Warbands
View the fighter cards for each warband in the game.
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Steelheart Inspired's attack action (Mighty Swing) gains the following keyword: Scything.
Obryn the Bold gains the following keyword: Brawler.
All fighters in this warband gain the following keyword: Khorne.
Karsus the Chained gains the following keyword: Brawler.
Karsus Inspired's attack action (Savage Whirl) gains the following keyword: Scything.
Arnulf gains the following keyword: Assassin.
Arnulf's attack action (Piercing Blade and Axe) gains the following keyword: Grievous 1.
The Warden's card text has been updated to match official errata.
The Harvester gains the following keyword: Brawler.
The Harvester's attack action (Whirling Scythe) gains the following keyword: Scything.
Each Petitioner gains the following keyword: Minion.
Lurking Skaven gains the following keywords: Assassin, Minion.
Festering Skaven and Hungering Skaven gain the following keyword: Minion.
All fighters in this warband gain the following keyword: Khorne.
Riptooth gains the following keyword: Hunter.
All fighters in this warband gain the following keyword: Hunter.
Farstrider Inspired's attack action (Star Falcon) gains the following keyword: Grievous 1.
Elias Swiftblade gains the following keyword: Assassin.
Varclav's card text has been updated to match official errata.
All fighters in this warband gain the following trait: Flying.
Each Chainrasp (not including the Ever-hanged) gains the following keyword: Minion.
All fighters in this warband gain the following keyword: Tzeentch.
The Blue Horror/Brimstone Horrors gain the following keyword: Minion.
Beta rule: On Zarbag, Drizgit da Squig Herder, Prog da Netter, Stikkit, Redkap, and Dibbz, change the Inspire condition on these fighter cards to read as follows:
‘You have 4 or more glory points.’
Prog da Netter, Dibbz, Redkap and Stikkit gain the following keyword: Hunter.
Gobbaluk and Bonekrakka gain the following trait: Beast.
All fighters in this warband have had their card text updated to match official errata.
Shond gains the following keyword: Assassin.
Jagathra and Ollo gain the following keyword: Hunter.
Grawl gains the following trait: Beast, and the following keyword: Companion: Ollo.
Mollog's card text has been updated to match official errata.
Mollog the Mighty's attack action (Whirling Club) gains the following keyword: Scything.
Bat Squig gains the following traits: Beast and Flying, and the following keyword: Minion.
Spiteshroom and Stalagsquig gain the following trait: Beast, and the following keyword: Minion.
Spiteshroom's attack action (Choking Cloud) gains the following keyword: Scything.
Khazgan Drakkskewer gains the following trait: Flying.
Garodd Alensen gains the following keyword: Assassin.
Gallanghan of the Glade gains the following keyword: Brawler.
Gallanghan Inspired's attack action (Whirling Glaive) gains the following keyword: Scything.
Ahnslaine, Revenant Archer gains the following keyword: Hunter.
All fighters in this warband gain the following trait: Flying.
The Maiden Inspired's attack action (Lethal Chill Blade) gains the following keyword: Grievous 1.
Karthaen's card text has been updated to match official errata.
Lighaen gains the following trait: Beast, and the following keyword: Companion: Sheoch.
Master Talon, Royal Butcher and Night's Herald gain the following keyword: Minion.
The Duke's Harriers gain the following traits: Flying and Beast, and the following keyword: Companion: Master Talon.
Morgwaeth the Bloodied gains the following keyword: Priest.
Kyrssa and Lethyr gain the following keyword: Assassin.
Kyrssa's attack action (Sacrificial Knives) gains the following keyword: Grievous 1.
Beta rule: On each fighter card, change the first ability to read as follows:
'In an Inspire step, you can remove two Waaagh! counters from this card. If you do, Inspire this fighter.'
Fecula's card text has been updated to match official errata.
All fighters in this warband gain the following keyword: Nurgle
Ghulgoch gains the following keyword: Brawler.
Thrafnir gains the following trait: Beast.
Quiv, Bushwakka and Luggit and Thwak gain the following keyword: Minion.
Bahannar gains the following keyword: Brawler.
Senaela's attack action (Auralan Bow (Aimed)) gains the following keyword: Grievous 1.
All fighters in this warband gain the following keyword: Slaanesh.
Glissete gains the following keyword: Brawler.
Kixi-Taka, the Diviner gains the following keyword: Priest.
