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Hello Everyone,
I've recently dusted off my OnG in an effort to get back to my roots and my first game was against the new Warriors of Chaos with all the nasty toys. Enjoy!

http://littlewaaagh.blogspot.co.nz/2013/05/ong-vs-new-warriors-of-chaos-2400-points.html

Cheers.Jeff

"None of my units suffer from animosity (They're on their best behaviour after being shelfed for 2.5 months)"

hahaha. time out is effective. you have their noses in the corner too?

"(those squigs did pull the BSB down along with 300 points of my own guys.) "

last game vs WoC had the unkillable disc tzeentch lord, who was about to kill my last crewman on spearchukka... when squigs popped... doing 6+4 hits on him. He had just cut up my squig boss, and 5 hoppers with help of some skull crushers.


a couple of questions.

1. do you just move your manglers into the table edge and take dangerous terrain everyturn until you pop them through your unit?

2. I was under impression random movements were in a straight line from point A to B, but battle chronicler seems to show yours traveling in arcs, is this just the program being wonky or have I just been playing mine wrong? (army book not handy currently)

3. regarding mangler squigs again, it seems after they kersplat'd through their first target they both seemed to move in a perfect line to hit his units. Do you move your manglers with a scatter + 3d6 after they go crazy or do you continue to control their direction? I assumed it was just crazy dumb luck. (well not best of luck with the damage they inflicted on your side, but it WAS a perfect shot @ that bsb etc lol)

i have been spreading my WM way the hell out to avoid a DD blowing up and panicing the rest, but I suppose if all within LD range and bsb range not that risky.

I haven't used my manglers behind my line like that, it was really smart.

Can you elaborate on your thoughts behind squig herd composition and formation?


very good bat rep, was fun to read.

glad to see the gobbos back out

1. Yup, against chaffy armies that will just pop them I find this the most effective way to use them. There's a small risk involved but that's Manglers in general for you.

2. They do move in a straight line. Unfortunately Battle Chronicler can be finicky as hell so doesn't always show this sometimes.

3. I got very lucky (or not depending on how you look at it as I did a lot of damage to the trolls).

The most dangerous part of using Manglers behind your lines is if they scatter back into your army and pop through to the warmachines at the back. This is the reason I try to use them on a flank away from the warmachines.

As for Squigs, I'm starting to lose faith in them to be honest. They are great in some ways but M4 and lack of musician makes them very difficult to manuever meaning you either have to take larger units than I am taking or very small units that will be manueverable enough to hit flanks.

Thanks for the tip.

I haven't used battle chronicler but will have to try it out when I finally do a bat rep with my gobbos. Would love to see some photos of your army with these though, even if just at deployment. i enjoyed the ones you posted up that contained pics of your gobbos.

everyone loves seeing gobbos I'd reckon.


Don't lose the faith, M4 sucks, no musician sucks as well. I however have not had the greatest results running them 7 wide myself. I have gone back to 2 units 5 wide as they are much more maneuverable and can reliably get flanks on whatever the goblins are tarpitting... Currently at 3000 I think I'm 15/5, 15/5, 30/10. That many points of detonatable units is a big liability... but in same list I'm bringing 4 manglers so, its sort of one of those go big or go home things.

when i was running them 7 wide it was 7x5 with 26/9 composition but hard to manuever like you've said.

I love the models, the fluff, etc enough to not drop them. They don't synergize with the war machine side of things well, but for 8 points 2 S5 ws4 i3 attacks is pretty decent, if not a steal when I peek around at ways to do that amount of S5 hits. or at least that's how I look at it.