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Fortifications are only those bought by a player.

WhiteRoo, I'm not sure if you've ever played other wargames, but the 25% coverage of terrain on the table is about average for most wargames. Also, in most of those games you can't destroy terrain, or it takes a bunch of effort to destroy the terrain. Also in most of those games, you can't buy fortifications as a part of your army. Though 6th ed 40k and I believe Fantasy had those rules...

No, I haven't. Before Brushfire I have read the Warhammer Fantasy rulebook and played the Island of Blood a few times, but that's all. I'm new to this genre.

 WhiteRoo wrote:
No, I haven't. Before Brushfire I have read the Warhammer Fantasy rulebook and played the Island of Blood a few times, but that's all. I'm new to this genre.

That's more than fine Glad you're choosing Brushfire

Can someone clarify this to me:

If I activate some number of Hamster Berserkers as a squad without Arctos Nevsky, I have to consult the Northern Berserkers rule.

I roll once on the Northern Berserkers chart for the whole squad.

Upon rolling 1 or 2 I have to make the squad attack the nearest model. Which is obliviously in the squad itself, since they have to be close to each other so I can select them as a squad(?). So every model in the squad immediately receives two axe strikes(?) or one axe strike depending "single attack" is one set of attacks or one roll of attack(I don't know).

Or the squad prioritizes other models around the squad? Which as long as they are not the only models in the field, will be present, but maybe far away. (Super-reach strike! - actually flying axes are awesomely terrifying)

Furthermore, Axes have no reach and the hamsters does not yet move this time and the ability does not forces them to do so, they can only hit models in B2B, so as long as the hamsters are not in B2B with each other the attacks cannot be made(?). 3" is a lot, bigger than the hamster's base, so even if cohesion is measured from the middle point of the base, they by far don't have to stand in b2b.

So as long as I pay attention to keep the hamsters away from B2B, this result only causes... what? Actually the ability does not says this attack counts as the melee phase (nor it is not an out-of turn move) furthermore they might have one more attack roll they can make, it's still just the beginning of the move phase, so can they continue their turn as normal but they lost one axe swing each?

I'm sure they intended to go berserk and occasionally hack teammates and each other, but this is so unclear.

On 3 to 8 they move that many inches as their normal move. Being unlucky with the dice means I can actually loose on movement? what happens if I want to rush this time?

the result on 9-10 was mentioned here before and It's clear to me.

Sorry for being such a smartass, but I really don't know how I supposed to interpret these rules.

It is poorly worded, but the intent was they charge the nearest model and make a single attack against it.

 Cyporiean wrote:
It is poorly worded, but the intent was they charge the nearest model and make a single attack against it.

Additionally, this is something we know about and are fixing for future errata, etc...

I will have to wait to deploy my fearsome hamster army then.

 WhiteRoo wrote:
I will have to wait to deploy my fearsome hamster army then.

Nah, your chances of having them no act normally is only 2/5th of the time, and the chances of them not acting in a positive manner 1/5th of the time...

I know my rolls, or just rolls in general.

My problem is that it's a 2/5th chance per turn that the game stops for some head scratching.

I shall bring Nevsky then. (I was wondering who is the bear guy in the Vandalands cover, I tought Nevsky is a hamster... but it's him!)

Do you think making a 15 member Hamster Berserker squad with Nevsky and the Banner of the Fallen Heroes and walking around in the battlefield with a 20" area of terror goes too far? I guess I'll run Hedge knight for extra moves and even more CM.

 WhiteRoo wrote:
I know my rolls, or just rolls in general.

My problem is that it's a 2/5th chance per turn that the game stops for some head scratching.

I shall bring Nevsky then. (I was wondering who is the bear guy in the Vandalands cover, I tought Nevsky is a hamster... but it's him!)

Do you think making a 15 member Hamster Berserker squad with Nevsky and the Banner of the Fallen Heroes and walking around in the battlefield with a 20" area of terror goes too far? I guess I'll run Hedge knight for extra moves and even more CM.

