Painting Competition: Day 1
It’s the first day of the painting competition. Check out the details over at Nog’s Painting Cave. My 14 model, 35-pt army is primed and ready to go. Hopefully tonight I can start getting paint applied. But this post isn’t about painting, it’s about the list. While the list was greatly influenced by model count (in wild hopes of improving my odds of finishing), it does have some interesting features.
First, as with all epic Butcher lists, it has Doom Reavers. Only a singly unit, but still, there they are.
Second is eButchers (random) lack of focus. eButcher’s focus is randomly determined each round, so he will have d6+1 focus each turn (meaning 2-7). This means that he isn’t going to be giving out a lot of focus to ‘jacks, at least not consistently. eButcher does have Conferred Rage, so his battlegroup ‘jacks can charge or make power attacks without focus. So that will help. Plus if Zoktavir gets a kill, his ‘jacks will increased MAT and SPD, saving more focus from boosting, assuming your warcaster is up front killing things. Also two of my three ‘jacks (Beast 09 and the Kodiak) have Heavy Boilers, so they can also run without focus.
Third is reach. Every model except the Greylord Ternions and the Kodiak have reach. However, the Ternion have a POW 12, RNG 8 spray. The Kodiak has a 3″ self-centering POW 12 infantry killing Vent Steam option, not great reach, but full circle at least. So every model is likely to have multiple kill targets in range.
Fourth: feat turn or why is reach important? Many reasons. For one, eButcher’s feat turn allows him to gain rage token for each kill in his control area. Reach means the possibility of more targets in melee range to kill at once. Plus the use of the rage tokens only allows for a single move, so for maximum use you want that move to get you near as many enemy models as possible.
Fifth: Homicidal Maniac, Ravager, Berserk, Thresher. Zoktavir and Beast can make attacks against everything in LOS and melee range. The Doom Reavers with Berserk can keep making melee attacks as long as they are killing things and the Ravager spell can bestow Berserk onto additional models. This factors in favorably with items 3 and 4 above.
It’s an interesting, extremely aggressive list, capable of lots of melee killing. I look forward to playing it, fully painted.