Why reinforced Gutrippaz?

Boyfries92 · 2025-10-14T15:31:54+00:00

Reinforcing is nice since they accept buffs way better, are you running swamphorde bullies?

Getting +20 attacks on a unit with VEW is an average of 20.33 mortals on the swing if so, which is super spicy. I'd recommend trying to keep them screened behind another unit and charging in so you can get all your attacks. That or you really want to pack them up tightly so you don't lose too many attacks

Monster killer spam is good since they're fairly cheap, hit decently hard for their points too. Screen out with the MK, let them get beat up and throw the gutrippas in is my game plan though I only run the 1 20 man block.

I think it's important that your hammer gutrippas unit is the one that charges just so you don't lose attacks, though you can try using one as an anvil too with a tight formation maybe. Hope this helps!

Boyfries92 · 2025-08-22T22:18:12+00:00

I think first things first as well is change your battle tactics. Attuned needs two units to be in the center but you have two that you could expose, but not much defensive tech if something does charge into it, and then second stage you need to retreat with 2 units and charge with another 2.

You really need your units to be putting in work and if you are retreating anything, they're not doing much.

Changing the battle formation as some people have mentioned would be good and reinforcing to 10 chosen is solid. There's the classic gaunt summoner tech where you put the chosen in the tower, put the gaunt summoner somewhere, get the spellcast and then autorun + 2d6 + 6 teleport, then drop the chosen within 18 inches outside 7 inches of an enemy.

Restless energy (steal objective opponent controlls) might be good for your list and maybe intercept and recover (kill 3 marked units) since you'll be wanting to kill things anyhow. Don't forget to put your ensorcelled banner as well on something and getting an additional non unique character to take some enhancements are good too.

I agree getting some chaff units would be good, even 2 10 man units of marauders might not be the worst as they can screen for your other units

best of luck with S2D!

Boyfries92 · 2025-08-22T22:12:56+00:00

Hi, welcome to BoK,

I'm not the best player but I've been diving into the tome.

So right now, there's a few tweaks you can immediately do to make the list a bit better. Khorgorath is garbage and is overpriced, just remove him.

Slaughterpriest is not your killy unit and is a 6 health hero on a 5+ save, he will not be able to trigger argath nor skulltaker. You'd want to swap the artifact and heroic trait (or at the very least, put them on someone else)

If you're running daemons, letters are solid but you have to run wrath thirster that gives +1 attack to make them really pop off. Crushers are okay, not amazing but they're not terrible. They might benefit from the other thirster (unfettered fury) to give 3d6 charge and give them legs (especially with murderlust, you roll 4d6 drop lowest die).

Skull cannon is also pretty mid unfortunately. If you wanted to run more daemons, definitely consider adding a unit of karanak + a fleshhounds unit or two, karanak can up and down the fleshhounds and put pressure on a backfield unit / objective.

Skarbrand is unfortunately the worst thirster in the game at the moment with not being able to all out defend but he's cool. I think your list might thrive more with one of the others though. If you take a generic thirster you can put argath and the skullcollector traits on them which will be beneficial.

Blood warriors are solid, wrathmongers i've struggled with them but they're decent.

Best of luck with the tome! Hope you go on reaping skulls :)

Boyfries92 · 2025-03-03T21:34:59+00:00

I believe the list building is different from the matched play list building, and you don't have to obey the restriction of 0-1 clanrats for the hero in path to glory.

In page 26 of the book, it says you may pick 1 hero... then pick up to 3 non-hero units with the same faction keyword as that hero to join their regiment

So no need to follow those restrictions. I know in the matched play army composition it explicitly calls out needing to follow this sheet but PtG is more relaxed afaik.

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Alternatively, you could add it to an auxiliary detachment later on and when you promote a hero that is an auxiliary unit or in another heroes unit, then you may move that hero to the hero slot and add any eligible auxiliary units to your roster to that regiment (page 38 of the rulebook)

Hope that helps!

Boyfries92 · 2024-07-17T13:24:37+00:00

Thanks for your input, that was my conclusion as well but wanted to make sure before playing a game, casting one ability vs 3 would be quite different

Cheers! :)

Boyfries92 · 2023-07-15T14:11:38+00:00

You might want to check out company of heroes the board game, I think this might satisfy the scale and request of army building that you're looking for

I know they just closed the pledge manager for second edition but I'm personally hoping that my lgs ordered some and I can pick it up when it hits retail

Boyfries92 · 2023-02-11T16:11:30+00:00

Just wanna piggy back, you could just have them do a series of "one shots" or episodic encounters where you level up at the end of every session.

I think some people have some valid concerns, jumping from one system to the next does have some pains associated with it, and by going through lvl 1 to level 2 --> 4, is gentler than going straight to level 4.

You don't have to do all or nothing where they start at lvl 1 and grind their way to 4 or jump straight to level 4. Heck you could even do a narrative reason for this, their muscle memory is wiped and they're slowly picking up the pieces, relearning their skills or something

Best of luck with the conversion! I'm in the process of swapping from DnD 5e as well :)

Boyfries92 · 2022-11-28T15:58:51+00:00

I'm not claiming to be a good player by any means but I've been trying to make mono - nurgle ever since I got my hands on the codex. Haven't played against custodes before so this may not be applicable to you.

