I played beastmen in 6th, and touched them with some paper-hammer in 7th. At the time I was trying to play a "weaker" army to challenge myself.
With the huge gap in power from most 7th edition books compared to 6th, I felt the beastmen would be fun to try again.
In 6th I liked their mobility and sneaky/fun special rules, the fact they got rank bonus up to +2 I think, and could negate ranks really, REALLY, helped. They were definately a really fun army to play as, and I found them to have more interesting army wide rules then mortals or daemons.
In a 7th edition situation, they aren't exactly beardy. In fact lazy high or dark elf lists, lazy VC lists, etc, will be a challenge. It takes 120% skill/effort to still be effective. So good idea waiting until the new book.
As a side note, most fair players will allow your gor/ungor squads to go 5 wide, and get your 2 ranks regardless of the fact that the book says you rank up 4 wide. It only specifically said 4 wide, to get the rank bonus, so it would make sense that it would be 5 wide now. If your opponent doesn't let you make this slight unofficial edit ;
A. It's a tournament and you simply have to play at a disadvantage.
B. They are afraid of your skills/army and need to look for every advantage to win.
C. They are complete @$$h0L3s who are addicted to winning by large margins.
(start refusing to play these people)
So if you wanna playtest, good luck to you. Just don't do it in a tournament cause you'll be fighting in a wheelchair, with one arm, one eye, in your underwear, with a wooden sword.
