Post: #1

Been contemplating going with a friend (who will be playing High Elves) to a tournament with the new Vampire Counts. So far I've only played one game with the new rulebook, so bear with me.

Here's my latest thought, not battle-tested or anything yet.

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1200 Points

Lords
Master Necromancer - Cursed Book, Talisman of Preservation

Hero
Vampire - Quickblood, Beguile, Armour of Destiny, Shield

Core
Zombies x40 - Standard/Musician
Zombies x40 - Standard-Musician
Dire Wolves x5

Special
Corpse Cart - Unholy Lodestone
Grave Guard x23 - Banner of Barrows, FC
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Second set of thoughts:

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Lords
Master Necromancer - 245 - Talisman of Preservation, The Cursed Book

Heroes
Vampire - 207 - Fear Incarnate, Quickblood, Armour of Destiny, Shield

Core
Zombies x41 - 133 - Command
Zombies x42 - 136 - Command
Dire Wolves x5 - 40 - n/a

Special
Corpse Cart - 120 - Unholy Lodestone
Grave Guard x22 - 319 - FC, Screaming Banner, GW

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Not too much overall strategy. Master Necromancer in a zombie-bunker, Vampire going with the GG is the most likely option.

Other than that its buffs from CC/Master Necromancer and hope the GG get into a good matchup. Vampire should be able to hold his own in any challenges.


Thoughts: (Second list involves some of this)
I was thinking about trying to get Great Weapons on the GG, not sure where I'd remove anything to get the points however. (Core is already at the minimum) But see below

I'm a little worried the Cursed Book will be annoying for my ally (the Winds of Magic is shared, in this tournament I believe) in that I'll siphon power dice (then again, its also drawing out their dispel dice)

Besides GG, I'm generally relying on his Swordmasters or similar elite troops to be my hammer.

I was thinking about maybe switching the Banner of the Barrows to Screaming Banner and switching the Vampire's power to Fear Incarnate for the Fear tactic.


Any thoughts on the list? Any glaring weaknesses or problems?

Post: #2

I´d go for the red fury on the vamp since you already have a corpse cart to provide ASF. I´d probably drop some gear on the master necro since almost 50% of your points are tied into two models at the moment.