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Hey everyone,

I am new to the forums and new to Hordes as of Mark3. I have picked up Trollbloods and went through my first journeyman league.

Now my local meta is having a 30pt Battlegroup only (no attachments either) Mangled metal tourney. The scenario is a big circle in the middle that if you control causes 5 points of damage and if you dominate causes 7 points of damage for the opposing warcaster. Also you can only take character beasts if they are bonded to the caster. I have most of the casters available to me so I can switch out for the most part.

I have played a few practice games and come up with the following 2 lists (I can only bring 1 for the tourney and have to stick with it)

List 1

Ragnor
-Mauler
-Mauler
-Bomber
-Axer

Basically rush into the zone and scare everyone away while feating to get into range and throw everyone out/kill heavies with rage.

List 2

Doomy 3
-Mauler
-Mulg
-Axer
-Slag

Basically use doomys abilites to stay in the zone and not get pushed or slammed out of it. Hopefully throw the slag in to a heavy jack and do some major damage with it (Having rage+ weapon master and corrosion on constructs seems good in this format?)

I am new like I said... so any changes or even new lists for this format would be awesome! Thanks everyone.

They both seem interesting, with quite different playstyles. Ragnor taking it on the chin and then KDing models and killing them, Doomy3 does much the same but also helps with the offense on the feat. For an alternate list, in this sort of format Doomy2 would be fun. Between a free Rage animus (because let's be honest...), hex blast if they have annoying upkeeps, agitatio for trolling them a bit if they go super beast heavy, and then the alpha from the feat, he seems like he'd be a good drop in this to me? And he can still take the awesome that is Mulg.

Yeah I actually tried a Doomy2 list. The problem is a lot of the people are bringing KD and push casters to try and "pop and drop" or dominate the zone for a round. With Doomy3 that pretty much ruins that strat. I definitely like the Doomy2 option though as it was my first choice as well


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I was also thinking of replacing the slag with an impaler to try and get off a POW 18 with a slam on crit spear that the opponent may not be looking for.

Ah right, if that's your meta then yeah definitely Doomy3 has more game. Especially because a lot of those push casters (like Krug2) have higher DEF beasts, which Doomy3 has a bit of an out for on feat.

The impaler has good control in this sort of match...if you can get the slams off. Games where you don't get a single crit or something will really leave you regretting the impaler I feel. But that could just be me.