Using the armour of living death?

[Endra divini]

I really like this item but I cannot see much point when you can just give your dread the regen armour instead. On the other hand in games 3000pt+ when i want to take 2 dreadlords it might be more useful since I can't take the regen armour again so I've wrote down a couple of setups and can you tell me what you think of them.

1. Dreadlord (In Cold One knights)
-Armour of Living Death
-Crimson Death
-SDC
-Cold One
-Shield
-Hull Talisman

: Cold One gives stupidity anyway so the small side affect is cut out.
: He is hatred, str 6, T 4, W 4 with a 0+ armour save and MR 1.

2. Dreadlord
-Armour of living Death
-Flying Mount
-Lifetaker
-lance
-SDC
-Shield

:To make him last longer and to take out all the weaker units (Ie. Mages, Crew, Fast cav etc.

cheers.

[Izirath]

Just to clear this up, there is no 0 on a scale, which means your character would effectively have a -1 Armor save against ranged attacks. This is a common mistake but creates a little confusion.

[Dagger of assassination]

The 1 dreadlord is pretty good. But the 2 dreadlord is not so good because if you want something similiar take just master on dark pegasus that is also cheaper and can do same things.

[Desert icon]

Just to clear this up, there is no 0 on a scale, which means your character would effectively have a -1 Armor save against ranged attacks. This is a common mistake but creates a little confusion.

Well, Games Workshop talks about Tyrion having a 0+ save in their errata/FAQ so I'll have to assume that there is a "0" on this scale. So his character would actually have a 0+ save against shooting attacks and a 1+ save against close combat attacks.

Armor of Living Death is nice, but personally I don't find it that cost-effective for what it does. Both times I've used it though (on a Dragonlord), I've rolled that 1 and suffered from the effects of Stupidity, so maybe I'm just a little biased against it!

If I had to choose though, I'd probably choose the first one and toss him in a unit of Cold One Knights. I have to agree with Dagger, you can just get a Master on a Pegasus to do Dreadlord #2's job a lot cheaper. And if he's warmachine hunting, I'm not so sure that giving him expensive, fancy armor is really a good idea.

Sure, the extra wound means he won't be auto-killed by that bolt thrower or dwarf cannon he's about to destroy, but most warmachines will need 2+ to wound anyway so the extra Toughness is wasted. I'd personally toss him on a Dragon and watch people cringe as a quasi-Malekith runs around making people crispy.