Trolls play differrently from the Skorne, they’re not necessarily worse.

However, the Impaler is a poor chice of warbeast for Gunbjorn.

His Explosivo spell changes their ranged attack into an AoE:3″. However, the rules for explosive means that the battle spear loses the Thrown Weapn trait on the blast damage meaning it will be POW:2… also Gunbjorn’s Snipe doesn’t stack with Far Strike.

Gunbjorn works best with guns… he’s proper soldier afterall!

Pyg Burrowers
Pyg Bushwackers
Thumper Crew
Trollkin Scattergunners
Trollkin Sluggers (these guys are the best by far!)

Are all amazing with Gunbjorn’s Guided Fire spell, but for Warbeasts you want to look towards Troll Blitzers… again… Guided Fire for boosted attack rolls and D3 shots per turn make them truely a monster!

As for Light Warbeasts, I alsways try to go for Troll Axers if I can. They’re a good general attack warbeast that you can keep in reserve, riling them for FURY, until they’re needed to charge forward and take out anything that breaks your gun line.

Hope that helps…

The best tactics for Gunbjorn is to use the brand new “Trollkin Gunline”!

Cast Snipe on Gunbjorn and a Thumper (you only need 1 Thumper), then shell anything within range.

As the enemy moves forward, you switch to Guided Fire and let everything shoot… Gunbjorn (boosting damage)… Sluggers… Blitzers (boosting damage)… Thumper… everything!

If there’s anything left, use your feat to give all your guys extra DEF, Then move your Light Warbeasts up to deal with the survivors.
Axers are good because they hit harder, but the Bouncer is better if something breaks through your lines and threatens Gunbjorn.
I would still take an Axer and leave a FURY (or two) on Gunbjorn to transfer damage.

Longriders can be used to counter charge anything that survives your couple of turns of gunfire… the big problem is they are expensive… so expensive that you might have to drop a Light Warbeast in order to take them. That’s pretty bad, two Axers are much more flexible than the Longriders, simply due to the fact you can transfer and spread the damage.

I don’t have my cards on me ATM, so I have to use the Warmachine Gizmo (which isn’t always correct)… for 15pts I would go for this…

X1 – Captain Gunbjorn – Warlock – +5pts
X2 – Troll Axer – Light Warbeast – 6pts
X1 – Thumper Crew – Unit – 3pts
X1 – Trollkin Sluggers – Unit (3 man) – 5pts

For 25pts, I would add…

X1 – Troll Blitzer – Heavy Warbeast – 9pts
X1 – Swamp Gobber Bellows Crew – Unit – 1pt

Then Increase the size of the Slugger unit and add more units of shooters.

That’s my thinking anyway…

As for the Warpacks, they should be here on Monday, but when will the actual vids will be up… unfortunately, that depends on the editing schedule.

BoW Andy

The Bouncer/Axer might work well… what you’ll learn about my play style is I find that the dest defence is an all-out offence… so I woud take Axers.

The idea that you can push enemies away with the Bouncer’s shield is a good one, but killing multiple enemies with the Axer’s Thresher & Reach combo is more my style!

In the build above, you have both Gunbjorn and the Thumper that can knock enemies down. Once knocked down, Thresher/Reach is savage!!!

You can save FURY to boost damage rolls or to buy extra attacks (I usually go for attacks) and auto-hit in melee… monstrous… I do it with my Magnus Agenda force all the time, a Renegade’s obliterator shot, followed up by a Mangler loaded with FOCUS is a game winner.

As for upkeep spells, you can cast spells multiple times on units, but the same effect doesn’t stack up…

For example – If Gunbjorn casts Sniper on himself and then casts an Impaler’s Animus (Far Strike) on himself as a spell, he doesn’t get RNG +8″… as both Snipe and Far Strike grant the Snipe effect (i.e. RNG:+4″).

However, if you used Guided Fire and cast Explosivo on a Pyg Bushwhacker (for example), it’s ranged shot would become magical and an AoE:3″. It would also roll 3D6 on ranged attack rolls, as both these effects are different.

Hope that helps…

BoW Andy

Looking at Starting Trollbloods and never having played Hordes or Warmachine I’ll be looking at starting with figures i like so can these be moulded into a useable and useful force?

Grim Angus or
Jarl
Dire Troll Mauler
Impaler(s)
Bushwackers
Sluggers
Kriel Warriors (Inlcuding Caber Tosser)

I have read that Angus is good with shooty stuff and Jarl surprisingly works better with fighty stuff So I guess I will need to choose which units/beasts to but based on which caster I end up going for…or vice versa!