Theme - Will Work for Food
Theme - Will Work for Food Minion Theme Force |
One constant is true across the Iron Kingdoms: everybody needs to eat. In lean times, many of the wild peoples of western Immoren are willing to put aside their differences and work together for mutual survival. The primal need to eat and endure becomes a particular challenge when one’s closest companions are enormous and voracious warbeasts. Larger armed groups of wilderness warriors might muster to offer their services in exchange for food, weapons, or other barter to see them through the lean months. For some, the most eagerly anticipated treasure is the great volume of meat that can be butchered from the fallen and consumed in the aftermath of battle.
Theme Rules
Theme Restrictions
An army made using the Will Work for Food theme force can include only the following Minion models:
- Minion warlocks
- Non-character warbeasts
- Minion character units
- Boil Master & Spirit Cauldron units
- Farrow Bone Grinders units
- Farrow Valkyries units
- Swamp Gobber Bellows Crew units
- Minion solos
- Minion battle engines
Full model list
This list was last updated: 2021.10 (Edit)
Warlocks
- Farrow
- Gatorman
Warbeasts
- All Minion non-character warbeasts
- Dr. Arkadius can take Gorax(s)
- Underchief Mire can take Swamp Troll(s)
Battle Engines
Units
- Boil Master & Spirit Cauldron
- Cylena Raefyll & Nyss Hunters
- Dannon Blythe & Bull
- Farrow Bone Grinders
- Farrow Valkyries
- Greygore Boomhowler & Co.
- Lynus Wesselbaum & Edrea Lloryrr
- Swamp Gobber Bellows Crew
Solos
- Agata, Queen of Carnage
- Alten Ashley
- Barnabas0 (Lesser Warlock)
- Bog Trog Mist Speaker
- Bog Trog Trawler
- Bone Shrine
- Boomhowler2
- Boomhowler3
- Brun Cragback & Lug (Lesser Warlock)
- Captain Crawtooth
- Croak Hunter
- Dahlia Hallyr & Skarath (Lesser Warlock)
- Death Archon
- Dhunian Archon
- Efaarit Scout
- Eilish1
- Feralgeist
- Flubbin1
- Flugwug the Filcher
- Gatorman Husk
- Gatorman Soul Slave (Warlock Attachment)
- Gatorman Witch Doctor
- Gobber Tinker
- Gremlin Swarm
- Gubbin1
- Gubbin2 & Dez2
- Gudrun1
- Gudrun2
- Hermit of Henge Hold
- Hutchuk, Ogrun Bounty Hunter
- J.A.I.M.s
- Kogan the Exile
- Kwaak Slickspine & Gub
- Lanyssa Ryssyl, Nyss Sorceress
- Ledfoot & Tredz
- Longchops
- Maximus
- Ogrun Bokur
- Orin1
- Primal Archon
- Pyg Tank
- Raluk Moorclaw, the Ironmonger ('Jack Marshal)
- Rorsh & Brine (Lesser Warlock)
- Saxon Orrik
- Scythe
- Swamp Gobber Chef
- Swamp Gobber River Raider
- Targ (Warlock Attachment)
- Thamarite Advocate
- The Wastelander
- Thrullg
- Totem Hunter
- Underchief Mire (Lesser Warlock)
- Viktor Pendrake
- Void Archon
- Weird Wendell, Gremlin Wrangler
- Wolf with No Name
- Wrong Eye & Snapjaw (Lesser Warlock)
Requisition Points
You can spend each Requisition Point on either:
- One Efaarit Scout solo
- Thee Feralgeist solos
- One other small- or medium-based Minion solo without the Lesser Warlock special rule
Theme Bonuses
- Warbeasts in this army gain Overtake.
- Overtake - When this model destroys one or more enemy models with a basic melee attack during its Combat Action, after the attack is resolved it can immediately advance up to 1".
- Lesser warlocks in this army can upkeep their spells for free.
Recent Changes
2018.10 - Warmachine Weekend
- Underchief Mire released
2019.01 - Spoilers from the "Art of PP" Kickstarter
- Rules for J.A.I.M.s spoiled (in full).
