I have always been wanting to field a loremaster, possibly combined with some shadowdancers, always liked hybrid characters .

The new executioners come in a dual kit for blackguard. I intend to use the blackguard helmets instead..

Anyone else notice that the shrine does not have a cap on leadership, so we could get a l 11 aura if we placed a dreadlord nerby, probably not worth it anytime but still

My bad, two points to little.

Have to drop the harpies and fill out the darkriders then.

I would go with: Dreadlord, manticore, armour of darkness, halberd. Master, manticore, HA, SDC, Dragon helm, RoH, halberd. 6 Dark Riders with RXB, Musician 5 Dark Riders with RXB, Musician 5 Dark Riders with RXB, Musician 5 Harpies 1 War Hydra 1 War Hydra Hard hitting very mobile list.

The concept behind the army is to assassinate characters using death magic, while taking out support units and staying alive. I am well aware that the inclusion of a pendant bsb or hydra would benefit this type of mobile list, but do not wish to use them, since I want the list to stay away from CC. ...

Is that 15.6 and 13.1? Or are those numbers referring to something I don't know about? It refers to the amount of casulties they weill cause given that your two front ranks survie to strike back. Both examples use the +1 attack from the cauldron. Thus: against normal infantry, e.g. our own spearmen...

Executioners delivier an outstanding punch with or withouth the +1 attack from the cauldron. They are also great for taking out characters with massed S6 killingblow attacks. I belive that a unit of 21-28 would work well. Yes, they will get butchered when they get into melee, that's what the extra r...

Ever since reading about it in the BRB I have had an urge to try this out. In my opinion it is only viable to take with a supreme sorceress, a highborn can not use it in a worthwhile way. For a sorceress the fortress gives the following advantages: 1) LoS: with the new LoS rules she will be able to ...

Characters: High Sorcerer : extra level, folding fortress. the main focus behind the list is to get this guy to work. At the moment I am unshure about which magic lore to take, but I am leaning towards fire due to the excelent range of the lore. Master : BSB, Pegasus, HA, SDC, Halberd, Pendant, Drag...

o. Your opponent does not know which assassin/dreadlord you intend to fly nor where you intend to fly him. That is incorect. It is clearly stated in the magic section (around page 104, uncertain, under casting spells) that you: a) declare what spell to cast b) declare target for the spell c) declar...

I don’t have my book with me at the moment, but it is my belief that you have erred on two points. a) I believe that the rules for rally states that a unit has to be above 25% of its starting value. The assassin is however not part of the unit (i.e. he is bought separately, explicitly choose to join...

Pendant AND Focus familliar, I don't think that loosing the 300+ pts-cost model is fun. There is no "too much" defence ) I disagree, taking more defence then needed results in two things: a) you compromise her offencive and supportive powers (e.g. can only take one scroll or stone (and ne...

I would go with either the Focus Familiar or the Pendant, but not both. I think that's a bit of overkill for protection of a model that should not be seeing combat and that already has ablative armor in the form of the Pegasus (which will absorb 2/3 hits until it dies). Agreed, IMO one of the main ...

so in an abstract way are more resilient since they're harder to pin down than a single caster is It is however much easier to provide a dedicated bodyguard unit for one sorceress then two; e.g. harpy screens for a sorc with FF, or spearmen for a sorc with the dagger. you'd like to have multiples o...

Sorceress -- 125pts - Sacrificial dagger, Tome of Furion You can not have multiple items from the same cathegory (e.g arcane) unless otherwhise specified (e.g. scrolls). Furthermore, there is no point ever, to take a mage intended to cast spells without including the level upgrade. 10 x Crossbowmen...

Well, the one that is always S6 says it IGNORES modifiers The one that modifies hits above S5 to S5... is a Modifier. Crimson Death wins, the same way it does against Night Goblin Nets. Same with the Whip of Agony, but for this case its already S5 so it doesnt matter. This is corect; since the entr...

Just in case you are wondering about the RBT as well, it does not suffer the multi-shot penalty when firing multiple shots since it is a war machine. That is incorect; beeing a warmachine has nothing to do with it. Multiple shots, is a special rule, if the model has it, it can fire X times it's nor...

in order to deal with Hellcannon, Field Trebuchet and all those annoying things? Harpies can not deal with the hellcannon at all; due to the high stats of the dwarven crew, and due to it beeing terror causing. Harpies are however better vs the trebuchet. I will not ask "how to" since it's...

-Removed the Shade unit, and the Frenzied Corsairs.

I would strongly advice you to drop either the new corsairs, or one unit of crossbowmen; as I find one unit of shades infinitly uesfull.

As for the new corsairs, I have never tried fielding them; and as such I can not comment on them.

It would be very usefull if you let us know where you intend to place your characters; this enable us to give better advice on unit sizes, comand options etc. 15x Corsairs, full command, Sea Serpent Standard - 200 IMO you only need champion if a character; that wants to avoid challanges is present. ...

I would prefer CD, AoD and three null talismans. This is however based on the premise that you are fielding a 2000pts army; and as such, you do not have much points left to spend on magic defence. this also means your dreadlords have to work in different ways, a crimson/pendant lord can fight anythi...

Not really. Hits get randomized if the uni c onsists of 5 models or less, and if you have five knights and a character, you're sitting on six models which is enough to enable you to allocate wounds. In order to be protected from shooting, there needs to be five or more rank and file models, and the...

Have not tried this, but I think Lore of Metal would probably also be good because RoBI can snipe characters. It is in general a poor lore vs. vampire counts IMO. The reason is that vampires have few sources of high armor saves. They have one magic armor that grants a 2+ save, they can obtain high ...

with a lot of ASF Their ASF is based on spells though; either from corpse carts, or from dance macabre. Both sulla and Rabidnid gives very good advice, i.e. you either want to outfight them in CC, or you want to avoid them, and have a heavy magic phase. Witches, black guard, and corsairs with the s...