Warcry Warband Overview (All Minis, Ability, Fighter Cards)

This is an overview of all the Warbands and Factions for Warhammer: Age of Sigmar Warcry.

If you are looking for more information on the game and the rules, see my review of warry here.

List of all Warcry Warbands

On release 3 different unique chaos warbands where available. We know the models and name for 4 more. Also, we know of two more Warbands already being confirmed for future release. The Warcry website says that there are 9 Warbands, so there is at least one more chaos Warband we do not know the name.

Besides the Chaos Warbands, 9 factions from Age of Sigmar can make a warband. So far, we will have no unique miniatures for other than the chaos warbands.

The Chaos Warbands for Warcry

Non-Chaos Warbands for Warcry

1. Stormcast Eternals
2. Daughters of Khaine
3. Idoneth Deepkin
4. Nighthaunt
5. Legions of Nagash
6. Flesh-Eater Courts
7. Gloomspite Gitz
8. Ironjawz
9. Bonesplitterz

The non-chaos warband do not have any dedicated Warcry box, but are made up if miniatures from units from Age of Sigmar. So if you want to play those warbands you have to buy the Warcry card pack for the faction and get the minis somehow.

More non-chaos warbands have been confirmed to release soon.

Getting the Warcry cards for non-chaos warbands

The cards are slowly getting sold out, and it is getting increasingly difficult to get hold of them. Thankfully, GW are coming up with a solution.

In the Tome of Champions book all of the cards have been reprinted (not as convenient, but at least you can get a hold of them). We are pretty excited about that book overall (you can read our review of it here).

Building a Warband in Warcry

When you build a warband for pick up and play in Warcry, you just have to follow a few simple guidelines:

1. You need 1 leader, but you cannot have more than 1
2. You need between 3 and 15 fighters
3. You can have maximum of 1000 points

I suggest using the Warband builder GW released, as it is pretty good and covers what you need for a quick build but can also do the campaign stuff. You can find the Varanscribe builder here (note that some browsers do not show the builder).

 If you are a bit more the pen and paper kind of person, Guy_De_Lombard over on Reddit made a sweet Warband Roster you can print out (there is one in the book, but you would have to photocopy it).

Untamed Beasts Warcry Warband

The Untamed Beasts is one of the two Warbands for Warcry that comes in the starter set. Post-release GW has also released a box for the warband (as the starter set will disappear at some point)

• The Warband consists of 9 miniatures out of the box
• The 9 minis in the box come to a total of exactly 1000 point
• They have a very classic marauder/barbarian look with quite a lot of beast aesthetic

Miniatures available for the Untamed Beasts

Fighter Cards for the Untamed Beasts

Ability Card for the Untamed Beasts

Pros and Cons of the Untamed Beasts Warband

PROS

+ good all-round warband with no significant weaknesses
+ The Rocktusk Prowler and First Fang have excellent ability combos
+ cheap basic fighters

CONS

– lacks Range 2 weapons for melee
– as a balanced warband, they don’t have anything they really excel at.
– weak basic fighters

Iron Golem Warcry Warband

The Iron Golem is one of the two Warbands for Warcry that comes in the starter set. As of now, they can also be bought in their own warband.

• The Warband consists of 8 miniatures out of the box
• The 8 minis in the box come to a total of exactly 975 points

Miniatures in the Iron Golem Warband from the starter set

Fighter Cards for the Iron Golem

Ability Card for the Iron Golem Warband

Pros and Cons of the Iron Golems

Pros:

+ high Toughness and abilities that improve it =very hard to kill

+ some hard-hitting fighters (the Ogor Breacher in particular)

Cons:

– Slow, lack good mobility abilities

– Few viable options for attacking with a range further than 1 inch

Cypher Lords Warcry Warband

The Cypher Lords is a standalone box available for purchase the day Warcry is released.

• The Warband consists of 8 miniatures out of the box (1 Thrallmaster, 1 Luminate, 3 Mirrorblades and 3 Mindbound)

Miniatures in the Cypher Lords Warband

Fighter Cards for the Cypher Lords Warband

Ability Card for the Cypher Lords Warband

Pros and Cons of the Cypher Lords

Pros:

+Good damage
+Strong leader and champion with great abilities
+great mobility

Cons:

– low Toughness overall – fighters go down easily
– slightly expensive points-wise

Corvus Cabal Warcry Warband

You can buy the Corvus Cabal Warband here.

