Friday 2nd of October and all hell has broken loose! Chain Attack have an early copy of the book and have posted up a fair few spoilers about upcoming releases, some are good, some are great and some are amazing... but as a primarily Farrow player i don't really give a stuff about the other bits haha.
Thankfully PP has seen fit to provide the Alliance with several awesome new tools of warfare to crush the armies of man:
The Battle Boar
First mentioned in Helga's fluff story i believe, its stats are identical to its cousin the gunboar, but this brute has lost the cannon and gained rabid(!) and snacking as an animus.. oh and its a point cheaper to boot!
This is a big deal, this beast provides the alliance with a solid platform of cheap, melee light beast that the many and varied buffs available in faction can bring:
- Lord Carver: Where to start haha; Mobility for SPD9 with Rabid, Batten down the hatches for ARM20, Quagmire for effective MAT7, the feat for 4D6 damage rolls. With Carver i plan to treat them like Heavy infantry and run a pack of 4/5 of them and smash into my opps lines with ease.
- Golden Horde Tier: Again Lord Carver but the T4 benefit of advance move on battlegroup means that going first you can be knocking on your opponents AD line - 7"Deploy + 5" AM + 18" Run/Rabid/Mobility. Also in this tier is cheaper lights for Rorsh but this is not the one for him...
- Dr Arkadius: The usual benefits of Forced Evolution and Crippling Grasp with the crazy feat for some silly movement.
- Mad Science: Doc's old tier is still a fav of mine, and remember what the BBoar can do with Golden Horde, well look at Mad Science for some speed: 7"Deploy + 18" Run/Rabid/SPD + 12" Feat Charge to get into the opps deployment zone on turn 1... unlikely but possible haha
- Nature of the Beast: Ive not played this enough to decide if the beast is better than losing the free Razorboar, only time will tell on this.
- Midas brings calamity and his tier allows masses of bonegrinders and a dead beast for them to start spaming an animus... not this guys but the next beast hehe
- Sturm n Drang are beast casters through and through so; Drang bringing the amazing combo of Pack Hunters/Goad/Killing ground for +2MAT, free charges and extra movement!
- Helga: The First Lady of Pigdom brings us Gang fighter for extra hitting power, and her funky slam time feat for more shenanigans. Helga's armies often feature a lot of slaughterhousers as she doesnt do much for brigands and reach gives more flexibility on the feat. The BBoars will love the abundance of reach infantry to trigger gang fighter haha.
The Splatter Boar
A total new one for us, a giant piggy Assault Kommando with a mortar strapped to its back hahaha whats not to like! Gun Boar stats with a different ammo type gun as listed above.
It could be argued that this gun brings to the Alliance what Rask's brings to the luggage crew; Corrosion bombs for murdering chaff, fire for hardier targets and triggering the prowl on the Warlord(!) but his best is the psycho gas...
Hit your own troops who will largely be fearless and get the enemy to run away, or better yet hit your own beasts for a frenzy move... Farrow now have fury management!!!!! Outside of Dr A's feat we have a way to relatively reliably deal with an epic turn of destiny and not pay the piper for it in the next turn.
Midas and Helga love this guy, Midas in tier has a good spamable animus for all his bonegrinders to dish out and |Helga has a powerful gun to make use of her slams.
Sturm n Drang love this guy as he can provide a cloud for them to hide in/behind and shield their medium base asses from enemy fire.
Carver loves this guy for further increasing the damage output of his new Battle Boar brute squad and could attach one to Rorsh to provide cheap covering fire and fury management without taxing him.
Dr A loves him in Mad science for sure, but again is he worth losing a free razor boar in Nature????
Lynus Wesselbaum & Ebrea Lloryrr (Minion Character Unit)
Pendrake's assistants from the Novella are now gracing a tabletop near you! Less useful than the pig beasts but still having something to offer the Alliance, Collaboration provides another way to buff the spell warded Maximus and trying to avoid that critical miss on his first attack roll derp.
Ebrea can bring an extra magical attack to use against those dastardly incorps or Paladins etc, and her wind barrier brings shooting protection to the unit which makes them pretty tenacious compared to their 14/12 stats would suggest.
So there we have it, an old Farrow generals outlook on our newest recruits... i cant wait for the releases and to start terrorizing the local tournament scene... who knows, if they are out by smogcon you WILL see them in the Pit!!!!!!
