The Scrum Painting Challenge Week 10

Well folks we are 10 weeks into the challenge and I am back on the horse with real progress mad eon my War Wagon.  I'm still getting amazing submissions from everyone and I am proud to say we have all produced 10 painted models towards a complete army so keep them coming guys!  I am privileged to have you guys contributing to The Scrum and hope you all make it to the end.

Homebrew ~ Horthol, Long Rider Lord

Horthol, Long Rider LordSpd: 7
Str: 9
Mat: 8
Rat: 4
Def: 14
Arm:19
Cmd: 10
Fury: 5
Beast Points: +6
18 Boxes

WeaponsBison’s Might
Pow 7
P+S 15
Reach
Magical Weapon
Critical Smite - On a critical hit, this model can slam the model hit instead of rolling damage normally. The model hit is slammed
d6˝ directly away from this model and suffers a damage roll with POW equal to this modelʼs STR plus the POW of this weapon.
The POW of collateral damage is equal to this modelʼs STR.

Thunder
MountPow 15
Critical Knockdown

Steady

Bull Rush
Long Rider Lord – When determining distance to friendly Long Riders for any spells, effects, or feats from this model double the total possible distance being measured. Long Rider Units become FA: 2

Elite Cadre Long Riders(same as written)

Follow Up

Line Breaker

FeatModel/Units starting their activations in this model’s control area gain Pathfinder, +2spd, may Charge, Slam or Trample for free. Large Based models effected by the feat become Calvary Models and gain the Calvary Charge Rule and may make Impact Attacks. Medium and Small Based models may make a Light Calvary move at the end of their activation.

Spells

Carnage 3
Friendly Faction models gain +2 to melee attack rolls against enemy models in this modelʼs control area. Carnage lasts for one
turn.

Killing Ground 2
Friendly Faction models beginning a charge in this modelʼs control area gain Pathfinder ICON. Warbeasts in this modelʼs
battlegroup beginning their activations in this modelʼs control area can charge or make slam power attacks against enemy
models without being forced. Killing Ground lasts for one turn.

Defender’s Ward 2
Target friendly Faction model/unit gains +2 DEF and ARM.

The Gauntlet has been tossed

Lock and Load is going to big.  It's going to be glorious.  The action will be fast and furious.  The beer will be flowing and the Kilts will be fashionable.

Among all the things that will be happening at L&L one of these events will be momentous.  Goris and I (theummhmmguy) will be meeting for the first time face to face.

It is apparent that the best way to commemorate this meeting is for a truly epic battle of Kith and Kriel.

I'm calling you out Goris.  My Rocky Mountain Trolls are itching to test the Mettle of the West Coast Trolls.

My proposal is simple. You choose my caster and I'll choose yours, for 35 or 50 points of axe to mouth, we will have to work out the rest with the help of our readers.  Loser buys winner a Drink or a Caber Tosser.  That and of course our battle will be well documented here at The Scrum to enable the winner as much bragging rights as possible.


Saerko and Bakaryu you aren't off the hook.  You two are next...

The Tuffalo Shuffle

Full Tactica for Trollkin Longriders can be found HERE

Toughalow Shuffle

Since there has been renewed interest in this tactic I figured I would go more in depth about how it will work.


This tactic is wonderfully simple. Take a Long Rider and run him in front fo a group or single target you wish to be knocked down or simply killed. Take a second long rider in the unit and Slam the first long rider over whatever it was you wanted dead. Simply effective and with a great threat range. Apply this liberally to casters or anything you want dead. You may lose your long riders under exceptional damage rolls, but mostly likely the collateral damage from your Long Rider has likely killed whatever it just bowled over.

Now to illustrate this with a clever picture!


So, the jist of how this works. The leader gives the Bull Rush order. Numbers 1 and 2 Run or Charge under the order. Numbers 3 and 4 after those impacts or run have been resolved move like the rest of the unit. Resolve the Long Riders who impacted before the slams. Once those 2 have finished revolve 3 and 4's slams to kill even more WG in the process. This is highly simplified obviously, but that's basically how it works. There may be a discrepancy on when the slam happens since you choose who in the unit activates when, but it makes sense to me.

Quick & Dirty Painting - Poll

Which model do you guys want us to make Goris paint and blog about next.  I'm all for torture and was immediately thinking Nyss Hunters but Goris shortened the list on me.  He still has given us some fantastic choices.  So chime in, what do you guys want to see next.

Earthborn Dire Troll

Impaler

Long Riders (3)

Horthol

Poll is on the right side my fellows Trolls and Trollettes.  So eat, drink, and party like a Pygmy... oh yeah, and please vote too.

Quick and Dirty Painting – Krielstone Bearer and Stone Scribes

by Goris

You know them!  You love them! They are a must have in nearly every Trollblood army.  And I was tired of them not being painted, so this installment of Quick and Dirty Painting brings you the Krielstone Bearer and Stone Scribes!

