Uthuk Excitement

By Curlycross, in Runewars Miniatures Game

The rest of the Elves come out today, all those Latari people are all excited and thinking oh, now we have the best army... blah blah blah. I can't wait for Uthuk, I want to rain down pain and fear on my enemy. People talk about how great the Scion is... have you seen the Spined Thresher!?!? The thing is brutal. Also one of the best cavalry in the game... they can move 8 on init 5... Their synergy is great as well. I will admit I like the berserkers but I feel like their sacrificing seems a bit lackluster, in few cases do I feel like losing one or two guys will be worth adding one or two damage, hopefully I'm proven wrong. I however, can't wait to have a FLST... and maybe add a small berserker tray set with Warsprinter, allowing allies to move a little further, a little faster. What are you most excited about?

3 minutes ago, Curlycross said:

. What are you most excited about?

Picking up 5 latari boxes later today ofcourse.

I'm excited to get some more tempered steel and run a 4x1 deepwood archer unit.

14 minutes ago, Glucose98 said:

I'm excited to get some more tempered steel and run a 4x1 deepwood archer unit.

That happened in one of our tournament games. Absolutely brutal.

I've heard Elves taste the best, so I can't wait for my Uthuk to come out.

For me the Flesh rippers are the most exciting. I might end up buying a disproportionate number of them. I realize that 1 armor 3 wounds isn't generally as good as the 3 armor 1 wound that Death Knights have, but at the same time it means they simply don't care about mortal strikes and direct wounds. I also love how fast they can easily be. With Dead Sprint and 4 red runes, you could march them distance 8 in one turn! I think that unit will be a lot of fun!

EDIT: I'm also excited that it looks like Uthuk will come out with their infantry command xpac right off the bat! Elves have been cool so far, but their build variety has been pretty lame unless you buy at least 3 boxes (I "only" bought 2).

Edited by Willange

Sad that "only" 2 is a thing... I am hoping that Uthuk comes out with its expansions all at the same time. Boy what an expensive day that will be. I also feel like Flesh Rippers will be the bread and butter of that army. 1 armor 3 wounds just means that Kethra can light them up and you don't worry much. I'm wondering when we'll hear about the viper legion. I am interested in seeing their mechanics.

Fleshrippers should add some chaotic fun to an Ankaur Maro build...

10 minutes ago, Aetheriac said:

Fleshrippers should add some chaotic fun to an Ankaur Maro build...

If only you could add flesh rippers and use Ankaur's Unit upgrade...

2 minutes ago, Curlycross said:

If only you could add flesh rippers and use Ankaur's Unit upgrade...

That would be sweet for sure. 1:3 would be awesome for Maro to ride around with. aka The Dream

Edited by Aetheriac

I want to live the dream and get 8 Spined Thresher boxes and 8 Berserkers boxes so I can run a Bloodrage Conduit Berserker swarm (the Locust swarms again!).

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1 minute ago, Budgernaut said:

I want to live the dream and get 8 Spined Thresher boxes and 8 Berserkers boxes so I can run a Bloodrage Conduit Berserker swarm (tho Locust swarms again!).

I really don't know what this is about to be completely honest.

22 minutes ago, Aetheriac said:

That would be sweet for sure. 1:3 would be awesome for Maro to ride around with. aka The Dream

He'll have the Wraiths...

I have and collect the Undead. They’ve made a good placeholder.

I’m jacked for Uthuk. I’m tired of the cutesy “let’s shift, then shift, then reform, then shift, and then end the game” of the Latari. I want to harm things on turn 1. I want my army’s standard strategy to begin and end with Mr Torgue shouting “explosions?!?!” I want to hear “Witness me!” In my head when using my berserkers. I want to here Ravos going “om nom nom.” I want to drain that morale deck and force my opponent to shuffle it up.

16 minutes ago, Church14 said:

I want to hear “Witness me!”

Is this a Karsa Orlong reference? Or Mad Max?

18 minutes ago, Church14 said:

I have and collect the Undead. They’ve made a good placeholder.

I’m jacked for Uthuk. I’m tired of the cutesy “let’s shift, then shift, then reform, then shift, and then end the game” of the Latari. I want to harm things on turn 1. I want my army’s standard strategy to begin and end with Mr Torgue shouting “explosions?!?!” I want to hear “Witness me!” In my head when using my berserkers. I want to here Ravos going “om nom nom.” I want to drain that morale deck and force my opponent to shuffle it up.

More or less my thoughts exactly. I want to be in your face making you wish you'd have wind rune'd your *** home.

31 minutes ago, taylorcowbell said:

Is this a Karsa Orlong reference? Or Mad Max?

Mad Max. My berserkers are going to have a tiny blip of silver paint on every mouth

I'll add to my desires. I want to cause severity 3 panic tests to multiple units on turn 1. I want to reform and march their death star right into their home edge of the map

Edited by Church14

...wow. Don't mess with those Uthuk guys. They're scary. And crazy.

Edited by Parakitor
2 hours ago, taylorcowbell said:

Is this a Karsa Orlong reference? Or Mad Max?

works great as you get to spray paint your army chrome as you play too..

Both references work though,. although I think Karsa only yelleed 'witness', been a while albeit. Erikson needs to hurry up and give us that Toblakai trilogy (although I did enjoy fall of light quite a bit, if a heavy read).

5 hours ago, Curlycross said:

He'll have the Wraiths...

I got a game in tonight with Ankaur in a 2x2 Reanimate cluster... kept regenerating all the wounds until defeated at the end.

19 hours ago, Budgernaut said:

I saw this originally. I guess I don't know why spined threshers have to be involved. Is that where bloodrage conduit comes from? I tried to look that up, I remember seeing the card, but couldn't remember where. That's actually what prompted me to write the post about needing to update the wiki, was this point exactly.

16 hours ago, Aetheriac said:

I got a game in tonight with Ankaur in a 2x2 Reanimate cluster... kept regenerating all the wounds until defeated at the end.

This is one of my favorite set ups.

15 minutes ago, Curlycross said:

I saw this originally. I guess I don't know why spined threshers have to be involved. Is that where bloodrage conduit comes from? I tried to look that up, I remember seeing the card, but couldn't remember where. That's actually what prompted me to write the post about needing to update the wiki, was this point exactly.

It's the Serrated Spines equipment upgrade that comes with the Spined Threshers expansion pack. This bumps up Lethal by [stable runes]. Each 2x1 of Berserkers with Serrated Spines and Bloodrage Conduit is 24 points, so you can fit 8 in an army, but you'd need 8 each of the Berserkers and Spined Threshers expansions to get the necessary upgrade cards.

2 hours ago, Curlycross said:

I saw this originally. I guess I don't know why spined threshers have to be involved. Is that where bloodrage conduit comes from? I tried to look that up, I remember seeing the card, but couldn't remember where. That's actually what prompted me to write the post about needing to update the wiki, was this point exactly.

Bloodrage Conduit comes with the Berserkers Unit Expansion and Serrated Spines comes with the Spined Threshers Unit Expansion. I put both on the wiki, so I'm not sure what was missing.

16 hours ago, Budgernaut said:

Bloodrage Conduit comes with the Berserkers Unit Expansion and Serrated Spines comes with the Spined Threshers Unit Expansion. I put both on the wiki, so I'm not sure what was missing.

I guess I tried to go find it on the wiki, but the only thing I seem to find easily are the other faction's stuff. I may have skimmed over it I guess.