Welcome back to Spent Glory’s Love Letters Series, where readers discuss the warbands and pairings that they enjoy the most. Today we will hear from Andrew M, the mad genius behind the recent Tacoma Open Winning Mollog’s Mob RF/RR combo. Andrew is a buddy of mine from the Seattle Area who has been doing things like this for a long time, taking warbands nobody plays with combos nobody would try, and somehow finding success. You can read about his recent Grand Clash win at Tacoma here, and you can read about his LVO win earlier this year by reading this post when he notably too Zikkit’s Tunnelpack (a ‘completely trash warband’) with CC/WnR (a combo that ‘could not possibly work with Zikkit’). Notably he also took Mollog to an undefeated win in the Rivals clash that same event using PnP, again the ‘wrong’ choice for the warband.
The results speak for themselves, but I want to reiterate that Andrew not only has huge skill but also sees the game in a different light than many others. His approach is to play something goofy and fun, something different every game, and eventually you’ll lock in to something that works for you. I’ve seen it with my own eyes – he plays this game for fun, plays it a lot, doesn’t pay mind to what other people think he ‘should’ be playing, and that approach just so happened to get him three straight convention tournament gold trophies.
Below is the Reckless Fury/Realmstone Raiders deck he took to Tacoma that has so many people confused. He’ll give a few brief thoughts below about how he chose the cards and how to use them if you want to try to replicate his success and try the deck on for size.
Link to Andrew’s Deck on UnderworldsDB
Hello, I’m Andrew. My friends call me Drex or REX. This year I took first place at LVO and the Tacoma open in Warhammer Underworlds. I would like to share with you my strategy and tactics that won me both golds.
I’m just going to keep this simple, my goal in this game is to have fun and goof around. Personally, I think playing a game with a meta list is both boring and counter-intuitive to becoming a better player overall. So my entire goal is to play counter meta lists to confuse the hell out of my opponents.
I am blessed with an awesome play group here in the Northwest where we all have the same mentality when it comes to games. We get lots of diversity with what people play every week with a couple of outliers, but for the most part we are there to have fun and enjoy this awesome game.
“Comfort breeds weakness…”
This year, both Zarbag and Grymwatch have been out of control. Seeing these lists in action is about as exciting as playing checkers against an easy AI opponent. So, I decided to take their plans and put it on their heads.
“I make my own luck.”
Realmstone Raiders is the newest deck to be released and probably the most complicated in this current edition. Which is probably why people are staying away from it and just hanging onto their PP and CC combo. The beauty of RR is that in order to score, you just need to hit things. And there is no better warband at doing this than my man Mollog himself! Why is that you say? I though he was inaccurate! He is only on double hammers and most of his minions hit on daggers?! Well, let me introduce you to a rule that EVERYONE has been sleeping on for months. Nasty Critters: Enemy fighters adjacent to any friendly minions are Surrounded.
And just so I’m clear how surrounded works:
SURROUNDED Attack roll: Rolls of “halves” and “wholes” are successes in an Attack roll if the target is Surrounded. A target is Surrounded if there are 2 or more enemy fighters other than the attacker adjacent to them. A Surrounded target is also Flanked.
So, if you just scoot a minion next to an enemy, suddenly your dice odds explode with accuracy. The best part is, the minion surrounds for THEMSELVES making their attacks extremely reliable when charging in, It keeps your minions alive too. If they’re attacked from adjacency, they get that benefit on defense as well. Sure you don’t hit hard, but RR only requires you to successfully hit, not kill.
“ABC: Always be CHADlike”
Reckless Fury was chosen only because it has access to charge out the Stalagsquig with things like Head Case and Bladecatcher. Before the latest FAQ you would get cute and put Great Speed or Wings of War on him to charge but GW thought that was an issue. Which I kinda understand but the real issue with Mollog is still unsolved: Watch Out, They Bite! But that’s a rant for another time because there is no reason to ever not choose Nasty Critters. Also having access to Unrelenting Massacre is wonderful for messing with your opponent, making
them not want to charge out.
In my opening hands, I would always be fishing for either Keen Eye or Headcase. If I didn’t draw into one of these, I would mulligan. Giving Mollog 3 dice on his attacks with Keen Eye pushes him from 78% hit chance to 88% chance against 1 shield fighters with Nasty Critters active. Also him having Brutal to boot makes it all the better. Headcase was just to give the Slagsquig his charge token when needed.
So for my Gitz and FEC friends, a 3 damage Mollog easily hitting you would have been a great time. Funny enough, there were very few people running these lists at Tacoma. Lots of elite warbands going full aggro was on the menu and I was lucky enough to be playing against Fishmode a lot to practice and learn their weaknesses. Determining when to strike and when to run away saved my games against Emberwatch (and some psychological warfare,) and having extremely accurate attacks to prevent Jaws of Itzl from inspiring was great.
The only true speedbump with this was when the opponent would put Brawler on one of their fighters. Thus making your amazing accuracy gets turned upside down. This was very common with most players using Blazing Assault so I had to play carefully when that would
occur.
Perchance…
I hope this all makes a shred of sense. Making my point clear in writing is not one of my strengths!
Wrap
Thanks again to Andrew for sharing some insight into this hot topic list, and thanks for being a homie. I’ll see you on Monday, and I’m trying out some aggro BA/Edge Kainan for us to laugh about. See if you can escape my terrifying 2 move characteristic!
While there are a few Love Letters in the works, there is always room for more. I’d love to hear your thoughts about an older or lesser or weird warband/pairing, what drove you to fall in love with it, and how you’ve piloted it to success – and especially piloting it to fun. If you have a warband you’d love to wax poetic about and serenade the wider community, let me know! I’m always accepting new submissions at SpentGlory@gmail.com. Until next time, grab the warband you love, a couple friends, and Spend some Glory!
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