Thinking of starting.... beasts?

[Deraj]

Ok, I've been away from fantasy for some time now, and I finally decided what I want to do. First off, I have a beastman warband for mordheim that I want to work on either this week or next, then I want to start a beastman army. Where my problem comes in is... which god?

I decided against Nurgle, as A) I just plain dislike nurgle, and B) Grunt plays nurgley beasts as his primary army. This leaves me with 3 gods that I'm having a horrible time deciding between, and I want to run mono god.

My first thought is khorne. I would probably have the most fun painting and modelling them, but... onto the game portion: I really really hated frenzy, because as a wood elf player I always get to use it to my advantage, but... after doing this long enough, I know it's strengths, and how to avoid its weaknesses. My first thought would be... lots of dogs. I think I would run at least 6 units of 5 naked dogs. After that I think I would run minotaurs, chariots, and beastherds. With khorne, I do get the awesome dispell die, but... I do lose out on casting, which brings me to:

Tzeentch. The mark of tzeentch is fun, and with them I believe I would run an ambushing list, with some spawn to act as anvils, and some minotaurs or dragon ogres as hammers.

Now slaanesh is something of a midground for me here, as the mark seems a bit lackluster. Now... if I remember correctly, mark of slaanesh grants ItP? If this is the case I'd probably comepletely skip this, as not being able to flee as a charge reaction with no real bonus in my eyes is just... terrible. If I do run slaanesh, I would probably run something like the tzeentch list, but with chariots for hitting power and dogs for flanks, while keeping spawn or a giant as an anvil. Come to think of it, if I run tzeentch or slaanesh I would probably run a combination between the 2 ideas while keeping it monogod.

So... any suggestions?

[Arguleon Veq]

Glad to see you getting back into it man.

I think a lot depends on your gaming environment, if it is quite competative, then most Beast builds will get blown out of the water.

After doing a little digging, I found the common consensous on the most powerful Beast build [the only Beast build you will see taken to competative tournies] is a Slaanesh Doombull list with 3 mages. ITP really helps vs Daemons and Vamps whilst the Slaanesh Lore has some serious game winning spells even against ITP armies as the Beasts Delusions works against ITP unlike the Warriors version.

I do like the ambush Tzeentch army too though, the problem being that your characters will all want to start on the board in order to get the most out of your power dice from as early as possible. The main problem with Tzeentch is that they have a pretty bad lore, so a lot of that power will be pretty wasted.

I would go for Khorne though, you seem to like them best, they still work thanks to all that nice dispel and as you have stated, Frenzy is fairly easy to mitigate with the use of cheap core Hounds.

Fromwhat I have heard about the new Beast book in the works [that wont arrive before Feb next year at the earliest] is that we are getting plastic Minos, dont let that put you off the Metal ones now though as apparently, the new plastic ones are very ugly.

[Deraj]

Hmmm, I think khorne it is then I do have an old bloodletter champion that I think would make an interesting beast hero, so I think I'm gonna have some fun with the army itself, if not with them in game terms.