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On average you should get at least one from the 3 dice I think in about 40 games Ive maybe not got at least one 4+ maybe 3 or 4 times but yes it’s still a chance. -1 to wound is great but I use that the least covered in mud is my go to if I can get a decent terrain piece in my deployment zone if I can get 2 4+ then that’s the shaman and boltboyz unable to be targeted with missle weapons or spells that require a visible target which means they can pretty much only be charged…. And then I have unleash hell if I’m not bothered about the enemies shooting or magic then I use one of the others lethal surprise I just love but the -1 to wound or disappearing acting are also getting useful @W1tchhunter gobsrakk snatchaboss breakboss shaman marshcrawler 3x10 GR 1x9 boltboyz Portals/purple sun full list is a few posts back

I really don’t think Kruelboyz are a terrible army but they do need the game for a full 5 turns (I know every game should be 5 turns but at tourneys this doesn’t always happen sadly) This applies to all armies but especially Kruelboyz you want to have a plan about what battle tactics your going to do across the turns as well as make sure you score objectives. Gobsprakk and a Snatchaboss means you can try to turn a shaman or breakboss into a monster to get a 3 pt Ferocious advance (T1 or T2 tactic IMO) what’s great about this is with Gobsprakk (or a spare shaman) and choking mist you can let the opponent set up then if you get the spell off they can’t do FA tactic because they can’t run even if you can stop 1 monster of 3 doing it your up 1 VP now. Or let’s say they set their army up and they have 2x10 skeletons and a necromancer in what’s obviously a set to do the 3x run we can use our Dirty trick to remove one or both of those units off the board once again denying them. take dat suckas is another great tactic to do (do 10 wounds don’t take 10 wounds) very easy to do and with boltboyz you can do this 27” away and not even move you army. Monsterous takeover, aggressive expansion, kill a battleline are another 3 you probably do without moving very far forward at all. You want to get your enemy on the back foot and coming forward especially into the 20” boltboyz kill zone 19 dice with poison is pretty disgusting really. if they have to engage to score then you can shoot them if they don’t engage grab a beer and win the game by sitting still. Mork is very happy to win with your head! there’s a few other cool trick too lethal surprise doesn’t effect out units so you can position a unit on terrain or near an objective so if they want to charge you they are probably taking D6 mortals before they even fight (boltboyz are the kings of this they get charged do unleash hell and lethal surprise Oof) I guess I’m trying to convey that the Kruelboyz are a different mindset to Ironjawz, I often am quite happy just getting a single gutrippaz on an objective to score it and goad the enemy to come at me if they tag the objective and I get the priority I’m going in but if they try to engage me head on I’ll waaagh them and possibly unleash hell as well (once did 21 mortal wounds to a Vampire Zombie dragon with unleash hell mwwahaha) Sneaky boi’s need a good few games I believe to really start to see their full usage (and play against loads of armies too so you learn what to focus the boltboyz at etc…) Anyway that’s enough waffle for now

@Arzalyn thanks! No it’s Bad yellers so the Bolt boyz are battleline. The 3rd gutrippaz is just to hold objectives or to screen/replace a unit that dies. I want to try a battle with 3x10 hobgrots instead of the 10 GR and spell that will probably be a better list. I like Grinnin blades but a 20 inch double shot threat range is too good and 27” standing still allows me to be more defensive. the portals would be for black pit or nasty hex yes sadly gobsprakk isn’t the most reliable caster all his spells are 6 or 7 so you can never count on it (if I had 80pts I’d take 10 hobgrots instead of a spell see above) most of the time I cast mystic shield, arcane bolt, make a character a monster (for the ferocious advance extra VP t1 or t2) and choking mist (which is the best spell IMO stop a whole army running if they bunch up which means more time for me to score Vp, position t he Waagh and dakka dakka) egomaniak is pretty amazing on average it gives the Snatchaboss boss an effective 21 wounds AFTER save rolls love it!