Remember though that out of the 2/5ths chance of something odd happening, 1/5th of that is the charge the nearest enemy and get +5 MT when you do so, so it's not too bad

Just ask RiTides how he deals with Northern Berserkers, he runs Vandalands exclusively

Can you guys calrify how the Axony Heavy Brigadier can use it's weapons? If it's on LV3 or higher how can it select between the Claws, Front Gauntlets and Greaves?

The weapon's description doesn't says how many hands these weapons need to be used or how they are distributed.

A model can use up to 2 HD worth of weapons in a phase, if a weapon does not have an HD tag it counts as 0 HD.

That's new... There are handless weapons in this game?

Claws are handless (hehe) and also Gauntlets and Graves but the last two is marked as Duel Wield. So a Heavy Brigadier on level 3 can attack 4 times with it's claws two times with it's Gauntlets and two times with it's Graves, rolling 8 attacks in total?


The definition "Duel Wield" seems to be missing from the book, shouldn't that be Dual Wield?

Its a typo, and was mostly removed before 1.2. Just ignore 'Duel/Dual Wield'

Generally the 'Handless' Attacks are going to be natural weapons, like tail based attacks or Shaka War Hogs' Tusks.

So it's 8 attack rolls then from 3 weapons?

 WhiteRoo wrote:
So it's 8 attack rolls then from 3 weapons?

Currently, yes. He is the main reason for Axony's Warband being OP atm.

I've just run into Amamimoto The Ronin in a match, so it doesn't surprises me. Dude was played whack-a-rat on my army.

But then if 8 attack rolls is the Heavy Brigadier's attack, with Feline Rage he can land it in every model he is b2b in? And here I thought the Seven Wanderers are OP.

Thanks for the clarification!

They're both pretty nasty little buggers. Which is why they get shot to heck by assassins and tied up in combat with Hassan.

 WhiteRoo wrote:
I shall bring Nevsky then. (I was wondering who is the bear guy in the Vandalands cover, I tought Nevsky is a hamster... but it's him!)

Do you think making a 15 member Hamster Berserker squad with Nevsky and the Banner of the Fallen Heroes and walking around in the battlefield with a 20" area of terror goes too far? I guess I'll run Hedge knight for extra moves and even more CM.

It took me awhile to get that, too

As you mention, Nevsky and 15 hamsters makes a Great target for the Hedge knight's abilities (letting them move/charge an extra time).

My strategy to avoid Northern Berserkers and Terror has been to fling my hamsters across the board with trebuchets. The jury's still out on whether this strategy is working but it's fun! I actually have yet to run Nevsky, somewhat tempted to pledge for the Wild West Exodus "Geronimo" model, as otherwise I need to use Privateer Press' "Lug" model (let me know if you find a better bear somewhere).

I think I'll wait for it's release. It's not that far away I think. I don't have 15 Hamsters either after all. Neither catapults.

I have a Skaven Plague Catapult/Warpfire Cannon I'm currently building but the base is nowhere near to the Brushfire standard and I want the Warpfire Cannon, not the catapult.

What do you use for catapults?

I would probably use my hordes Warpwolf if I want to run Nevsky, alongside my Warpborn Skinwalkers for Berserkers.

I use the trebuchet rules with this model:



Which I got for cheap from Russia after finding out about it in this thread in N&R. They also have a nice cannon that I picked up after

Here's a link to their ebay store, I only see the cannon right now and not the catapult, but you can send them a message thru ebay about the catapult. I did asking if they had stock of the cannon (as their stock was the reverse for me) and they said they did, and I just bought it through their web page instead.

http://www.ebay.com/sch/m.html?item=251196033286&pt=Games_US&hash=item3a7c734906&_ssn=mrs-velard&rt=nc

Obviously ebay is preferable due to the safeguards, but both ways worked for me (ebay for the catapults, web store for the cannons).

Thanks!

I will take a look.