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Hey guys, I'm starting out beastmen. I was looking for an army that not too many people played and i really like the look of their models. I'm disappointed that the rares are so terrible, I like the ghorgon but hes not very good form what i can tell. Anyways, I'm running herdstone spam, all the bray shamans will have shadows for miasma and beasts on the great bray shaman to be a killy mage. I'm a little worried my units are on the smallish side but then where should I get the points for them? Thanks guys any comments will be very helpful. Also instead of the chariots i was thinking of going with a razorgor herd instead, not sure though. Using this list what units should my lords/heroes go in?

Beastlord: General, Armor of destiny, Shield, sword of battle, iron curse icon

Great Bray Shaman: lvl 4, talisman of preservation, steel claws, jagged dagger

Wargor: BSB, Beast Banner, heavy armor, shield, gnarled hide

Shaman: lvl 2:

Shaman: lvl 1: dispel scroll:

Shaman: lvl 1, herdstone:

30 Gor: FC, AHW

30 Gor: FC, AHW

30 Ungor: FC

20 Ungor: musician

3 tuskgor chariots

30 Bestigor: FC

total points: 2492

Thanks again everyone.

2500 is a lot to try out an army but I'll trim some fat here.

30 Gor is not enough, go 40 at least, a 20 man unit of gor for ambushing could be viable, rule of thumb on ambushing is do it to a unit you can afford to lose.

Dump the Tuskgors to free up points

Make it 40 ungors shields in a 5 wide bus standard and musician is fine no need for champ.

20 ungors aint going to do much, get 3-4 units of 5 raiders for redirecting and chaff

boost that Bestigor unit to 40

5 man harpy and 1-2 single razorgor would be good to for mage hunting, warmachine hunting and general chaff/redirecting.

Updated list. How does it look?

Beastlord: General, Armor of destiny, Shield, sword of battle, iron curse icon

Great Bray Shaman: lvl 4, talisman of preservation, steel claws, jagged dagger

Wargor: BSB, Beast Banner, heavy armor, shield, gnarled hide

Shaman: lvl 1:

Shaman: lvl 1: dispel scroll:

Shaman: lvl 1, herdstone:

40 Gor: FC, AHW

40 Gor: FC, AHW

40 Ungor: FC

40 Bestigor: FC

5 harpies

total: 2499

Better but you are going to need more chaff, a good opponent will exploit those big blocks with redirectors. IMO drop a unit of gor, add in a razorgor or 2, and 2-4 units of 5 raiders, any leftover points I might recommend a Standard of Discipline with the bestigor to give you a LD10 bubble, chalice of dark rain on the unequipped shaman is handy too, also since that bestigor unit is horded a crown of command is nice too so they can survive a round of combat against flails or choppers or whatever that will lose it's effectiveness in later rounds of combat. But the 2nd list is much better.