Zelrig - what's your army idea?

[Zealot]

Originally Posted by Aldin

Some truly regal ideas displayed here ,
I'm a bit surprised I didn't see this one:

But who's gonna rescue the damsel?
Zelrig 185
Sir Gilbert 105
3xKnights of Weston 210

Zelrig pretty easily handles any of the units that tend to give trouble to the KoW while the KoW offer superior battlefield control.

~Aldin, reviewingly

I came up with a very similar army Aldin (in function at least), and better yet, it utilizes the strategy that game me my Title

Blastatrons x2 - 120
Gladiatrons x2 - 280
Marcu - 300
Zelrig - 485
Isamu - 495

Zelrig can easily dispatch any of the ranged common squads that give the Glads/Blasts trouble.
The Glads/Blasts, Marcu, and Isamu work map control and hero killing while Marcu is kept "in Check" by the Gladiatrons Cyberclaw.

I've used this army a total of 3 times with devastating results.


I also find it funny that I solved the range problem that Jedilou mentioned earlier...

Originally Posted by jedilou

A bit more range might be nice but you can't have it all, right?

My only other concern is that mid-battle, when the knights have lots of enemy units tied up, it may be hard to use Majestic Fires to great effect.

[Jexik]

I played 4x Marro Stingers, Raelin, and Zelrig at a tournament recently and went 4-1. I think it's a good mix because Stingers are great against heroes to shore up Zelrig's weakness, and then Raelin probably works better than Deathreavers with Zelrig. I would often send Zelrig out with 1,2,X in the first round, and put my 3 on Raelin. If Zelrig survived, he'd have 6 defense and had drawn a lot of attention. If he dies early, Raelin's already set up for the Stingers.

[Jexik]

Double post! Separated by several months...

Recent talk in Oyhedwig's Nilfheim/Zelrig thread got me thinking about Zelrig again. I think Zelrig has a lot of potential as long as you prepare adequately for Vydar Ranged or other unique-heavy armies. At 500 points, I started pondering these two builds:

Burn and Stomp
Zelrig 185
Tor-Kul-Na 405
3x Nagrubs 495

A little light on figures, but I could see TKN being a real mid to late game beast on certain maps, especially if Zelrig does his job.

Who says Zelrig is bad for Orcs?
3x Arrow Gruts 120
3x Swog Rider 195
Krug 315
Zelrig 500

I haven't tested this one yet, but I intend to pretty soon. Games with it ought to be fast, win or lose!

[ABOMINATION]

The first one is a bit risky for a tourney, but looks like a lot of fun for normal play. The second looks pretty stable IMO.

[Zealot]

Originally Posted by Zealot

Blastatrons x2 - 120
Gladiatrons x2 - 280
Marcu - 300
Zelrig - 485
Isamu - 495

Zelrig can easily dispatch any of the ranged common squads that give the Glads/Blasts trouble.
The Glads/Blasts, Marcu, and Isamu work map control and hero killing while Marcu is kept "in Check" by the Gladiatrons Cyberclaw.

I've used this army a total of 3 times with devastating results.

I can't believe I forgot to add this to this thread but the Zelrig army I have listed here, after playing it several more times for practice since the original post, is what I used for National Heroscape Day 2008 (The Florida Frenzy 2) and I came in 1st place, beating 2 A+ armies for my Semi-final and Final matches.

Semi-final...
-Major Q9
-Raelin ROTV
-Deathreavers x2
-10th Regiment of Foot x2

Final...
-Major Q9
-Major Q10
-Raelin ROTV
-Deathreavers x2

Here is the link to the Tournament battle report I wrote...
http://www.heroscapers.com/community...480#post694480

[Vivaldi]

Time to resurrect old threads because I'm bored...

--The Core--

Charos- 210 pts
Zelrig- 185 pts

Cost- 395 pts

500 point armies

Raelin- 80 pts
Isamu- 10 pts
Otonashi- 10 pts
or
KMA- 100 pts
or
EOV- 100 pts
or
Deathreavers 2x 80 pts
Isamu- 10 pts
Otonashi- 10 pts
or
Brave Arrow- 50 pts
Deathreavers- 40 pts (sub Theracus if you want something similar to FaT bomb)
Isamu- 10 pts

Final- 495 pts

I won't go into higher point values, but this army idea is based around using your own figures as a bridge for Zelrig's majestic fire to link spaced out units. Charos is the main event here. He's big, mean and draws all sorts of attention (away from the softer Zelrig). With 5 defense dice he should shrug most of the fireballs off, while anything swarming him will be melted.

Most of the filler options have some sort of defensive skill that makes them resilient to the majestic fires attack, so they can be used as beacons for the flame as well. All except the Deathreavers are unique, but who ever cried over a few dead Deathreavers.

It's easy to space your squad members 1 away from each other, but nearly impossible to space 2 away from each other. Overall the major weakness will likely be ranged unique armies, and big hitters.

[Rich10]

I don't think that I've seen this posted elsewhere, but Zelrig should work well with the HSB. Zelrig kills squads and the HSB take care of heroes. Also, while Zelrig doesn't really need Raelin, neither do the HSB.

185 Zelrig
150 HSB x 2
150 Goblins x 3
10 Isamu
495 21 hexes

185 Zelrig
225 HSB x 3
80 Deathreavers x 2
10 Isamu
500 20 hexes

[sixthflagbearer]

Just for fun:

Red Dragons
Zelrig-185
Mimring-150
Moltenclaw-170

505, 5 hexes

Or:
FIRE!
Zelrig-185
Red Wyrmling x10

485, 12 hexes (you can add or subtract wyrmlings to get whatever point total you need)