WARLORD GRITZARD, TREE BURNER.....................130 points

Your army may include Gritzard, Tree Burner, as an individual character or as the General, in which case he replaces the general in the main army list. He may lead any Orc or Goblin unit, except Black Orcs.

As a runt Gritzard was picked on by 'iz matez and was very unhappy. He fled from his persecutors away from the tribe and lived in the wilderness before coming to the edge of Loren, where he settled. He kept out of the Wood Elves' ways and began to befriend the trees, and had many interesting conversations with them (or he thought so anyway... - Ed)

One fateful day he slipped out of the tallest branches of his favourite 100m tall Redwood, landing heavily on his cranium. Being an Orc, this did not affect his health, but it mentally devastated him (one brain cell down, one to go - Ed)

The only noticable difference was - he now hated trees!. He rejoined his old tribe and Waaargh Gritzard began!

PROFILE	M	WS	BS	S	T	W	I	A	Ld
Gritzard	4	6	3	5 (6)	5	4	5	4	10

WEAPONS/ARMOUR: Two axes (single-handed weapons), Heavy Armour.

MAGIC ITEMS: Gritzard comes with no special magic items, he may have three magic item chosen from the Warhammer Magic Supplement, like an ordinary Orc Warlord. Bear in mind that he has no free hands, however.

MOUNTS: He may ride a boar (+8 points) or a monster chosen from the monsters section of the Orc Army List.

Animosity

Gritzard is a complete lunatic and hates the enemy far too much to bother with Animosity, in this respect he is like a Black Orc Warlord and you do not need to roll for the unit he is in. Units which he does not lead are affected in the normal manner.

Trees

Gritzard has had a bad experience with trees and he suffers from frenzy (See Warhammer rulebook) when he is in hand-to-hand combat with them. When he fights things made of wood he is also at +1 strength (indicated in brackets), but only when he hits them. Things which affect him in this manner are: Treemen, Dryads, the Green Knight, War Machines and Chariots (These last two his is frenzied against but he does not recieve the +1 S if he hits the crewmen, he only hates trees!)

By Matthew Amos - Last updated 6/4/97
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