Klaq-Trok gains the following keyword: Brawler.
Otapatl gains the following keyword: Assassin.
All fighters in this warband have had their card text updated to match official errata.
Dour Cragan gains the following keyword: Assassin.
Razek Godblessed gains the following keyword: Brawler.
Toofdagga and Wollop da Skul gain the following keyword: Brawler.
Toofdagga Inspired's attack action (Toofdagga’s Daggas) gains the following keyword: Grievous 1.
Fuirann gains the following keyword: Brawler.
Duinclaw gains the following trait: Beast.
The Patrician's card text has been updated to match official errata.
All fighters in this warband gain the following trait: Flying.
Beta rule: On each fighter other than Blackpowder, change the Light-fingered reaction to read as follows:
‘Reaction: After a friendly fighter's successful Attack action that targets a fighter adjacent to this fighter, gain one Swag counter. In addition, you can pick one of the target's upgrades and break that card.’
Mange gains the following keyword: Companion: Kagey, Peggz.
Shreek gains the following keyword: Companion: Blackpowder.
Beta rule: On each fighter, change the Struggle ability to read as follows:
‘After this fighter's activation, you can give this fighter one Spirit counter. At the start of this fighter's activation, you can remove this fighter's Spirit counters.’
FAQ
Current as of official Gnarlwood Designer's Commentary, January 2023
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Q: If Angharad Brightshield is attacked, and becomes Inspired as a result of her defence roll, can she use her Furious Parry reaction if the attack fails?
A: No. She only becomes Inspired at the next Inspire step after the Attack action is resolved, which means the opportunity to react with Furious Parry has already passed.
Q: Can Angharad's Furious Parry be used in the same way as other Attack actions, or can it only be used as a reaction?
A: It can be used in the same way as other Attack actions.
Current as of official Gnarlwood Designer's Commentary, January 2023
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Q: When playing against the Sepulchral Guard, does a player score glory points for taking a fighter out of action a second or subsequent time after they have been revived?
A: Yes.
Q: Is the Warden's Action that allows two friendly fighters to make Move actions a superaction?
A: Yes.
Current as of official Gnarlwood Designer's Commentary, January 2023
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Q: How does the Inspire condition for Spiteclaw's Swarm work?
A: Each fighter from Spiteclaw’s Swarm becomes Inspired in the Inspire step that follows them being chosen by a ploy. A fighter is only ‘chosen’ by a ploy if that ploy contains the word ‘choose’ and tells you to choose one or more fighters, and you choose that fighter.
Current as of official Gnarlwood Designer's Commentary, January 2023
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Q: How does Cleave work against Ammis and Rastus from Stormsire's Cursebreakers when they are Inspired?
A: When an Attack action has Cleave, the target cannot count 
Block symbols as successes in their defence roll. This means that Ammis and Rastus, once Inspired can use 
Dodge and 
Critical success symbols (and any relevant support symbols) but not Block symbols as successes when they are the target of an Attack action with Cleave.
Q: If one of my fighters casts a spell, when does that fighter become Inspired?
A: In the Inspire step after the spell has been resolved.
In the case of a spell that remains in effect until a particular event, such as Sphere of Ghur, that spell is not considered to be resolved until after that event, and the fighter will not be Inspired until the Inspire step that follows that point.
In the case of the Empower spell action, and spells that persist, such as Eldritch Haze, these spells are considered to be resolved once they have been cast, meaning that the fighter is Inspired in the first Inspire step after they cast the spell.
Q: Is the ability on the Inspired side of Rastus and Ammis' fighter cards a modifier to their Defence characteristic?
A: No.
Current as of official Gnarlwood Designer's Commentary, January 2023
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Current as of official Gnarlwood Designer's Commentary, January 2023
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Q: Is the action on Vortemis' card to summon the Blue Horror a spell?
A: No.
Q: Does K'charik become Inspired if he is adjacent to Turosh, Narvia or a Horror when they make a successful Attack action?
A: No - their Attack actions are not spells.
Q: Does K'charik become Inspired if he is adjacent to an enemy wizard that casts a spell?
A: Yes.
Q: Can the Blue Horror ever be taken out of action? Can a player gain a glory point for taking the Blue Horror out of action? Can objectives connected with taking fighters out of action be scored by taking the Blue Horror out of action?
A: No. When the Blue Horror would be taken out of action, it is replaced by the Brimstone Horrors. It is never taken out of action.