Hey guys, @Abstract_duck the marshcrawler is actually not bad for 150 pts his main role is to stand close to snatchaboss so I can bounce the egomaniak wounds on to him (Then hope to heal some back) he is also great for buffing the breakaboss, snatchaboss and vulcha attacks as these guys do nicely benefit from the +1 to hit. Lastly he can tank a few things if needed and his snipe is pretty usefull too now with command points. A bit niche but people sometimes get sloppy with character placement and if you snipe out the champ then no command abilities unless in range of another hero. If he also got VW then would be very good for 150 I think (Weird why the whole army doesn’t just get it it!) @PlasticCraic yes 1 is fine the 9 bolt boyz and him try to find a piece of terrain and hold it while I pray for 2 4+ for covered in mud rolls. If he isn’t buffing the boltboyz then I buff the snatchaboss (or gobsprakk) the 5+ VW on him is better than on the gutrippaz with 21a you might get 3 or 4 extra mortals but on snatchaboss if over average spike then each one does 3,2 or d3+3 mortals. Gobsprakk buffed is decent too I never really throw him into something stupid tough unless I have too but because of VW does often come thru for me, in fact he is probably tied with breakaboss for mvp most battles. Such a cool set of rules and toolkit on him. I think the shaman is great but also a bit of a trap and is perfect distraction piece to get the enemy to waste a load of time killing a 6 wound dude worth only 105 pts. I play quite defensively with the army im trying to manoeuvre the 2x10 gutrippaz, snatchaboss and breakaboss into combat at once with the middle of the enemies army then waaagh and thats when the gutrippaz shine 42 attacks 6s do 2 mortals so probably 4-12 per unit in reality. Add in snatchaboss and a angry troll who I’ve bopped on the head (2s to hit thanks to marshcrawler and 2s to wound from heroic action) and that’s some decent output. It means playing cadgey and aiming for t3 fight but that’s fine by me and this is where the boltboyz shine, if they don’t commit then I can score VPs and shoot them from afar and not die, if they do commit they can only really nibble the sides and kill gutrippaz because if they charge my snatchaboss and don’t kill him with 1 activation I get to waaagh back at them and do what I wanted too anyway. Also if they just try to take me apart piecemeal and can’t get to archers then I just get to shoot them from close range which is even better! I played a SBGL army where he charged 3 units of blood knights and radukar in to my sneaky-bois-howling-castle and did 8 damage to my snatchaboss, I then waaagh’d and killed 13 of the Blood knights before they could do anything. They are a spikey army but that’s half the fun right 🙂

I went 4-1 with them to get second in a local 14 man event (I beat the person who came first but they won on more battle tactics done across the 5 games with 2 more) was a lot of fun and is a list I’ve been using for a while. I find it’s quite tactical to play and a lot of fun too. game 1 was v Glottkin and blight kings, game 2 Archaon and Varanguard (this was my loss a breakaboss needed to take 2 wounds off a varanguard and fluffed it 🙂)game 3 living cities (Fulminators, storm drakes and phoneix guard) game 4 LRL 3x mountains list (The eventual winner) game 4 a rematch against the living cities chap. list is snatchaboss, Egomaniak, morks eye pebble breakaboss, fast un swampcalla shaman, choking mist gobsprakk the mouth of mork 3x10 gutrippaz 9 manskewer boltboyz marshcrawler sloggoth purple sun (Becasue it’s painted ideal would be spell portals) battle regiment for a 3 drop army (Breakaboss and gobsprakk out of the formation) =2000 exactly all of the games were down to the wire and could have gone either way at the end for 3 of them so could have been 5-0 or 3-2 which is one of the problems I think with KB they are very glass canon and a bad priority or a spike in lucky and they suffer

Good news it’s not like the silly angry god if we have 10 and use 8 contagion then we carry the 2 over! it’s path to glory so narrative brah you can just swap them in if your playing as the gardener 👍👍

The only pieces that are the same for both models are the feet (Which is part of the bird build anyway) so you can build both models and then slot either rider on top. The head of the vulcha is a bit more faff so I just choose gobsprakk version and don’t both magnetising that

First 2 units completed hope to get the PBL and spoilpox done this weekend to complete the vanguard box

I’ve only managed to use it twice but both times was great munificent wanderers glotkin (Rancid visitations) lord of plagues (Infernal conduit, splithorn helm) rotbringer sorcerer (Gift of disease) 10 blightkings 3x10 plague bearers nice simple list, glotkin is always casting mystic shield and abundance of flesh on the blightkings unless he is in range for rancid visitations. Sorcerer try’s to gift disease every turn. Glotkin, lord and blightkings run every turn to try to corner the enemy or control the objectives. PBS just score where they can, and if threatened are at least doubling up on the disease tokens. I like infernal conduit but am thinking I may switch that to living plague or overwhelming stench (I do like the chance of getting 7 CP turn one though for a cheeky summon but over the 5 turns think the other 2 are better, well need to test that but that’s the gut feeling) the other change could be drop 10 pb for 2x3 nurglings which I’d like to try as they could be useful cheap screens if needed or use their ability to sneak into enemy territory earlier to get in the way etc…

