Black Orcs are insanely good, if you mix them up right and manage to take out the right models in the right order. So you can always roll on 3+ armour, but still have lots of two-handed attacks. Good damage output, especially on the carge, very good armour saves, great morale, being able to make units go arounf impetious are all very good for the points. not chep, but tough and very good damage output. Only downside is that you have to take a black orc boss, but you normally do anyway and then you can make them core, that make them even better!

As a Woodelf I am going straight for the enemie wizard with my eagles or light cavalry to prevent him from countermagic. Then a wood will growth in front of the dragon and take his LoS. I will not fight a dragon, because it would be frustrating if he survives with 1 healthpoint. I prefer the damage race to get more points as the dragon will get. Units of 5 Dryads with a Nymph shine here to block a dragon for at least 2 rounds of combat

Stopped watching after the skeleton horsemen. You just look at their raw damage output. But not at the special rules. Heavy cav and horde means a static combat result of +2 add in a banner and only Spears on a unit of twelve (4 by 3) and for just 162 points you have a decent outnumbering, fear causing static combat result unit that can disrupt pretty well.

Quit helpful. I wish the stalkers could get some AP or some kind of boost to range to make them useful.

I like how it seems like he makes the point that combined arms tactics makes it an easier army to play somehow. Making use of your different unit's strengths is by far the hardest part of the game. But sure, charging in with only cav Bretonnians sure takes alot of brain power. Lol.

Orc & Goblin Tribes Arcane Journal is relay Fast and Trolyy !

I would argue dwarfs are unforgiving this edition due to the prevalence of cav, monsters, magic, and shooting being toned down. I think new players will quickly get frustrated by lack of maneuverability, ineffectual shooting, and being completely outclassed in the magic phase. If the new player wants to be competitive in tournaments dwarfs are not the answer.

Is this an AI voice? Sounds so precise. And still so weird. Leadbelcher? They shoot lead. Yhetee?

Dwarfs exist to get allied contingents in Empire

Great idea, thanks for doing this!

Nice Idea. Like it!

You can also run a smaller more elite army for orcs & goblins if you focus on black orcs and big un’s.

Ogre Kingdoms might be the best beginner army. Cheap to buy. Few models. Easy to paint. Simple rules. And models avalable in AOS, just need to re-base.

love it!

no tomb guard (and therefore no warsphinx or necroknights) hurts, but still, two lv4 wizards, both with +1 to cast from the casket and +3 from animus, is absolutely hideous casting power. even the lvl2 bsb can be casting at +6. that plus a necrosphinx in special, and higher rare allowance... very nice.

Love the lists man. Keep us informed on green skins, tomb kings and dwarfs forsure.

Happy to have subscribed to you on a previous video, I can't wait to see each and every new tier list.

I disagree a lot with this ranking. For example, Greatbow Ushabtis make solid counter to tanky, flying skirmishers like pegasus knights or gyrocopters. In my opinion they are one of the better options in special slots.

Poison do not work on mounted dragons really. Most poison stuff has no or low AP and those characters typically have AS of 2+ and ward and regen typically. That means warmachines are not that effective either as they need to wound on 3+ and that dragon has 2 or 3 5+ saves. As fpr tying them with challenges. Sadly it is 1 off and dragon with flight and good M can easily avoid it. As for monster Slayer and counter dragon. Sadly it is noit an option for some armies that lack both. Personally I play O&G and I do not have anything resembling good Monster Slayer combo or item and Wyvern is very much weaker dragon that typically cannot compete with full fleged dragons while still being suceptible to their weaknesses.

Itchy nuisance is indeed awesome.

please do more!

How do you feel about Prince Apophas?

It´s sad that TOW is turning into monsterhammer, Dragons & the like should only be available in 2000+ points, that way you could play 1999 points if you don't want a meta consisting of Dragons...

Like your content. Subscribing. Can't wait for you to do the other factions later on.

