorn did massive work for me last night. Shield of thorns reroll saved me so many times from blightkings d6 wound weapons on 6s to hit. Over two turns i took 3 damage and shield of thorns dished out 5.

About half of my save were made do to reroll, if not for that id have lost the unit first round of combat. I dodged 6 d6 wound hits.....give you a guess how it normally goes lol

 slowclinic wrote:
Trolls are one of my favourite units in the game. I have six River Trolls, and run them alongside a unit of six standard Ogres. Tarpits and annihilates!

What sucks about the other Trolls is that they aren't "Too Stupid Too Die!". Their bonuses are pretty lackluster compared...Ignore a Mortal Wound from a spell on a 6 and +1 save? -1 to hit in CC? Or 50% chance to just not die? Another golden unit for me in the few games I've played with it is the Dread Maw...rend -3 until 4 wounds with a 3+ save and a 3d6" move popping behind enemy lines is quite good!

Mj445 wrote:

 slowclinic wrote:
Trolls are one of my favourite units in the game. I have six River Trolls, and run them alongside a unit of six standard Ogres. Tarpits and annihilates!

What sucks about the other Trolls is that they aren't "Too Stupid Too Die!". Their bonuses are pretty lackluster compared...Ignore a Mortal Wound from a spell on a 6 and +1 save? -1 to hit in CC? Or 50% chance to just not die? Another golden unit for me in the few games I've played with it is the Dread Maw...rend -3 until 4 wounds with a 3+ save and a 3d6" move popping behind enemy lines is quite good!

Sooooo jealous of your dread maw......i wantz one

I'm not seeing nearly enough Dwarf Love on this thread!!

That being said my go to with my Dwarves is one word: Artillery
Organ Gun backed up by multiple cannons seems to be the prime target for most of my enemies.

That being said the Unsung Hero has to be my Thane with Battle Standard essentially letting me ignore Battleshock

Dwarf Pride!

As an added note, I just wanted to say that this has to be one of the nicest and most positively uplifting threads I've read through when revolving around a Games Workshop game. I wish all forum posts were as positive as this.

I had a game yesterday with a funny unit of outriders. They took a charge from a unit of 6 Dragon Ogors near the beginning and were wiped out but for the champion with the grenade launcher who was wounded. This was perhaps Battle Round 2.

The champion went on to kill a remaining Dragon Ogor (which had taken a blasting from most of my army), he ran forward and killed the Ogriod Thaumaturge, killed 5 or 6 Pink Horrors, survived waves of attacks from more Pink Horrors both in shooting and combat until he was brought down in Battle Round 6 or so haha.

Had a game on Sunday just gone and my, were Stormcast Liberators on form! Killed a Bloodsecrator, Exalted Deathbringer, Bloodstoker, Blood Reavers and a Khorgorath. Knight Vexilla also performed well by dropping a giant meteor on my brother's forces in the first turn! Unfortunately for him there were Heroes and 3 units within the 8" blast radius.

Lay Low the Tyrant is a very useful special rule!

My Warplightning Canons. If i roll a 1 for my strength, the unit suffers 6 insta-hit mortal wounds. And I have three of them.


Also, my Chieftan with BS has been doing great, there was one game where he, a Roger and a single Skavenslave Pawleader took out my enemys Glade Guard, HE Swordmasters and two Repeaters before being Arcane Bolted by the last Elf (sorry, Aelf) on the board. Fun.



Ember

My weirdnob shaman getting the foot off and dealing 12 mortal wounds to a magamdroth

 Ustrello wrote:
My weirdnob shaman getting the foot off and dealing 12 mortal wounds to a magamdroth

Epic!

I recently had my Vampire Lord on Abyssal Horror shoot out from my deployment zone 24" in the first turn, charging and killing my opponents Starseer and proceeding the following turn by slaughtering 5 Saurus Guard before the combined might of Kroak and some Chameleon Skinks took him down... that felt good.
... Although I lost the battle later on.

More dwarf love coming
I must add to the Grimwrath Berzerker the runesmiter on foot to tunnel units of any size up on the board more than 9" from an enemy model. When he takes 20 Vulkite berzerkers and both remove them as early targets and throws that charge w/reroll one die and they have 2 weapons to reroll misses since I suck...had some table-turning last rounds in recent games.

Im loving my Mighty lord right now I've only used him in one game and I've not won with my khirne army yet hut he's pretty bad ass

I am liking an Order force that utilizes a 30 model unit of Glade Guard with a Knight Azyros, Amber Battlemage, and the Celestial Hurricanum. There are other aspects to the army, but these guys work together to give the Glade Guard an extremely powerful turn 2-3 shooting phase.

Arcane Bodkins giving the Glade Guard -3 rend, their innate ability to add +1 to their hits with 20+ models and no enemies nearby, the Azyros reroll of 1s in the shooting phase, the +1 to hit from the Hurricanum, and the +1 to wound from the Amber battlemage results in 30 shots hitting on 2+ (rerolling 1s), wounding on 3+, and generally resulting in enemies having no save rolls due to rend. So it is basically a tool to completely eliminate a large unit, monster or hero in a single turn. Then its not like the Glade Guard suddenly get terrible, if the Wildform can go off every turn and the Azyros stays alive you still have a powerful shooting phase.

Generally my rogue idol, he stomps about soaking up cannon shots and smashing just about anything g in his way.

Other than that, my horde of 20 squig hoppers that roll over everything in their way.
More so when rolling a double on movement.

My dread lady on black dragon and my bolt throwers

So Mangler Squigs... they either:

-Die to shooting without seeing combat.

-Maul my enemy's army killing 2-3 units in as many combat phases.

 NinthMusketeer wrote:
So Mangler Squigs... they either:

-Die to shooting without seeing combat.

-Maul my enemy's army killing 2-3 units in as many combat phases.

Pretty much. If your opponent doesn't know them from experience they will soon learn to fear them and shoot them up as fast as they can. A Deathrattle/Soulblight player was boasting about his "unkillable" Black Knights that he set onto one of our flanks where the mangler squig was stationed. The mangler squigs promptly rolled a triple 5 for their movement and made it into combat, wiping it out in one round of glorious om nom noming. Ever since then, its never had a similar opportunity, short of rolling very well on movement.

So far personally I've been enjoying Ironjaw Brutes a lot, especially in a Ironfist battalion. The extra movement is crucial and they live up to their name as monster hunters, they have gone toe-to-toe with Morghast Archai, Battlemages on Griffons, you name it. The only problem is getting there and the battalion fixes a lot of that. Sad that they can't take the WAAAGH! Drummers or Banners though, would make them even nastier.

As far as my friends, so far we have been shocked at how great the Celestial Hurricanum is. Guaranteed mortal wounds and spells? Its a hard-counter to people who rely on ethereal, like Neferata and Spirit Hosts.

in the limited games I played, my zombie dragon with vampire lord is straight up amazing. I always cast mystic shield on him to give him a 2+ armor save, and recently I had my general vampire lord give him +1 attack! He pretty much ties up units so my blood knights can do the real work.

In my first game using my skaven (and second game ever of AoS) I blew up a Lord Celestant on Dracoth in 2 rounds of combat with a Plague Furnace that whiffed most of his attacks and a squad of plague monls. Lost like 4 monks total, would have been harder without an arcane bolt for back-up.