Bull Snapper

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Bull Snapper Minion Gatorman Light Warbeast

Powerful gators with an insatiable hunger for human flesh, bull snappers are terrifying monsters that lurk beneath the still surface of swamplands held by the Blindwater Congregation. Surging up from the water, a bull snapper seizes its victim in jaws that close with the force of a colossal bear trap, ensuring its target cannot escape a bloody and painful demise.

Basic Info

Bull Snapper
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Abilities

• Warbeast - All warbeasts share a huge stack of special rules. The short version is they're big, furious, and beat stuff up pretty good. Click here for a newbie-friendly recap, or click here for the full rules.
• Amphibious
• Bloodthirst - When it charges a living model, this model gains +2" movement.
• Man-Eater - This model can charge living warrior models without being forced.
• Torpid - If this model destroys a living enemy model with a basic melee attack, it can immediately end its activation after the attack is resolved. If this model's activation ends as a result of Torpid, you can remove 1 fury point from this model.

Weapons

Bite
		RNG				POW				P+S
		0.5				5				12
Sustained Attack - During this model's activation, when it makes an attack with this weapon against the last model hit by the weapon this activation, the attack automatically hits.

Animus

	COST	RNG	AOE	POW	DUR	OFF
Spiny Growth	1	SELF	-	-	Round	No
The spellcaster gains +2 ARM. If a non-warrior model hits the spellcaster with a melee attack, the attacking model suffers d3 damage points immediately after the attack is resolved unless the spellcaster was destroyed or RFP'd by the attack. Spiny Growth lasts for one round.

Theme Forces

• Minion
  • The Blindwater Congregation
  • Will Work for Food

• Other Factions
  • Disciples of Agony. Bull Snapper becomes a Skorne warbeast in this theme.
  • If taken by a Gatorman Lesser Warlock (ie Wrong Eye or Underchief Mire), it can be in dozens of theme forces. Omitted here for brevity.

Recent Changes

No changes since 2017.12

Thoughts on Bull Snapper

Bull Snapper in a nutshell

The Bull Snapper is a cheap warbeast that acts as a solo hunting cruise missile. Its animus will make your caster less squishy.

Fury efficiency is the name of the game with the bull Snapper, free charges on specific targets, sustained attack and torpid all add up to a very easy to run beast, even for a non battlegroup caster. Torpid is a great rule if you run out of targets to attack, it makes sure you have a transfer target in your opponents turn and lets you push other beasts further.

Combos & Synergies

• Jaga-Jaga, the Death Charmer can give the Snapper a 13" charge against living targets and field marshal gives it an attack on death- you can also use it defensively, parking it by her to stack Battle Host and the Snapper's Spiny Growth animus to get her up to ARM 20.
• It's a good choice as your "free model" in The Blindwater Congregation theme force because it is the most expensive choice. Also its a warbeast whereas the other two options are solos.
• Any front line warlock (especially a Barnabas): +2 ARM for one Fury is an excellent trade for staying alive.

Drawbacks & Downsides

• Awful defensive stats, but that's to be expected at that price bracket.
• vs an undead or construct based force they lose a lot of efficiency.

Tricks & Tips

• It's a great solo-hunter: it's fast, charges for free, it has the sustained attack, and then Torpid for fury efficiency.

Other

Trivia

Released in Forces of Hordes: Minions (2011)

Who can take this warbeast?

With the way Minion battlegroups work, this warbeast can't simply be taken by any Minion warlock, and instead it must be controlled by one of the following:

Gatorman Warlocks (Edit)
Warlocks	Barnabas1 - Barnabas2 - Calaban1 - Jaga-Jaga1 - Maelok1 - Rask1
Lesser Warlocks	Barnabas0 - Underchief Mire - Wrong Eye

Alternatively, a Skorne warlock can take this warbeast in the Disciples of Agony theme.

Rules Clarifications

Rules Clarification:  : Warbeast      (Edit) (Click Expand to read)

See also the Warbeast page for a recap of the core warbeast rules. Forcing If an ability doesn't specify how much it costs to force, it costs 1. (Infernal Ruling) Animi A single Animus can be on several models at the same time. (Infernal Ruling) Unlike in Mk2, in Mk3 if a model has an animus on it from any source and then another animus is cast on that model, it will lose the first instance of an animus and will be replaced by the second. It does not matter if either the first animus or the second animus is from a warlock or warbeast. (Infernal Ruling) An animi cast by a warlock is an animi and a spell. (Infernal Ruling) Transferring Damage If both the warlock and the warbeast are damaged by the same attack (such as an AOE), then you need to apply the 'normal' damage to the warbeast before the transferred damage. This distinction can be important when you're working out who/what actually destroyed the beast. (Infernal Ruling) Frenzy (Edit) You cannot trigger optional abilities (such as Cleave or Sprint). (Infernal Ruling) You must trigger compulsory abilities (such as Consume) ... except for compulsory abilities that also generate an extra attack (such as Berserk). In that case, you don't get the Berserk attack. (Infernal Ruling) A warbeast may not make an Assault shot as part of a Frenzy activation. If the closest target to a warbeast resolving a Frenzy cannot be charged, then the warbeast will forfeit movement and action (as per the rules of having to charge and not being able to). (Infernal Ruling) If a frenzying warbeast can't reach its charge target (because the charge lane is blocked by terrain, etc) then it will make a failed charge and end its activation. (Locked thread) If a frenzying warbeast has two melee weapons with the same POW, it can choose which one to use. (Infernal Ruling)

Rules Clarification : Amphibious - None yet. (Edit)
Rules Clarification : Bloodthirst - None yet. (Edit)
Rules Clarification : Man-Eater - None yet. (Edit)

Rules Clarification : Torpid      (Edit) Placeholder

Rules Clarification : Spiny Growth - None yet. (Edit)

Rules Clarification : Sustained Attack      (Edit) Translation for newbies : Once you hit your target, your next attack(s) with the same weapon will auto-hit. If your target becomes out of range in between attacks (somehow), then Sustained Attack will not let you auto-hit. Refer Step 3 vs Step 4 of the Attack Sequence (Apdx A). If you have sustained attack on a weapon that makes simultaneous attacks (e.g. Prime Axiom making a Sweep attack), then all the models you hit are "the last model hit" and whichever one you choose to attack next is the one you get the auto-hit bonus vs. (Infernal Ruling) This only applies to the first attack after a simultaneous one - once you make that next attack, it's all reset back to being "just one" last model hit. Example : you Sweep and hit models A, B, C. Then you buy an attack vs model C. It is auto-hit because it was (one of) the last model(s) hit. Then you buy another attack, now you can only auto-hit C because it is the last model hit.