The glotkin has hands down the best command ability in the game “Blitzkrieg” being able to charge your opponent at the end of their movement phase with glotkin and any maggotkin unit is Amazing. let’s say your faced with 4 nasty dragons 3” away you can charge glotkin and a unit of daemons (plaguebearers or nurglings imo) to the one flank of the 4 dragons this limits the attacks back at you and even better,if you have summoned a sloppily bilepiper your turn before they can’t even pile in so at most you have 1 dragons attacks on glotkin while they get to go to town. that’s just one limited example but other stuff as well lets say they move 5 dawnriders onto an objective within 12” of glotkin there’s a chance you can charge them, do 4 mortal wounds in charge phase and then smash them in the combat phase and you score objective not opponent. plus you are staffing disease points out if you make the charge. his bravery check in combat is also amazing to retreat or take d6 mortals 700pts is a lot but I think it’s worth it

Been playing a few games quietly with proxies while I build up the models but here is a list that I think will work well (with Bloab or Orghotts if you wanted to be more attack focused) screen and hold objectives with Plaguebearers then the maggoth lord, blightkings and heroes work as a block to spread the disease love and pain to the enemy Army Faction: Maggotkin of Nurgle - Army Subfaction: Filthbringers - Grand Strategy: Blessed Desecration - Triumphs: Inspired LEADER Rot Coven (360)** - Spells: Gift of Disease, Cloying Quagmire, Rancid Visitations Poxbringer (145)** - Artefacts: The Witherstave - Spells: Fleshy Abundance Lord of Blights (150)** - General - Command Traits: Infernal Conduit - Artefacts: The Splithorn Helm Bloab Rotspawned (300)** - Spells: Plague Squall BATTLELINE Plaguebearers (150)* Putrid Blightkings (250)* Putrid Blightkings (250)* Plaguebearers (150)** Plaguebearers (150)** ENDLESS SPELL Umbral Spellportal (70) CORE BATTALIONS: *Hunters of the Heartlands **Warlord TOTAL POINTS: (1975/2000) Created with Warhammer Age of Sigmar: The App

I’ve spent years playing with Brutes who are also 4” move units (I understand that Ironjawz have had a number of iterations to get extra speed with Mighty destroyers but the basic premise is the same 4” move) 10” turn one movement gets them to pretty much the middle of the table so on or around most battleplans objective If anything you will move them to just inside 6” to maximise distance from opponent so they have to either attack you or themselves sneak on to the other side of the objective with more models which then puts them in your threat range anyway. The way these units excel is by using your big nasty pieces (glottkin,GUO, Orghotts etc…) to force your opponent to use their command points whether this be redeploy or all out defence, then when it comes around to BKs their rend -1 really has an effect. You have to pick the right targets if you want to use them offensively they aren’t supposed to be attacking Archaon they are there to clean out your opponents battleline and ranged units, smaller heroes and mid-tier monsters (4+ save 12 wound things) so use them as bullies putting them into situations where it’s unlikely that the damage back if attacked first will kill a BK but when you fight your tearing them a new one. Combos with these like no command abilities in 7” command trait will shine your hit a unit hard and if it’s not dead it’s running away after disease etc… you want them in this role so your opponent is forced to redirect their nasty units to deal with them (or move his weak units well away from them) either way you are controlling what they are doing. I think what makes them 250 as opposed to 160 (Brutes) is that they not only offer the same offensive capabilities they are also useful as a defensive piece too, give them mystic shield and all out defence and put them into almost anything in the game and it’s unlikely they will die in one round of combat. This 3+ save against rend -1 OR 4+ against rend -2 and then the 5++ is really good and as a result you maybe able to just stop an opponent for 2 or 3 turns (Or force them to retreat which is basically doing nothing anyway) and at the same time have some fight and mortal wounds back on them. it’s possible to run and army of blight kings (20 ish) but from the leaks so far I’m leaning towards 10 in an army as the sweet spot (If you equate that too brutes that’s usually 15-20) either as 2x5 or one mega unit of 10. Even with 1” reach you should be able to get 7 or 8 into combat with clever positioning. The 2x5 gives you flexibility but the 10 gives you that target for mystic shield and all out defence to ruin someone’s day (While your other units bob around and score and kill as they wish) all of this applies to pusgoyles too they are a bit less offensive and less total wounds but have better movement and you need to do 8 wounds after saves and ward save to diminish their capability even 20 witches with 3a each (Unbuffed) wouldn’t on average be able to kill one in a single round of combat. That’s how I seem both units being used at least from the leaks so far can’t wait to get my hands on the book properly!

Looks great @broche happy smashing,

@Malakree don’t self deprecate too much that is Aelf talk not Megaboss talk, you bossed it good an proppa, played the list well and took on what was in front of you. Great write up as usual really enjoyed hearing a more in-depth look at what happened!