Taurox The Brass Bull
"MOOOOOOOOOO!"
- – Taurox according to the Total War community
Taurox the Brass Bull is the most powerful Doombull in Warhammer Fantasy, and serves as one of the main Monster characters for the Beastmen
Story
Taurox the Brass Bull is a psychopathic Doombull blessed by Khorne for his prodigious talents at killing, having made it a habit of killing and eating anyone and anything that looked him in the eye.
Eventually, Khorne took notice and sent one of his Heralds to offer a boon to him - remember, in this edition, beastmen are basically the Chaos Gods' unwanted bastard children and pretty much never get anything nice, in contrast to humans, so that shows how good Taurox was at getting shit done.
Of course, remember what we said about that little habit of his? Yeah; when the daemon addressed him, the dumb brute bit its head off! He was then promptly driven insane by visions of apocalypse, went into a berserk frenzy, slaughtered his entire tribe, then rampaged across the Empire for a year and a day without rest, killing everything he encountered. When the frenzy was finally ended (which more or less involved nearly dying from exhaustion lying in a river of blood of his own making), he collapsed. At that point the Chaos Gods - probably mostly Khorne - turned Taurox's whole body into living brass, gave him limitless stamina and two axes that burned with hellfire. Taurox surged to his feet, drank from the river of blood for nourishment, and has been waging a non-stop war for the Chaos Gods ever since, accompanied only by the most vicious killers who don't make the mistake of looking him in the eye.
There was one caveat though; much of his throat was still living flesh, because you do not bite off a daemon's head and get away with it! Because Khorne apparently sometimes does care from whence the blood flows.
On the tabletop, this manifested as him having a 1+ armour save and 5 wounds, but if you roll 6s for your To Hit and To Wound rolls, then you automatically killed him dead IF he failed that 1+ armour save of his, no matter how many wounds he had left (and unless he's fighting a special character this would nearly never happen).
Taurox was killed during The End Times, when Huntsmarshal Markus Wulfhart put an arrow in his throat from a couple of hundred meters away, like the archer who killed Achilles except Markus was a badass, during the battle for Altdorf.
Total War: WARHAMMER
Taurox and Oxyotl were chosen to rival each other in the DLC the Silence and the Fury for game 2, as well as being the last DLC it features.
In his vortex campaign story, he must find this relic called The Heart of Darkness on the continent of Lustria. To do so, he must earned the gods' favor by razing settlement and defeating enemies in the Blood-Grounds created by herdstone. He also needs to watchout for Oxyotl and his lizardmens goons.
His special mechanic allows him to earn power ups and extra dreads (currency used to increase unit cap and upgrades) as long as he keeps up his killing spree across the campaign map. If set up right, his Rampage faction mechanic lets him raze entire factions, continents, and go from one side of the world to the other in a single turn.
In battle, he has the ability to gain 40% ward save and deal heavy ap damage in melee, making him the strongest duelist the Beastmen could offer. His weakness of being instantly killed by unlucky dice roll from the table top is not implemented however, but it might just be a good thing.
Hilariously, his brass skin has made his model texture blurry enough to mistook him as a World of Warcraft npc.
