Arachnarok: Death and Destruction!

Slaying the Spider

Is the Arachnarok just another pretty model from GW with no place on the tournament table? I asked a couple of players from the Warhammer Fantasy community what they thought of taking down the beast.  Domus a blogger and Lizardmen player who recently won his local Ard Boyz tournament says the Skrox unit is great versus any monsters as it can't be stomped or thunderstomped.  The combination of ranks to insure steadfast, and the power of the Krox should be more than enough to take down the Arachnarok, even with it’s eight wounds.  Brohammer caster Erik Lindley suggests the best way to deal with the A-spider is to shoot it, and then tie it up with rabble hoping they will roll enough sixes to finish the monster off.  I think the combined arms approach is surely the best way to take care of any monster, but you must be careful not to have tunnel vision when playing the Arachnarok.  It’s such a big model that you can easily forget about all the other killyness in the OnG army.  I highly recommend you check out ‘Rule of the Day’ by Domus here, and you can chat with Erik on the Brohammer forums here.

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Orcs and Goblins: Balanced or Broken?

Praise from Podcasters:

The Ben’s @BadDice_Podcast did a great job of giving us their initial impressions of the new Orcs and Goblins army book.  Ben Johnson went so far as to suggest that someone using the list will win a two-day tournament in the UK, but was very quick to say that the new list is not top tier.  Considering how popular the Orcs and Goblins are, I think this was a safe bet, and although Johnson seems to be loving his Skaven, I’m sure his O and G will be making a return at some point, and perhaps he’ll make good on his prediction.