In retrospect, we shouldn’t have titled our last piece “A quickie primer on Circle of Orboros,” because it was more a response to a “getting started” article than a faction “primer.” We’ve corrected this titling scheme here, in which we’ll highlight a similar community article. This one’s by a Press Ganger and a vocal authority on the Hordes Trollbloods faction. Titled “Trollblood Toolbox,” PG_theummhmmguy outlines which units a tentative Trollbloods player should think about picking up. It’s the type of article that should be more well-advertised, and allows new players a good perspective into which investments they’d need to make. Ideally, there’d be an article like this for every Warmachine and Hordes factions.
We won’t rehash the whole article, but the gist is simple: Trollbloods require synergy between their units, because by themselves, Trollbloods units aren’t fantastic when considering their base stats alone. Trollbloods shine, however, when unit abilities are used to buff an army, increasing the army’s power, longevity, and speed. By ignoring any of these key buffs, a Trollbloods army won’t perform at peak, and therefore underperform. At minimum, then, a Trollbloods player needs to take key units that buff three stats: damage, attack, and defense. Each of these categories has numerous units that can perform a respective buff, which means that players have some fair selection in choosing which units perform buffing roles (though the Fell Caller is practically an auto-include for most lists).
The article is among the best starting advise for a WarmaHordes player, and was quite helpful in our own selection of two Trollbloods army lists. Given that such knowledge of Hordes MKII isn’t available to the average gamer without buying a faction card deck and an old copy of the MKI rulebook, this information is golden, at least until the Hordes MKII rulebook is released later this month, and the Trollbloods faction book soon thereafter. Even then, there’s no reason summaries like this shouldn’t be more accessible.
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