This is an overview of all the Warbands for Warhammer: Age of Sigmar Warcry. We have guides for each specific warband, that you can find.
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List of all Warcry Warbands
All Chaos Warbands
- Beasts of Chaos
- Corvus Cabal
- Cypher Lords
- Iron Golems
- Khorne Bloodbound
- Khorne Daemons
- Nurgle Daemons
- Nurgle Rotbringers
- Scions of Flame
- Skaven
- Slaanesh Daemons
- Slaanesh: Sybarites (guide coming soon)
- Slaves to Darkness
- Spire Tyrants
- Splintered Fang
- Tzeentch Arcanites
- Tzeentch Daemons
- Unmade
- Untamed Beasts
All Order Warbands
- Cities of Sigmar
- Daughters of Khaine
- Fyreslayers
- Idoneth Deepkin
- Khainite Shadowstalkers
- Kharadron Overlords
- Lumineth
- Seraphon
- Stormcast Sacrosanct Chamber
- Stormcast Vanguard
- Stormcast Warrior Chamber
- Sylvaneth Warband
All Death Warbands
- Flesh-Eater Courts
- Legions of Nagash
- Nighthaunt
- Ossiarch Bonereapers
All Destruction Warbands
- Bonesplitterz
- Gloomsite Gitz
- Ironjawz
- Ogor Mawtribes
Getting the Miniatures, Cards and rules for the Warcry Warbands
Getting a warcry warband and the rules for it can be quite simple. If you can find a box with the warcry logo on it, it will contain models and the rules for the warband.
In the warband boxes you will find a fighter card (stating the rules and stats for that fighter). You will also find an ability card, which has the rules for the abilities that the warband can use.
In broad terms there are two different types of warbands: warbands consiting of fighters made specifically for warcry and warbands that “borrow” models orignally made for the Age of Sigmar game.
If you buy a box with models specifically for Warcry, you know you will get all of the fighters possible for that warband.
List of Warbands made specifically for Warcry
- Corvus Cabal
- Cypher Lords
- Iron Golems
- Scions of Flame
- Spire Tyrants
- Splintered Fang
- Unmade
- Untamed Beasts
- Khainite Shadowstalkers
Note that you can also use those warbands in Age of Sigmar as units (making everything even more confusing for beginners). Also, some of the warbands come in a pack with a duplicate set of miniatures, but those does NOT contain the rules for the warband (as these are meant to be used as units in Age of Sigmar).
List of Boxes with warbands not made specifically for Warcry
If you buy the other warbands, you might need to piece together a warband from various different units from the Age of Sigmar game. But some of those warbands now also have boxes for warcry (with a spread of various models). We will detail that in the guide for each warband.
Note that these are not here to stay, and it seems that when they sell out they will begone. You can still get all of those models in the box, you will just have to get them from different AoS unit boxes.
Rules for Warbands without cards
If your warband does not comes with the rules, the easiest way of getting the rules is via the 4 new Grand Alliance tome. Each tome will have rules for all of the fighters and warband belonging to that grand alliance.
Earlier it was possible to buy the “cards” for the non-warcry-specific warbands. Those sold out quickly and are somewhat outdated with some new books that are now out. Not a lot of stats have changed. But new fighters have been added and a lot of abilities have been added (and changed around).
By far the safest way to get the updated rules for your warband is getting the grand alliance book it is included in (Chaos, Order, Destruction or Death).
- Warcry: Agents of Chaos
- Warcry: Sentinels of Order
- Warcry: Harbingers of Destruction
- Warcry: Bringers of Death
Building a Warband
When you build a warband for pick up and play in Warcry, you just have to follow a few simple guidelines:
- You need 1 leader, but you cannot have more than 1
- You need between 3 and 15 fighters
- You can have a maximum of 1000 points
The GW Warband builder (Varanscribe) is pretty solid for building your warband and you can also do campaign stuff in it.
If you are after something a bit more epic, Tim over at Fantastic Friday has created a sweet interactive pdf (remember to donate a few monies if you like what he has made)
Chaos Warbands
Warband Name | Warband Box | StG Box | Guide for Warband | |
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Untamed Beasts | ![]() | ![]() | Go to Guide | Buy Warband on Amazon |
Iron Golems | ![]() | ![]() | Go to Guide | Buy Warband on Amazon |
Cypher Lords | ![]() | ![]() | Go to Guide | Buy Warband on Amazon |
Corvus Cabal | ![]() | ![]() | Go to Guide | Buy Warband on Amazon |
Splintered Fang | ![]() | ![]() | Go to Guide | Buy Warband on Amazon |
The Unmade | ![]() | ![]() | Go to Guide | Buy Warband on Amazon |
Spire Tyrants | ![]() | Go to Guide | Buy Warband on Amazon | |
Disciples of Tzeentch: Daemons | Go to Guide | Buy Warband on Amazon | ||
Beasts of Chaos | ||||
Skaven | ||||
Slaves to Darkness | ||||
Disciples of Tzeentch: Arcanites | ||||
Maggotkin of Nurgle: Rotbringers | ||||
Maggotkin of Nurgle: Daemons | ||||
Blades of Khorne: Bloodbound | ||||
Blades of Khorne: Daemons | ||||
Hedonites of Slaanesh | ||||
Scions of Flame (not released yet) |
Untamed Beasts
The Untamed Beasts is one of the two Warbands for Warcry that comes in the current starter set. Post-release GW has also released a box for the warband (as the starter set will disappear at some point) and box for the Slaves to Darkness (which is basically two warband boxes but without the warcry cards).
- The Warband consists of 9 miniatures out of the standard 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
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
Guide for the Untamed Beasts
Heart-Eater

