The naked dwarves are excellent value for money with a massive saving on the RRP for the units at almost 50%. The Hero can be built in 3 different configurations but the rest of the units are single build options. Notably, their is a set of legs to build one of the Runefather/Runemaster/Runeson on foot in addition to the rider, which makes this rather a fantastic box. Following on from Gavins list I’m going to share what I’m currently playing with. This is again a control list but uses the more traditional line of models to achieve it’s goals rather than leaning into Tzaangors quite so heavily. Beasts of Chaos Battletome –Make sure to grab this as you’ll need to understand all the warscrolls, battalions, alliance rules, etc . It also has sweet art and some great lore in it. Contents: 1 Mighty Lord of Khorne (Hero), 1 Bloodsecrator (Hero), 1 Bloodstoker (Hero), 1 Khorgorath, 5 x Blood Warriors (Battleline) and 10 x Bloodreavers (Battleline) If you run the Bray-Shaman as your General and build the Ungors as regular Ungors, you’ll get another legal list from this box as he will turn your Bestigors into Battleline giving you the required Hero and 2 Battleline again. Ungor Raiders however are one of the few ranged units available to Chaos and certainly to Beasts of Chaos in particular so if you want to do anything in the shooting phase you might want to build them as Raiders.

Morghur, the Great Devolver, a figure that has his roots in the World-that-Was, is also venerated by many tribes including the Gavespawn, for which the end goal is to evolve in a mutated Chaos Spawn to better commute with their divinity. Artefact: Mutating Gnarlblade - Lore of Dark Storms: Hailstorm Tzaangor Shaman of Beasts of Chaos (135)In Azyr, the Thunderscorn waged a tempest war against Sigmar and his armies but, eventually, they were chased off the Realm of Heavens for good. All gor-kin despise Sigmar, and they celebrated when the Dark Gods finally took a grip of the Mortal Realms invading them. Hey! I’ve spent the last couple of days here telling you how great Beasts of Chaos are, without actually telling you how to get started. The Crypt Horrors can built as 2 different FEC units (Horrors and Flayers) or as a Nagash/Soulblight unit the Vargheists. Beasts of Chaos generals can choose between a good list of command traits like Propagator of Ruin that allows to use a second Ritual of Ruin in the same turn and without paying the mortal wounds cost, or Twistfray Cursebeast that improves the casting roll of the hero. Placed on a Tzaangor Shaman with Arcane Tome you now have a very mobile and powerful caster in later turns. Contents: 1 Lord Celestant on Dracoth (Hero), 1 Lord Relictor (Hero), 3 x Retributors, 10 x Liberators (Batteline), 3 x Prosecutors

Thi Contents: 1 Herald of Nurgle / Poxbringer, 10 x Plaguebearers (Battleline), 3 x Nurglings, and 3 x Plague Drones If you are interested in the competitive standpoint, when we talk about statistics, a tremendous effort is done by Rob from the Honest Wargamer, Ziggy and Tsports Network! in the AoS Stat Centre with precious information, constantly kept up to date.

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The FAQ changes for Beasts were decidedly brief. The army got a nice, but minor upgrade in the final Broken Realms book which is the last of the updates you can reasonably expect until an updated Battletome is released. A great value box and currently the only way to get the Bloodsecrator, Bloodstoker and Khorgorath. The contents of this box where the Khorne half of the original Age of Sigmar starter set and many people do/did (help me out here players) consider the Bloodstoker an autoinclude in Khorne armies.