Dammaz

To me, Thunderers are quite meh... Don't get me wrong, they are good shooting units. But we have Irondrakes right next to them, able to get something down ASAP more effectively, and dealing tremendous Rend. I like Quarrelers more, for they have a different role in my army : Suppressing fire agains't lightly armour targets while advance and holding the line. Thunderers have a shorter range and don't deal mass shooting. Psychology is effective when your opponent sees you throwing buckets of dices. Plus, and that's my little secret, if I want to put some rifles on my list, I prefer some Freeguild Handgunners in a Mixed Order list. I set my warriors line, and a bunch of 20Handgunners right behind them. Handgunners are tallers and can shoot from behind my lines. And with the piper ability, if anything tries to charge my battleline ahead, they get a free full shooting phase from my riflemen. Pretty nasty when your opponent doesn't know the trick.

Hi @raaaahman ! Quick question for you, 'cause something is ticking me. You french ? From Lyon ? And you got the gobo-lobber ?! 🤩 40 warriors are pretty sturdy in my opinion, when you're playing (like me) agains't BoC or BCR. They don't deal much damage, but they can stop your opponent and leave them to your Irondrakes fire. or Cannons. or Quarrelers. Or whatever-you-can-throw-at-them.

Let me guess... Full Irondrakes in his bloodthirster's face ? And a perfectly aligned shieldwall agains't his bloodletters ? All in all, congrats !

Organ gun is quite the "Gamble gun" of AoS. One turn it will do nothing, and one turn it will rip your opponent a new one. Never played one, only did a few simulations castings, and that was... hilarious.

Well, just imagine 2 cannons as Dispo, with bonuses from grudges, warden king, Longbeards. Great isn't it ? Add the +1 Rend from Runelords. Now comes the fun-train. Just add a tiny-weeny-bitsy humgi from IA (aka Gunmaster). Set them on a hill, get huge LoS, and BOOM ! Watch things go flying as fast as an exploding Squig !

IMO, if we get some kind of cavalry, it must some kind of heavy cavalry, and a HEAVY one. No running and charging, no bonus to run, a Move charac barely better than our dorfs on foot (6-7" maybe ?), some huge save (4+ is mandatory) and maybe 2-3PV min per fig. Some kind of four-legged rampart. To stay in Dispo way, its purpose would be to run forward and keep the opponent from charging, get a first strike and let our troops and arty deploy more quickly without shieldwalling on first turn. But, hey, keep on dreaming... :)

Going to call him Max, as he is mad and a Sawed-off Shotgun expert...

Their may be a "special" aspect for our dawis. WARNING : This is highly personal suggestion stuff. We all know that Grimnir died and with his death were formed the Fyreslayers. Grungni has disappeared since ages, and is more related (IMO) to the Ironweld and the Kharadrons than our Dispossessed. BUT their was 3 majors duardins gods : Grimnir, Grungni and Valaya. Valaya died during the End of Times, and since then, nothing about her. With the end of the Soul Wars and the release of heroes of ancient time, I wouldn't be surprised to see her back for the Dispo. She could represent a more traditional vision of duardins, in opposition to Fyreslayers and Kharadrons. Maybe I'm wrong I missed something lore-wise, maybe it's only speculations, but still... :)

I personaly stand by my huge 40 warriors blop since that one time they took a full BCR charge in the face and only said : "Nah, you may kill 10-15 one of us, but mark my words : You shall not pass !". They stood for 3 turn, with only 4 of them left, but... They were there, still holding. Maybe it was luck, but I think 40 of them are quite tanky for 280pts. And they hit quite hard in retaliation, with rerolls and Grudge from Warden King. I see them as "Just hold and push back while our friends back there send you flying..."

I say buy them all in huge haul! Empty their stocks ASAP ! :P

Well, let's start a brainstorming ! Who goes first ?

Glad you push those squeeky rats away ! What was his list again ? Skryre ? Verminus ? Did he got a specific tactic, or did he rush head on ? (Getting info, my dear beloved one is starting Skryre soon... :/ )

I'll try to work on that when I get some time and send a new one, more balance-friendly. ;)

That was a first draw, maybe nerf the damage a bit. Or make a counterpart, such as hard to lend a blow. Maybe reduce Rend reduction to -1 too.

And who's representing the power of love ? DoK ? Slaanesh ?!

Hi fellow Dawi ! Since last @Ironbreaker post, I've been thinking about this idea of Ancient golem for our little dorfs. Here is the result ! Enjoy ! ancient-warden.pdf

Maybe don't take Ironbreakers, and instead take Warriors*30. You'll have a solid meatshield line to cover your Irondrakes.

Dammaz Kron is never full... Or maybe it's time to settle some of them.

2 first ones on last rank : That's Genestealer for 40K. First one : some weapon Second one : New assassin's blade.

Grots everywhere, now skavens... Time to light the forges fellow dawis. Hope we're next.

