Blackhide Wrastler

Massive gators of voracious appetite, blackhide wrastlers easily drag the mightiest foes down to be shredded in a flurry of teeth and claws. Moreover, a bokor can subjugate and ritually alter a blackhide to create an even darker threat: a blind walker. The beast becomes a necromantic conduit—a mindless horror that lives only to obey its master’s commands.

Basic Info

Abilities

• Template:Warbeast
• Template:Amphibious
• Template:Man Eater
• Template:Rise
• Template:Snacking

Weapons

Bite
File:Sword icon.jpg		RNG				POW				P+S
		1				5				17
Claw (x2)
File:Sword icon.jpg		RNG				POW				P+S
		1				2				14
Template:Open Fist

Animus

{{Category: Template:Rage }}[[Category: Template:Rage ]]

Theme Forces

• Minion
  • Template:Blindwater
  • Template:Will Work for Food

• Other Factions
  • Template:Disciples of Agony. Blackhide Wrastler becomes a Skorne warbeast in this theme.
  • If taken by a Gatorman Lesser Warlock (ie Wrong Eye or Underchief Mire), it can be in dozens of theme forces. Omitted here for brevity.

Thoughts on Blackhide Wrastler

Blackhide Wrastler in a nutshell

A solid beat stick with a strong STR buff. There's a reason it's almost always the first choice Gatorman warbeast. Most of what can be said of the Dire Troll Mauler can be said of the Wrastler with a few minimal thematic rules thrown in for good measure.

Rise is an odd hang over rule from its MK2 days when the Wrastler used to be a Luchador wrestler focused on power attacks and knocking people over (yes really) often your opponent won’t be kind enough to keep it breathing after it’s knocked over or you will use Captain Crawtooth to prevent it being knocked down in the first place.

Combos & Synergies

• Any other minion warbeast - Rage is a great animus.
• Rage with Calaban's Parasite is absurd.
• Rage with Rask's Fury is just as absurd.
• Rage with Maelok’s Mortality is, you guessed it absurd.
• Boomhowler3 can grant him Bloodthirst which stacks nicely with Man Eater.

Drawbacks & Downsides

• It's your best force multiplier thanks to Rage, but it also means losing it will see your overall threat diminish.
• At armor 19, def 12 and only 29 boxes it can still go down in a single round of combat if a heavy gets the charge against it.
• Loses some effectiveness vs non living targets

Tricks & Tips

• To get the most distance, charge a warrior model near your real beast/jack target for free - and punch it with one of the claws. Then spend everything on bite attacks on your real target.
• Just because you can plop Rage onto another model doesn't mean you should- more often than not the Wrastler itself is still the best platform for Rage, it and the Dracodile being the Congregation's best potential sources for armor-cracking damage. Spend Rage capitalizing on your strengths instead of trying to shore up weaknesses.

Other

Trivia

• Released in Forces of Hordes: Minions (2010)