After such an amazing response from the Trollblood community last time, I have modified my methods a little and will break down the easy steps I use to make my models pop with minimal effort for the everyday painter.

Step 1

As simple as it sounds: base coat EVERYTHING.  Make sure you get even paint coverage on everything on the model.  No metal showing.  You can easily go over things if you don’t like the color later and it’s much easier to paint over errors when they clearly contrast the paint already on the model.  It’s also nice to pick the general theme of the model during this phase as well.  I’ve recently decided my Trolls will be of the Red Sash Kriels.  They might even be a back story if I decide to make one!  The colors should be pretty obvious for everything here as I have few paint colors and I try to keep it as simple as possible.

Observations on 100pt and 2 Caster Games

by Goris

I took it upon myself just recently to play my first 100pt game and my first 2 caster game at that since MKII rolled out.  While this may seem a simple exercise the actuality of completing this task is a little more daunting in a number of ways.  While the experience was fun and can be very rewarding to watch your armies’ synergy really soar, it can also be very easy to clog up your own gears if you are not careful in a few ways.  I’ll discuss my reflections and give a few tips in this write up. 

Planning

More than in most games, planning your game turn by turn is very important and in fact is much more necessary then in smaller games where it’s hard for your order of operations to really screw you too much.  In huge games not laying your buffs and synergy or even activating a unit out of turn can really screw you.  So, things to think about:

-          Take your time! Turns may ne timed but it’s better to make sure the stuff you activate did what it was supposed to do with the most potential rather then simply throwing your pieces around hastily trying not to hit the clock. 

-          Try planning your turn out while your opponent plays so you have an idea of what you want to activate and when. 

-          Your Oder of Operations is VERY important.  With so many bases moving around the tale it’s easy for you stuff to get in its own way, especially with all those medium bases. 

-          Maximize your feat turns.  Feats on this scale are much more game altering when done to the maximum effect.  This means perhaps feating a turn later then normal because you can get an entire extra unit effected or perhaps sooner to protect your army on it’s advance.  Feats are extremely important in these types of games, use them wisely.

Love Stinks Steamroller Tourney Report

  ~ By Goris

This tourney was something I had been waiting for quite some time as it would be the first time in a while that a PG would be running it and I was quite excited.  I brought out the big boys for it, but unfortunately my list needed a little tuning because of the untimely demise and slow resurrection of a Fennblade who fell victim to one of my dogs.

So to start, here were my chosen lists.

Earthborn Dire Troll: AKA – Cannonball - by Goris

This was one of the first models I purchased. I was was in awe of how dynamic his model was and have been captivated and impressed with it’s performance every game he’s been in. Here’s some tips, strats and a break down of our most versatile beast.

Awesome Armies ~ Borka by Goris

To kick off our newest Series, Awesome Armies, Goris has given us a write up on Borka and the successes, strategies, strengths and weaknesses with the army he has chosen to go with it.  


Now, I am a huge fan of the eDoomy beast trifecta. However, that being such a popular list of late, I decided during nightfall to branch out and try our lower fury Melee centric casters. So I tailored a Borka list that has been working very well for me and provides a good number of troops, a few beasts and some great speed.

Points: 50
Borka Kegslayer (*5pts)
* Troll Axer (6pts)
* Earthborn Dire Troll (10pts)
Kriel Warriors (Leader and 5 Grunts) (4pts)
* 1 Kriel Warrior Caber Thrower (1pts)
* Kriel Warrior Standard Bearer & Piper (2pts)
Krielstone Bearer and 3 Stone Scribes (3pts)
* Krielstone Stone Scribe Elder (1pts)
Trollkin Fennblades (Leader and 9 Grunts) (8pts)
Trollkin Long Riders (Leader and 2 Grunts) (7pts)
Alten Ashley, Monster Hunter (2pts)
Fell Caller Hero (3pts)
Fell Caller Hero (3pts)
Horthol, Long Rider Champion (5pts)

eDoomy vs Reznik

Last night I faced off againt Menoth in a 35 pt battle.  It was fairly one sided and standard, but a text book example of how Mulg still eats face.

Points: 35

Hoarluk Doomshaper, Rage of Dhunia (*6pts)

* Troll Axer (6pts)

* Earthborn Dire Troll (10pts)

* Mulg the Ancient (12pts)

Farrow Bone Grinders (Leader and 3 Grunts) (2pts)

Kriel Warriors (Leader and 5 Grunts) (4pts)

* Kriel Warrior Standard Bearer & Piper (2pts)

Swamp Gobber Bellows Crew (Leader and 1 Grunt) (1pts)

Saxon Orrik (2pts)

Stone Scibe Chronicler (2pts)