Meaner Vamps

[Jack Shrapnel]

Hi there...

after having my smaller units of 25 ghouls liquefied by WOC, along with my combat lord and his grave guard... I figured I'd better rethink my list... and with vamps being mid-tier (at best) now, I can take all that cheesy stuff I felt too guilty to field during 7th ed. !

So here's my attempt at competitive vamps, to put the fear of the undead in the non-believers! (and yes, I'm completely done deployment in five drops!)

Lord:

Vampire Lord: (level 4 total) dispel scroll, talisman of preservation, helm of commandment, dark acolyte, forbidden lore (bunker vamp in skellies)

Heroes:

Vampire: blood drinker, dread knight (goes in blood knights)
Wight King: BSB: carries the Drakenhof Banner (in with GG - Don't hassle the hof!)

Core:

50 ghouls in horde formation
24 skeletons: banner and musician (the bunker)

Special:

29 great weapon grave guard in horde formation: full command & banner of the barrows

Rare:

Black coach

5 blood knights: Musician, standard bearer, flag of the blood keep

2396 points.

Basically the two hordes cover the main battle line, bunker safely behind, while the flanks are covered by the blood knights on one side, and the coach on the other. Pretty basic deployment

thoughts?

[danydaigle24]

Nice list I have one I wanna try this Thursday with 50 Horde Ghoul 50 Horde Skeletons and 39 Grave Guard with 3 Vamps and 1 Necro and Banshee with 2 Wraith... Ill use lore of shadow and lore of beast

[Jack Shrapnel]

sounds cool Dany... I'm thinking horde formation is made for ghouls with their poison attacks, and grave guard with great weapons / killing blow!

[danydaigle24]

Ill try Grave guard with hand weapon shield cuz anyways I'm couting moore on the Killing blow and its like 40 moore pts with great weapon

[fritzthedwarf]

I made a Bugman's Rangers list and is deployed in 2 drops plus characters (then comes the rangers of course). I plan to try it out this Thursday.

[stonecutter]

Heck, if we are all going for the gusto, I might as well try out my new nasty druchii list with a horde of executioners & death hag BSB. I just need to convince all my opponents to issue challenges when the unit is in combat so the T3, no protection death hag can refuse, get pushed to the back, and still give the unit ASF ;D

[Jack Shrapnel]

....or don't challenge and put all your attacks on the bsb instead?

yeah Frank, you've taught us that sneaky trick already....