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looking through some of the junk on my comp i found the rules for rhinox riders, fully upgraded they can kill anything by the looks of it.
special choice in ironskin army.
rare and special in ogre army.
2 rare if used as a dogs of war unit.

3 rhinox rider - 300 pts
iron fists - 30 pts
heavy armour - 18 pts
full command - 60 pts
all upgraded to bull rhinox - 135

total: 543 points, seems alot, but i say its worth it.

may also take a magic banner up to 50 pts, but i wont add that in.

unit strength 6 / 18 for unit.

attacks;
ogres: 10 Str 4 attacks at WS 3
bull rhinox: 12 Str 6 at WS 4
3x D3 impact hits on charge at Str 6!

summary:

unit strength 18
2+ combined armour save
12 S6 attcks (15 - 21 on charge!)
10 Str 4 attacks
charge range of 14"
cause terror


Thoughts:

these things will crush any units they attack.
anyone used these yet?
any thoughts or ideas?


Edit: spelling.

and lets face it, they simply look amazing.
and a full unit would look even better

They're basically ogres riding dragons in chariots. They are a pretty unstoppable unit however you they take up too many points and most good players can just bait them away so they aren't a super competitive choice.

i know they can be baitd, but if i keep khark ironskin near them (since he cant join units) then they can use his LD of 9 to stop them running off most of the time.
ok, he is another 485 pts, and best used in atleast 3,000 points games, but he will make them even better.

5 str 5 attacks
5 str 6 attacks
and another D3 str 6 on the charge.
a Str 3 breath weapon with -2 save.
rhinox riders become a special choice.

mix that together and they cannot be outnumbered easily, they hit with so many high str attacks that they will kill anything they charge, and with thier saves they will survive alot longer.
with the addition of a magic banner they ge even better.

they are the ultimate unit, i am concidering taking one in a 2,000 points game, takes up a special and rare, but rarearent much use anyway; gorger, slave giant, manhunters.

Watch out for warmachines. And dragons. And fast stuff with shooting (It's hilarious to watch skinks/wood elves/dark riders etc. tie up a 600 point unit that can't catch them b/c of terrain or whatever).

Seriously, they are gross and most people with balanced lists don't like playing against them. It's like a gunline, pope/stank list or anything else in the category, it's powerful, but not very fun. Also, they are often not legal for tournies. (Many limit/disallow DoW.) They are also pricey.

as such they arent DoW, just an addition to the ogres list, and just like most ogre lists they can be used as DoW.

i love them, just the sheer size and look, makes bloodcrushers look like i-dogs (small robotic dogs that used to be a craze)

idogs... 'small robotic dogs that used to be a craze'

haha what?

going back a few years (ok, maybe 10) there used to be a small robodog, throw its bone and it would chase it, pat its head and it would sit and yap, that kinda junk

I would love nothing more then to see this list on the battlfield. It would be loads of fun to play against.

ghark and 5 rhinox riders take up nearly 1k of points.
2 units of bulls.
2 units of gnoblars.
2 butchers.
3 normal rhinox riders, iron fists, heavy armour and full command - 408

should be close to 2k points.

...unstoppable? Hardly. A unit of Spirit Hosts will stall you out right quick, since you don't have any magic attacks. (As I learned the hard way) Oh, you can crumble one or two per turn with CR, assuming they aren't able to do any wounds to you, but you'll still be stuck there until they're gone.

Still, i luvs my rhinox riders and likes to use dem when i can.

fell mate, thats why i said ill add ghark.
his evil robo-rhino counts as magical
and has a magic breath attack.

just mashed together a load of spare part i had lying about lol.
hardly decent parts, but mainly bits ive been given.
an using GS with a cast on my arm makes things hard lol.

JD21290 wrote: makes bloodcrushers look like i-dogs (small robotic dogs that used to be a craze)

Those things were awesome! not as cool as the ferby craze though..

Sweet model, good use of bits and bobs

furbies need killing

thanks mate, hardly even bits, just junk

Other things to worry about is the Clan Eshin Skaven list led by the master assassin+fellblade, with a couple of lvl 2 sorcerers and another assasin with a weeping blade. Nothing like 1 character with 4 strength 10 d6 wound attacks and another with 4 strength 5 d3 wound attacks to carve the hell out of some ogres..

i know dudeperson, my friend plays eshin, and he uses sniktch, so i need to keep out of his way.