At a glance
- Type
- Legendary Lord
- Battlefield role
- Night Goblin melee lord accompanied by Gobbla
- Race
- Greenskins
- Faction
- Crooked Moon
Availability
- Unlocked in Immortal Empires by The King and the Warlord DLC for Total War: Warhammer.
Crooked Moon and Karak Eight Peaks
Choose Greenskins and Crooked Moon in Immortal Empires. Skarsnik's campaign is built around Goblins and the struggle for Karak Eight Peaks. Build an army that can fight with the units currently available while preparing to take and hold the settlement.
Since update 6.0, holding Karak Eight Peaks unlocks Orc recruitment buildings across Skarsnik's settlements. Losing it removes those buildings again. Defending the hold therefore protects recruitment across the faction, not just one settlement's garrison.
Skarsnik and Gobbla
Skarsnik fights alongside Gobbla, his giant cave squig. Commit them where your infantry can support the fight, and keep an eye on enemy missiles and characters. Use Night Goblins to create several threats rather than feeding each regiment into the same frontal engagement.
His Goblin emphasis makes positioning matter throughout the army. Protect the troops holding the centre, bring an unengaged unit around a flank and avoid leaving archers alone with fast enemies. A shared race roster does not mean every lord can recruit every part of it immediately.
Orcs, Goblins and supporting heroes
Orc Boyz become another infantry option after the Eight Peaks recruitment gate is met. Until then, plan around Goblins instead of basing a campaign on Orc buildings you cannot maintain.
Snagla Grobspit belongs to Gorbad – Omens of Destruction and has his own mission route. Grom offers another Goblin-led campaign, with cooking in place of Skarsnik's struggle to restore Orc recruitment.
Eight Peaks, the novel, and Karak Azgaraz
The King and the Warlord unlocks Crooked Moon. In the first game's Update 4 Grand Campaign he takes goblins squig hunting in the Southern Grey Mountains and operates from Karak Azgaraz. That line is a Warhammer I start. In Immortal Empires, orc recruitment still depends on holding Karak Eight Peaks.
Guy Haley's novel Skarsnik and the short story The King of Black Crag are the books that name him. Belegar and Queek are the other warlords on the Eight Peaks pages. Gorfang Rotgut is the orc who acts in the short story. He is not a playable Greenskin lord. The End Times novel is a separate, later book.
Sources
- SEGA Immortal Empires ownership guide — support.sega.com
- The King and the Warlord — store.steampowered.com
- CA: Gorbad and the Greenskins update — community.creative-assembly.com