Only one challenge can be issued per combat. (Pg.210)

The best spell is the one in the right place at the right time

You rate greatbow ushabti pretty low, and fair enough as the total damage output goes way down, but great blade ushabti are very slow in combat and really not that tough, with only T4, 3w, heavy armor, and 6+ regen, it feels like most targets that you'd need that kind of output against are going to go first and drop a couple ushabti before they swing. Greatbow ushabti attack at a pretty incredible range, considering they have no penalties for moving or long range, and are fairly threatening to enemy war machines, which otherwise threaten your monsters. I find a couple units of 3 bowshabti are solid support for monster spamming TK lists for this reason, particularly in Mortuary Cult where you can take one of those units as core (plus a necrosphinx in special). All that said, I don't exactly dispute your overall tier 4 rating for ushabti in general. imo they're kind of boarderline between T4 and T3. I just don't think the greatbows rate any lower than the blades. They're just different tools. In contrast, I think you're maybe overestimating the regular archers a bit. 5+ to hit, S3, no ap, one damage... even if you invest a hero in them to get poison a reasonably sized unit of 20 is still only going to get 2-3 poisoned hits plus another 2-3 hits that need to roll to wound. Sure in theory you could take them larger then that, but as you increase the width the unit gets super unweildy pretty fast, and if you just increase the depth then you're paying double per shot for volley fire - and that's if you're able to volley fire in the first place - sometimes you just need to move. Heck, a big part of the bonus of arrows of asaph is that you ignore the penalty for doing so, relying on volley fire just puts that penalty back. I don't think regular tomb kings archers (or especially the skirmishers) are ~bad~ mind. Just not top tier. Maybe tier 3.

Great video with some nice points! Some spells in here I'm considering higher on my list now, even if they're not my top 5.

So your "Tier" list has NO "good" infantry. Remind us.. how much paste do you consume daily?

No Wind Blast and No Plague of Rust? Yeah this list sucks

Phantasmagoria: what happens if I'm in range of the effect but I don't move?

Trolls got a serious bump upwards with the new arcane journal. Re-rolling those regen saves and stupidity tests. Great weapons always beat an additional hand weapon if you're fighting anything with armor. A simple example - some knights (3+ armor) charge your 4 troll line, likely drop one of them, the remaining 3 attack: With great weapons they kill 2-3 With hand weapons they kill 1

Feel like big blocks of infantry either chaff or not can also sorta counter the dragon by either tying it up and it doesn't earn much points or can overcome it with static combat res if the dragon rolls poorly one round.

You can ever have 1 unit of skirmishing orcs oin the army.

As for Orc Boar boyz. It is true but there is a little thing called red raggedy flag. WS 4 is not bad.

About orc bosses. Yes they are obviously inferior. but BO have black orc tax. If you do not want or have points to put two units of Black orcs in the list orc warboss is still good choice for say BSB.

ugh with Beasts of Chaos being removed from aos, i may as well use em for this, love the content btw!

This tier list is garbage

Are you off your chops mate? Orc Boar Boyz are amazing!

Rune of the true beast only works on enemy monsters

Alas for the cost warmachines struggle. usually 1st turn its in cover/out of LOS. You may get a shot, but rest of the game its in cover. pretty much all the rest come down to my main issue with dragons. Not the OP stats, but the maneuverability. Generally IT is deciding who and where its fighting. Followed up by them having generally good initiative a lot of potential threats are dead before they can attack. IE monsterslayer, big blocks of tar pits etc. Even poisoned ranged is unlikely to do more than a wound realistically, long range+cover generally ur looking 6s to hit/wound and then its unmodified armour regen ward saves. Magic to hamstring them is a good option tho

As a dwarf you're just fucked against it

Just plain hilarious. I've taken everything in tier 4 including two snotlings pump wagons. Smashed my opponent quiet nicely. I think you miss the fact that the good stuff costs more and you can do less overall. There is opportunity costs for taking fewer more expensive types. Cheaper troops need good tactics and more skill, over other "powerful" troop types. Honestly I think you just click baiting, or have no idea and played few games. Go play some games with those tier 4 and come back.

dwarf T list

I'll be fighting a star dragon with its haughty high elf rider as a dwarf coming weekend. Wish me luck 😂 Update: I lost but it was really close. The Star Dragon only had one remaining wound left! Frankly, the giant lizard IS tough but far from unkillable.

The Chaos Lord on Dragon is one if not the most difficult flying buzz saws in the game. Only thing I can think is to have shooting with high AP and Illusion spells to slow it down. Ive literally had a necrosphinx and Tomb Scorpion at the same time getting rocked in one turn. My answer is, if you have units with str 6+ YOU must get the charge first if possible.

Wizard spam

No 6 Avoid it and feed it with cheap troops. No. 7 Tarpit it

Not too impressed with the Nomadic Whaagh. Such overly themed armies tend to get boring after a while. A bit one-trick pony.. But will probably be fun, now and then..

Good video.