Pyg Bushwhackers

Smallest of all trollkin, pygs are known for their dexterity, their cunning, and their ability to lay complex ambushes and cooperate to bring down larger prey. Now they have guns. What they lack in personal discipline they more than make up for in enthusiasm and lethality. Moving ahead of trollkin forces, bushwhackers lie in wait to spring on the enemy, sometimes ending a battle before it begins.

Bushwhackers are now commonplace among the fighting forces of the United Kriels. Captain Gunnbjorn’s efforts have seen pyg combatants organized into increasingly effective teams equipped with firepower to match. Attacks these pyg officers orchestrate can often end skirmishes before they begin by striking from unseen positions. Other pygs have progressed from rifles to heavier weaponry. Pyg mortar crews exhibit remarkable accuracy, especially if aided by a spotter to help in range finding.

Basic Info

Abilities

• Everyone
  • Template:Advance Deployment
  • Template:Pathfinder
  • Template:Tough
  • Template:Bushwhack Order

• Everyone except the Mortar
  • Template:CRA

• Officer only
  • He has +1 MAT, RAT, CMD, and 5 hitpoints
  • Template:Officer
  • Template:Slip Away
  • Template:Tactics (Template:Combined Arms-alt)

Weapons

• Leader, Grunts, and Officer<
  • Rifle - 14" range, POW 10 gun
  • Hand Weapon - 0.5" reach, P+S 8 melee weapon

• Mortar
  • Light Mortar - 12" range, 4" AOE, POW 12 ranged attack
    • Template:Arcing Fire
    • Template:High-Explosive
    • Template:Inaccurate
  • Hand Weapon - As above

Theme Forces

• Trollbloods
  • Template:Kriel Company
  • Template:Vengeance of Dhunia

• Other Factions
  • Minion players can also use this unit in the Vengeance of Dhunia theme.

Thoughts on Pyg Bushwhackers

File:PygBushwhackerOfficerAndMortar.jpg

Command Attachment

Pyg Bushwhackers in a nutshell

The Bushwhackers are a unit with advance deployment plus long range guns. Oh, and truly awful stats at an individual level. The unit attachment on the other hand adds both the accuracy they need to actually hit things and a nice handy mortar to blow up infantry and support.

Thoughts on adding the CA

RAT 4 is utterly terrible - but a reroll is worth +2 to your RAT so two person CRAs are effectively RAT 8 POW 12 and thus fairly effective. The CA is essential if you want any hope of getting use out of this unit.

With the release of Brug slip away becomes less useful as you pygs should already be able to move through each other and if they are able to ignore free strikes they are probably knocked down alright, because raw stats aren’t keeping them alive.

The light mortar is strange for the unit, it’s essentially at Rat 0 and it has 4 inches less range than the Trollkin Barrage Team and it doesn’t mesh with the guy it comes with, but it can land where you need it and do a lot occasionally.

Combos & Synergies

• Nothing's really needed as long as you can keep the officer alive.
• Grim Angus can spread the net for excellent utility.
• The Hunters Grim go really well with these guys.
• Gunnbjorn offers snipe for them. By picking out and using combined range attack at the best target you can use slip away and save them from counter attack. Use Rock Wall and feat to keep them safe.
• General 'Thunderstone' Brug gives them everything they could ever want: +1 to hit, a conditional damage buff and eyeless sight, more movement, tactician and dig in.

Drawbacks & Downsides

• Baseline stats are terrible.
• They suck at melee - even a Fell Caller Hero won't help that much
• They are pretty expensive for their effectiveness.
• Pyg Lookouts provide similar shooting for a similar cost - and Mark Target.
• Northkin Raiders are significantly more accurate and damaging for a very similar cost, they also advance deploy and there is more inherent support for Northkin models compared to Pyg models. Pygs only saving grace vs all this is their range.

Tricks & Tips

• From a 10 member unit they have an "effective" combined POW of 20 making them well suited to smash high armour targets.
• Slip Away can take you forward through the enemy lines to get behind the skirmish screen either for back strikes or to blow up the enemy support. Or occasionally a caster.
• Do CRAs in pairs most of the time, especially with the unit attachment.
• They are well worth the effort to keep them in the game for late round use.

Other

Trivia

• Released way back in Primal Mk1 (2006)

Other Trollblood models

Index Trollbloods