Friday, 24 February 2023

Can I grab some cheap Warcry warbands from Stormbringer magazine?

I found out what minis come with the first 10 issues of the Warhammer Stormbringer magazine and have been wondering what warbands I could put together for Warcry on the cheap ever since... here's my thoughts.

I haven't posted about it but I recently got into Warcry and it's great for a quick skirmish game, I'll try to post some more stuff if people like it!

Stormcasts

Cool fanart by Zliva on deviantart

Seemingly the following not-Space-Marines-honest units will come with the magazine:

Knight Arcanum (spellcaster) - 205 points

5x Vindictors (spearmen) - 135 or 170 points each

Praetor hero (halberdy bodyguard) - 160 or 215 points

Lord Imperatant + Gryph Hound - 240+115 = 355 points

Xandire's Truthseekers - now these are interesting! I can't use the bird but the others have a sword (Vanquisher?) a bow (Vigilor?) and a hammer (Annihilator or a Lord maybe?) so it will be fun to play with the options!

Kruleboyz

Who doesn't like orcs (or Orruks?)?

Killaboss + Stab Grot - 180+45 = 225 or 190+45 = 235 points

10x Gutrippas (orcs) - 75 or 140/145 points each

10x Hobgrot Slittas - 70 points each

Swampcalla Shaman + Pot Grot - 165+45 = 210 points 

So, let's see what we can make from this lot...

Fun though the Slittas sound, there's no combo of the other options that make 300 points to get me to 1000, so I'm discounting them for now.

Leader options are Killaboss, Swampcalla, or upgrade one of the Gutrippaz to a Boss (or proxy one as something else?)

Killaboss with flail + Stab Grot + 10 Gutrippas = easy 985 points for around £10, that sounds like a bargain to me albeit for a very simple list!

Swampcalla + Pot Grot + 10 Gutrippas clocks in at 960 which might work, sadly not enough points to squeeze something else in or upgrade a Boy to a Boss though.

Swampcalla + Gutrippa Boss + 9 Gutrippas (losing the Pot Grot) clocks in at 980 or 985 points, worth considering as an alternative to #1 but costs £6 more, and...

Killaboss with shield + Gutrippa Boss with stikka + 9 Gutrippas = 1000 points on the nose. Losing the Stab Grot takes some character out of the list, and it's low on tactical options, but it's dead cheap - and more likely to be able to be able to pull that quad off.

On the Stormcast side, if I get the Killaboss I'll get a Knight Arcanum free cos they are bundles together, so that's worth considering. As are some possible builds for the Xandire's minis (originally from the Warhammer Underworlds game):

Vigilor + Vanquisher + Annihilator = 450 with access to a spread of 3 abilities. Make one of those a Prime for:

Vigilor Prime + Vanquisher + Annihilator = 510

Vigilor + Vanquisher Prime + Annihilator = 495

Vigilor + Vanquisher + Annihilator Prime = 505

I quite like the idea of this, so will look for what else is around 500 points - the Vindictors would be out though!

Nothing obviously fills up the 325 points to make the Vindictors up to 1000 points though, so they might have to slide. Back to the three Underworlds minis:

Lord Imperatant + Gryph Hound + Knight Arcanum + Vigilor + Vanquisher + Annihilator clocks in at 1010 which is frustrating!

Running the one with a hammer as a Lord could be a possibility? One to think on...

As there are no nice easy "teams" I suspect the best option might be to get the issues with:

Knight Arcanum + Killaboss

Gutrippas

Vindictors

Swampcalla

Xandire's 

... That would give a few options, for around £30-35 which is half the price of a boxed warband.

Any suggestions for "teams" I might have missed would be appreciated though if you have them!


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