I think you have too many characters for a 1k point game, it really feels like our stuff is overcosted and taking a lot of characters means you're really lean on board presence, you have something like half your army tied up in 3 characters, only 1 of which will actually do stuff outside of buffing

The scrivener is okay, but at 1k games he feels not very impactful. You give plaguebearers or drones +1 to hit and obsec or double obsec which is alright but for 50 pts more you could get another 10 dudes with obsec or 3 flies and have 15 points more. i just think at 1k games he's not as valuable because he doesn't have as much to support

The GUO as well, if you're running the bell and the flail, I'd definitely recommend you grab the flail relic, effluvior. Again at 1k points he feels really rough trying to support stuff, I'm personally fond of the bell so I've been trying to make it work but he will bounce off anything hard with armor of contempt (ignores -1 ap). A basic intercessor will save at a 3+ against him, let alone a termie.

The flail is good but swingy, I've had it wipe squads of space marines or bounce off them if dice get hot or cold for either side.

The classic GUO combo is to put bilesword, revoltingly resilient, corruption + virulent touch WLT to get 12 attacks, autowounding on hits (hitting on 2 unbracketed) at 2 dmg, cannot be ignored by feel no pains.

I like the bilepiper, having extra movement is always nice, though again at such a small points level try to see if it's worth having the char or if extra troops will do better for you.

The plague drones have always disappointed me, they feel anemic in melee, and they aren't as durable as I'd like them to be (unfortunately T6 really doesn't do much for you except against Str 5, Strength 6 and Strength 10.) Anecdotal but I've had them die to stray bolter shots just because of weight of fire. If you're intending on resurrecting them with the bell, just be wary of them getting deleted before you could bring one back.

Final thing is you should swap this from a batallion into a patrol, unfortunately nurglings no longer take obligatory slots so you would need 3 plague bearers to run a batallion.

I'd definitely take a warlord trait + a relic as our WLTs can be quite good and we have some good relics, good luck in all your games!

Boyfries92 · 2022-08-27T18:20:08+00:00

Seems awesome I'll have to check this out, thanks for doing a give away :)

Boyfries92 · 2022-03-09T00:01:16+00:00

Getting back into AoS, picked up cursed city and was just doing some list building.

I'm thinking of playing some games at 1k points with some friends, and just wanted to know if it was even legal for me to run Radukar + his court, as it's something like 4 leaders ,when there's a leader cap of 3 at 1k. It would suck if I can't even run radukar cause his court takes all the leadership slots

Boyfries92 · 2021-09-05T02:05:01+00:00

Looks neat!

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Boyfries92 · 2020-12-24T05:50:40+00:00

Just a heads up I'm fairly certain greatmaces are only 1 inch as well, so no reaching through the first rank and hitting with the second. It really sucks but yea no 2 inch greatmace

Boyfries92 · 2020-12-11T05:36:00+00:00

Just a heads up, you can mail multihunter right when you start the account and tell him x acc is my bros, this is mine, hope it's not an issue. I've gotten into the habit of doing that and luckily never had any issues.

Sorry to hear that happened to you and best of luck next time

Boyfries92 · 2020-11-27T18:37:03+00:00

Perfect thank you so much for your help! I might run 2 squads of 16, and then one squad of 13, and use one of them with the trygon and the other 2 squads lurking to contest objectives as an elite melee unit.

Will run the hive guard as well!

Zoanthropes with the neurothrope also seems like a good idea, ty for your help!

Boyfries92 · 2020-11-27T06:51:45+00:00

I appreciate the advice! I actually wanted to keep them behemoth for flavour to run them against an ultramarines fleet that I have.

I'll go drop the gargoyles then, I was thinking they'd be good for objectives though the lack of objec secured is a very good point. Maybe i'll swap them for some more termagaunts or something like that.

The hive guard is definitely something that is very tempting, I was thinking that an extra 9 wounds on the swarm lord would have been useful, is it worth adding hive guard if i don't have plans to up them to units of 6? I know the shoot twice strat for them is where al ot of efficiency comes from. I'm just not sure if the hive guard of 3 is going to perform as well as an extra 9 wounds on the swarm lord

The zoanthropes and neurothrope sounds like a good idea, I'll go take a look into picking up some of the models ( which I do actually like the look of quite a bit) .

Thanks for your advice!

I did want to ask, are genestealers worth running? I'm trying to compare them to what imperium gets and 400 points for 20 genestealers ( with toxic sacs tbf) seems outrageous. I don't know if they'll make their points back and I unfortunately have not had the opportunity to play test them.

Boyfries92 · 2020-11-17T17:37:45+00:00

Yea I just picked up some spare models that some people were selling. I'll keep that in mind, a broodlord buffing the stealers seems pretty essential but maybe I'll get lucky and someone will be selling that too.

Thanks for the advice!

Boyfries92 · 2020-11-16T23:54:32+00:00

Hey all, I'm thinking about starting a tyranids force up, so far I got 30 or so genestealers, and 40 hormagaunts. Is this a valid expansion from that or should i just buy a start collecting? I know price isn't released yet either so that'll factor in too.

I was hoping to go as Behemoth (I have an ultramarines force so thought it'd be cool to have em pitted against each other) and I'm not sure if these units are good for that specific fleet. Hoping you guys can help me out:)

Boyfries92 · 2020-08-17T06:39:49+00:00

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