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Superman has kryptonite, little kids have brussel sprouts, and Green Latern has err... issues with the color yellow...

Anyways ...

Which faction do you currently have the hardest time playing against in WarmaHordes? I know some of you will have multiple "nemesis" armies or factions, but for the sake of discussion just pick your current #1 "arch-enemy" faction.

Take the poll and state you reason(s) in a post. Whatever reason works, maybe you it is because of specific caster(s), unit, feat, stats/attribute, or ugly models...

Khador... I seem to always NOT use parasite...

Menoth....them and their choir.

I'm confused as to why the Choir doesn't have its own bubble...

Its not just the choir for me. It's the damned Vassal with enliven. Put the in with the book and you can't trap a damned jack. It will always get away.

Menoth.

Because Whitekong has played every faction except Retribution, and has chosen to use the Protectorate now.
Truthfully, whitekong is my nemesis, doesn't matter his faction.
Combining a ton of experience with the opposition and the Menoth Synergy, many of our games are over early.

Zealot AoEs all deviating 2 or less, and Vassals zapping my solos with Arcane Bolts. Ugh.

Or when he needs to roll 7s, then uses Sevvy's +1 spell, and now he needs 6's and constantly rolls exactly that.

Menoth. Amon, in particular.

Cygnar! I play khador and my best buddy who got me into this game plays gun line cygnar lists, alot of the times with siege or haley. Hes an aeronautical engineer too, so he comes up with these extremely annoying strategies. Also, he and I have lived right next door for 20 years, so we play all the time.

Oh, don't forget the Harbinger and her Bastion line of "you cant' kill me".

12thRonin wrote:Its not just the choir for me. It's the damned Vassal with enliven. Put the in with the book and you can't trap a damned jack. It will always get away.

One(two) words: Weapon/headlock. Walk forward with Carnivan/Ravagore/Belphagore/Raek with Playing God and weapon or headlock. Then either buy attacks with beast or walk something like a Scythean up. Can't move if you are locked.

Cryx, there's so little bad in that list you could randomly pick an army and do well...I know because I did it once. Why is everything in that army so damn good?

Because my friend started Khador. *shake fist*

I play Cryx my self, and honestly don't have issues with any other faction. I do how ever have the occasional fail dice on an assassination run, and find myself standing with my pants down. On top of that Venny with Malice/Reaper, I prefer Malice myself, is pure win versus Horde.

I voted trolls. Reasoning is that with every army I play I have a hard time taking out arm 20 champs with 8 wounds and though. Every time I come to the field and see my opponent use trolls I see the incredible amount of low power attacks I have and start shivering.

I can squeze out a win a lot of the times, but that does not make me think of them more kindly...

legion is the only faction i have repeated issues with.

trolls. I HATE trolls. Playing against them just feels unfair. The have so many good melee and ranged models, 80% of their army invalidates trample, and all of their support pieces are area buffs that STACK(?!).
My hatred of all things troll burns like the fury of 1000 desert suns. I don't even like trolls in other games because of them. I don't even like that trollface meme because of them!

Edit: hold on, im not done yet, I'm just getting fired up.
Lets talk about tough warlocks. Yes, there are a few tough warcasters too but they don't really go over 6 focus and don't ever get transfers. This is a faction-wide tough, they sling that nail icon out like they have a quota. I cannot tell you how it feels to have a hard earned victory after working your entire army to it's limit snatched away because of some lucky tough save. "Sure you killed all of your own support models, left your jack out of control area, and exposed your caster but I rolled a single die well!"
Then there's the trollkin aesthetic, their look. I respect PP like crazy for not taking trolls in the same boring generic fantasy direction, I do. But I still can't stand them. Their goofy chins and random rocks growing out of them look ridiculous. They don't even know whether their hands are proportioned well or comically large. Speaking of comedy, how can I even take them serious on the table or in the story when those silly little whelps and pygs are thrown in? They are great concepts thematically but c'mon? I'm supposed to not think that bright blue, raging, miss-proportioned, mauler is a cartoon next to the silly whelps?
Whew ok, I think that got it out. I build up a good troll rant in only a few hours so I'll try to refrain from further posting on the matter, sorry about that.

The buff layering is something menoth also has in a couple ways. only thing is they do not have that any 8 wound arm 20 def 14 options available to them. Trolls do and they do it easy too. They also get a few no knockdown ways that also make it very frustrating to fight though. (you get the benefit of though, but not the disadvantage of no knockdown.

No Menoth just has Bastions, which are harder to kill than any troll (and rage inducing with the Harby camping them).

I play against menoth most of all, and they are very difficult but just don't annoy me as much as say trolls or circle(those druids just seem to be a hard counter to everything I have).
Really their buffs can become a liability to them in some lists. If they have a full choir, 2 vassals, and a reclaimer all to buff the two jacks they decided to take, it becomes more prudent to kill the jacks than the typical "kill the support first" tactics. Their seneschal cant come back to life if you ignore the units that turn, and knights exemplar are less of a threat when you kill 4 or more in a single turn than picking them off one at a time. Errants and bastions die easy enough, just never the particular ons you want out of your way so you have to mow them down.
The book is always a headache to deal with though and they do make you fight them in a particular way that your force may not be very appropriate for. They make you play their attrition game instead of your own and if you go in ready for that it's difficult but manageable.

Menoth, STUPID BOOK!!!!

Wow, Cryx and Menoth are tied for first, with each getting about 20% of the votes. Interesting, I've always thought they were annoying, but wouldn't consider them top tier. Maybe I need to play more games against them...

While Menoth has been an annoyance in the games i've played, my personal arch-nemesis is the Trollbloods. My brother plays them in a very shooty way that has been incredibly effective......I havn't been able to beat him yet, but I'll find some way, some how....

I swear that kid can't roll low for damage to save his life....

Never once beat my friend who uses Khador with my Legion.

I have yet to be beaten by any of the menoth players for some reason though. Apparantly they don't know how to dodge sprays...

Cygnar.

God damn Kara Sloan. God damn her to the special hell.

As a Menoth player, I find Cryx the most annoying opponent for me! Their quick movement, halving armour, keeping the 3 witches right at the back, being harpooned, them walking/flying over units, incorporeal, too many things to mention!