Q: If a Blue Horror would be taken out of action by damage during its Move or Charge action (e.g. because of a lethal hex), what happens?
A: The Blue Horror miniature is replaced with the Brimstone Horrors miniature in the hex in which the Blue Horror would have been taken out of action. Clear all tokens from the fighter. If the fighter has not yet moved a number of hexes equal to their Move characteristic, they can continue that Move action. If the fighter was making a Charge action, they finish resolving that Charge action. In either case, the fighter gains one Move or Charge token as normal.
Q: Does the Blue Horror/Brimstone Horrors begin the game out of action?
A: Yes.
Q: Do the Blue Horrors and Brimstone Horrors count as being two fighters out of action at the beginning of the game, or one?
A: One.
Current as of official Gnarlwood Designer's Commentary, January 2023
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Q: Is the Action on Sourtongue Inspired's fighter card a Move, Charge or Attack action?
A: No.
Q: When I use Snirk Inspired's special action, do I push him 1 hex at a time, resolving the effects on other fighters after each push, or all 3 hexes at once after pushing any fighters out of the way?
A: 1 hex at a time. Note that this is an exception to how a fighter pushed with Scatter normally works (in which case they are pushed the full distance all at once), to allow for the impact that Snirk has on other fighters. Also note that Snirk's push is not complete until he has been pushed 3 hexes or his push is prevented as described on his fighter card. This means that you cannot, for example, play the reaction on Lurker as a reaction to Snirk's push until Snirk's push is complete.
Q: When Snirk would scatter into a fighter that cannot be pushed, how much damage is each fighter dealt in total?
A: Snirk is dealt 1 damage, and the fighter that cannot be pushed is dealt 1 damage.
Q: How does Mirror Move interact with Snirk Inspired's special action?
A: The Mirror Move reaction can be taken after any other fighter is pushed by Snirk (in which case it is a push of 1 hex) or after Snirk's action is complete (in which case it is a push of the same number of hexes that Snirk was pushed).
Q: Do I have to push Snirk Inspired 3 hexes when I use his special action, or can I choose to only push him 2, 1 or even 0 hexes?
A: You have to push him 3 hexes, unless the push is prevented as described on his fighter card.
Q: If Snirk is pushed during Snirk Inspired's special action by something other than his special action (e.g. by Mirror Move), can I continue to resolve his special action afterwards?
A: No.
Q: Can Snirk Inspired's special action create a chain that extends into an incomplete hex?
A: No. Snirk is not dealt damage when this happens.
Q: Can a gambit let Sourtongue Inspired make a Move, Charge or Attack action, or be on Guard?
A: No.
Q: Can Drizgit use the action on his fighter card to make a Move action himself, even if there are no adjacent or even surviving friendly Squigs?
A: Yes.
Q: When Drizgit uses the action on his fighter card to allow himself and adjacent friendly Squigs to make a Move action, which order are the Move actions resolved in?
A: One at a time, in the order of Drizgit's player's choice.
Q: How does the action on Drizgit's fighter card interact with Scurry?
A: When Drizgit makes a Move action using the action on his fighter card, this can trigger an adjacent friendly fighter's Scurry reaction.
Q: Is Drizgit's Action that allows him and adjacent friendly Squigs to make Move actions a superaction?
A: Yes.
Current as of official Gnarlwood Designer's Commentary, January 2023
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Current as of official Gnarlwood Designer's Commentary, January 2023
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Q: If Angharad Brightshield is attacked, and becomes Inspired as a result of her defence roll, can she use her Furious Parry reaction if the attack fails?
A: No. She only becomes Inspired at the next Inspire step after the Attack action is resolved, which means the opportunity to react with Furious Parry has already passed.
Q: Can Angharad's Furious Parry be used in the same way as other Attack actions, or can it only be used as a reaction?
A: It can be used in the same way as other Attack actions.
Current as of official Gnarlwood Designer's Commentary, January 2023
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Q: What does it mean on the ‘Oath' objective cards when it says to reveal them?
A: If you wish, at the start of your first activation in the action phase, you can reveal any ‘Oath' objective cards to your opponent. This means that you show those cards to your opponent - you should give them time to read the card or cards in their entirety if they wish. Once they are satisfied, return the card to your hand, concealing it once more from your opponent.
