Monday, February 18, 2013

Warriors of Chaos: Slaughterbrute Overview

Hey all, I'm doing another unit overview for Warriors of Chaos (duh). Aren't Slaughterbrutes great, awesome models and awesome stats. So as I said in the Shaggoth Overview, I am a bit tied between the Shaggoth and the Slaughterbrute. Yes the Shaggothe may be more balanced but the Slaughterbrute has it's up's too. I absolutely love the Runes of Binding special rule. As Termindado (Duncan Wright) figured out, it would be hilarious if you took Archaon and a bunch of Slaughterbrutes who will then have weaponskill 9 and leadership 10!! You could take a Daemon Prince instead for the weaponskill 9 but would have leadership 9 instead of Archaon's leadership 10. I think the weaponskill is the big part though, who doesn't love high weaponskill. Slaughterbrutes may only have 5 wounds compared to a Shaggoth's 6 wounds, but a Slaughterbrute does have 4+ Scaly Skin save compared to a Shaggoth's crappy light armor. So I think that the Slaughterbrute may be a bit more survivable because of it's 4+ Skaly Skin save but is initiative 3 and attacks 4 compared to a Shaggoth's initiative 4 and attacks 5. Slaughter brutes do have 1 more strength though, and can have the Extra Claws upgrade to give them two strength 5 attacks. However there is one major problem with the slaughterbrute, it is cannon bait. That's not all though, there are so many units better than slaughterbrutes. So it's not the best unit though has a cool model and a cool backstory. I would much rather take a Chimerae or a Shaggoth.

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