Beastspeaker

Preytaker with Fanged Axe

Preytaker with Sawtooth Blade

First Fang

3x Plains-Runner



Rocktusk Prowler

Fighter Cards for the Untamed Beasts
Ability Card for the Untamed Beasts

Iron Golem
The Iron Golem is the other of the two Warbands for Warcry that comes in the starter set. You can also buy them separately in either a Warband box with the cards or double the miniatures but without the cards.
- The Warband consists of 8 miniatures out of the standard box
- The 8 minis in the box come to a total of exactly 975 points
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
Guide for the Iron Golems
Miniatures in the Iron Golem Warband from the starter set

Dominar

Iron Legionary with Bolas

Armator

Ogor Breacher

Drillmaster

Signifier or Profector

2x Iron Legionary


Fighter Cards for the Iron Golems

Ability Card for the Iron Golem Warband

Cypher Lords
The Cypher Lords is a standalone box available for purchase the day Warcry is released. Like the other first wave chaos warbands, you can get a Slaves to Darkness box with double the sprues from the normal box.
- The Warband consists of 8 miniatures out of the box (1 Thrallmaster, 1 Luminate, 3 Mirrorblades and 3 Mindbound)
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
Guide for the Cypher Lords
Miniatures in the Cypher Lords Warband

Thrallmaster

Mindbound

Luminate

Mindbound with Double Sword

Mindbound

Mirrorblade with Duelling Sword

Mirrorblade

Mirrorblade with Glaive

Fighter Cards for the Cypher Lords Warband

Ability Card for the Cypher Lords Warband

Corvus Cabal
To buy the awesome bird bois you need to get either the standard box or the double box
- 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.
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)
Guide for the Corvus Cabal
Shadow Piercer

Cabalist

Cabalist

Cabalist

Spire Stalker

Shrike Talon

Cabalist with Familiar

Cabalist

Cabalist

Spire Stalker

Fighter Cards for the Corvus Cabal

Ability Card for the Corvus Cabal Warband

Splintered Fang
If you want the Splintered Warfang on the cheap, get it from a store that gives a discount. If you want it really cheap, get the double box instead.
- The Splintered Fang consists of 10 models (1 Trueblood, 1 Pureblood, 1 Serpent Caller, 2 Venombloods , 4 Clearbloods, and 1 Serpent thingy).
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
Splintered Fang Guide
Miniatures in the Splintered Fang Warband


Trueblood

Serpents

Venomblood with Barbed Whip

Clearblood with Shield

Clearblood

Serpent Caller

Venomblood

Clearblood

Clearblood

Clearblood

Fighter Cards in the Splintered Fang

Ability Cards for the Splintered Fang

The Unmade
The Unmade Warband contains 9 miniatures (1 Blissful One, 1 Joyous One, 3 Ascended Ones and 4 Awakened Ones).
If you want double the amount of crazy people that chop of their skin and limbs, you can get a double box of unmade.
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
Guide for the Unmade Warband
Miniatures in the Unmade Warband


