Will be running these guys at a tournament this weekend using some models I had lying around (plus a spontaneous Wilderfiend purchase). They seem like a fun, fluffy and pretty straightforward warband to play - as it should be with Darkoath! ❤
Thanks for this! At first i was thinking "this will be a bit hard to play them" but then i realize they will spawn free doubles if they got the job done, some potential openings came into my mind, especially giving the slaughterborn (ally) you mentioned, pump it up into a psycho, so now this warband can be a lot of fun. sad that the chieftain horse doesn't get cool stuff though, the model looks awesome. but all in all, these guys can be fun!
He still retains the regular chieftains ability, but other than you you really are paying for that movement buff 🤣 I love the new Darkoath though. Super cool and great fun on the TT
Honestly can not wait to grab the Spearhead box, Brand, a Wilderfiend and playing around. I can definitely see the value in swift attacker too, but only when favoured and very stituational. Even though they are not the most impressive units I would definitely like at least one Felrider with javelin to use for the utility of the supporting the rest of the group, objective grabbing etc. Getting them favoured probably is not the easiest thing in the world, but they seem like they are nice for getting some damage in to weaken someone else enough for another model to get the kill with Oath of murder. However the other reason I think they could work as at the start of the game it may be that because you are using your first turn to move up the board you may not get a kill in the first round with the rest of your units so keeping a felrider about and using them later on could be handy to use, pop oath of murder and get a little kill off on a weakened unit. Round 2 will be much easier to get kills with the rest of your team and you have a favoured felrider that is fast enough to get a bunch of work done, gets the benefits of favoured from other abiltiies that the rest of your warband use like Rally the tribe as an example for a fast objective capper and can use higher value doubles on swift attacker to get a lot of benefit from it since the value of the double doesnt matter for Oath of murder.
I love Cav at this points level and Fellriders are one of my favourite DO units because of it. Loads of play in them for sure. Both variants are wonderful
The faction reaction is really interesting - assuming you get your relevant oaths up in turn 1 before any of the killing starts, I'm guessing you mostly just use doubles for onslaught/rush, so being value 1 isn't much of a downside - probably the biggest downside of the reaction is that it means you didn't get to use counter on that attack 😅 On an unrelated note, the wilderfiend is absolutely wild
That’s the wonderful thing - low value doubles are totally fine most of the time (beware Ruination Chamber…) because you can pump them into onslaught etc. it’s just straight up resource advantage which is wonderful. The Wilderfiend is bonkers. I love it
I’m SO glad I don’t love these models (except for the Wilderfiend, which can’t be allied into anything) because these look way fun to play and I have too many warbands as it is and MUST have Ruination Chamber
It was added to the Darkoath Spearhead box so it could be to persuade to get that box instead. As cheeky as that is and it would be good to just get them seperate it is a pretty nice box with the War queen, 10 marauders, 5 fel riders ancd the Savagers in it.
I would buy that IF they hadn’t also delisted Tarantulas Brood and Cypherlords (among some others iirc). I wouldn’t be surprised if they never return honestly
Will be running these guys at a tournament this weekend using some models I had lying around (plus a spontaneous Wilderfiend purchase). They seem like a fun, fluffy and pretty straightforward warband to play - as it should be with Darkoath! ❤
Can’t wait to hear how it goes!
Thanks for this!
At first i was thinking "this will be a bit hard to play them" but then i realize they will spawn free doubles if they got the job done, some potential openings came into my mind, especially giving the slaughterborn (ally) you mentioned, pump it up into a psycho, so now this warband can be a lot of fun.
sad that the chieftain horse doesn't get cool stuff though, the model looks awesome.
but all in all, these guys can be fun!
He still retains the regular chieftains ability, but other than you you really are paying for that movement buff 🤣
I love the new Darkoath though. Super cool and great fun on the TT
Honestly can not wait to grab the Spearhead box, Brand, a Wilderfiend and playing around.
I can definitely see the value in swift attacker too, but only when favoured and very stituational. Even though they are not the most impressive units I would definitely like at least one Felrider with javelin to use for the utility of the supporting the rest of the group, objective grabbing etc. Getting them favoured probably is not the easiest thing in the world, but they seem like they are nice for getting some damage in to weaken someone else enough for another model to get the kill with Oath of murder.
However the other reason I think they could work as at the start of the game it may be that because you are using your first turn to move up the board you may not get a kill in the first round with the rest of your units so keeping a felrider about and using them later on could be handy to use, pop oath of murder and get a little kill off on a weakened unit. Round 2 will be much easier to get kills with the rest of your team and you have a favoured felrider that is fast enough to get a bunch of work done, gets the benefits of favoured from other abiltiies that the rest of your warband use like Rally the tribe as an example for a fast objective capper and can use higher value doubles on swift attacker to get a lot of benefit from it since the value of the double doesnt matter for Oath of murder.
I love Cav at this points level and Fellriders are one of my favourite DO units because of it. Loads of play in them for sure. Both variants are wonderful
The faction reaction is really interesting - assuming you get your relevant oaths up in turn 1 before any of the killing starts, I'm guessing you mostly just use doubles for onslaught/rush, so being value 1 isn't much of a downside - probably the biggest downside of the reaction is that it means you didn't get to use counter on that attack 😅
On an unrelated note, the wilderfiend is absolutely wild
That’s the wonderful thing - low value doubles are totally fine most of the time (beware Ruination Chamber…) because you can pump them into onslaught etc. it’s just straight up resource advantage which is wonderful.
The Wilderfiend is bonkers. I love it
@@wargamesontoast looking forward to the video on brands group, as I think they add a lot of good options to the warband
I’m SO glad I don’t love these models (except for the Wilderfiend, which can’t be allied into anything) because these look way fun to play and I have too many warbands as it is and MUST have Ruination Chamber
Warcry be cooking some crazy stuff at the moment, and I love it
Any idea why the Darkoath Savagers warband has gone from the GW store? Apologies it you have covered this, I'm writing whilst watching lol
It was added to the Darkoath Spearhead box so it could be to persuade to get that box instead. As cheeky as that is and it would be good to just get them seperate it is a pretty nice box with the War queen, 10 marauders, 5 fel riders ancd the Savagers in it.
I have a video planned covering this coming up in a few weeks ;) in short, it’s weird and they might not return
I would buy that IF they hadn’t also delisted Tarantulas Brood and Cypherlords (among some others iirc). I wouldn’t be surprised if they never return honestly
@@wargamesontoast I really wanted the Conan! Haha. Perhaps that's why they've disappeared the kit? IP stuff?
@@Vaellas I think it's just the standard marauders in that battle force box that's still out there?
Better than infinite wild dice? Well maybe for the rest of you 😘😋
That’s why you ally into SAVAGERS! ITS PERFECT