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I think I found my army. I am surprised these are not new minis. Now I took out my Destruction book and see why I never paid attention to them in the first place. Silly new names. Gut busters, just couldn't take that name seriously. This new colour scheme I just love. So now before I buy, I just want to know, is it fun to play with. I don't care for winning. Yes it's nice to win but I want to have fun. I use to play Dark Angles in 5th edition with the 4th edition codex. I play Tyranids now. So that should show you I like playing an army for the fluff and to have fun, not to win. I just don't want to be handicapped again for just because I picked a certain army.

Also just so I know, what kind of play style is this army? Is it more assault oriented or is there range combat as well?

The Beastclaw raiders are definitely fun to play and paint. They are an assault oriented army with a few range weapons,but you will be relying mainly on your combat. And what could be more fun than running mammoths and massive boars across the table while a massive blizzard is happening! I would recommend them for sure.

Mournfangs are not boars and look to be closer to felines.

Thanks for the comments. This is good to know. Just curios about this blizzard Mindstrike said. Is this an actual power or something we imagine that is cool?

In the Beastclaw Raiders handbook (coming out this weekend), one of the abilities your army gets for taking Beastclaw Allegiance is a blizzard that you roll for every turn.

On 1-2: All your raiders get to reroll saves of 1.
On 3-4: All of your models get a free 3" move (no running or retreating).
On 5: Roll a dice for each enemy unit within 3" of one of your Beastclaw models roll a dice; on a 6 they take D3 wounds.
On 6: Same as above, but D6 wounds.

Thanks Laughatdo0m. Greatly appreciated. Looking forward to it.

 Ghaz wrote:
Mournfangs are not boars and look to be closer to felines.

I would have to disagree.

One of the most notorious armies at SCGT was one made up almost entirely of Stonehorns and Thundertusks (I think 3 or each). I have heard comments from some people who loved that army (for example the champion Rob Symes) and others who hated playing against it (one of the Facehammer crew, I think Byron) - take that for what it's worth because it seems you value the opponent having a good time to (which is great).

I would be happy to play against the Beastclaws. I think it would be better with a bit of forewarning to allow some thinking about counters, but if we played regularly that wouldn't be a problem.

Also, the models look completely awesome and playing against an awesome looking army is enough for me to have fun out of a game, irrespective of result.

Hey I plan on picking up the Icewind Assualtbundle and am completely new to age of sigmar. Glad to hear they are fun to play with, but I wanted to ask if the Icewind Assualt bundle is a formation or whatever they are called in the beast raider battletome? I assume it's a army I can use without buying any other units right away, but would the bundle alone be legal for matched play or whatever the new system is? Do I need to buy the battletome and destruction book?

Sorry thought this was relevant enough and didn't feel like it was worth making a separate thread to ask...

That is a good question CountryMac. I only have the Destruction book. For myself I will buy the Beast Claw Riders for completeness sakes. Not sure if I need it or not, so that is a good question if I already have Destruction what does Beast Claw Riders offer that Destruction doesn't.

Yeah I'm not sure if I should just get the bundle and battletome or if I need the destruction book too

CountryMac wrote:
Yeah I'm not sure if I should just get the bundle and battletome or if I need the destruction book too

Hey CountryMac and Davor, to answer your questions:

The Destruction compendium was essentially just a hard copy of all the Warscrolls for all the current range models at the time of its release. If you are looking at Icewind Assault and the Beastclaw Battletome you do not need the compendium unless you plan to run a mixed Destruction army.

In Matched Play one of the key army building aspects is a requirement to field a certain number of Battleline units. If you play a pure Beastclaw Raider army then you can have the big monsters as battleline, as well as the Mournfangs. What this means is that what you get in the box is able to make absolutely legal armies - from memory if you picked up Icewind Assault and another Stonehorn / Thundertusk kit you basically have a 2,000 point army which at the moment looks like the tournament standard.

Battalions are not required in match play, but by fielding certain combinations of units you get access to additional rules for your models. The rules are in the Battletome (and from memory you can buy them in the App) but they are far from compulsory. I don't think that Icewind Assault is itself a battalion although you can probably build several from the Battletome.

My suggestion re. purchasing:

Get the General's Handbook. This has all the points, and six scenarios to play interesting tournament style games.

Get Icewind Assault. This will give you most of the models you will ever need.

[optional] Get the Beastclaw Raiders Battletome. Although all the model rules are free to download, the Battletomes have plenty of nice art, pint schemes, scenarios, battalions and specific abilities for pure Beastclaw army.

Play games

Icewind Assault does come with a Battalion Warscroll, but like the other starter boxes it is not pointed for Matched Play.

mhshellwood: thank you for all the detailed info! Really appreciate it. I was thinking of getting more mournfang, but a thundertusk/stonehorn is probably the better idea. I guess you would need the destruction book down the line when the release other ogors.

Ghaz: Thank you, do you know if they plan on adding points for the bundles/boxes? I guess there's no way to know.

Hope they do a start collecting beast raiders and whatever other ogors there are soon.

Greatly appreciated Mhshellwood. Great comments there.

Just ordered the box set and the battle tomb book. Will get it some time next week. Looking forward to it.

CountryMac wrote:
Ghaz: Thank you, do you know if they plan on adding points for the bundles/boxes? I guess there's no way to know.

No. When asked on Facebook they stated they will not be giving points to any Battalions other than those found in the Battletomes and Grand Alliance books. That's why the Battalions in the Realmgate series and Start Collecting! boxes which came out before the General's Handbook were not given points in the book.

Thank you! Welp temp out of stock now on the site, so I may have just missed out on my Icewind Assualt :(. Oh well

I'd imagine they'll come back. I mean if they sold out so quickly, they are bound to do more.

CountryMac wrote:
Thank you! Welp temp out of stock now on the site, so I may have just missed out on my Icewind Assualt :(. Oh well

You can still find them from some of the online retailers and eBay. Plus, I think the big Flesh-Eater box set has gone in and out of stock a couple times already. I'd be surprised if the Icewind box isn't available again.