And up now are the first games for my mostly-Mantic, mostly-Free Dwarfs! For better or for worse, outside of support slots, I can’t swing a ton of variability yet, so the builds are primarily “what I had done”.
Battle 038 was Free Dwarfs vs Trevor’s Kingdoms of Men in Hold the Line
Battle 040 was Free Dwarfs vs Rob’s Kingdoms of Men in Control
Battle 041 was Free Dwarfs vs Xirkaali in Push
I don’t feel like have a ton of valuable insight to offer up yet. Generally-speaking I’ve been trying a ranged / combined arms approach with the army, looking to add some damage at long range early, waver opposing units for tempo and positional advantage in the midgame, and then just try my best as the scenario concludes. We’ve given a good and competitive game every time, but the collection is stretched a bit thin right now. I guess generally:
- Rangers are indeed a lot of fun, but have had some tough games and hard situations. They have been useful in each game, but I am no where near using them competently, let alone to their full potential!
- Rifle Horde has been great and Piercing 2 useful, but positioning is important since they have Reload. I have done ok at this so far, but they are usually pretty central, which can be a little dangerous.
- Brock Riders are very scary, but need protection and support.
- Ironguard are strong, but regiments are still quite breakable, especially with multi-charges, and despite the extra attacks, which I do like, they aren’t breaking much on their own, and really want a Bane Chant in order to grind and push back better.
- Berserker infantry are fun, and good instigators, but also really want Bane Chant to deal any damage. An infantry-heavy list with them and Shieldbreakers could be a lot of fun though.
- The old, metal Berserker Lord on Giant Brock is pretty iconic for the army, but I have not been using him well. I think he’d do much better if I had some Stoneclaws or more Brocks to have more speed. Maybe someday!
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I have been very impressed by your Dwarf play, you’re really achieving that tempo control goal and removing far more units each game than I expect, with what feels like a rather unassuming toolbox army. I was pumping my fist for you several times in that Xirkaali game in particular 
As for the Undead, loved the zombie troll game, it felt like everything worked and the army performed as designed and as the narrative suggests, with undead of all sizes swarming the poor beleaguered men. Another standout game, extra cheers for that one 
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Well done! Nicely thematic overrun and close in. The first game an example of dispersion of force from your opponent, though; I think they went too wide and splitting their high value units between the two flanks meant they couldn’t win either. In the second game it seemed that the shooting wasn’t brought to bear as much as earlier games.
Thanks for the reports. Makes me keen to get my undead out, though I’m not playing much KoW in general. I’ve only managed to get my (3) armies out for 1 game each, of 4th.
I’m also undecided on the barrow wraith. Seems cool thematically though.
I haven’t played much 4th, but still like the Revenant King with surge.
The price of the Reveneant is not nice; but having an individual that can take a charge, do a damage and isn’t yielding is nice. If I want to take a warlord I replace the Revenant King, though. 
Wraiths are definitely not chaff. Too expensive, but also too useful as an all round support unit, that may (or may not) block in a chaff-like manner eventually.
The rather variable durability on troops is very thematic for ghosts. I have found that generally troop can stand up to low quality units, but pop against the good stuff. Luck swings it both ways though.
10 attacks with CS (1) and strider are enough to make a difference, even with Me 4+.
While the troops’ base helps them hop lines and squeeze into uncomfortable positions, the regiment only needs to recover 1 damage to be as durable as ironguard.
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I forgot to say, the Rev King with surge on a pony is IMO legitimately good, and will be even better with some orders worth shouting. His rally is the cherry on top of that sundae that I’m always forgetting about.
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