Rök

Whenever a remote mountain village is found in ruins and with its taverns plundered, northerners speak fearfully of the dire troll called Rök. Although insatiable as any dire troll, over a century ago Rök developed a unique craving for beer and liquor of all sorts, and his raids of villages for their intoxicating spirits have since become legendary.

When he was sought out by Borka Kegslayer, Rök engaged the trollkin in an exhausting battle lasting several hours. After this, Kegslayer shared his own potent brew, convincing the ferocious troll they were kindred souls. When Borka left, Rök followed, knowing that greater fights and rivers of beer awaited them.

Basic Info

Abilities

• Template:Assault
• Template:Cold Immunity
• Template:Berserk
• Template:Bond (Template:Stumbling Drunk-alt)
• Template:Regeneration
• Template:Snacking

Weapons

Frost Breath
File:Gun icon.jpg		RNG			ROF			AOE			POW
		SP 6			1			Template:-			14
Template:Cold Damage Template:Critical Freeze
Big Meaty Fist
File:Sword icon.jpg		RNG				POW				P+S
		1				4				16
Template:Open Fist
Battle Axe
File:Sword icon.jpg		RNG				POW				P+S
		1				6				18

Animus

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Theme Forces

• When taken by Borka
  • Template:Band of Heroes
  • Template:Kriel Company
  • Template:Power of Dhunia. In this theme, when this warbeast casts its own animus the COST is reduced by 1 (to a minimum of 0).
  • Template:Storm of the North

• When taken by anyone else
  • Template:Storm of the North

Thoughts on Rök

Rök in a nutshell

Angry at being in a nutshell, Rök begins to break everything.

Rök is fundamentally a worthy rival to the almost ubiquitous Dire Troll Mauler trading 1 fury and a chain attack for assault and a brutal axe; he hits hard - and brings a really useful melee damage/accuracy buff in Primal rather than simply a strength buff like Rage. Berserk is an amazing rule and really helps to keep fury use to a minimum while vs infantry swarms. Likewise an assault spray with crit freeze can really mess up some people’s day.

As a Northkin model Rök has some great combos already available to him

Combos & Synergies

• Doomshaper 2 grants Overtake to his battlegroup and Rök has Berserk, so you can pacman through infantry and snack on them for RFP. He can also upkeep Wild Agression on him for free.
• Borka Kegslayer and Borka, Vengeance of the Rimeshaws both make Rök incredibly hard to kill thanks to Stumbling Drunk.
• Troll Axer - hitting matters on a Thresher, and Primals helps with this.
• Jarl Skuld - As part of his battlegroup Rök gains Swift Hunter, so if he kills his charge target with his Assault Spray he can still Hunt swiftly into melee with something else so he won't fail his charge. Rök also brings a damage buff for Jarl's beasties which is good for a caster who doesn't have one himself.
• Gunnbjorn1 - Killing Shot is pretty nice with the spray as is Guided Fire.
• The Northkin Stone is quite potent on him. +1 SPD, or +2 on cold damage rolls, or +2 STR are all great for him.

Drawbacks & Downsides

• Berserk and Primal can both blow up in your face. (Primal's best used on lights where you are less worried by their frenzy).
• He isn’t any more durable than a standard Dire Troll without his bond.

Tricks & Tips

• Look for how to position your charge with his spray.
• If you trigger Snacking, you don't get to trigger Berserk. This is both an advantage and disadvantage:
  • Advantage: You can Snack the last enemy in range (if it's living), and prevent yourself berserking into friendly models.
  • Disadvantage: If you Snack the second-to-last enemy in range, you have to buy an extra attack to get the last enemy.

  In some respects, if you're really damaged and surrounded by enemies, it is better of thinking of Snacking and buying extra attacks as "I'm spending fury to get extra heals" rather than "I'm breaking my own Berserk chain and spending fury to restart it"

Other

Trivia

File:Rok classic.jpg

Original sculpt

• Released in Hordes: Domination (2011)
• Rescuplted in 2016