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This is my first list ever for Trollkins. I tested it today and it worked pretty well. Had a bit of trouble against Heavy 'Jacks, but the they eventually fell to an added Mauler.

Madrak Ironhide, World Ender.
- Dire Troll Mauler.

Trollkin Hero.
Fell Caller.

Krielstone Bearer and 3 Scribes.
- Stone Scribe Elder.
5 Trollkin Champions.
5 Trollkin Champions.

Swamp Gobber Bellows Crew.

The army deploys in a classic brick formation with the Champions taking point in a cresent formation. You can either put one line of Champions at point, with one unit just behind them or put both at point in a big single rank with the Hero in between them. Behind them should be the Gobber Bellows, Madrak and the Mauler with the Fell Caller just off to the side. Behind them the Krielstone Bearer unit and UA. The trick is to keep everything within Madrak's CRTL zone and within the protective zone of the KSB. This gives the entire army a massive series of Buffs.

To make this look less complicated I clefted an image from Battlecollege:

The army is really fun to use and breaks face with much regularity. The Champions are double tough needing a P+S 26 weapon to kill one when they are in BTB and a P+S 28 weapon when they are in range of the KSB. Add the tough roll onto this and you have a dirty tough unit. Oh wait, I have two and they all have TWO weapon master attacks. TWO!!! And they're fearless. The buffs this force can get is just sick - +1 Strength and +2 to hit. Madrak can also get +3 Str from The Mauler's Animus to make him a little more killy , like he needs it when he has Vortex of Destruction and is able to kill as many living models as he has in melee range. So P+S 18 rolling 3 dice for DMG = 29 DMG on average. He can kill anything he wants that lives and breathes. Oh and his feat is just awesome with the amount of DMG his army chucks out.

On a side note, the Army is good with Primal Madrak with his buffing spells and pretty good with Borka Kegslayer when he uses Mosh Pit.

Any comments???

Not any particularly nice comments Two of my gaming friends play Trollbloods, and regularly ran that kind of list.... until it bored them to tears to play the brick game. It might be hard-ish to crack, but it's slow as molasses, and can't take a scenario to save it's life.
Also, the second you come up against any sort of denial, you'll be even slower, and get shot to pieces.
I say "hard-ish to crack", because a crafty opponent will crack the brick easily, since it rely's so heavily on the Kriel Stone and Gobbers, both of which can be easy to get with a small flanking force.
With only one beast, it's going to be too easy for your opponent to deny you fury. It's large base can be seen over all of your army, so it will attract masses of ranged fire and all the denial and AoE's that you can get. I'd suggest at least one more beast, preferably an Axer or even a Slag Troll.

It's a fun theme with all those champs, no doubt, but in the long haul, I don't think you'll have that much fun playing the brick.

The Trollbloods have made out like bandits in Mk2, and can really put up some crazy shenanigans that don't rely on the brick. In the long run, you'll have more fun with that, especially if your meta plays scenarios.

I'm aware that the I'm not especially helpful (or at least not very encouraging), but since I know two very successful Trollblood players that have both learned to expand from the brick and get crazy with the Trolls, and won even more because of it, I hope you'll take it as an incentive to do something a little different than the archetypical Trollblood brick

That's the thing, no one in my meta plays any kind of denial. We have a shooty Cygnar, a really killy Circle, a crap Legion, a pretty good synergy based Menoth and finally an average Xerxis Skorne list.

I think this list is a great Meta call.

I will expand the army at a later date and find a different way to play them, but since I am a long time Khador Player, the slowness of the brick has no effect on me.

Is your Khador in your sig MK2 points?

malfred wrote:Is your Khador in your sig MK2 points?

LOL No - I haven't totalled up the points, but I think it's close to 100 points.

Hey, if it works for you it works

I'm not taking a shot at you, I was just trying to say that other seasoned Trollblood players find "the brick" particularly boring to play, so that you might get another perspective on your list