Mountain King currently vialbe?

Since the Possibility to add minions you could add some scenario presence by adding a feral geist or gremlin swarm or even a unit.

The greatest think about the kings is, under the right caster, you can do a handful of different things with them to leverage advantages on your opponent:

Sea King: Threat range king, creates a no fly zone and dictates the line of engagement. Also has a cool animus and decent gun.

Glacier King: Very strong control Gun, usefull utility in its animus and strong into Def skew with Auto stationary. He is a utility piece that answers specific problems.

Mountain king: All round, good gun, hits hard, tough as nails, brings the key animus in trolls as well.

Depending on the caster you can go with different skews, but they key here is there are some consistencies with the MK that you can rely on:

Durability: Solid arm under stone, high box count, and whelp shedding means this thing can be difficult to remove as the game goes on. If you can save the king till you get rid of a large portion of threats, it becomes increasingly difficult to remove him as the game goes on. Whelp shedding alone can win you games. Blocking charge lanes, contesting objectives, scoring flags, etc.

Power: with rage and a free charge he can wreck the world. Seriously he can remove most standard heavies and his only weakness is Def skew, which you can always prepare for with your caster or List construction.

Threat range: 10” threat base, 12” with rush or hunters mark, 14” with both, and goes up from there with a caster like doomy2. He doesn’t need rage to kill things, so being able to consistently apply a +2-4 Threat range increase is strong.

Powerful gun: Rat 5 is bad, but deafen, pow 16, Kill Shot And asssault are amazing. Boosted Pow 16’s can dent heavies, kill casters, and mulch heavy infantry. Also, pepper use of deafen can shut down entire units of durable infantry.

I think if you build the list with him in mind, you can for sure run him and be competitive.

Don’t forget the other kings though, both are strong and provide a unique skew. GK skewing range and support, the Sea king skewing Threat.

The MK as the only beast in a list is probably viable with Fury 5 casters. If you play BoH for example you might take a single MK and be done there. In SotN i can see how the GK is more attractive in the same role since it is sped up by the stone.

For example Madrak 2 or 3 can probably play a single king as the BG, especially if you do not focus on having a lot of champions to crack ARM. If you bring more of an anti infantry skew with your units and need some extra muscle to back it up.

If you play PoD (and i still think one of your lists can easily be PoD) a MK is great to have as it is good at a lot of things. You can always bring some faster durable elements to compensate (EBDTs). Both Gunny and Ragnor feel pretty decent if you bring a MK, a couple of EBDTs, probably an axer and the season to taste.

Doomy 2 can certainly bring a MK especially if you only need to be "semi" competitive. He speeds his things up so much that you alpha hard and fast and then you should be lodged deep in the zones. Scenario is not as problematic for him as for some other melee beast bricks.

Congrats for the win.

That list does seem really fun! The only problem is that the only thing I own in it is the Mountain King. And the rest of the list would be a HUGE cash investment :/

I love the Kings, especially with some of my favorite warlocks, but recently I have found them struggling enough that I'm trying a Mauler and a Bomber or Earthborn in that slot instead.