• The Warband consists of 9 models (1 Shadow Piercer, 1 Shrike Talon, 2 Spire Stalkers and 5 Cabalists with different weapon options).
• The difference between the Cabalists and the Spire Stalkers is (besides the rules) the metal armour on the leg.

Miniatures in the Corvus Cabal Warband

Fighter Cards for the Corvus Cabal

Ability Card for the Corvus Cabal Warband

Pros and Cons of the Corvus Cabal

Pros:

+ one of the fastest Chaos warbands

+ can take advantage of scenery to great effect

+ versatile Leader figure with many useful abilities that improve your warband

+ Sneaky good damage (loads of attacks) compared to price pr. model

Cons:

– Many Corvus Cabal fighters are very vulnerable

– Not the highest critical damage profiles (bit average critical on whole warband is fair)

Splintered Fang Warcry Warband

If you want the Splintered Warfang on the cheap, get it from a store that gives a discount.

• The Splintered Fang consists of 10 models (1 Trueblood, 1 Pureblood, 1 Serpent Caller, 2 Venombloods , 4 Clearbloods, and 1 Serpent thingy).

Miniatures in the Splintered Fang Warband

Fighter Cards in the Splintered Fang

Ability Cards for the Splintered Fang

Pros and Cons of the Splintered Fang

Pros:

+ good critical damage overall

+ strong general abilities that negate enemy advantages

+ fighters tend to have many attacks

+ good options for immobilizing enemies

Cons:

– fighters have low Toughness and are vulnerable in melee

– not the best ranged options

The Unmade Warcry Warband

The Unmade Warband is:

The Unmade Warband contains 9 miniatures (1 Blissful One, 1 Joyous One, 3 Ascended Ones and 4 Awakened Ones).

Miniatures in the Unmade Warband

Fighter Cards in the Unmade Warband

Ability Card in the Unmade Warband

Pros and Cons of the Unmade

Pros:

+ very versatile abilities, most of them usable by everyone in the warband

+ very strong and fast Leader

+ good synergies between leader/champion and basic fighters via abilities

Cons:

 -if the Leader goes down, you lack a strong damage source

– many fairly weak fighters

– lack exceptional Strength or Toughness on any fighters

Spire Tyrants Warcry Warband

Scions of the Flame Warcry Warband

Non Chaos Warbands

If you want to play a non-chaos faction in Warcry, you currently have 9 options.

Do note that no new miniatures or “boxes” of Warbands are being released except for the chaos stuff. Instead, 9 non-chaos factions are getting one ability card and fighter cards for the miniatures that are usable in Warcry.

So if you want to play with one of the factions below, you need to get the pack of cards and get your hands on the miniatures from the different boxes they are in.

This means that the following warbands are really easy to start if you have the models (all you need is the card pack), but if not if you have to go hunting for those minis.

Note: the card pack are selling out on quite a lot of sites, and GW is notorious for not reprinting cards once they are sold out. Get them while you can!

Stormcast Eternals Warcry Warband

Miniatures/Fighters you can use in a Stormcast Eternals Warband

• Vanguard Raptor with Longstrike Crossbow
• Raptor Prime with Longstrike Crossbow
• Hunter Prime
• Aetherwing
• Vanguard Raptor with Hurricane Crossbow
• Vanguard Hunter
• Raptor Prime with Hurricane Crossbow
• Gryph Hound

Fighter Cards for the Stormcast Eternals Warband

Ability Card for the Stormcast Eternals Warband

Daughters of Khaine Warcry Warband

Miniatures/Fighters you can use in a Daughters of Khaine Warband

• Khinerai Lifetaker Harridynn
• Khinerai Lifetaker
• Blood Stalker Krone
• Blood Stalker
• Khinerai Heartrender
• Khinerai Heartrender Shryke
• Blood Sister Gorgai
• Blood Sister
• Witch Aelf with sacrificial knives or knife and bladed buckler
• Sisters of Slaughter with whip and buckler or whip and knife

Fighter Cards for the Daughters of Khaine Warband

Ability Card for the Daughters of Khaine Warband

Idoneth Deepkin Warcry Warband

Miniatures/Fighters you can use in an Idoneth Deepkin Warband

• Namarti Thrall
• Namarti Thrall Icon Bearer
• Namarti Reaver
• Namarti Reaver Icon Bearer
• Morrsarr Lochian Prince
• Morrsarr Guard
• Ishlaen Guard
• Ishlaen Lochian Prince

