Madrak 3 - A great pairing for Doomy 2 perhaps?

Playing Doomy 2 in PoD seems like the new hotness after LVO. I too will be on this train a while i think, cause it seems both good an fun. I too had to revise my opinion that Rök is essential for Doomy 2 (he is so damned good, but he effectively costs 33 points since you miss out on 12 free points, and that isnt worth it. 2 normal heavies are just better), and i played the list in to Karchev with 8 jacks yesterday and managed to come out on top, though it was super swingy. Basically, my annoying whelps forced him to use TWO heavy warjacks to kill ONE whelp each on Karchevs feat turn, and that caused him to fail to kill more the third heavy i had sent against him. that allowed me to remove most of what he had left and i could score the win.

Anyway, this post was supposed to be about Madrak 3. Doomy does NOT like to be shot by things like Sloan or Caine 3. He also does not like Haley 2 with her control. He is not super crazy about playing massed infantry, but i think he has game there at least. So basically he does not want Cygnar. I was torn between Ragnor (strong anti shooting), Grissel 2 (some anti shooting and great at shooting back) and Gunnbjorn (incredible anti shooting, and pretty good shooting himself), but i felt like all of them Were sort of weak in to Haley 2. So, what to do?

Enter Madrak 3. I think he is a bad caster over all, but he seems to have a few really good tools against Cygnar. Spell Piercer is REALLY good against the faction that always brings Arcane Shield. Rebuke is strong against both storm Lances and Stormblades, and those guys are popular. He is also one of the harder casters to assassinate at range, and they can not snipe out his Kriel Stone.

I decided to go with a brute force list. A list that utilities his ability to have more stuff because he doesnt need a Kriel Stone, and combines it with the ability to get more free points by bringing 100+ points of beasts. Now, you can do this in many different ways, but i ended up with this little thing:



I have only played the list twice, but it seems solid. It has great shooting, and you can easily kill 4 storm lances in a single turn at range, and that reduces their hitting power something fierce. Then you basically offer up your heavies for trade, and then you use your two Kings to punch out what ever remains and bully the table. When i played yesterday i had 2 kings + Madrak against Maddox, an inert Firefly and a dismounted Laddermore in the end. It felt really good

Whelps are super key. You NEED to have them for fury management, because the kings will be running hot and you want to camp to keep the aura big. Use the Shamans or Madrak to stand near the kings to prevent electroleaps on to the whelps. If they catch on to you and you start to frenzy with the kings, things will go down hill fast. And yes i know, it sucks to not have a feat. Use the feat on the turn they are forced to try and assassinate you. +4 tough with no knock down and the possibility to walk away drastically reduces the odds for assassination.