Turn over a new leaf

A few months back I picked up a new faction, Khador, which means trolls have been left in the bag for quite some time now. This has been my first venture into a new faction (I don't count my early venture into Cryx since I only bought a battle box) and it has been a real eye opener. Since playing Khador I have had a growing worry that my Trolls just could not compare to my Khador army.

After playing Khador for a month or two I started playing some pick up games with the Trolls and had a really hard time building a list. Infantry, beasts, solos, I began doubting each piece in the army even our warlock choices. I decided I would need to go back to basics once again and try to re-learn how trolls play. So I deleted all of my old lists in iBodger and turned to the forces of Trollbloods book.

I found myself staring at pGrissel's theme force and I had a thought, Fell Callers are amazing 2 point combat solo's. So I began building some lists based on this theory and am very pleased with what I came up with. After playing the 25pt and 35pt versions I knew I was on the right track to understanding my Trolls in a new and possibly better way.

Blood Of Bragg T1 25 points

Khador Journeyman

Did you know that it sucks when your hard-drive crashes? So thanks to Druidsandstuff for letting me use his laptop to post with.This week I want to talk about the Journeyman League. Just as a little bit of preamble, I tried a Zerkova list and it was terrible. She just doesnt work at low point costs. So I restarted my record with the following list.
The Butcher of Kardov (+6)
-Devestator (9)
-Berserker (6)

It is a tight, slow moving battle-box that does one thing. Smashes really well. Basically the turns go the same ever game. Full-throttle, charge smash. Butcher usually ends up getting the iron flesh, +3 DEF to a def 10 'jack doesnt really tip the scales very well. Fury goes almost exclusively to the Berserker. Turning his POW 16 axes into POW 19 makes all the difference in the world. And the bonus to his free headbutt is pretty nice too.

Elite Khador Jacks vs. Budget Khador Jacks

Hello Scrummers, Im back from my hiatus in the mountains of Switzerland. I went on a soul searching, 5 week hike through the Swiss Alps and...You're not buying any of this are you? Ok, so I actually just have a bad habit of falling off the planet. But Im back for awhile.

Today I want to talk about WarJacks, and more precisely, you guessed it, Khador WarJacks.
Now in Khador there is a very large disparity of funcitonality between our elite 'jacks (ala Drago, Beast, and Behemoth.) And our rank and file 'jacks(pretty much everything else.) Many tournament Khador lists have been almost exclusively single 'jack lists with one of those elite 'jacks. However there has been an influx of cheap 'jack armies recently that have been running four, five, and even six 'jacks.

Butcher n Harkovich vs Borka n eThagrosh

by Sephiroth's Advent


Borka Kegslayer was prowling the deeps of Fenwood, with his warbeasts beside him, when he heard the unmistakable grinding of warjacks in heavy brush. He spun around holding a big meaty finger to his grinning lips.
"Quiet now lads. We might get a fight out of this yet." With that they headed towards the grinding noises.
They found the source of the sounds in a clearing a quarter-mile away. Five hulking warjacks, several man-o-war and from the looks of it two Warcasters. "You boys know who that is? That's the Butcher of Khardov and Kommandant Harkovich." Borka said answering the stares he got from the beasts. "We bring those two down and Khador will be crippled here. Just think of it, the skies the limit."
Borka's speech got the mauler he was with too worked up and it let out a bellow that shook the trees. It also alerted the Khador Warcasters. The warjacks turned and started lumbering towards the trolls. Before they had gotten far a blast of flame took one of the 'jacks full in the chest. A roar from the trees and a sweep of wings and the Messiah of Everblight himself rushed into the clearing. Meeting eyes with Borka, looking back towards the Khadorans, and again with Borka both Warlocks bobbed their heads flashed their teeth, and threw themselves at the Khadorans.

Grandpa With A Big Heart

This post rather than talk about Khador or Trolls (blasphemy), I want to talk about one of the most noble and big hearted things Ive ever seen. If you were at Lock'n'Load you probably saw a young man in a wheelchair being accompanied by his grandpa. I got a chance to talk to the grandpa while the kid was being helped by their NA. The love and compassion that the grandpa had for his grandson was astounding. The grandson couldn't move his arms so he would tell the grandpa where he wanted his figs to go and what they were to do and the grandpa would do it for him. Honestly I was choked up by this. That grandpa deserves a medal. Not only was he taking an interest in the things his grandson was doing, he was enabling him to do it. I think that kid, for his grandpas sake, should have won one of the battlefoam bags that were in the drawing. I just wanted to tell you all about someone that made me a better person. There is a lesson there that we can all learn from. -Sephiroths_Khador Khador doesnt need more arc-nodes. We have plenty of arc-nodes. The main spell we cast through those nodes? Axe to face. Juggernaut, berserker, drago, beast. They're all great nodes for the Axe to face.

Greetings to all on the scrum. I am here to officially introduce myself. On the Forums I am now, Sephiroths_Khador. I have been recruited by The Great Blah and Goris to be a correspondent on the Khador Faction. My posts will consist of tactics and overviews of Khador, but especially how Khador interacts with the Trollbloods.

I guess that the first thing I should talk about is Harkovich and Black Ivan. Harkovich is a beast. Our local Merc players says that he is a better Broadside Bart than Broadside Bart is. When you have two destroyers and Black Ivan, the broadside spell is a brutal volley of range 14 pow 14 goodness. Combine that with his feat Iron Wolf. Your battlegroup (remember battlegroup) charge and slam for free, and if they are in Harks control when the charge or slam, they get a free shot that doesnt count towards its RoF.