Northkin Raiders

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Northkin Raiders Trollblood Trollkin Unit

Dedicated raiding bands are vital for smaller kriels that rely on their spoils to survive. These skirmishers use ambushes and hit-and-run tactics. Raiders carry firebombs used to set buildings ablaze to distract sentries and lure them from storehouses, bombs equally effective against massed infantry. It is also their job to plunder downed foes after a skirmish, a task veteran warriors consider beneath them.

Basic Info

Northkin Raiders
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Abilities

• Advance Deployment
• Immunity: Cold
• Pathfinder
• Tough
• Quick Work - When this model destroys one or more enemy models with a melee attack during its Combat Action, immediately after the attack is resolved it can make one basic ranged attack.

Weapons

• Fire Bomb - 8" range, 3" AOE, POW 12 gun
  • Critical Continuous Fire
  • Damage Type: Fire
• Sword - 1" reach, P+S 11 melee weapon

Weapon Attachment

As with most Trollkin units, the Northkin Raiders can take up to 3 Trollkin Sorcerers. The Sorcerer's info has been omitted for brevity.

Theme Forces

• Kriel Company
• Storm of the North

Thoughts on Northkin Raiders

Northkin Raiders in a nutshell

The general rabble of the North Kin, they possess both speed and versatility as key attributes. At first glance they appear to be the weakest of comparable Trollblood ranged units (the others being Trollkin Highwaymen, Scattergunners, and arguably Trollkin Sluggers and Pyg Bushwhackers). However, the Raiders are not a pure ranged unit. They are a combined arms skirmish unit, and a reliable crumple zone. With careful tactics and support, they can outperform other Trollblood units available in the same themes. Their peculiar abilities enable them to form a front line deeper into enemy territory than most other Trollblood infantry.

Combos & Synergies

• The Northkin Krielstone attachment speeds these guys up - or makes them hit harder in melee. Both great.
• Any MAT buffers (normally the Fell Caller Hero); MAT 6 is going to struggle to get through a lot of skirmish screens unassisted but MAT 8 is effective.
• Croak Raiders can oil things up to boost damage.
• Pyg Lookouts can make them good at shooting - one sacrificial lookout can give them either a turn of skirmish potshots or a turn of really going deep if the Pyg is run as far as it can.
• Any warlock with an effective DEF buff (notably Madrak Ironhide, Thornwood Chieftain, Borka Kegslayer & Keg Carrier, and Calandra Truthsayer, Oracle of the Glimmerwood although Jarl Skuld can do seriously obnoxious things with their ranged defence and threat range via Quicken)
• Any warlock that helps them hit (notably Madrak, Great Chieftain with both Fortune and Spellpiercer, and Grim Angus)
• Horgle The Anvil - let it burn!

Drawbacks & Downsides

• RAT 5, RNG 8, and POW 12 means that if you try to use them as a strictly ranged unit rather than for combined arms means that they will miss the infantry and fail to hurt the heavies.

Tricks & Tips

• Charging into enemies and killing them lets you burn up the enemy support from up to 17" away from your starting position. Too bad about that Choir of Menoth or those Paingiver Beast Handlers - both of which die to blast damage. This is why these guys should be thought of as a combined arms unit or even a melee unit that can shoot.
• Watch for anything ARM 12 or less. Blast damage scares them.
• As a unit that doesn't cost that much and has both Advance Deployment and Tough they make for a good "crumple zone" of skirmishers against enemies running bricks - if enemies are charging these guys they aren't charging more valuable models.

Other

Trivia

Barrel Pyg Rider, limited edition sculpt

• Released in the Northkin expansion (2017.07)
• This model has a limited edition sculpt

