What will you be doing for banners if you go to a tournament?
I suppose if you take skull crushers (and i think ogres) you can get in a banner.

But honestly, if scrolls of binding are allowed, just take that ridiculous lizardmen thing

 

Ahh the old blood and glory problem. I usually take my BSB on a jug in a unit of SkullCrushers, plus my general is 4. If i pull BnG i jsut keep them back till I've neutralized any threats. Luckily my Meta isnt big on the BRB scenarios, most tourneys have custom scenarios and there are very few of a blood and glory type.

The Dread Saurians been nerfed so you can't make it ethereal, it is pretty awesome though.

The other idea i was tossing around was two hordes of trolls with 2 mournguls. The mourngul has a special rule that any model in base contact has always strikes last, would go great with I1 trolls.

Then i was tossing around the idea of a level 2 emperor dragon with lore of light and a shit ton of trolls, but i dont know the kind of chances of getting useful spells out of it and its like ~740pts

 

Ettins are pretty hard core and you can make it a LVL1 Beast Shaman for awesome-sauce Wildform on Trolls. Scout is also sick on a model that size. they are expensive though but at T6, 8W and a 5+ regen they very hard to take down. He might be a good bet to distract attention away from galrauch if you take him.

As for Galrauch. Eh. i'd rather take a Tzeentch Daemon Prince with the Lore of Tzeentch. Purely because the Lore of Tzeentch is pretty sucky. Other than that though he's not bad. He's only packing a 3+/6+ but has T6 and 6W to compensate. he also has more attacks than a Prince and has 2 Breath weapons which is awesome.

 

I've been playing a dragon myself for a while now and their great if escorted by two chimerae. Use them as a tag team and your in for some great fun.
As for cannons well yes thats a jiffy but with any army they are so you shouldn't be to concerned about that, sh"#t happens.

 

Monstrous arcanum scroll of binding fully loaded kdaai destroyer... A thing if beauty.

 

I've just had the displeasure of fighting a Plague Toad. Those things are fricking nasty. My Ettin did rock though.

 

The scouting Ettin is pretty damn awesome

 

The scouting Ettin unbound the Toad Dragon on my first turn (I went first) and it then went nuts charging the nearest unit (fiend or foe). So in his turn turn it charged his LVL4 on a Fulcrum and ate him.

Mwuahahahaha!

 

Hahaha, awesome. I've used both Ettin and the toad dragon to great success. Although the only problem with the toad dragon is that unless you can thunderstomp something it has a meagre number of attacks. Ettin can also have one heroic killing blow attack!? I just really wish he'd taken out that war mammoth

 

Is there a new storm of chaos Monster book available?
I have the original and not heard of any of the creatures
mentioned in this thread.

 

Forgeworld has released a monster arcanus, it contains more monsers for storm of magic.

 

He does, at str8 Although if you make him a Wizard you lose that HKB rule. However having such a big gribbly and a caster AND something that gives everything near him -1LD is pretty awesome to have lurking in their lines on turn 1. He'd probably be pretty good to use in conjunction with some Hell Cannons thinking about it.


Yeah, the Toad Dragon didn't actually kill much as he was just fighting cavalry. The only thing he managed to stomp on was a unit of 5 Dogs. He was just an arse to kill. My Lord with 8 str8 attacks and ASF only took 4 wounds off and then I was just hacking away for 3 rounds of combat wounding on 6's. My mate also got off a spell that made me re-roll 6's to wound that saved it's bacon in the last round.

 

I guess I underestimated the toads ability to tank and deny points. Might be worth taking with Tamurkhan on top after all.

I'd thought about the hellcannon trick too, which is unlike me thinking strategically and playing to win

 

Compared to slaanesh and nurgle, tzeentch comes in at a distant 3rd place for power, but it is still a very nasty lore. Stealing spells, taking away leadership and BSB abilities are terrific spells. And you are 100% correct, it destroys monsters easily. Also counters demon princes handily. You can hit him 3 times with gateway before the regen starts to get better than his ward and by then he should be dead.