At a glance
- Type
- Legendary Lord
- Battlefield role
- Goblin chariot lord and army leader
- Race
- Greenskins
- Faction
- Broken Axe
Availability
- Unlocked in Immortal Empires by The Warden & The Paunch DLC for Total War: Warhammer II.
Broken Axe and the Cauldron
Select Greenskins and Broken Axe in Immortal Empires to play Grom. His Cauldron turns ingredients collected during the campaign into recipes with different benefits. Exploration and encounters with the Troll Hag Food Merchant expand the ingredients available to him.
Choose a dish for what the army is about to do. A benefit to troops you are fielding has an immediate use; a recipe aimed at another part of the roster may suit a later army. Cooking sits alongside Greenskin recruitment, Scrap upgrades and Waaagh! planning.
Keep the chariot moving
Grom rides a chariot. Look for an approach that lets him hit infantry and keep moving, with room to leave the engagement. Dense enemy formations, obstacles and large attackers can make a charge difficult to escape.
Have the infantry occupy the enemy before sending Grom around a flank. Orc Boyz can fight at the front while Goblins provide other threats. Reposition the chariot when its route is blocked rather than repeatedly ordering it through a crowd it cannot cross.
Grom and other Goblin leaders
Skarsnik's campaign ties Orc recruitment to Karak Eight Peaks. Grom instead makes the Cauldron a recurring part of campaign planning, with ingredients and dishes shaping the next decision.
Snagla Grobspit can add character disruption when you own his Gorbad pack and complete his mission. Keep the hero's target separate from Grom's charge path so both can move out of danger.
Broken Axe, Yvresse, and the older chariot
The Warden & The Paunch unlocks Broken Axe. The pack is for Eye of the Vortex and Mortal Empires, and the lord carries into Immortal Empires from that ownership. Eltharion leads Yvresse. The announcement calls the two eternal nemeses on a collision course, and neither of them is in the Vortex race. The Cauldron and the chariot are the campaign and the battle.
The fourth-edition starter put a cardboard Grom on a chariot pulled by wolves, opposite a cardboard Eltharion on a gryphon. That tabletop piece is older than the DLC. The lore page keeps the starter and the Total War rivalry in their own places. Skarsnik is the other goblin warlord, with Eight Peaks instead of a cauldron.
Sources
- SEGA Immortal Empires ownership guide — support.sega.com
- The Warden & The Paunch — store.steampowered.com