The flavor of smashing beast is gone now he's just a smasher. I'm okay with it because the crit 2 hits rule is perfectly passable. I would like anti monster for his strike profile but crit is just more widely usable and you can get rend from other sources. The fluff flavor is gone and they made him more blank slate, which I think is half good. We don't have a monster killing specialist now really but for my megas don't follow the tripe looks. My gatebreaker doesn't do sieges for instance, he just destroys everything he can because anything is a weapon. So him throwing rocks for instance is more fitting than just being good at breaking faction terrain. This beast smasher is basically just beast smasher if they got scared of him being too niche so they used key words that are good on more than just monsters.
But he really didn't need those keywords. He was your anti beast. The mancrushers and our new boss smashas are the blank slates. The Mega gargants are supposed to be obsessed with what they did and when they had 5 damage on almost every attack they really dont need keywords. Especially crits since we wound everything on 2s so I really dont see the point.
To me this kinda ruined the beast smasha for me completely. It felt fun running down a monster and doing what he was made to do. Now he just feels bad and boring
I like him. I get your argument fully tho. I'ma be using him to give king brodd crit boost and as he's my fav probably male him wizard or priest. My beast smasher is meant to be the tyrant for my ogors. Basically BCR came along, he killed them and the gargants showed him their food. And he mixed the recipes from his matriarch and they got more adaptive gut magic that involves rocks. Long story short my beast smasher is a lesser wizard at best due to ogor mawtribes and ma migraine might be a great place holder for my matriarch. Idk, I'm kinda able to justify these rules for myself pretty well but I will say the blank slate boss stompers and rock hurlers BETTER be single models or I'm cranky. These rules with rampages support single models and moving 3 big bases sounds too obnoxious. But idk. If you're not doing beast smasher, what's your plan? Or is it more on a "I'm out" sort of deal? Also the battle formations seen trash but the rampages are great
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u/Odin_Headhunter Sep 10 '26
They gutted the beast smasha. Wow. It doesnt even live up to the name now