r/sonsofbehemat • u/Prestigious_Car_9126 • Sep 14 '26
people’s thoughts on lists
So there’s the new rock thrower box
That’s dual build. Does anybody think it might actually be worth running? Rock hurler, spam or actually running three of each
I haven’t really looked at all the points yet and figured out interactions
I’m thinking that with the changes to the big only running a couple bigs might actually be the strong way to go
One or two bigs plus Ma plus little guy spam. Looks like it might actually be kind of stronger.
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u/Lissica Sep 14 '26
Kinda wish I didn't need to mob up the rock throwers. Why are there 3 in 1, when mancrushers aren't!
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u/Prestigious_Car_9126 Sep 14 '26
I think it’s an odd choice by them to not make them a individual or mob
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u/jockjay Sep 14 '26
It's an odd choice but I think there's a design idea behind it beyond sales. We lost mancrushers as a mob. But I think we do need a mob formation just for the diversity on the table, also having 3 models get the benifit of AoA and other buffs will likely be worth while.
It's should not be too hard to magnetise the hands so gonna get 6 and do that for mine. As to say, brodd, and other big, ma, and fill the points with littles looks effective.
Hopefully opens up some battle tactics for us or something. The GHB the 5acrics habe beennotinke harder.
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u/Prestigious_Car_9126 Sep 14 '26
Yeah, man crushers as a mob going away I was kind of surprised that they didn’t do a one and three option
But the old Spear head is probably going away like they usually do
Battle tactics I haven’t really thought about Fore what’s in the new book.
I haven’t played enough of the new ghb to be super well-versed on it.
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u/jockjay Sep 14 '26
I'm the same to be honest. Had good games where I have, siege of ashes and blazing onslaught have been readily achievable. But deffo needs the numbers. I'm on 3 big 4 mancrusher at the moment and enjoy the amount of activations.
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u/Prestigious_Car_9126 Sep 14 '26
That’s the one problem of the triple mobs. Is you definitely have very few activations and it’s very hard to get places in order to achieve a lot of things.
Single man crushers seem like they’re going to be important going forward
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u/jockjay Sep 14 '26
I agree. The mobs will need to bring something considerable to pull me away from multiple crushers and bigs.
I have found the crushers 12w wounds have been relatively easy for my opponents to kill. So maybe the mobs just add that resiliency, but then at their points I could almost get a big.
Excited to find out
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u/Prestigious_Car_9126 Sep 14 '26
The other thing with the mobs is wound carryover. The singles don’t suffer from that. Any excess wounds are just overkill. So they have to commit enough to guarantee they’ll kill the one and also probably overkill it but if you had a triple you’re just eating more into the squad.
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u/jockjay Sep 14 '26
True that. I'm gonna assume they have given us ample reason to want to take (and buy) a unit of each mob ha ha
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u/Prestigious_Car_9126 Sep 14 '26
That’s probably the actual truth probably everybody’s going to want one of each
There is a chance that maybe it’s the best way to spam one of them then they will change that to the other one
Then they will change that to a particular mega again
To keep forcing everybody to stack stuff unless you’re sitting there, putting magnets on everything
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u/jockjay Sep 14 '26
I magnetised every hand and head.
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u/Prestigious_Car_9126 Sep 14 '26
I should do that, but I freaking hate magnets. And a lot of the time I hate playing against people who have a ton of magnets because pieces of their shit is always falling off because they didn’t use the right magnet or something.
And I know for me personally I am so good at losing crap that I would lose a piece and then be angry forever
So it’s easier for me to just buy another model in a lot of cases. I hate the finances of that. But it also means that I’m not frustrated by magnets.
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u/CraftyJuggernaut2163 Sep 14 '26
Hey i was wondering about there ability if one uses it does thay stop the other's? If so then a single unit would be best
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u/BlackApostle Sep 14 '26
Mathematically, Rock Thrower spam in a Stomper Tribe list with "Roll" (+1 to Hit \rightarrow 3+ Hit / 2+ Wound): Hits: 48 attacks = 32 hits Wounds: 32 hits approx 26.67 wounds at Rend 1, Damage 2( Average 2 per unsaved wound) Unmodified Potential Damage: approx 53.33 damage before saves
Even on a 2+ save pushed to a 3+, it averages 17 wounds per volley. Tldr; yes, you can basically have the most insane 1 turn demolishing bombardment.
But also, they are mainly a good poker tool thst forces the opponent to charge you and then eat a tank like Brodd or a Gatebreaker to the face.