How to Play Gloomspite Gitz - Age of Sigmar Strategy Academy 

I'm super happy to hear you enjoyed the video! I really appreciate the offer to collaborate, especially since I've really enjoyed your content (also I always get a good laugh out of your weekly warhammer video). Although, I can't make any promises yet about creating a FEC video yet, since I want to wait to see how the battletome shakes out, but I'd be happy to touch base sometime after their new battletome releases. If I do end up making a video I'd love to come on your channel to discuss the army, I've always liked their lore, and it's awesome to see the new models reflect the lore so well. Feel free to contact me through email: rocometdesigns@gmail.com

Glad you enjoyed, I try to make the kinds of videos that I would have wanted when starting out with the game

I love the aesthetic of Turnip28, would definitely give it a go if I had people to play it with and the time to start playing another game system. I could totally see a cities of sigmar army fit that theme

Yep, they are next on the list. I’ll be making one video to cover everything I haven’t talked about

Eventually it would be nice to make a guide for every army, there are so many armies that lack up-to-date quality guides. Definitely something I'd like to do if I'm able

They do have to follow that rule for coherency reasons, and you are right in that *most* units cannot string out like that. However, squig herd are pretty small and go on 25mm bases, and 25mm is slightly smaller than an inch. So you can string out units on 25mm bases as long on they are base-to-base with each other and they will stay in coherency.

Realistically, probably won't happen anytime soon. Age of Sigmar is already a huge game with a lot for one person to cover and 40k just quite isn't something I'm as interested in. I'm glad to hear you enjoy my videos though

@@rocomet Oh, wait, so you plan on making a "how to play" for all aos armies? That's gonna be a huge time investment, and I'm sure it will end up being amazing. It'll be like a wahapedia for strategies!

Nurgle is a super cool army, their rules have held up really well compared to most of the early 3rd edition battletomes. Plus the Rotmire Creed models look awesome, definitely one of my favorite units to come out of warcry.

​@@rocometbeen dying to see you cover std

Yeah! mine are sadly still grey plastic though @@rocomet

Yes. The reason I call the unit un-optimal in my video is mostly because I don't think it's a very powerful effect to warrant bringing it if you are trying to build a really strong gitz list. At that point all he is doing is bring a little extra melee damage and if you want to do that, you are probably better off just reinforcing the Boingrot unit.

@@rocomet but but but he looks really cool :(

@@JunkyKreeg A very valid point

Since squigs are what got me into Age of Sigmar in the first place, I relate pretty hard

I wanted to check actually about your note with the Loonboss on Giant Cave Swuig. Wouldn't running him next to some Boingrot Bounders be pretty strong ? Allowing them to fight immediately after he has fought could be pretty brutal.

It would be fine at best, this effect is on a handful of different small heroes in different armies and most of the time it's just a cute bonus, but you wouldn't want to take the hero if it's all they did. The main issue is, if you plan on having it fight alongside some boingrots in succession, it could easily be argued you are just better off spending the points on reinforcing said boingrots an extra time. The larger Boingrot unit receives buffs better, you'll have less charges to worry about, and make make use of the 4+ rally better. If the Loonboss on Squig did something else or also buffed boingrots in some way, then maybe there would be case for him. If you like the model it's not awful, but it's not optimal.

@@rocomet Thanks for the reply. I only got him because I love the model but that would mean that 2/3 of my hero units (I also have the Rabble Rowza) are pretty much useless or OK at best :D

No, the replacement unit of 10 is a new unit and has no slain models in it yet. 10 is the new unit's starting number

It’s in there. I talk about it right after Hand of Gork. It’s definitely a great spell

Ahh yeah. I watched it once, then looked at my list while watching again and missed it. 👍

Yeah, they were part of the game Warhammer Underworlds and GW stopped selling them a while back so they are pretty hard to collect nowadays sadly. It's a shame, since they are really nice looking models

Should be added now!

​@@rocomet Oh, I wasn't expecting that. Thank you that's very helpful.

Gloomspite Gitz just can't be beat, it's that simple :( But actually I just decided not to put it in the video, was for a few reasons but mostly that the video had already become the longest project I made at the time and I didn't want it to take up any more work. Although I did write the script for it, so I'll just leave it here. Although as a warning, some of it might need some tweaking, or have changed since I wrote it. "Now of course I know there will be a portion of the people watching who don’t even play gloomspite so this section will be devoted to what kind of effects and strategies tend to be especially potent against gloomspite gitz armies The biggest challenge for gloomspite that I’ve found is long range damage, and this is for a couple reasons, firstly gloomspite grot heroes are some of the most frail in the game, usually only having 4 or 5 wounds. So if your army has damage output that gets around look-out-sir notably mortal wounds from spells then make use of that. The other reason ranged damage can be problematic is it means that the opponent can often shoot at multiple different units, causing damage and killing models without having to engage. And if multiple gloomspite units take battleshock, inspiring presence won’t be enough to save them all and they will be hemorrhaging models. Shutting off commands is also extremely scary obviously because once again inspiring presence is really important, and the moonclan 4+ rally keeps the army pretty resilient, but also units like rockgut troggoths are very reliant on the troggboss giving them all-out-attack for the additional +1 attack bonus. Looking at the stats you can see that without the troggboss all-out attack, their damage output is close to halved. Which is debilitatingly bad for the gloomspite player. And on the squig side of things there are a couple things you should keep in mind, for boingrot bounders it’s mostly that they need to be charging to do any amount of meaningful damage, so out of anything in the army they are the most susceptible to attrition fights, they don’t have the bravery or damage to punch out of getting charged by a big block of 30 skeletons with their constant regeneration or 10 pink horrors with their -1 to hit effect and absurd amount of wounds. For squig herd, it’s important to know your options, like I mentioned before the squigboss just isn’t durable, if you are able to kill him off before he is able to hero phase move the squigs, that will at the very least keep the squigs off of you for a turn. But if you can’t and end up with 72 wounds worth of squigs in your face then you are going to want to play it smart. If the best option is to kill them, then you will want to aim to kill a little over half of them assuming your opponent doesn’t have the indomitable triumph, as on average for every squig you kill another will flee and you don’t want to put more resources into killing them than you absolutely have to since doing around 36 damage already isn’t a small feat. This also leads into my next point, don’t engage the squig herd unless you actually need to. If the opponent has a big block of squig herd on an objective backed up by grinkrak then it might just be worth ignoring that if possible since at minimum that’s going to be around 640 points worth of stuff devoted to a single objective, probably even more if they have other support pieces. You might just be better off using a screen to block a lane and find some other less guarded objective to get control of. Also with grinkrak, squig herd do about as much damage back as they will take so if you do fight them, expect to lose whatever unit you charged in, they probably aren’t going to survive the fight on death, the regular combat activation and then also the mortal wounds from fleeing. And because squig herd do regenerate there isn’t really any point in sending in some unit to fight unless it can actually take them down. You don’t want to lose a unit for no reason. Next is one that may be difficult to do depending on your army, but using the monstrous action smash to rubble on the loonshrine and destroying it gets rid of a lot of utility, so if you have a sneaky teleporting hero like a verminlord deceiver or a fast flying monster like a bloodthirster or a vengorian lord then this is a good way to knock them down a peg."

You and the Rat man from warpfire Minis are officially my Top G's for Warhammer content. Thanks a Lot ❤️‍🔥

I have to agree, Jordan is absolutely a wonderful member of the skaven and overall AoS community