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Ironjawz: Megaboss Focus 2021

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  Written by Benjamin Lolmaugh Ah, the humble Megaboss. The Megaboss is the epitome of the bestial fury and GorkaMorka's divine vessel on the battlefield. Powered by brutality, a degree of low cunning and of-course an un-safe amount of Waaagh! Energy this maniac wreaks havoc in every battle he joins. But should you take him in your horde? Dis 'ere iz Kaptn Krunch 'n he does two fings!  Smashin' (and sometimes Bashin') 'n  Lootin'!.  The Warscroll Well this guy certainly got A LOT better from AoS 2.0 to 3.0. From a Matched Play point of view, the Megaboss dropped from 20 points 160 points to 140 points. I DID NOT see that coming. At 160 points he was worth the investment and at 140 pts he is definitely in all of my 1000 point lists and many of my 2000 pts All Brutes lists. OLD NEW A 33% increase in raw damage is FANTASTIC . And CHEAPER ?!  Gone is the  Go on Ladz Get Stuck In! command ability and that has been replaced with the universal command ability of A...

Ironjawz: Killer Combos 2021

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Written by Benjamin Lolmaugh Let's see what kind of shenanigans we can get into with Ironjawz and the new Orruk Warclans book when we try to kit out our Heroes.  Megaboss on Mawkrusha w/Amulet of Destiny and Battle Lust - Let's start off by saying I think that at least 1 Megaboss on Mawkrusha is a must include , as much as I hate to say "must include" . But he's still an absolute missile. I want two things out of my Mawkrusha, the first is to krump things and the second is the survive. The artefact takes care of the latter while the command trait takes care of the former. Is there anything worse than a Mawkrusha who is out of position? Just sitting there near the edge of the board, nothing left to kill and having to hobble for a turn or two to get to the closest scrap? Not anymore! Battle Lust lets your general re-roll runs and  charge rolls, that gets you in the fight fast or on the objective. In lieu of taking Battle Lust for something else, you could take the ...