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    Nico

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    Great post, good job on a solid write up. Although I don't agree that Brayherd are big losers. I believe they may have been a Big Winner! Here is my reasoning. 

    Starting with points reductions on Horde units, brayherds need to be run in big units anyway, at least three big blocks each with a Hero behind them. Gors have a 30 point discount for maxing, Ungors 40, Raiders 40 and Bestigor (Which are now Battleline if) 60 points! GBS came down 10 points too, GBS is one of the few wizards in the game that has a serious flexibility for summoning, All Chaos Monsters on a 9+, so bring on a Chimera for instance outside of 9" and breath D6 mortal wounds on any model within 14", or go big and summon an Exalted GUO 9" away from enemy and watch them panic. Now 9+ is pretty tough, but make a GBS your General and take Command Trait Scions for +1, herdstone gives you +1 and if your feeling really weird, put him on a Vortex for another +1, so suddenly that 9+ comes rights down... 

    Ambushing (great mechanic) on a Beastlord with Great Axe and going for the charge on their lord, getting just one wound off and suddenly you have a 1 in 6 chance of removing the model outright. Nagash, Archaon... here we come. 

    Yes I know Brayherd have no real damage output and rend is hard to find outside of Bestigors, but the strength in the Herd now lies in summoning Daemons (Plaguebearers for objective grabbers, Pink Horrors for a Mystic Shield further up line... etc), Monsters for table edge diversions... Jabbersylthes are only 120 points now... Probably one of the quickest factions out there.. with Shaman, Banners and Horns, potential 24" across the board in one go. 

    I haven't even spoke about the other Command Traits and Artefacts, denial of cover save on terrain, D3 auto wounds on the charge... plus +2 to charge, units taking mortal wounds if they are around the terrain as the hero.. another favourite the 'Brayblast Trumpet' giving ambushing units +1 to hit in that turn.. thinking 40 Ungors here.

    The battalion fits nicely although a little expensive, but +1 attack can't be sneezed at, plus a one drop and an extra artefact. 

    To me as well, Gor are just as deadly as Bestigor. Unit of 30 ambushing with a hero nearby (with Brayblast) and the Battalion in play could mean 3 attacks, 3+ to hit (re-rolling 1s, 3+ to wound could mean a lot of pain to someone. 

    Yes, ok they are not anywhere near a top tier army, but on the same note... definitely not a Big Loser.. in any Braylords eye... this is a massive winner!

     

    Stevewren

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    On 05/06/2017 at 10:46 PM, Stevewren said:

    I think it needs an oasis and a few palm trees to finish it off though. Looks a bit bare still for AoS, but I'll see what I have left time wise. 

    Looks great, maybe just more sand dunes to fill some gaps, On eBay you can also pick up Gold Obelisks for pretty cheap. Love the temple and use of Pharaoh Aquarium terrain

    someone2040

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    Some great ideas here dude, agree with Centigors and Razorgors. They are fantastic models. I see Brayherds (not my point of view) always being there to fill out and ally to other Chaos factions. I too would love a Brayherd battle tome, but as long as they don't ditch the Furios Brayherd formation and give us Allegiance in GHB2 I will be happy. 

    You have quite the collection! The way I am playing it is to have the Brayherd Faction as it is, but buy loads of options of Monsters of Chaos for summoning from the GBS. So things like, Ghorgon, Cygor, Gargant, Cockatrice, Chimera, Warfare Dragon, Curs'd Ettin, Slaughterbrute etc.

    A great excuse after all the goats are painted to buy models and paint them when and if I want to. I may also branch into daemons to summon too at a later date and Warherd Allies. 

    But for now... back to the 175 models I need to paint to get to the 2k mark! 

    Will keep an eye on this for sure.

    HobbyHammer

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    On 15/10/2016 at 0:52 AM, Booah said:

    Love the idea of this project and that your initial shortlist was 17 armies, I started something similar when sigmar first came out choosing about 5 war scrolls for each faction (they weren't all fleshed out at that point). I managed to do a storm cast, bloodhound, sylvaneth, dark elf, ogre/black orcs, night goblin/moonclan, wanderers painted up to this point (each one between 500-1200 points).  Now feeling a bit nurgley (daemons, rot bringers, clan pestilence). I voted for the phoenix temple on Twitter, going to be really interesting following your progress.

    That is an achievement! Awesome. 17 armies was cut down shortlist too. Was looking at soooo many options. Hence I wrote 1000point list for everything to see if that helped me. It just made me wanna do more!

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