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Summarised from the free Games Workshop rules download named in the sources. Check the current Battle Profiles before a game.
Points, unit sizes and regiment options live in the free Battle Profiles download, last republished 29 July 2026. A newer Battle Profiles always replaces an older one, so check the current version before a game.
Unit picks are SprueSentry commentary, not part of the formation rule. The formation ability itself is summarised from the free Faction Pack: Sons of Behemat.
Friendly Mega-Gargants get a 6+ ward while they are within the combat range of any other friendly Mega-Gargant. It is a positional bonus, so the giants have to stay in reach of each other.
You need at least two on the table for the ward to exist at all, and each one you add makes the cluster easier to maintain.
See the box: price and offersA Mega-Gargant with a healing prayer, so he keeps the pack together and repairs the models the ward did not save.
See the box: price and offersYou pick exactly one battle formation for your army, so choosing this one means you do not take these.
How to play Breaker Tribe, the Sons of Behemat battle formation that gives Mega-Gargants a ward while they stay in reach of each other.
BySprue Sentry
ReviewedAug 28, 2026
SourceFaction Pack: Sons of Behemat (Games Workshop, free download)
Sprue Sentry strategy commentary for Age of Sigmar 4th edition, not official rules. Games Workshop updates points and rules regularly; always confirm against the current official rules and latest update before a game.
Breaker Tribe is the durability battle formation for Sons of Behemat in Age of Sigmar 4th edition, and the one that most constrains how you move.
SprueSentry strategy commentary, not official rules. Summarised from the free Faction Pack: Sons of Behemat, page-stamped February 2025 and confirmed current against the 29 July 2026 Battle Profiles.
The formation ability is Besieging Bulk, and it is passive. Friendly Mega-Gargants have a 6+ ward while they are within the combat range of any other friendly Mega-Gargant.
A ward on a model with a very large Health pool is worth far more than the same ward on infantry, because it applies to every point of damage that model soaks all game, mortal damage included.
The condition is within the combat range of another friendly Mega-Gargant, which is close. Your giants have to move as a block, and that fights against two other things Sons of Behemat want to do.
First, objectives. A faction with this few models normally wins by spreading its gargants across the board, and Breaker Tribe pays you for not doing that.
Second, Timberrrrr!. When one of your gargants dies, the mortal damage lands near the body and hits friendly units too. A tightly packed Mega-Gargant cluster is exactly the formation Timberrrrr! punishes hardest.
So this is not simply a free ward. It is a ward you buy with board coverage and with some friendly-fire risk.
Players running three or more Mega-Gargants into a shooting or mortal-damage heavy meta, where surviving to reach combat is the actual problem and a ward is the only answer this faction has.
Pick Breaker Tribe when you expect to be shot off the table before you arrive, and when the mission lets you win from a concentrated position. If the battlepack needs you on three objectives at once, this formation will be switched off for most of the game.
It is passive: friendly Mega-Gargants have a 6+ ward while they are within the combat range of any other friendly Mega-Gargant.
No. The ward applies to Mega-Gargants only. The Scourge of Aqshy Always on Guard Cracked Heel is the enhancement that gives a Mancrusher a ward for staying near a Mega-Gargant.
Yes. Timberrrrr! inflicts mortal damage near a slain gargant and it can hit friendly units, so a tight Mega-Gargant block is the formation that suffers most when one of them falls.
Written by Sprue Sentry, grounded in the cited sources. Original commentary, not Games Workshop rules text.