Current as of official Gnarlwood Designer's Commentary, January 2023
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Q: When setting up the Stalagsquig, do you first roll off to determine who gets to decide who goes first in the first turn, or do you place the Stalagsquig, and then roll off?
A: Place the Stalagsquig, then the players roll off.
Q: When more than one player has a Stalagsquig, how do you determine which is set up first?
A: Use the Sequencing rules from the rulebook.
Current as of official Gnarlwood Designer's Commentary, January 2023
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Q: When do I use Thundrik's Promotion ability?
A: After you score an objective and before you draw a replacement objective card.
Current as of official Gnarlwood Designer's Commentary, January 2023
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Q: How does the text in parentheses in Ylthari's Guardians' Inspire condition work?
A: This allows players to use an ability that removes wound tokens from a fighter to Inspire a fighter from Ylthari's Guardians even if that fighter has no wound tokens on their fighter card. For example, Healing Pulse or Healing Amphora can both be used to Inspire fighters from that warband even if the affected fighter has no wound tokens on their fighter card. Note that cards like Lifesurge only affect fighters that have wound tokens on their fighter cards, so these cards will not Inspire Ylthari's Guardians unless they have wound tokens on their fighter cards.
Current as of official Gnarlwood Designer's Commentary, January 2023
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Q: How does Lady Harrow Inspired's reaction work during an enemy fighter's Scything attack superaction that doesn't target her?
A: When each Attack action within that superaction is resolved, if that Attack action doesn't target Lady Harrow, you can use her reaction.
Current as of official Gnarlwood Designer's Commentary, January 2023
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Q: Can Duke Crakmarrow make the Ghoul Call action (with or without the Muster ability) if there are no friendly Crypt Ghouls out of action?
A: No.
Q: When using Ghoul Call, if the game boards are set up diagonally the line drawn from the Scatter token can leave and re-enter the battlefield. When this happens, which hex do I place the Crypt Ghoul in?
A: The furthest empty hex in the direction drawn, which can be after the line has left and re-entered the battlefield.
Q: When using Ghoul Call, what happens if I cannot place the Crypt Ghoul (because there are no empty hexes in the direction rolled).
A: You cannot place the Crypt Ghoul.
Q: When using Ghoul Call, can the Scatter token be in the furthest empty hex from the Scatter token (e.g. if I place it in an edge hex)? In other words, can I place a Crypt Ghoul in the same hex as the Scatter token?
A: No.
Current as of official Gnarlwood Designer's Commentary, January 2023
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Q: How does Hrothgorn's ability to make each enemy fighter a Quarry work?
A: While Hrothgorn is on the battlefield, each enemy fighter has the Quarry keyword, even if that enemy fighter is out of action. While Hrothgorn is out of action, the ability has no effect.
Q: Does Bushwakka take damage if he enters the same hex as his Trap?
A: No.
Q: Does Bushwakka take damage if he enters the same hex as another Bushwakka's Trap?
A: Yes.
Q: Is the Trap a lethal hex or feature token?
A: No.
Q: Is the Trap model considered to be a fighter?
A: No.
Q: If a hex contains the Trap, does that stop it being an empty hex?
A: No.
Q: Can Bushwakka place the Trap in the same hex as an objective, or in a lethal hex, or in the same hex as another Trap?
A: Yes.
Q: What happens when a fighter enters a hex that contains the trap and is a lethal hex?
A: That fighter is dealt 2 damage by the Trap and then, if the fighter was not taken out of action, 1 damage by the lethal hex.
Q: What happens when a fighter enters a hex that contains two or more Trap models?
A: Use the sequencing rules.
Q: Can the Trap damage fighters that are not affected by lethal hexes?
A: Yes.
Q: When Bushwakka is taken out of action, does the Trap remain on the battlefield? Does it still work as described on Bushwakka's fighter card?
A: Yes.
Current as of official Gnarlwood Designer's Commentary, January 2023
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Q: If Khamyss has the Prescient Blow upgrade can she use her Bladed Buckler Attack action after making the Prescient Blow Attack action? And if so does that attack happen before or after her opponent’s Attack action is resolved?
A: Yes. Both Attack actions occur before the enemy Attack action is resolved.
Current as of official Gnarlwood Designer's Commentary, January 2023
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Q: When I use Shared Pain to redirect damage, what is considered to have dealt that damage?
A: The attacker.
