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Leaders

Lord Of Khorne On Juggernaut (140)
- General
- Trait: Great Destroyer
- Artefact: Favour of the Gods
Exalted Deathbringer (80)
- Ruinous Axe & Skullgouger
Skullgrinder (80)
Slaughterpriest (100)
- Hackblade and Wrath Hammer
Bloodsecrator (120)

Units

Bloodreavers x 10 (60)
- Reaver Blades
- Battleline
Bloodreavers x 10 (60)
- Reaver Blades
- Battleline
Bloodreavers x 10 (60)
- Meatripper Axes
- Battleline

Blood Warriors x 5 (100)
- Goreaxes
- Battleline
Blood Warriors x 5 (100)
- Goreaxe & Gorefist
- Battleline

Cavalry

Mighty Skullcrushers x 3 (160)
- Glaives
- Khorne Mortal Battleline
Mighty Skullcrushers x 3 (160)
- Glaives
- Khorne Mortal Battleline

Special

Khorgoraths x 1 (80)
Chaos Warshrine x 1 (200)

Total: 1500/2000

I'd drop the warshrine. not worth the points and the buff is minor/not a good chance of going off. more blood secrators is much more fun

Drop the shrine. Shift the 3 reaver units to 2 30 mans

I disagree on dropping the shrine; it's going to be extremely useful for it's aoe 'ward save' on your infantry. Instead I would drop the Khorgorath for 10 more meatripper reavers, you really need the rend.

A warshrine is nice but I dont know if at 1500pts it is worth it. You really lack any ranged, survivability, or real damage output. I would look at adding some units 10-Skullreapers, some Wraithmongers, make one unit of 10 Blooodwarriors, I would also add more bloodreavers and possibly a second Bloodsecrator.

I'd consider two Bloodsecreators.
Spaced out correctly, he will help to keep your infantry alive.

I would second some Wrathmongers. They are a nice counter to alot of the harder enemies out there, such as monsters.

I also believe the three 10-man units of reavers into one 30-man, or one 20- and one 10-man strong at least.

Adding a second Khorgorath is advisable, or removing the one you have. I've always found one Khorg to underperform while having two to be pretty good.

Wow, a lot of advice here so far! Thanks guys. So the consensus is more Bloodreavers in larger groups and more rend/damage dealing. I could add a unit of Wrathmongers, but would have to remove the Khorgorath and a Blood Warriors, or a Mighty Skullcrushers, but removing the Skullcrushers will let me take an extra 10 Reavers as well. I want to keep the Slaughterpriest in, but if I removed him and a Khorgorath I could get the Wrathmongers and keep everything else. Alternatively I could remove Exalted Deathbringer or Skullgrinder and take a second Khorgorath?

I've been wondering, but is the Bloodreaver ability cumulative? So if they are in range of 3 totem units they get an extra 3 attacks each?

RyanAvx wrote:
Wow, a lot of advice here so far! Thanks guys. So the consensus is more Bloodreavers in larger groups and more rend/damage dealing. I could add a unit of Wrathmongers, but would have to remove the Khorgorath and a Blood Warriors, or a Mighty Skullcrushers, but removing the Skullcrushers will let me take an extra 10 Reavers as well. I want to keep the Slaughterpriest in, but if I removed him and a Khorgorath I could get the Wrathmongers and keep everything else. Alternatively I could remove Exalted Deathbringer or Skullgrinder and take a second Khorgorath?

I've been wondering, but is the Bloodreaver ability cumulative? So if they are in range of 3 totem units they get an extra 3 attacks each?

If you have the models, I'd say try a few different combos out. The slaughterpriest is handy to have, so I would keep him in the list. I would rather remove the Skullgrinder and add a Khorgorath then.

Unfortunately they dont get extra attacks for more totems, they only benefit from one. However, in AoS it's easy to snipe a character, so having two sources of getting it is still good.

wrathmongers would be good.
big units of reavers are much more useful.
definitely take a second secrator. adding 2 attacks is really strong. and it makes it much tougher to deal with similar e your opponent has to kill two to get rid of the buff.
the immune to battleshock is huge.


