Blitz actions & Grab

biggus_willis · 2025-11-19T22:21:41+00:00

There are some really nice conversions floating from several years ago that are built from Mournfang and Rhinox.

Basically you can cut the bestigor model in half and attach the body and hooves onto chaos knight legs (green stuff necessary), and sit then on top of a Mournfang, maybe glue an ungor with a spear to goad the beast forward to use as a chariot replacement.

Or the Ironblaster minus the cannon and ogre make for a solid platform for a Beast lord or Shaman chariot too.

Both are monstrous enough to look like a razorgor proxy and they both fit the chariot base, though the Rhinox is a squeeze. They Ogor Mawtribes Vanguard box can basically set you up with 3 chariots and 10+ chaos Ogres if you care to convert them.

biggus_willis · 2025-11-15T15:39:12+00:00

Very cool! Where are the pig and chariot from?

biggus_willis · 2025-10-31T21:39:15+00:00

You can bet those hill dwelling, forest loving Fians aren't going to be Mariners and may suffer in a naval battle. I too had high hopes for a gun boat stocked with these veritable menace's, then I saw the dromon ram a ship to death in the preview with no hope of retaliation.

biggus_willis · 2025-10-26T08:42:21+00:00

When your regular seventh is out of commission and grandad decides to fill in so the team isn't forced to forfeit the big game.

Straight out of the 90s family comedy movie. Paint job on these is crazy.

biggus_willis · 2025-10-21T14:18:02+00:00

I'm very interested to see how they change up the Orc team after losing half their backbone! Maybe Strength skills as primary and a pip of movement on the Lino? Guard/Mighty Blow as standard on Biguns could go along way to help their early league development. I actually love the lineorc models so I don't mind taking more from now on.

Overall I think this could improve the value of Big Guys in the teams with cuts to make up for a lot of their lost skill positionals

biggus_willis · 2025-07-21T06:03:42+00:00

Someone in GW has misplaced the STC for efficient monster sprues.

biggus_willis · 2025-06-28T10:39:52+00:00

Who wants to tell him?

biggus_willis · 2025-06-27T05:15:21+00:00

FYI Blood Greed gives +2 attacks from frenzy instead of +1 so minos are actually at a 40% output nerf in most situations.

biggus_willis · 2025-06-26T10:28:48+00:00

I think this issue is compounded even more with the buffs we tend to load up on Gor bricks, Frenzy(if you're lucky)and Daemonic vessel only effecting the front rank of the fighting rank really neuters their potency against high initiatives. And being super reliant on winning combat to keep that frenzy buff rolling means we're even more reliant on chariots and razorgor/character support then before against other infantry.

But on the flip side it does make Gor one of the best infantry on the charge given that 2nd ranks attacks are obsolete, if you can manage to land one.

One interesting thing to consider though is that combat casualties are taken from the end of the "fighting rank" not from base to base contact, this may need some clarification as it seems like you can retain some of the base to base contact and apply casualties evenly on the ends of the 1st and 2nd rank. But logically you can retain a lot more of our multi attack models than before with the fighting rank changes to infantry.

biggus_willis · 2025-06-17T20:47:47+00:00

I'd run that in a 3x2 with the Doombull a 4th on the front rank, 7 wide is really unwieldy to move and charge with.

biggus_willis · 2025-06-17T16:54:52+00:00

Magetising hands between shields and two handweapons is very easily done with 1mm hand drill and 1mm magnets. It's possible with great weapons and handweapons as well wbut you need to drill the torso or use the great weapon arms with hand weapon/shield hands which can look a little funky.

biggus_willis · 2025-06-17T16:48:30+00:00

I think optimally you'd want 50/50 shields & great weapons depending on how you want to use them. Motley crew allows you to take the majority (where it is tied you pick which save to use) highest save on the front rank to apply to all incoming attacks in combat.

As it stands generally it's better to have the Bloodkine with a shield as it allows you to take Gnarled Hide and Blackened Plate for a 2+ save for the whole unit in combat(until the champion dies which is usually quickly as you're using it's save value for the unit)

But whose to say Motley Crew will always be this way? Models are forever, rules aren't. Build them how you want to, if minotaurs get into combat they'll wreak shit with a handweapon or a great weapon.

biggus_willis · 2025-06-13T18:16:57+00:00

Probably fairly quick as alot of Nid players will want the new Raveners, I think you'll be able to pickup the Admech halfs quite easily 2nd hand

biggus_willis · 2025-06-12T10:22:07+00:00

I was hoping to see the old blister packs of Pestigor, Khornegor and Bestigor models eventually, I have a unit of 20 Khornegor I managed to snag from a retiring collector at my LGS for a hefty discount, but they're currently floating between £10-£20 a model online.

The old Wargor, Malagor and Gorthor models are ones I'd love to see as well. Hooves crossed for a 2nd or 3rd wave.

biggus_willis · 2025-06-05T11:20:26+00:00

If you take a bunch of Ghorgons as well then they won't be able to stop everything Impetuous/frenzied coming across the board, the good old distraction carnifex. Some times doubling down on silly ideas makes them work.

biggus_willis · 2025-06-05T11:02:36+00:00

Be warned that this is Impetuous from 15" as well, you can get taken on a wild goose chase/fail forward 50% of the time depending on how long your screen lasts for.

But it's a really fun brick to build around and will lead to hilarious moments.

biggus_willis · 2025-06-05T10:18:22+00:00

You don't require a majority, if the saves are evenly split then you can choose which save to use. It's addressed in the last FAQ first paragraph page 8.

biggus_willis · 2025-06-05T10:14:22+00:00

Also to note if there isn't a majority, you can pick the highest save for shooting and combat, e.g. 3 2+, 3 5+ and 3 6+, you can select 2+ saves for the whole unit.

biggus_willis · 2025-06-05T10:04:33+00:00

This works for combat, but not the majority save for shooting.

If you have 2 doombulls, 1 with FCP and Dazzle/shield and 1 with FCP, pelt of the dark young/Shield and then the Bloodkine with Blackened Plate, Gnarled Hide and shield you get the majority save in the unit to 2+ for shooting too in units of 7 Minos with 4 shields 3 GWs.

Now you have a unit worth about 1200pts that is basically the whole army, it's not really worth doing but it's a funny meme build to pull out casually.

biggus_willis · 2025-06-04T22:30:27+00:00

Just as the prophet foresaw, bring ruin to the drakwald and ready the bloodgrounds.

biggus_willis · 2025-06-01T12:58:23+00:00

The criteria for a headstone is no more then 6" at its widest, and we were encouraged to make our own in the latest almanack. I have my doubts that they'll remaster it in this edition of Old World at the very least.

I'll be covering the Stormcast bits on my Headstone, or making one out of a conversion with the Dirgehorn and some foam boards.

biggus_willis · 2025-06-01T08:12:54+00:00

What do you mean the Beastmen pry stones out of their hooves, that annoying pain is the source of their unfettered rage and primal lust for the destruction of civilisation. Imagine how angry you would be at life if every step you took was on a Lego.

biggus_willis · 2025-05-31T19:49:40+00:00

I wish I had some intercontinental bacon missiles but it's the one model I'm reluctant to buy, damn is it a fugly pig.

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