Fighter Cards for the Idoneth Deepkin Warband

Ability Card for the Idoneth Deepkin Warband

Nighthaunt Warcry Warband

Miniatures/Fighters you can use in a Nighthaunt Warband

• Dreadwarden
• Grimghast Reaper
• Chainrasp
• Spirit Host
• Glaivewraith Stalker
• Extoller of Shyish

Fighter Cards for the Nighthaunt Warband

Ability Card for the Nighthaunt Warband

Pros and Cons of the Nighthaunt

Pros:

+ Versatile and quite forgiving
+ Fly is, in general, an amazing ability
+ Summoning back models is a powerful ability, tactically satisfying and thematically fitting

Cons:

– Low damage (unless you can get off some abilities)
– Can struggle on some missions

Legions of Nagash Warcry Warband

Miniatures/Fighters you can use in a Legions of Nagash Warband

• Necromancer
• Skeleton Champion
• Skeleton Warrior with Ancient Spear
• Skeleton Warrior with Ancient Blade
• Seneschal
• Grave Guard with Great Wight Blade
• Grave Guard with Wight Blade and Crypt Shield

Fighter Cards for the Legions of Nagash Warband

Ability Card for the Legions of Nagash Warband

Flesh-Eater Courts Warcry Warband

Miniatures/Fighters you can use in a Flesh-Eater Courts Warband

• Crypt Haunter
• Crypt Flayer
• Crypt Infernal
• Crypt Horror
• Crypt Ghoul
• Crypt Ghast 

Fighter Cards for the Flesh-Eater Courts Warband

Ability Card for the Flesh-Eater Courts Warband

Pros and Cons of the Flesh-Eater Courts

Pros:

+ Excess to high movement and flying (which is pretty good in warcry)

+ Have hard-hitting fighters and access to cheap disposable bodies

+ Is one of the easier/cheaper non-chaos warbands to build

Cons:

– Not a lot of different model types

– No ranged attacks

– You could get tired of the naming of your models (they really like that crypt…)

Gloomspite Gitz Warcry Warband

Miniatures/Fighters you can use in a Gloomspite Gitz Warband

• Boingrot Boss
• Boingrot Bounder
• Squig Hopper Boss
• Squig Hopper
• Stabba with spear
• Stabba with non-spear
• Stabba with net
• Moonclan Boss
• Shotta
• Squig Herder
• Cave Squig

Fighter Cards for the Gloomspite Gitz Warband

Ability Card for the Gloomspite Gitz Warband

Ironjawz Warcry Warband

Miniatures/Fighters you can use in a Ironjawz Warband

• Brute Boss with Boss Klaw and Brute Smasha
• Brute with Jagged Gore-hacka
• Brute with Gore-choppa
• Brute Boss with Boss Choppa
• Brute with two Brute Choppas
• Ardboy Boss with Choppas and Smasha
• Ardboy with Big Choppa
• Ardboy with Choppa and Smasha
• Ardboy with Choppa and shield

Fighter Cards for the Ironjawz Warband

Ability Card for the Ironjawz Warband

Pros and Cons of the Ironjawz Warband

Pros:

+High Toughness

+High Strength

+High Wounds (Lowest is 15)

+Good Damage Spread

+Very Killy (so incredibly fun if you just like to bash things)

Cons:

-Very slow movement

-Difficulty Climbing even the smallest of obstacles

-Very unlikely to win objective based missions, as the slow movement makes it hard to get where you need to be.

– Clever opponents will use your slow movement and no ranged abilities against you

Bonesplitterz Warcry Warband

Miniatures/Fighters you can use in a Bonesplitterz Warband

• Savage Orruk Morboy Boss
• Savage Orruk Morboy
• Savage Big Stabbas
• Savage Orruk Morboy with Bone Totem
• Savage Orruk Arrowboy
• Savage Orruk Arrowboy Boss
• Savage Orruk with Chompa and shield
• Savage Orruk with spear and shield
• Savage Boss with Chompa and shield

Fighter Cards for the Bonesplitterz Warband

Ability Card for the Bonesplitterz Warband

Pros and Cons of the Bonesplitterz

Pros:

+ Adaptable

+ Good Selection of Models

+ $$$$ CHEAP $$$$

+ Easy to Play

+ Auras and Buffs

+Solid wounds across the board

+Ranged Attacks

Cons:

– Average powered models that don’t excel in any one area

– Losing your Bone totems or Leaders can be utterly devastating