Dave Posted August 12, 2018 Share Posted August 12, 2018 Last week I went to Blackout in Cardiff using the Braggoth's Beasthammer battalion . I'm a big fan of it and have used it for a while but this was the first time I've taken it to a tournament . This was my list: Spoiler Spoiler Allegiance: Beastclaw Raiders - Mortal Realm: Aqshy LEADERS Frostlord on Stonehorn (420) - Artefact : Thermalrider Cloak Icebrow Hunter (140) - General - Command Trait : Everwinter's Master - Artefact : The Pelt of Charngar Butcher (140) UNITS 4 x Mournfang Pack (320) -Gargant Hackers 4 x Mournfang Pack (320) -Culling Clubs or Prey Hackers with Iron Fists 4 x Frost Sabres (80) 3 x Orruk Gore Gruntas (140) 3 x Orruk Gore Gruntas (140) BATTALIONS Braggoth's Beast Hammer (230) ENDLESS SPELLS Chronomantic Cogs (60) TOTAL: 1990/2000 EXTRA COMMAND POINTS: 1 WOUNDS: 113 LEADERS: 3/6 BATTLELINES: 3 (3+) BEHEMOTHS: 1/4 ARTILLERY: 0/4 ARTEFACTS: 2/2 ALLIES: 0/400 I'm not the most experienced in AoS so something I can just charge forward with appeals to me! This will be brief round ups of what I can remember rather than indepth reports as my memory is awful . Game 1 v Nurgle Shifting Objectives With 4 drops I had the choice of who started (as I ended up doing in every game) so I went second . His army was made up of 2 big units of plague bearers ,1 GUO a unit of blight kings and a couple of different characters . He ran everything forward to get near the objectives with the GUO just behind . I managed to cas the cogs then moved everything forward hoping to charge . All the charges went off with the mournfang and gore gruntas getting into the plague bearers and the Frostlord getting into the GUO . The hunter , frost sabres and butcher covered the objectives . I popped the double attacks this turn and killed both units and the GUO . Just a case of mopping up the rest after that and the objectives weren't threatened all game . Major Win Game 2 v khorne Places of Arcane Power This was against the mortal Khorne dudes , who I've only played once before and I have a vivid memory of my frostlord killing himself because these buggers! I wasn't sure how best to go about this battle so just went first and tried to charge everything in . Only the frostlord made it and did a fair bit of damage in his centre but got Reality Bladed off by his general . I hung on for a while but couldn't do any substantial damage to his army before it wiped me out . I've thought about this battle the most since the event as I think I could've done a lot better . I think If I'd put the heroes on the objectives and bubble wrapped them with everything else then I could've done a lot better . Oh well , Major Loss Game 3 v Gutbusters Scorched Earth This was something a little bi more familiar . This was an army of a big unit of 12 ogors , a unit of 6 and 1 of 3 . Troll hag , Tyrant and a butcher (i think). I took first turn and charged everything in , the frost lord went to my left to take out the unit of 3 and the MF and GG into the other units of ogors . What followed was the biggest mistake I made over the weekend . I forgot to take the bonus attack which could've crippled them a lot more but a combination of heat and being tired I totally forgot . So it turned into a big scrap on his side of the table which he eventually won and took my objectives . I might've been able to still win after forgetting the attacks but mu head had gone by then! Major Loss Game 4 v Nighthaunt Total Commitment This was so one sided it was untrue . He had a lot of the usual suspects , most of the characters , the new units and a load of spirit hosts . He had to deploy everything on the table so went heavy on my right so I was able to clear everything on my left easily and swept over to take the rest . He wasn't helped by his awful saving rolls and it all fell apart Major Win Game 5 v Nurgle Border war So just before this battle I'd heard that I was leading the kill points for Destruction so I was hoping for an army to play against that was easy to kill , so of course I drew Nurgle! This was very different to the Nurgle in my first game . There was a lot of blight kings and marauders . I decided to not bother with the mission and just go for kills but I wasn't hopeful . It turned out as I expected and I just couldn't break stuff down enough and he had a crazy amount of saves . Major Loss So after all that I came 71st , which was a little bit disappointing but at least I know where I went wrong . I still love this army and look forward to more games with it . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James S Posted August 12, 2018 Share Posted August 12, 2018 Great write up of your fights over the weekend! Thank you for sharing. Happy to see people still playing the armies they love! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malakree Posted August 13, 2018 Share Posted August 13, 2018 3 hours ago, Dave said: So just before this battle I'd heard that I was leading the kill points for Destruction so I was hoping for an army to play against that was easy to kill , so of course I drew Nurgle! This was very different to the Nurgle in my first game . There was a lot of blight kings and marauders . I decided to not bother with the mission and just go for kills but I wasn't hopeful . It turned out as I expected and I just couldn't break stuff down enough and he had a crazy amount of saves . Really want them to implement the rule from 40k where if you have more than 1 "totally not a save" save then you get the best. That would really help tone down some of the more obnoxious stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pitloze Posted August 13, 2018 Share Posted August 13, 2018 What is it about beasthammer that makes it so strong? I've heard it won tourneys here and there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davros Posted August 13, 2018 Share Posted August 13, 2018 3 hours ago, Pitloze said: What is it about beasthammer that makes it so strong? I've heard it won tourneys here and there. It gives +1 to hit so we hit on 3's something we generally can't do but really need. And has a once per game double combat for everything that charged. So if you can get all 5 of your units in one turn that is alot of hurt. People are adding cogs to make it likely to happen turn 1 and as it is likely your a 2drop army you can quite offtern pick who goes first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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