Current as of official Gnarlwood Designer's Commentary, January 2023
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Q: Does flipping an objective with cards like Symbiote’s Call count towards Khagra’s Ravagers Inspire condition?
A: No.
Current as of official Gnarlwood Designer's Commentary, January 2023
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Q: If a friendly Madmob fighter takes an enemy leader out of action with an Attack action during an activation can they claim the Primacy token twice in a row - once for taking an enemy leader out of action and once for their Primal surge reaction, and therefore score Swelling Pride as a result?
A: Yes. These two simultaneous abilities are resolved as described in the Sequencing rules in the rulebook.
Current as of official Gnarlwood Designer's Commentary, January 2023
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Q: Can I push a fighter that cannot be driven back when I use Tammael’s Riptide ability?
A: Yes.
Q: Does Spinefin begin the game out of action if you choose not to set it up?
A: Yes.
Q: Can a player pick the first option on Spinefin's reaction if there are no friendly shoal tokens on the battlefield?
A: Yes.
Q: If two fighters from Elathain's Soulraid have one or more wound counters, and Spinefin is dealt damage that would take it out of action, do the Wurmspat inspire?
A: Yes.
Q: If my opponent plays a card that gives me the option to discard cards to prevent an effect, such as Forgotten Nightmares, Fury of the Storm, Lurelight, or Crushing Pressure, what happens if I cannot discard the required cards?
A: If you cannot disard the required number of cards, you must pick a different option.
Current as of official Gnarlwood Designer's Commentary, January 2023
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Q: Mannok’s Kunnin’ Kommand ability refers to ‘this fighter’. Does that mean Mannok?
A: Yes.
Current as of official Gnarlwood Designer's Commentary, January 2023
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Q: Can the fighters with the Light-fingered reaction use that reaction if the target of their Attack action was taken out of action?
A: Yes.
Q: Can the fighters with the Light-fingered reaction use that reaction if the target of their Attack action is no longer adjacent to them?
A: Yes.
Q: If I use Makeshift Munitions while my friendly Blackpowder is already equipped with Scavenged Shot, do I still take 1 damage even if he is not on a feature token not in my territory?
A: No.
Current as of official Gnarlwood Designer's Commentary, January 2023
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Q: When Prentice Marcov makes the Puppeteer action, can the action Regulus makes be a Charge action, even if Regulus has one or more Move tokens?
A: No.
Q: When Prentice Marcov makes the Puppeteer action, can the action Regulus makes be a Charge action, even if Regulus has one or more Charge tokens?
A: Yes.
Current as of official Gnarlwood Designer's Commentary, January 2023
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Q: When does Kreep Kinwhisper become Inspired?
A: In the Inspire step that follows his Inspire condition being met.
Current as of official Gnarlwood Designer's Commentary, January 2023
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Q: If my fighter has a shadow counter or the Darkening Stone, can I use their Shadow Ambush ability to place them in a hex that is neither a cover hex nor an edge hex?
A: No.
Q: Can Sylarc’s Dark Lamprey action be used to choose an enemy fighter within 4 hexes that is not on a cover hex?
A: Yes.
Q: If my fighter has a shadow counter, are they considered to be in a cover hex for the purposes of abilities, power cards and surge objective cards?
A: Yes.
Current as of official Gnarlwood Designer's Commentary, January 2023
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Q: Do I have to use Herax’s Bloodchains ability?
A: No.
Q: When do I use Herax’s Bloodchains ability?
A: At the start of the Declare Action step.
Q: Can I make a Charge action with Herax in which Herax ends his Move action 2 hexes from an enemy fighter, as long as I’m able to use his Bloodchains ability in the subsequent Attack action?
A: Yes.
Current as of official Gnarlwood Designer's Commentary, January 2023
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Q: Can I use the Dub reaction in the end phase?
A: No.
Q: Can I score a Quest objective that I have not given to a friendly fighter?
A: No.
Q: Can I discard a Quest objective that I have given to a friendly fighter?
A: No.
Q: Do Quest objectives that I have given to friendly fighters count as objective cards in my hand?
A: No.
Q: In the end phase, do I draw objective cards until I have three in my hand, regardless of the number of Quest objectives that my fighters have?
A: Yes.
Q: When I score a surge Quest objective, do I draw another objective card even if I have three objective cards in my hand?
A: Yes.
Current as of official Gnarlwood Designer's Commentary, January 2023