Hunter And Hunted Warcry Review

Games Workshop’s recently released Warcry set, Hunter and Hunted, features two exciting new warbands for the Gnarlwood: the Wildercorps Hunters and the Gorger Mawpack. But who is hunting who?

The Call Of The Wild

The Wildercorps Hunters are a team of eleven men, women, and dogs led by a Warden with a grizzled Trailhound. This model comes on a 40mm base and features three different options for heads and arms (pointing, double-bitted axe or hunting crossbow). The Trailblazer (28mm) can wield either a crossbow and a duelling sabre or twin crossbows. Then there are two Leatherhides (28mm) with a choice of two heads and either a Troggslayer spear or a hunting crossbow, two Scouts (25mm) who can wield paired hatchets or a hunting crossbow, and an Arbalester (40mm). These fine men and women are accompanied by some strange-looking tiny creatures that can be placed on any of their bases. One resembles a fish with legs, another features a bird-like skull, and the third looks vaguely human. Last but most definitely not least are the four Trailhounds (25mm) who are very good boys and very easy to build as they only have three pieces each.

The Wildercorps Hunters are investigating a spate of kidnappings in Ghur’s settlements. These expert trackers are used to spending time in the wilderness, accompanied by their loyal canine companions. The Hunters’ ‘Smart Step Backwards’ reaction enables them to make a bonus disengage action after being allocated damage in close combat, which lets them slip away from the enemy and aim a crossbow bolt at them. The ‘Kill!’ command has the Trailhounds gang up on an enemy, dealing three damage for every dog in range of the target.

The Hunter Becomes The Hunted

The Gorgor Mawpack are the much smaller warband in terms of numbers - with only five members - but that doesn’t make them any less of a threat. They are also gigantic in stature compared to the humans and dogs of the Wildercorps Hunters, and all of the models are on 50mm bases. Led by a Clawback, who has a variety of weapon tips to choose from, there is also a Cave Howler with no alternate options, and three Gorgers who can either be unarmed (but still far from harmless) or wielding large weapons. There is a choice of six heads for the three Gorgers, as well as four tips for their weapons if you decide to add those. The Mawpack models have 10-16 parts so can take some time to build, however, they look really impressive once finished and feature lots of interesting details like the bones stuck through their flesh and the broken chains on their wrists and ankles.

This pack of brutish ogors, cursed with an insatiable hunger, has been drawn to the Gnarlwood by the presence of Mawpits, which they believe to be a manifestation of the Gulping God. These Gorgers can never find any satisfaction from their food, no matter how much they eat, which causes them to become feral and malformed.

In combat, the Gorgers can use the ‘Rending Bite’ reaction to deal six damage if the enemy fails to score a critical hit. Their ‘Starving Rampage’ ability causes them to lash out at all enemies in range. While enraged, they become more animalistic, with the Clawback gaining the Beast runemark.

Into The Maw

The Mawpit is a new piece of terrain featuring a bone pulpit looming over a mouth-like hole surrounded by teeth. The Gorger Mawpacks worship these large pits, which must consume a constant supply of food or else they will return to dirt. They eat anything that ventures too close, and fighters can attempt to push an opponent into the mouth of doom or drag them inside with a harpoon. With ‘Get in the Pit’, a fighter who makes melee attack against an opponent with fewer wounds can spend a [Triple] to attempt to knock them into the Mawpit.

Spoils Of The Hunt

The Warcry: Hunter and Hunted box contains three large sprues: one each for the Gorger Mawpack, the Wildercorps Hunters, and the Mawpit. There are also 42 battleplan cards, fighter and abilities cards, and a softback Warband Tome featuring background information, illustrations, rules, quests, background tables, a shared campaign arc, and a battleplan generator.

The two new warbands are very different from each other and both look great on the tabletop. The characterful sculpts are enjoyable to paint and have lots of fun little details to pick out.

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