So I've been thinking about Xekaar...

I wonder if the krea is worthwhile when it's going to be very difficult to focus fire with all the shield guards and sac pawns. Particularly if you end up doubling down on that strategy by going with the valks (and their offensive output is only worse against armor; they're probably better than 'housers into infantry). Also questioning the bone grinders since you've got plentiful nodes?

You've got a point regarding the defensive abilities of the Krea, I wonder if its worth the offensive loss flanking with Chiron provides. Could test both ways I suppose. And the Slaughterhousers are better against infantry if only for the fact there's twice as many... Though if I drop the Krea, I could add a unit of Valkyries instead? The question is, once I have that many points to put into units, am I better off with Brigands? I think with where I'm going with this list probably not, but I can test it both ways. But so far no one has a problem with the concept of my beast load out aside from the Krea? Cause that's the bigger sticking point in buying stuff. I won't possibly need 4 Blind Walkers in any other list so it counts as spam.

I think a shaman might be better than one of the walkers. I know that's less arm for your wall of cheap meat on feat turn, but the walkers are a painfully slow node and the shaman can copy their nodeness and is faster and cheaper. Also, a copy of Primal can be relevant too

I'm really not overly concerned about arcing spells too much. I'm sure it'll happen, but it's not what I'm aiming for. I'd consider it if I'm going to fit in a unit of Brigands, but with all melee I'm not concerned.

Also, the Grinders were originally going to be another unit of Handlers, then I figured "what the hell". Still take off fury if I need them to, can heal up that damage, and are WM Grievous against beasts. Also no KD tough sac pawns.

I played Xekaar for a while (about 25 to 30 games) due to both Journeyman leagues and being essentially new with a small collection.

Just as a general tactic - feating to take the alpha just doesn't work. You give them _all_ of the initiative. Freedom of movement, ability to shoot from outside feat range, counter-feat to more than negate your own, time to wait it out with a couple of jammers, etc.


Xekaar beast play "worked" for me when I got the alpha. Feat to mitigate the retaliation, psycho surgery everything to working order, then mop up. The next best is the run to jam, then feat. But that's still not too great as you're only denying a single boosted damage dice from the charge, but at least this gives you better control over the board position. Without Rush in there, both of these options would be a bit of a stretch to pull off especially without any infantry screen.


Now granted, I had less greeblies at the time as they weren't 10pt Blind Walkers, so it could be worth giving a go - but just be wary. You cannot 'force' your opponent to charge you under your feat. They can do, literally, anything they choose.

Edit: Further thought however- in the right scenario and going first, you might be able to engineer the situation you're after, especially as they will probably be focusing on the arc-nodes as the threat vector, when you have other intentions. The only thing there is that makes it likely they'll try and jam at least some pieces with trash to deny the nodes, then focus-fire a few down. Could go either way for you there.


Besides, when I think of how it would look on the table - totally do this.