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I'm going to try this out today. If any of you are familiar with the models, let me
know if there are things I should know since I'm not. Also, I'm playing with (shock)
some unpainted models.

eButcher
Beast-09
Kodiak
Fenris
Doom Reavers
Doom Reavers
Full Shocktroopers
Greylords

This was based on the Khador models I've purchased up to this point.

Two questions:

1. What do I have to look out for, playwise?
2. What should I plan on purchasing in the near future in order to play with e-Butch,
Irusk or e-Irusk (I'm not really fond of any of the others. Maybe Old Witch, but Scrapjack
is a pain to assemble).

1) The list looks good. Just remember that you can't cast Blizzard on the Doom Reavers. Also, with two Advance Deploying units of Doom Reavers, you can probably run the Shocktroopers on the first turn instead of Shield Walling. Watch out for guns. Doom Reavers die easily to ranged attacks. Also, you have one Pathfinder in the army: the Kodiak. Terrain creating armies will give you a headache.

2) Epic Butcher likes melee solos and jacks with reach to take advantage of his feat (Beast-09, Fenris, Drakhun, etc.), but he also needs ways to generate Rage tokens for said feat (Mortars, Doom Reavers, Beast-09, etc.). You just need to find a good balance. As for infantry, get a medium based unit to block LOS to the Butcher. Doom Reavers are obvious. And bring something that can kill Incoporeal models. Greylords, Alexia, Aiyana, whatever. Like I said, your list looks good.

Irusk needs one melee jack for Superiority(the spell). Pre-Superiority(the book), I would have said the Kodiak was the best choice for it. Then the Spriggan gave it a run for its money. Now, Beast-09 and Drago are excellent choices. Just pick one and you'll be fine. For infantry, get a brick unit. Inhospitable Ground gets you the charge in most cases, Iron Flesh helps you shrug off enemy shooting, and Battle Lust makes it hurt (more) when you charge (Make sure you drop IF before charging!). Even Assault Kommandos do all right with that set up. If you want to try something different, take Kayazy and give them Iron Flesh for DEF 19 in melee with Riposte. Oh, and Reinholdt rocks with him.

Epic Irusk needs infantry, period. Battle Lust makes him slighty favor melee infantry, but Martial Discipline lets you see and attack through your own infantry, so be sure to take a few guns, too. Fire For Effect boosts one AOE ranged attack roll and blast damage rolls, so take at least one gun with an AOE. A Mortar is your cheapest and possibly most effective option. Tactical Supremacy works best speeding up a slow moving brick, so take something that has Shield Wall. He has a jack bond and Blitzkrieg, so there's a reason to take more than one jack, but he's more effective running lots of infantry.

Sweet.

We might end up playing the Vlad list tonight (if at all). Like I said, I'm okay
with letting you play Tarzen and just relaxing or challenging after your game. We
need to get more momentum at the shop.

Sounds good to me. If the first game goes quickly enough, I'll stick around for a second.

You know they never end quickly enough

oomiestompa wrote:Fire For Effect boosts one AOE ranged attack roll and blast damage rolls, so take at least one gun with an AOE. A Mortar is your cheapest and possibly most effective option.

And don't forget those dirty tricks that you can pull with Mortar/Aiyana combo . A Mortar with Fire for Effect cast on it, with build-in Arcing Fire (most of the players forget that little jewel) and ability to move and fire in the same turn is a really nasty thing. I've seen casterkills achieved by such mortar alone.

I don't know if you caught it, but I ordered Assault Kommandos at the shop. Of
course, I also ordered other stuff, but in terms of Khador that's what I got. With
them I'll take Khador off my main shopping cycle and downgrade them for a few
months. I need to bring my Circle stuff back (especially since I want to rework their
color scheme).

When you said block LOS, did you mean to type Demo Corps instead of Doom Reavers?

I meant them as two separate points.