Gun Boar

For generations, boars have been trained for battle by the farrow. These boars have become powerful weapons in the arsenal of the Thornfall Alliance. The lumbering gun boars are walking artillery platforms in the service of Lord Carver. These warbeasts turn their cannons upon enemy formations to scatter them with explosive force.

Basic Info

Abilities

• Template:Warbeast
• Template:Bacon

Weapons

Big Gun
File:Gun icon.jpg		RNG			ROF			AOE			POW
		12			1			3			13
Template:High-Explosive
Open Fist (x2)
File:Sword icon.jpg		RNG				POW				P+S
		0.5				3				11
Template:Open Fist

Animus

{{Category: Template:Counterblast2 }}[[Category: Template:Counterblast2 ]]

Theme Forces

• Minions
  • Template:Thornfall. This model gains Salvage in this theme.
  • Template:Vengeance of Dhunia
  • Template:Will Work for Food

• Other Factions
  • Skorne players can use this warbeast in the Template:Disciples of Agony theme.
  • Trollblood players can also use this warbeast in the Vengeance of Dhunia theme.
  • Various Factions can hire a Minion Farrow Lesser Warlock (such as Rorsh), and put this warbeast in that warlock's battlegroup.

Thoughts on Gun Boar

Gun Boar in a nutshell

The Gun Boar is a warbeast carrying boostable light artillery on its back and has adequate MAT. It will not disappoint with it's range-game, sometimes it can fire twice in a turn.

It’s gun is great and will reliably kill infantry and dent light targets but it will do very little to heavies even on a direct hit. It’s currently the only way for Farrow & Troll Warlocks (Vengeance of Dhunia) to get assess to counterblast; which can be useful on a big gun or powerful melee weapon to deter an assassination.

Combos & Synergies

• Helga the Conquerer Field Marshal: Gang Fighter gives the gun boar an actual melee game
• Lord Carver, BMMD, Esq. III Batten Down the Hatches makes them as tough as some heavies and puts them really into play in gun duels.
• Midas Cheap bone tokens once they are dead - and expendable warbeasts used as roadblocks return to play easily with Pet Cemetary. Let the enemy kill them - and bring them back that much stronger.
• Sturm & Drang Under Sturm they win shooting duels with other lights forever thanks to the ARM buff and Shield Guard. Drang makes them at least vaguely competent in melee.
• Battle Boar because Primaling it then sending it into melee is a good plan.

Drawbacks & Downsides

• Low MAT and not high enough POW to hurt heavies - while even with high explosive the small AoE means that they only hit one infantry model most of the time if they hit.

Tricks & Tips

• You might prefer missing to hitting with them against infantry - that high explosive attack can then cover more than one enemy.

Other

Trivia

Released in Forces of Hordes: Minions (2010)