Blissful One

Awakened One with Flail

Aweakened one with Polearm

Ascended one

Ascended one

Fighter Cards in the Unmade Warband

Ability Card in the Unmade Warband

The Spire Tyrants
The Spire Tyrants were teased in the core book for warcry and now we can get them on the table.
Pros and Cons of the Spire Tyrants Warband
Pros:
+ good synergies between fighters and abilities
+ average to good Toughness and Strength values
+ Many options for extra attack actions or allocation of damage points from abilities
Cons:
– doesn’t excel at any one statistic (speed, number of attacks, wounds etc)
– not an easy warband to master for beginners
– very dependent on combos, with the best abilities locked behind actions that take enemy fighters out of action (which can be hard against very though warbands)
Guide for the Spire Tyrants Warband
Miniatures in the Spire Tyrants Warband


Pit Champion

Bestigor Destroyer

Pit Veterans

Headclaimer

Frenzied Rager

Pit Fighters

Fighter Cards in the Spire Tyrants Warband
Ability Card for the Spire Tyrants Warband
Skaven
Miniatures/Fighters you can use in a Skaven Warband

Pros and Cons of the Skaven Warband
Pros:
+ High mobility
+ Horde abilities
+ Strong elite units
Cons:
– Unimpressive leaders
Warband Guide for the Skaven
Fighter and Ability Cards for the Skaven
Slaves to Darkness
Miniatures/Fighters you can use in a Slaves to Darkness Warband

Fighter and Ability Cards for the Slaves to Darkness


Beasts of Chaos
Miniatures/Fighters you can use in a Beasts of Chaos Warband

Fighter and Ability Cards for the Kharadron Overlords
Disciples of Tzeentch: Daemons
Pros and cons for the Daemons of Tzeentch Warband
Pros:
+ Decent ranged options
+ Ability to multiply fighters
Cons:
– No heavy hitters
– Fragile
Warband guide for Tzeentch Daemons
Miniatures/Fighters you can use in a Disciples of Tzeentch: Daemons Warband

Fighter and Ability Cards for the Disciples of Tzeentch: Daemons
Disciples of Tzeentch: Arcanites
Pros and cons for the Tzeentch Arcanites Warband
Pros:
+ Good ranged options
+ Versatile with high mobility
Cons:
– No heavy hitters
– No powerful ability
Warband Guide for Tzeentch Arcanites
Miniatures/Fighters you can use in a Disciples of Tzeentch: Arcanites Warband

Ability and Figher Cards for the Disciples of Tzeentch: Arcanites
Maggotkin of Nurgle: Rotbringers
Miniatures/Fighters you can use in a Maggotkin of Nurgle: Rotbringers Warband

Fighter and Ability Cards for the Maggotkin of Nurgle: Rotbringers
Note on image: most of the images are lifted from various social media posts and some are also submitted. Thanks for people for sharing. The above image is stolen from Anon on 4chan. I could have easily cropped out the small message in the image, but I just agree so much I left it there (even though I had to blur out some of it).
Maggotkin of Nurgle: Daemons
Miniatures/Fighters you can use in a Maggotkin of Nurgle: Daemons Warband

Fighter and Ability Cards for the Maggotkin of Nurgle: Daemons
Blades of Khorne: Bloodbound
Miniatures/Fighters you can use in a Blades of Khorne: Bloodbound Warband

Fighter Cards for the Blades of Khorne: Bloodbound Warband


Ability Cards for the Blades of Khorne: Bloodbound Warband

Blades of Khorne: Daemons
Miniatures/Fighters you can use in a Blades of Khorne: Daemons Warband

Fighter and Ability Cards for the Blades of Khorne: Daemons
Hedonites of Slaanesh
Miniatures/Fighters you can use in a Hedonites of Slaanesh Warband

Fighter and Ability cards for the Hedonites of Slaanesh
Scions of the Flame

Order 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 Vanguard

Miniatures/Fighters you can use in a Stormcast Eternals Vanguard Warband

Pros and Cons of the Stormcast Vanguard
Pros:
+ Ambush tactics
+ Best ranged attacks (maybe OP)
+ Mobility in certain fighters
+ High toughness
Cons:
– Low model count
– Hard to manage certain situations
– Susceptible to criticals
Stormcast Vanguard Warband Guide
Fighter Cards for the Stormcast Eternals Warband

Ability Card for the Stormcast Eternals Warband

Daughters of Khaine

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

Pros and Cons of the Daughters of Khaine Warband
Pros:
+ Extremely fast
+ Many attacks
+ Gets stronger the more damage is dealt
Cons:
– Fragile
– Too reliant on critical damage and many attacks
– Can be expensive to collect
Daughters of Khaine Warband Guide
Fighter and Ability Cards for the Daughters of Khaine Warband