2019.07 Theme Remix
- Game-wide Remix changes
- Efaarit Scout and Feralgeists added to the freebies
- The Overtake benefit stayed the same
- The benefit that gave warbeasts +2 SPD when running on turn 1 was removed.
- The free upkeep benefit was added.
Theme Rules - Old Version
An army made using the Will Work for Food theme force can include only the following Minion models:
- Minion warlocks
- Non-character warbeasts
- Minion character units
- Boil Master & Spirit Cauldron units
- Farrow Bone Grinders units
- Farrow Valkyries units
- Swamp Gobber Bellows Crew units
- Minion solos
- Brun Cragback & Lug
- Dahlia Hallyr & Skarath
- Rorsh & Brine
- Wrong Eye & Snapjaw
- Minion battle engines
- For every full 25 points of warbeasts and Lesser Warlocks, get a free non-lesser warlock solo.
- Warbeasts in this army gain Overtake.
- Overtake - When this model destroys one or more enemy models with a basic melee attack during its Combat Action, after the attack is resolved it can immediately advance up to 1".
- Warbeasts gain +2 SPD when running on turn 1, and can run without being forced during your first turn.
Thoughts on Will Work for Food
Initial Thoughts on the Remix
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Will Work for Food in a nutshell
It's a minion army that focuses on warbeasts - and lesser warlocks. Fast out of the gates, the warbeasts all advance move - and with the advance move and the combat units being basically restricted to Boomhowler's and the Nyss it's hard for the units to keep up. The Farrow Valkyries are a part-combat unit (part shield guards) and you probably want them if you're only taking three free solos.
Overtake is awesome for letting your beasts eat infantry (especially on the Swamp Horror), and between the Blackhide Wrastler, the Battle Boar, and caster based buffs minion beasts can shatter armour. You have all the tools to run beast-heavy here - the only question is what is in your actual army.
Theme Weaknesses
The main weaknesses are the general minion weaknesses; there are a significant number of minion units and minion support models allowed in Will Work for Food - and even a couple of full sized units. But minion warbeasts tend to be weak, especially on the Thornfall side.
List Building Tips
"Rask & Friends" is an affectionate dubbing by the community for a Rask list primarily conposed of the lesser Warlocks. Rask usually takes at least one Swamp Horror and Blackhide Wrastler and then either a second one of those or an Ironback Spitter. Rorsh will bring a Battle Boar for it's Animus, then you should bring Dahlia and either Wrongeye or Lug. This will net you 4 free solos: Pupular choices are Orin, Kwaak, a Mist Speaker and a Soul Slave (the last one being the most essential). The remaining points can be filled with Bellow Crews or Gobber Chefs.
Also remember that as of SR2017, contesting solos or units are very important for zones and flags. Beast heavy lists normally struggle with this, since you don't want to spend too many points on non-warbeast stuff. The lessers help here, since all of the points you spend on them adds to your threshhold for free models, yet you gain a warbeast AND a solo.
With up to four free solos the expensive ones are Alten Ashley, the Efaarit Scout, the Totem Hunter, and Orin Midwinter; despite the Valkyries it may be worth having an Ogrun Bokur as a free model if you want to go all out on beasts and just get four free solos.
Special mention goes to the Gatorman Husk, as it can ambush and then contest a distant flag (similar to Anastasia in mercs) and punishes your opponent for removing it. At 3 points it's a steal, too, but Rask lists might still struggle to find the room.
Warlocks of note
- Dr. Arkadius might be the strongest warbeast warlock in the game (although it's a pity about his beasts). He's always played here.
- Rask is one of the best all round warlocks, and works well here, too.
- Midas is weirdly enough a warlock who wants infantry but is normally played in WWFF; he's a combined arms caster and loves both the Soul Slave and the Boil Master. And generally here takes the Nyss as his first choice unit.
Any minion warlock you want a big battle group with - or even use lesser warlocks with works well.
Other
Trivia
Released in the themeopocalypse (2017.09)
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