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and again I have to say, drop the shrine. they're just not good at all.

6+ against a wound is not good. if your big unit of reavers gets hit and you save an extra 2 models because of that, it'll make no difference.

also rerolling hits would be nice, but needing a 3+ to get it off? no way. especially only impacting one unit.
if it was 3+ to impact everyone within range then sure.. or automatically goes off for one unit. but as it stands it's a lot of points for something that isn't good.

take an extra secrator or hell, take two more. they're so good it's silly.

To be clear: the bloodreavers' ability that grants them an extra attack for being in range of a totem is not cumulative. The Bloodsecrator's Portal of Skulls ability to grant extra attacks does stack, however.

sure does

How does this new list stack up? I'm considering swapping the Skullgrinder for a second Slaughterpriest, that'd also bring it up to exactly 1500 points.

Leaders
Scyla Anfingrimm (100)
- General
Slaughterpriest (100)
- Bloodbathed Axe
Bloodsecrator (120)
Bloodsecrator (120)
Exalted Deathbringer (80)
- Ruinous Axe & Skullgouger
Skullgrinder (80)

Units
Bloodreavers x 10 (60)
- Reaver Blades
- Battleline
Bloodreavers x 10 (60)
- Reaver Blades
- Battleline
Bloodreavers x 10 (60)
- Meatripper Axes
- Battleline
Blood Warriors x 5 (100)
- Goreaxes
- Battleline
Blood Warriors x 5 (100)
- Goreaxe & Gorefist
- Battleline
Wrathmongers x 5 (180)
Mighty Skullcrushers x 3 (160)
- Glaives
- Khorne Mortal Battleline
Khorgoraths x 2 (160)

Total: 1480/2000

better, make sure the blood warrior champions have GlaIves. get them putting out 4 attacks each when bugged with 2 secrators and that's a super nasty weapon hidden in the unit.

I'd probably try to get 20 reavers in the units. 3 blocks of 20 reavers ignoring battleshock is a pain in the ass.I never found slaughter priests or skull grinders did much. if it were me I'd drop the heroes and take more reavers. but the characters do look cool.

to get up to 2000 points just ado skarbrand and you'll have a blast

A basic Skullgrinder has limited damage because it only has 2 attacks, among all the Bloodbound heroes they probably benefit the most from Bloodsecrator support.

raoiley wrote:
better, make sure the blood warrior champions have GlaIves. get them putting out 4 attacks each when bugged with 2 secrators and that's a super nasty weapon hidden in the unit.

I thought Blood Warriors could only take Goreglaives if there were 10 models in the unit. Can the Champions just take Goreglaives anyway even if the unit has 5 models? Can you have 2 Goreglaives in a unit if you have 10 models and a champion?

On the Reavers note, thanks for the advice, but I don't want too many models in the army, and I feel that 60 Reavers + all of my other models would take way too much time to paint and use in game.

ahhh you're right about warriors.
on that note I'd run 10. package a bigger punch and provides a pretty hefty roadblock for things trying to get through it. plus the goreglaive is sweet.

painting reavers is time consuming but playing them isn't bad. they die quick lol. I usually set mine up on an objective and throw them back in the bin as they become mulch.

for that reason, I just dry brush, wash and apply liberal doses of blood for the blood god paint.

Just did a list of 2000 points as well.

Leaders
Scyla Anfingrimm (100)
Bloodsecrator (120)
Bloodsecrator (120)
Slaughterpriest (100)
- Bloodbathed Axe
Skullgrinder (80)
Exalted Deathbringer (80)
- Ruinous Axe & Skullgouger

Battleline
10 x Blood Warriors (200)
- Goreaxes, Banner, Goreglaive
10 x Blood Warriors (200)
- Goreaxes, Banner, Goreglaive
20 x Bloodreavers (120)
- Reaver Blades
20 x Bloodreavers (120)
- Meatripper Axes
6 x Mighty Skullcrushers (320)
- Glaives
- Khorne Mortal Battleline

Units
5 x Wrathmongers (180)
5 x Wrathmongers (180)
1 x Khorgoraths (80)