The Herdstone

Characters:
Wargor - great weapon - armour of damnation = 94 pts

LVL2 Bray-Shaman - Bray-Staff - dispell scroll - chaos armour = 151 pts

Core:

16 Bestigors - full command - war banner - undivided = 247 pts

Beast Herd: 6 Gors, 8 ungors - music - foerender = 99 pts

Beast Herd: 7 Gors, 11 Ungors - full command = 128 pts

5 Warhounds = 30 pts

Tuskgor Chariot = 85 pts

Tuskgor Chariot = 85 pts

Special:


5 Marauder Horsemen - flails - music = 81 pts

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Total models: 62
4 power dice
3 dispell + 1 dispell scroll
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Basic strategy:

Usually ambush with the hounds, and sometimes ambush the small herd depending on the opponent.

Marauder Horsemen, chariots and bestigors all hit hard so can deal with most threats using combined charges etc...

I'll usually put my wargor in the large beast herd, and if playing an army with cannons or heavens magic (or other character targetting magic), i'll put my shaman in the bestigor herd. Otherwise, he'll be out on his own.

Shaman takes lore of beast hoping for one of the wolf hunts, the crows feast or the bear's anger, along with the oxen stands for the auto rally.

Characters:

Wargor - great weapon - armour of damnation = 94pts

shaman - lvl 2 - staff of darkoth =135pts

Core:

Beast Herd: 8 Gors, 10 ungors - music - standard = 111 pts

Beast Herd: 5 Gors, 5 ungors - foerender = 75pts

Beast Herd: 5 Gors, 5 ungors - foerender = 75pts

Tuskgor Chariot = 85 pts

Tuskgor Chariot = 85 pts

Special:

3 screamers = 99pts

Rare:

3 Dragon Ogres - great weapons - light armour = 237

Basic strategy:
This army hits fast, hard, and with a lot of the army in ambush you can destroy almost any army, from infantry lines to shooting armies. The only real problem is with magic heavy armies, and that is what the screamers are for. They can also eliminate warmachines and hit flanks or take out scouts.

Characters:

Wargor General - MoS - Armour of Damnation - Great Weapon - Shield

Lvl 2 Brayshaman - MoS- Staff of Darkoth - Dispel Scroll

Lvl 2 Brayshaman - MoCU-  Chaos Armour - Dispel Scroll - Spell Familiar (Lore of Shadow)

Core:

15 Slaangors - full command - War Banner

Beastherd - 10 Gors, 10 Ungors- full command

Beastherd - 10 Gors, 10 Ungors- full command

Tuskgor Chariot

Tuskgor Chariot

5 Warhounds

Special:

5 Chaos Furies

Rare:
Chaos Giant

Basic strategy:

For me this army exemplifies the strengths of the Beasts of Chaos whilst mitigating some of their weaknesses.

CHARACTERS

Key characters have the mark of slaanesh off-setting their poor leadership and giving them access to some killer spells. Generally you can use the wargor either as a free floating character or within the Slaangors to create an uber-hitty unit. The slaaneshi brayshaman works well as an independant character, remaining close to units, but not bothered if they panic or flee. Any spells from the lore of Slaanesh are useful - bear in mind that they should be used to draw your enemy out of position so your other units can catch them at a disadvantage. The staff of Darkoth is essential simply for the potential magic charge. The shadow brayshaman takes more careful use but is as equally potent as his slaaneshi counterpart. The spell familiar gives an additonal spell from the brilliant lore of shadow. Again, any of the spells are useful; free flight move, no armour save magic missile, 6 to hit from shooting, cause fear (and thus are immune to fear) or hit anywhere damage spell that potentially disrupts shooting. Generally, if you don't roll it, I would always take Steed of Shadows, just to get you out of sticky situations.

CORE UNITS

Beastherds - I reckon the fifty-fifty split of gors and ungors is about right, given that I've been told that Gors lap round first in combat. This herd costs a bargain 145 points and generally hits on the charge with 15 attacks, 3 at strength 4. With two you have the tactical flexibility and volume of numbers a beast army needs. They can screen your more valuable units from shooting or, if you want, this list actually allows you to ambush with both beast herds and the warhounds!

Tuskgor Chariots - you need at least two - mainly because they tend to get shot at a lot. Bear in mind that they need to be used to support other units or need to attack as a pair. I generally run them alongside my beastherds and double team enemy units like that.

Slaangors - I use these to take out big scary things or heavily armoured things (or both in the case of treemen). They're immune to psychology, hit with strngth 6 and have the rank bonus to crack most units/monsters with CR if nothing else. With the wargor in the unit always issue challenges on the charge - anything that survives 3 strength 6 attacks then has to bypass the armour of damnation.

Warhounds - meat shield, but not big enough to scare your other units - I keep them close to the slaangors and/or the wargor.

SPECIALS

Chaos Furies - so many uses - march interdiction, warmachine/lone mage killing, flank charges to cause panic on engaged units. Most smart opponents shoot them ASAP but that buys you time to get the rest of your units into combat.

RARE

Giant - I know people are divided on the giant thing but I love them. Just get them in close for the terror tests and watch the enemy run.

GENERAL STUFF

This army works when its mobile - keep it moving, unruly checks should almost be a moot point because that's where you're going anyway. When you're bringing on you ambushers think about where the points are - yes, its tempting to pop up behind the unit of handgunners but wouldn't it be better to hit those engaged greatswords in the flank and cause them to panic?