I'd like to add my 2 cents on the topic : No Endless spell, as we can't stand "magic and trickery", but instead maybe some kind of scenery, just like BoC. We could have some kind of gigantic rune, or anvil, or whatever-dwarvish scenery with anti-magic effect : +1 to dispell to runelord in the area, -2 casting for opponent, giving the capacity to dispell endless spells for runelords...

That's the meaning of tacticals nukes... Irondrakes do the jobs pretty well too. Get in range and POOF ! That's a disappearing monster we got there ! Dwarven Magic !

Here's my 2 cents on the bet : Devoted of Sigmar. Or some Grobi BBQ, your choice...

Well, if your opponent doesn't know about this nasty little combo, it might go well if you play carefully. He may be eager to take the bait and charge head on. But beware, he probably won't take the bait twice... :D

Hi fellows dorfs ! So, back from our friendly tournament ! I'll send you the detailed battle reports later on, and take the time to add pictures, if they are not of bad quality. But a quick recap' first ! We were 5 players, going on for a friendly match play. The set was as following : 1v1, everyone did a match against everyone. Each victory gave us points, depending on Major or Minor victory. The tables were the same for every match, and no scenery were used (Too much things to haul for transport...) The opponents were : Dispossessed, Moonclan Grots, Beastclaw Raiders, Seraphons, Beasts of Chaos. I ended second in ranking, finals are yet to be done. My first match was against BCR. I will not post a detailed report of this one, it was a one-way match. My beloved opponent did so many crappy casts that she couldn't do anything past turn 2. Her list was good and could have hit sooo hard with her Stonehorn, but no... He didn't hit anything after charging. You can guess what happened next. A major victory, but without opposition nor flavor... I'm not proud of this one... :/ 2nd match, against Groti. This one made me sweat, and I lost, but not without hard fight. It was a domination one, and I got outrunned by 2 packs of 60 and 40 grots, supported by Mangler Squig, Doom divers (*2) and squigg Gobba. Their artillery was jokes, seriously, but the grots... She took position on BOTH objectives turn One, and I didn't manage to get her out, even in my own area. I was literally trapped inside a grots swamp. I killed so many of them that I can't recount, but still... lost. That's a Major victory for her, and another grudge for those greenskins. My major mistake was that i didn't give her first turn and did nothing effective during this first turn, and got double-turned right in the kisser. 3rd match, Seraphons. This one was tough. Engine of Gods, Croak and Slaan, Balewind Vortex, Dread saurian, you get the idea. My opponent was eager to put a mini Croak-nado in my face while his Dread saurian (a.k.a Schnappy) and an invocated Carnosaur had a craving dwarven meat envy. Lessons learned from Match 2 against grots, I gave the first turn. Schnappy got TP at 9" from my Quarellers and charged. My 20 Quarellers were eaten in almost only one attack. But, at my turn, my opponent learned that Irondrakes LOVE when a monster comes closer. Lesson learned the hard way. We then got in a trenches war, holding our objectives and firing at each others. Me with Irondrakes and Thunderers/Frigate, him with Croak and its spells, engine of god, and Bastiladon. I managed to take the upper hand by pickaxing irondrakes on his flank, killing his Engine of gods, and the 2nd one that was invocated the next turn; but only to get followed in terms of points. Finally, I got a minor victory at turn 5, only for 20pts. That was an intense fight, for both of us. Specials mentions to our Runic Icons, that denied SO many MW from spells and our Runelords for dispelling. 4th match, Beast of Chaos. I didn't know what I was heading to, with the new battletome. The Herdstone and the new endless spells were frightening me, because of -1 Save and the possibles combos for BoC. But I got extremely nasty, and I could renamed this match "Tricks and Traps" ( ;) ). I got first turn, and managed to get as close as possible from his lines with my Frigate, and dropped 10 Thunderers at 12" from his units. With them, i snipped down turn one one of his Shaman and wipped down his meatshields of ungors with Quarrellers and Irondrakes. He then charged head on, on my line of Quarrelers on left side with Bestigors, and with dragonogors, shaggoths, chariots and bullgors on Frigate and Thunderer. And that's were the fun begins... I managed to dispell EVERY spells he tried to castHe didn't strike my Thunderers first and choose to strike my Quarrellers. They got battered hard, but took the blow quite well and didn't flee, allowing my ironbreakers to join the fight. But first... I withdrew my Thunderers, letting my frigate all alone with big monsters around it. It was destroyed during combat phase (it's not really tanky), letting everything at my irondrakes range... Turn 2 was an inferno for goatmens. The Shaggot got gunned down, the bullgors too with thunderers and finally... @Furuzzolo, thanks once again. My Unforged managed to charge the Dragons Ogors, dealing 24 damages all alone ! That's a One man - Shotgun ! This turn sealed the match, as he didn't manage to pierce my ironbreakers and I killed his Gorghon. Major Victory. That's for my 4 "qualifications" match. I end up in final match... Against grots... :/ I'll send the detailed reports later, as their is much to say... My feelings are mixed upon certains elements, especially about the Frigate and Grundstok Thunderers as allies.