Lethal Berserkers

By Budgernaut, in Runewars Tactics

On ‎7‎/‎27‎/‎2017 at 3:54 PM, Budgernaut said:

I was just thinking about the Lethal keyword and how if you could stack enough of it, you could guarantee wounds to the target even if you blanked out on your dice. It got me wondering just how much we can stack it up. So far, Uthuk sources of Lethal include:

  • Bersekers unit ability -- suffer 1 wound to receive Lethal 1 up to two times per melee attack
  • Serrated Spines (Equipment, 4 points) -- gain Lethal [stable energy]
  • Bloodrage Conduit (Heraldry, 4 points) -- exhaust X Bloodrage Conduits to add Lethal X to your attack

Left out the Cacophony Reaver, who gives Lethal equal to the cost of you top morale card (and you play your morale deck face up).

That's 0-2 + 1-2 + 1-3 + 1/banner. All said, it is as many as 8 on a single unit.

4 hours ago, Darth Matthew said:

Left out the Ccophony Reaver, who gives Lethal equal to the cost of you top moral card (and you play your morale deck face up).

That's 0-2 + 1-2 + 1-3 + 1/banner. All said, it is as many as 8 on a single unit.

Considering the date of the original post, I didn't exactly "leave out" Cacophony Reaver, since we didn't even know it existed. We could certainly add that one to the list, though. Feeding Frenzy too, which also wasn't revealed at the time of the original post, though that doesn't help the Berserkers.

Now, continuing your equation, if we added Cacophony Reaver on a single 2x2, we could fit 4 in a list and have 16 points left over. That would make your max Lethal 11. Alternatively, you could have one Cacophony Reaver unit and 7 1x2 Berserkers with just Bloodrage Conduit, giving your 2x2 unit max Lethal of 15 or 12, if the runes and morale card don't go your way. That's pretty neat! Thanks for bringing this up.

However, from a list perspective, I think the 8 identical units is better because target priority becomes more difficult for your opponent.