Idoneth Deepkin

Miniatures/Fighters you can use in an Idoneth Deepkin Warband

Pros and Cons of the Idoneth Deepkin
Pros:
+ Mobile and fast
+ Strong but situational abilities
+ Strong basic units
Cons:
– Low toughness
– No big hitters
Guide for the Idoneth Deepkin
Fighter and Ability Cards for the Idoneth Deepkin Warband

Kharadron Overlords
Miniatures/Fighters you can use in a Kharadron Overlords Warband

Fighter and Ability Cards for the Kharadron Overlords



Stormcast Eternals Warrior Chamber
Miniatures/Fighters you can use in a Eternals Warrior Chamber

Pros and Cons of the Warrior Chamber Warband
Pros:
+ High toughness
+ Decent mobility
+ High wounds
+ Good ranged option
+ Extreme versatility
Cons:
– Really low models count
– Hard to manage in certain situations
Guide for the Warrior Chamber Warband
Fighter and Ability Cards for the Stormcast Eternal Warrior Chamber
Stormcast Eternals: Sacrosanct Chamber
Miniatures/Fighters you can use in a Stormcast Eternals: Sacrosanct Warband

Pros and Cons of the Stormcast Eternals: Sacrosanct Chamber
Pros:
+ Really elite warband
+ High toughness
Cons:
– Low models count
– Low mobility
– Really situational abilities
Guide for the Sacrosanct Chamber
Fighter and Ability Cards for the Stormcast Eternals: Sacrosanct
Fyreslayers
Note: the Fyreslayers are a bit different, seeing as they are the only warband that had their rules released in the White Dwarf magazine (issue 451)
All rules for the Fyreslayers in Warcry

Pros and Cons of the Fyreslayers Warband
Pros:
+ Versatile warban
+ Many attacks
Cons:
– Extremely focussed on attack
– Extremely slow
Guides for the Fyreslayers Warband
Sylvaneth
Miniatures/Fighters you can use in a Sylvaneth Warband

Pros and cons of the Sylvaneth Warband
Pros:
+ Decent mobility
+ Ability to heal
+ Varied abilities and strategies
Cons:
– Medium hitters
Guide for the Sylvaneth Warband
Fighter Cards in Sylvaneth Warband
Ability cards for the Sylvaneth in Warcry
Seraphon
Miniatures/Fighters you can use in a Seraphon Warband

Pros and Cons of a Seraphon Warband
Pros:
+ High mobility
+ Versatile warband
Cons:
– No heavy hitters
Guide for Seraphon Warband
Death Warbands
Nighthaunt

Miniatures/Fighters you can use in a 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
Nighthaunt Warband Guide
Fighter and Ability Cards for the Nighthaunt Warband
Legions of Nagash

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

Legions of Nagash Guide
Fighter and Ability Cards for the Legions of Nagash Warband

Flesh-Eater Courts

Miniatures/Fighters you can use in a 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…)
Flesh-Eater Courts Guide
Fighter and Ability Cards for the Flesh-Eater Courts Warband

Ossiarch Bonereapers
Miniatures/Fighters you can use in a Bonereapers Warband

Pros and Cons for the Bonereapers
Pros:
+ Good toughness
+ All-round
+ Extreme versatility
Cons:
– Does not excel in anything
– Depend on abilities
– No ranged options
Guide for the Ossiarch Bonereapers

Fighter Cards for the Bonereapers

Ability Cards for the Bonereapers

Destruction Warbands
Gloomspite Gitz

Miniatures/Fighters you can use in a Gloomspite Gitz Warband

Gloomspite Gitz Pros and Cons
Pros:
+ Decent toughness on basic infantry
+ Really cheap and really elite options
+ Strength in numbers by surrounding enemies
Cons:
– Average stats
– Reliant on special abilities
– Need to attack in group to be efficient
Gloomspite Gitz Guide
Fighter and Ability Cards for the Gloomspite Gitz Warband


Ironjawz

Miniatures/Fighters you can use in a 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
Ironjawz Warband Guide
Fighter and Ability Cards for the Ironjawz Warband

Bonesplitterz

Miniatures/Fighters you can use in a 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
Bonesplitterz Guide
Fighter Cards for the Bonesplitterz Warband

Ability Card for the Bonesplitterz Warband

Ogor Mawtribes
Miniatures/Fighters you can use in a Ogor Mawtribes Warband

Pros and Cons of the Ogor Mawtribes
Pros:
+ Massive damage
+ Strongest ranged options in Destruction
Cons:
– One of the lowest model count warbands
– Average Toughness