Other Trollblood models

Trollbloods Index       (Edit)
Battlegroup & Similar
Warlocks	Borka1 - Borka2 - Calandra - Gunnbjorn - Grim1 - Grim2 - Grissel1 - Grissel2 - Doomshaper1 - Doomshaper2 - Doomshaper3 - Horgle2 - Jarl - Kolgrima - Madrak1 - Madrak2 - Madrak3 - Ragnor
Warlock attachments	Trollkin Runebearer
Lesser Warlock	Horgle1
Light warbeasts	Ice Troll - Night Troll - Pyre Troll - Slag Troll - Storm Troll - Swamp Troll - Troll Axer - Troll Basher - Troll Bouncer - Troll Impaler - Winter Troll
Heavy warbeasts	Dire Troll Blitzer - Dire Troll Bomber - Dire Troll Brawler - Dire Troll Mauler - Earthborn Dire Troll Dozer & Smigg - Mulg the Ancient - Rök
Gargantuan	Glacier King - Mountain King - Sea King
Units, Solos, & Battle Engines
Units	Dannon Blythe & Bull - Greygore Boomhowler & Co. (1) - Dhunian Knot - Kriel Warriors - Stone Bearer - NK Bears - NK Fire Eaters - NK Raiders - Pummeler Crew - Pyg Burrowers - Pyg Bushwhackers - Pyg Lookouts - Sons of Bragg - Scattergunners - Thumper Crew - T Champions - T Fennblades - T Highwaymen - T Long Riders - T Runeshapers - T Scouts - T Sluggers - Warders Special WA: Trollkin Sorcerer
Solos	Boomhowler, Solo Artist (2) - Braylen Wanderheart, Trollkin Outlaw - Dhunian Archon - Fell Caller Hero - Fennblade Kithkar - General 'Thunderstone' Brug - Horgle Ironstrike (1) - Horthol, Long Rider Hero - Janissa Stonetide - Ledfoot & Tredz - Northkin Shaman - Pyg Tank - Stone Scribe Chronicler - Troll Whelps - Trollkin Champion Hero - Trollkin Skinner Valka Curseborn, Chieftain of the North
Battle Engines	Hearthgut Hooch Hauler - War Wagon
Theme Forces
Band of Heroes - Kriel Company - Power of Dhunia - Storm of the North - Vengeance of Dhunia
Minions that work for the Trollblooods
Refer to Who Works for Whom and/or Category: Trollblood Minion
This index was last updated: 2020.06

Rules Clarifications

Rules Clarification : Fire      (Edit) If you deploy in fire hazard terrain (Burning Earth), then you get set on fire before the game starts. Deploying a model in a hazard counts as being "put into play" in the hazard. Being put into play counts as "entering". When you enter a hazard, you trigger the hazard. Moving into "Shallow water" standard terrain does not cause continuous fire to expire. It's magic fire. You can always use non-standard terrain if you agree with your opponent before the game starts, however. A weapon can inflict continuous fire without itself being a fire damage weapon (for example, the Helios's fists). In this case, the attack can hurt models with Immunity:Fire it just won't apply the continuous effect. In terms of which player's clock is running down during the Maintenance Phase: The active player will roll for expiration of all the continuous effects. Then the inactive player will roll for all the damages of the continuous effects. (Judge Ruling)

Rules Clarification : Advance Deployment      (Edit) Sometimes you can attach a WA or CA that doesn't have AD to a unit that does have AD. If you do, the attachment effectively gains AD and they can all advance deploy together. (Locked Thread)

Rules Clarification : Cold - None yet. (Edit)

Rules Clarification : Pathfinder      (Edit) Pathfinder (Edit) - Pathfinder does not apply to involuntary movement (pushes & slams). (Infernal Ruling)

Rules Clarification : Tough - None yet. (Edit)

Rules Clarification : Quick Work      (Edit) If you're still engaged in melee when Quick Work triggers, you won't be able to make the ranged attack. Unless you have a special rule that lets you shoot while in melee (such as Gunfighter). (Infernal Ruling) Quick Work specifies "Combat Action" so doesn't work with Impact Attacks or out-of-activation attacks Attack-Generating Abilities (Edit) From the core rulebook: When a model is granted more attacks as a result of an attack it made, it gains only one. If two or more special rules would grant the model another attack as a result of making an attack, its controlling player chooses which special rule to apply. If you trigger two attack-generating abilities (such as Black Spot and Kill Shot) you choose to resolve one and "lose" the other (unless you trigger it again later). If you trigger two attack-generating abilities, and one of them is compulsory (such as Black Spot and Berserk), you must choose to resolve the compulsory one. (Infernal Ruling)