Butcher3

Thinking about stuff with Butcher3

Things he wants:

Threat range extensions
Things that add to his survivability
Models that do not require support

Important Models

Corbeau - 3 inches extra for the Butcher is a big deal. It happens before allocation too so he can stay further back from his jacks if necessary.

War Dog - the arguses are part of Butcher's unit not attached so he can take an attachment, I'd take a wardog to help keep Butcher alive

Behemoth - Energizer and focus on behemoth is a scary proposition. The other option is to take Beast09 for reach + Energizer.

Black Dragon Iron Fangs + Great Bears + Widowmakers and Kell Bailoch - Jamie Perkins made a list I really liked where he used a lot of models that were able to pick column/spirals for warbeasts and warjacks so that you could stop them from shaking Sorscha1's feat. Butcher can with Grievous Wounds do a similar thing to warbeasts where you can remove their spirit spirals and prevent them from healing. (It's only melee attacks but you can use widowmakers to take out the spiral or finish off the spiral and have another model hit the warbeast with grievous wounds). These models also require no support.

Iron Fang Kovnik - to help the black dragons.

Greylord Ternion - Not sure they are needed but stationarying something then taking out its spirit is pretty neat.

Saxon Orik - Pathfinder for Black Dragons and Butcher if the dogs die.

Ogrun Bokur - Butcher is a great client as he needs to get forwards to do work so the Bokur isn't hanging back and gets to make attacks. You can take two, and I think that might be prudent.

Tactical Arcanist Corps - A little bit of extra survivability. They may struggle to keep up with the Butcher though so it's another thing that might not be needed. The Greylords might actually be better for this because they can just blizzard Butcher and give him concealment. If it's impractical to get a cloud in front of him you can at least give him concealment.

You can also add in something to force command checks in case he pops his feat after engaging some models in a unit (which is likely as he'll want to attack and then replenish focus). Alexia2 is a good option, Doom Reavers work too.

Other stuff - Khador have a lot of good infantry options, there are a lot of other things you can throw into the list that do well without caster support. Kayazy, Nyss, Wintergaurd and Joe, Doom Reaver, Uhlans, Shocktroopers and the Iron Fang Kovnik, Boomhowlers...

I'm coming back to this draft after listening to Muse on Minis talk about him, it seems my ideas aren't particularly out of the ballpark but that's probably a good thing.

New thought about Greylords - Butcher is a really excellent Harbinger match up because silence of death stops both Martyrdom and Self Sac on the errants. Greylords have sprays that are spells so if they target a Khador model (or at least a non-zealot) they can spray dead zealots under minifeat. This applies to both the cav and the Ternion. I think the Cav's stationary ability might be good on Butcher as well.

Edit2:

Alexia2 - Feeling even stronger about her after a bit of a think. I wish she had reach, with reach and silence of death she would be able to munch infantry. Even without she adds some spell defence to the Butcher, that also keeps her near him to force a command check on the feat and near two Bokurs so if your opponent does not have a lot of ranged attacks you can shield guard them regardless of whether they are targetted at the Butcher or Alexia. Impending Doom is going to help her collect some souls. This does preclude Alexia1. Alexia1 has some interesting synergies too. Risen are cheap and you can use them to gum up charge lanes. She hits harder than Alexia2 and there will be a lot of infantry models for her to get corpses from.

I was looking through the Mercs entry to try and find some models that could collect corpse/soul tokens and buy attacks or who had Beserk to really abuse silence of death. I did find a solo with Berserk and reach: Gudrun. Ahh Gudrun, you useless sack of crap, have I found a place where you can flourish like a golden turd?

There is a stupid section in the back of my brain that is leaning towards Rorsh and Brine and a Road Hog. Rorsh and Brine because big threat ranges + Silence of death will kill a lot of hordes casters and you can bring sprint into the equation with energizer and two heavy hitters (Butcher and in this list Beast09). You can also ping Brine for a point with one of your snipers and from then on he will charge for free. Greylords can provide a hit buff (maybe) as well.

Edit3:

Press Gang and Sea Dogs - Ok this one might be stupid but hear me out. You have ARM cracking in Butcher, two dogs, two Bokurs, Behemoth of Beast09 so from there you take the full pirate suite, Press Gang, Sea Dogs and all the solos (Including Alexia1 but not including Rhupert, stupid Khador, why did you have to murder his family?). Then you put silence of death on the Press Gang to build an uber unit of Sea Dogs and recycle them into zombies. Being 4+ tough while your opponent cannot have tough seems good.