Circle Orboros mirror Battle Report

Tanith, Call of the Wild vs Kromac2, Call of the Wild

We, as of the Circle Orboros players, all miss Loki on the table. He is our only character warbeast that is not included in any of the theme forces (yet, I hope). You can take him only with Tanith because of the bond or in a list that is outside of the theme force. Playing out of the theme is obviously disadvantageous because you are down on points and theme benefits. If you go into a theme force, Call of the Wild feels like a perfect spot for Tanith. The thing is, there is this weird interaction between her FEAT and the theme benefit. The benefit lowers the cost of an animus by one (with no minimum set) and her FEAT does the same thing but it sets the minimum cost of 1. This wouldn’t be such a big deal if not for the fact that Tanith likes to be activated early in a turn, before most of your battlegroup. This makes you pay for Lightning Strike, Elusive and few more that would normally be free outside of your FEAT turn. It screws your order of activation and it feels like something that was overlooked by the designers. It discourages from using Tanith and makes Loki almost useless (at least in the theme force he would really shine)… BUT you never know before you try, don’t you?

I’ve been discussing the list with my fellow warroom.pl redactor Maestro and we got really hyped to try it. I wanted to avoid the feat-frustration and test some things I haven’t tried yet. Because of it, I took Una1 with Scarsfell Griffons so they never have to pay for their animus, Elusive. Una also helps with fury management which Tanith struggles with if she takes a large battlegroup with her. Winter Argus is an another piece that I really wanted to try out in this list and the point cost fits perfectly. I had this idea it can be a companion to my Admonition target to make things stationary after they fail their charge.