Dire Troll Bomber
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Dire Troll Bomber |
Although dangerous and unpredictable, the powerful dire trolls serve their trollkin allies in a variety of battlefield roles. The dire troll mauler is a creature of savage simplicity, devastating enemies with nothing more than its gigantic fists and unearthly strength. The dire troll blitzer totes a rapid-fire slugger cannon and its pyg gunner into combat on its back, adding a lethal spray of lead to the crushing blows of its mighty fists. The dire troll bomber hurls barrels of explosives at the enemy before pulverizing them in melee combat.
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Basic Info
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Abilities
- Warbeast - All warbeasts share a huge stack of special rules. The short version is they're big, furious, and beat stuff up pretty good. Click here for a newbie-friendly recap, or click here for the full rules.
- Regeneration [d3] - This model can be forced to remove d3 damage points once per activation. This model cannot use Regeneration during an activation it runs.
- Snacking - When this model boxes a living model with a melee attack, it can choose to RFP the boxed model. When it does, this model can remove d3 damage points.
Weapons
Powder Keg | ||||||||||||||
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RNG | ROF | AOE | POW | ||||||||||
8 | 1 | 4 | 16 | |||||||||||
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Claw (x2) | ||||||||||||||
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RNG | POW | P+S | |||||||||||
1 | 3 | 15 | ||||||||||||
Animus
COST | RNG | AOE | POW | DUR | OFF | ||
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Far Strike
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1 | SELF | - | - | Turn | No | |
The spellcaster's ranged weapons gain Snipe. Far Strike lasts for one turn.
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Theme Forces
- Trollblood
- Band of Heroes
- Kriel Company
- Power of Dhunia. In this theme, when this warbeast casts its own animus the COST is reduced by 1 (to a minimum of 0).
- Storm of the North
- Vengeance of Dhunia
- Other Factions
- Minion players can also use this warbeast in the Vengeance of Dhunia theme.
Recent Changes
No changes since 2019.12
Thoughts on Dire Troll Bomber
Dire Troll Bomber in a nutshell
The Dire Troll Bomber is quite simply the best ranged heavy warbeast the trolls have and one of the favorite beasts in the faction.
Combos & Synergies
Warlocks
- Ragnor Skysplitter, the Runemaster can dig him in, let him fire away in safety and give him Pulverizer when things get intimate.
- Captain Gunnbjorn gives it Kill Shot.
- Horgle, the Anvil absolutely loves the Bomber to light things up with Firestarter for Feat turn.
- Jarl Skuld, Devil of the Thornwood loves himself the far strike animus and a good target for Magic Bullet, and the Bomber benefits from Swift Hunter in turn.
Warbeasts
- Dire Troll Mauler gives it the hitting power it lacks.
- Dozer & Smigg's Animus makes him rat 7 and the deviations re-rollable, so you can get bombs just where you want them early.
Units & Solos
- Dhunian Knot's Puppet Master can help him land a direct hit.
- Kriel Stone can improve his hitting and staying power.
- Pyg Lookouts can mark targets for him.
- Bog Trog Mist Speaker: Eyeless Sight on a (fish]stick, is always something a ranged warbeast will love.
Drawbacks & Downsides
- It's great - but still hits like a ranged warbeast in melee.
- If you pay one for reload, you then only have 3 fury available. So they can not boost both hit and damage on both, and can't boost the blast damage rolls (which need it more) as well.
- His animus is only self, making him a versatile range beast,but not good on supporting other faction choices.
- The bombs hit harder than the Claws, so being engaged becomes really problematic.
Tricks & Tips
Boom! You can get about as much heavy-hurting work by aiming as by melee.
Other
Trivia
Released in Primal Mk2 (2010)
Other Trollblood models
Rules Clarifications
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Rules Clarification: : Warbeast (Edit) |
See also the Warbeast page for a recap of the core warbeast rules.
Forcing
Animi
Transferring Damage
Frenzy
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Rules Clarification : Regeneration - None yet. (Edit)
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Rules Clarification : Snacking (Edit)
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Rules Clarification : Reload (Edit)
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Rules Clarification : Open Fist (aka, Power Attack Throw) (Edit)
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Rules Clarification : Far Strike (Edit)
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