The Chosen Axes

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Quick facts

Fighters:

4 Wounds:

13 Inspire

17 Mobility:

2 Inspire

3 Playstyle:

Hold Objective

Faction:

Order

Season:

Shadespire

Attributes:

Melee only

Popular Nemesis Pairings:

Voidcursed Thralls

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Fjul-Grimnir leads this warband of Fyreslayers, renowned for their resilience and determination. Favoring a defensive playstyle centered around holding objectives and weathering enemy attacks, they are capable of unleashing devastating counterattacks when provoked, making them a challenging adversary to engage with.

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Positioning

Your priority in round 1 is to inspire your leader, Fjul-Grimnir, and Tefk Flamebreaker. Make sure to position them within range of an objective. You want both of them to survive until at least round 2, so don't put them in any immediate harm. Your leader goes to a whopping 4 damage once inspired and you'll want him to clean up the board starting round 2
Vol and Maegrim are less important and can be placed ahead of Fjul-Grimnir and Tefk. Inspiring them in round 1 is a nice bonus but not needed. Look to inspire them in round 2 if they're still alive and there's a good opportunity
Consider long-boarding your opponent if you're up against an extremely aggro warband

Voidcursed Thralls Nemesis Pairing

This is a great pairing for the dwarves given the many pushes it provides which help make up for their limited mobility. It also prevents your fighters from being pushed off of objectives making it easier for you to fulfill your inspiration condition. On top of that, all of your fighters have a defensive characteristic of 1 shield and an offensive range of 1, so they aren't negatively impacted by being voidcursed in any way
Almost always do you want to start the game with Fjul-Grimnir being voidcursed
Utilize cards like Refashioned Priorities, Refashioned Reactions, and/or Forced Movements to navigate the battlefield and close the distance between you, your enemy, and objectives
The warband doesn't have a lot of easy surges to score early on in the game. Lashed into Motion, however, is pretty attainable and often a successful first round will just entail you making three move actions
Overall, the warband doesn't have a very high glory ceiling and the key to victory will be for you to deny your opponent from scoring their objectives

Q: If a member of the Chosen Axes warband has the Rampaging Killer upgrade, makes a Scything attack, misses an enemy fighter and I decide to play Oathsworn to retry the attack, what happens?

A: If the final Attack action of the Scything Attack action is the first Attack action to fail in that superaction, the superaction is complete and the Chosen Axes fighter is dealt 2 damage before Oathsworn can be used. If the fighter survives that damage, and the player uses Oathsworn to have that fighter make another Scything Attack action, the Chosen Axes fighter is again dealt 2 damage once that fresh superaction is complete. If an Attack action other than the final Attack action from the Scything superaction fails, then when the Oathsworn reaction is used, the Chosen Axes fighter makes a new Scything Attack action and the original Scything Attack action is ‘on hold’ (see the rulebook). Once the Attack action made using Oathsworn has been resolved, the Chosen Axes fighter is dealt 2 damage. Then the original Scything Attack action continues. Once that Attack action has been resolved, the Chosen Axes fighter is dealt another 2 damage

Q: How do Inspire conditions that trigger at the start or end of the round work?

A: Fighters that Inspire at the start of the round do so in the first Inspire step of the action phase, which happens before the activation step of the first player’s turn (Elathain’s Soulraid and Morgwaeth’s Blade Coven use this Inspire step). Fighters that Inspire at the end of the action phase do so in the final Inspire step of the action phase, which follows the final power step of the action phase (the Chosen Axes, Skaeth’s Wild Hunt, the Grymwatch and the Crimson Court use this Inspire step)