r/BeastsOfChaos

Hi all. New here and starting an escalation league with my buddies. We’re new and playing Battle March from 500 pts up to 1,000pts and then normal ToW from there up to 1,500pts, increasing by 250pts each time.

It’s not a competitive league and the goal is to learn the game and keep it light and narratively fun (we’re writing army backstories / doing other narrative out of game things to go alongside).

With that in mind, I’m looking for some feedback on my intended list and its additions up to 1500pts. As above I’m not looking for uber meta combinations, but really for any advice on if I’ve got any gaping holes or things that are likely to lead to difficulty or confusion.

I’ve written out my thought process to try and help you understand where I’m coming from
So that if there is a better way to achieve something or if something I say I want wouldn’t work because of some rule I’ve missed, that would be helpful!

So to start at 500pts:

• Wargor [84 pts]
- General
- Hand weapon, Shield, Light Armour
- Rune of the Beast Ascendant

• Bray Shaman [110 pts]
- Level 2 Wizard (Deamonology & Beasts)
- Jagged Dagger

• Gor Herd [132 pts]
- 15 Gors with Paired Hand Weapons
- Champion, Standard Bearer & Musician
- Banner of the Bold

• Ungor Herd [55 pts]
- 10 Ungors with Shortbows
- Musician

• Razorgor [52 pts]

• Razorgor [52 pts]

This comes to 485pts. The Shaman will be attached to the Ungors so he can avoid being sniped, and use his jagged dagger on them.
The Wargor will be attached to the Gors for +1 leadership with ‘Rune of the Beast Ascendant’ and the ‘Banner of the Bold’ letting them reroll leadership tests (which I know they get on some Ld tests with ‘Chaos Undivided’, but believe this banner would let them include primal fury within as the Veteran rule becomes *all* Ld tests?)

At 750pts I’ll:

- Add a Preyton with Ambush special rule [170pts]
- Add a Herdstone [100pts]
- Remove a Gor [-7pts]

The Preyton will add the ability to ambush to threaten any backline skulkers (war machines lone characters or missile troops), as well as giving me a source of Terror and Fly so if my opponent has ambushing units I can instead keep they Preyton back to defend and react quickly. I know there are other options for the points, so happy to hear suggestions but I am unduly partial to the Preyton as a model/vibe… and the Herdstone will make both my magic better and help me take a more defensive posture if required.

At 1,000pts, I’ll:

- Add a second 15-Gor Herd with full command and Banner of Outrage [147pts]
- Add the missing Gor back to the first Gor Herd [+7pts]
- Upgrade the Bray Shaman to a Great Bray Shaman at Level 4 [+85pts], he becomes the general.

This will hopefully make my casting reliable enough to count on, give me a good range of spells, and mean I have two solid blocks of Gors who get to reroll their Primal Fury tests and likely will have +1 Ld from the Wargor if they stay reasonably close.

At 1,250 pts, I’ll

- Add a swarm of 6 Harpies [66pts]
- Add a Centigor Herd of 8 with full command, the soiled tapestry (hatred all), ambush, throwing axes, cavalry spears, and shields [195]

The goal here is to give more flexibility; if my opponent is bringing ambushers, the harpies can intercept and harry them. Otherwise they will be a utility unit. The Centigors will be shock cavalry to either ambush or add a more mobile threat being able to throw out s5 axes of charged or charge themselves depending on the situation.

At 1,500pts, …

I don’t really know, so advice would be appreciated! Perhaps something big/centrepiece-ish?

Thanks for reading all this if you got this far!

Hi all, as above I’m doing a list to start out and keen to understand why a Razorgor(s) is more popular than a Chaos Spawn(s), other than them being in different categories (core vs rare).

I know the Razorgor has swiftstride and the Spawn has the unreliability of random movement and attacks, but as I understand the benefit of taking a Razorgor is to charge block/redirect etc, and so i feel like the Chaos Span would do better here given its better staying power, allowing it to hold up enemy units more effectively while my Gors get into a good position…

I like the idea of the Chaos Spawn with Mark Of Khorne to give killing blow, and the ability to basically keep them a threat to a greater range of units

But I’ve not played a game and so advice or anything i may not have considered would be appreciated!

From another perspective, my aim is to get sone Raptoryx and paint them,up as essentially “angry geese” because my list will be somewhat themed around farm animals rising up to overthrow humans, so having geese around the farm seems thematic as either Chaos Spawn or Razorgors, but trying to figure of which to run them as and so what base size to use.

Love the models, love the big two handed weapons. Ill never move beyond 750 points, how useful do people find them?

Ive heard a few people say they are not bad but not good at anything. If you could make one reasonable change to them, what would it be? Would them having free shields be included in their kit make them a more attractive unit?

Very new to TOW, I would like some opinions before asembling my first ungor units. Do having a champion make sense in game? Same for musician? For standard bearer I feel like it's bad to have them in a unit which will very likely be destroyed, am I wrong?

I am a huge fan of the beastmen and the old world but for a long time my heart was with the seraphon in aos. But ive never interacted with the old world except in lore form where ive read alot of books. Since the new box will be coming out soon and after ive bought that one what should I buy next? I am pretty experienced in the hobby so painting and resin wont be an issue I just dont know what to buy after the new box. Forgot to mention are the bestigors good? they are by far my favourite models just looks and lorewise with normal gors being a close second.

What are your plans for when the army is finaly out in 5th and does any of you guys plan on making a custom.battletome for casual games? I'm not reslly into the old world. I do play some mordheim from time to time but it seems i joined the heard way too late. My group mostly play aos and i'm not sure what i'll do when my beloved bovines are rotated out. Maybe SOB i don't know. Kinda asking for a miracle lol