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So I have found my love of warmahordes again, and this time I even have some opponents, so after nearly 2 years without a game I dusted off my case, downloaded war room and bought the cryx deck and decided I wanted to try some different stuff out.
Previously I ran deneghra or asphyxious with much thralls and bile thralls and lots of chickens (sometimes 6-7) so for a change of pace I wanted to run some bigger jacks with the coven, but being out of the metal mashing mindset I find my self staring at jacks thinking what the hell will work?
So I be search this wiser than I, which jacks tun well with these ladies? I'd like to do one of the 4 legged jacks since the models are cool and I don't own one and would like to have an excuse. but i do have some slayers knocking about too.
Unit wise I only have the much thralls and 2 units of bile thralls so something new here would be nice, I like the idea of bane thralls (but not the price) along with a desecrator, just not sure if the witches support this well?
I'd like to avoid any of the metal jacks as that is what made me part with my khador force (so much breakage) but otherwise help is appreciated!
My regular opponents will be a circle player, menoth, cygnar ( lots of gun mages) and my old khador force (butcher and scorsha lists with man o wars and iron fangs).

Cheers in advance!

PS not sure if this should be in the list section as it didn't actually have a list in mind.

The Harrower is my first choice of crab jack and it works pretty well with the Coven. Extending the threat range with extra MAT means infantry are going to be cleared from it's melee range. The other two are a good choice as well, the Coven have focus to spare for fuelling the gun of the leviathan and having more denial from a scather template can really make it difficult for your opponent to get around the coven's feat.

Both Nightmare and Deathjack can be used as well but both are metal and take up too much points for really low point battles. Or the Kraken as their feat is the only source for protecting it from ranged attacks.

Units, well, occoltation makes any unit safer from ranged attacks but only affects one unit at a time so the Bane Thralls could be a good choice as you move forward. (Get Tartarus with them though). Bile Thralls for infantry clearing Satyxis can be good, but they are good with most stuff.

One suggestion is to look at the original theme list. Soul hunters that start with a soul are mean little buggers and Darragh Wraithe makes them a real threat with incorporeal. For 35pts I've been running:

Coven
- Harrower
- Seether
- Nightwretch
Skarlock Thrall

Soulhunters (max)
Darragh Wrathe
Warwitch Siren

Hope this gives some ideas.