Post: #1

Salutations Readers,

My friends are practising for a 2k doubles tournament next week so I was working on a new Vamp list to face off against them. It is a basic fear-bomb and is a bit light on units.


1000 Points for a Doubles game
200 Master Necromancer Lvl 4 Magic
209 Hero Vamp with Quickblood, Fear Incarnate; 4+ Ward Talisman, Enchanted Shield; Heavy Armour
205 Skeletons x30 with Spears, Full Command & Screeming Banner
66 Zombies x22
320 Grave Guard x20 Great Weapons, Full Command & Banner of the Barrows

Not sure if it would be better to have a Lvl 3 caster with a Ward save and/or maybe drop the Great Weapons for Master of the Dead?

Post: #2

I am always against dropping the great weapons on the grave guard... grave guard with s6 hits are so amazing... especially in combination with that banner. You can focus on raising the zombies numbers early so they become more of a force to be reckoned with and then once the skeletons have taken some wounds, you can D6+4 them to full capacity again!

Post: #3

If it helps, this is one list I've come up with, also for 2000 pts team play (1000 pts each)

230 Master Necro (lv3, lore of Vampires) - Dispell Scroll / Rod of Flaming Death
194 Vampire hero (lv1, Lore of Vampires) - Aura of Dark Majesty, Fear Incarnate, Sword of Might, Enchanted Shield, Heavy Armour, Seed of Rebirth, Ironcurse icon
175 Cairn Wraiths x3 - Banshee
150 Hexwraiths x5
250 Skeleton Warriors x39 - Full Command, Screaming Banner, Hand Weapon & Shield

999 Total

Here is to abuse the "Ethereal" stuff that we have and other armies lack. Both Characters will be in the Skeleton mass, applying the Fear + 1 dice + re-roll and -1 Ld combo. There are no hammer units here, this is just for team play. This should draw attention / advance slowly for the big targets. Hexwraiths should be able to hunt / LOS block warmachines. Wraiths are there to provide a woman to the army (!). but seriously, using "something" in the Shooting Phase instead of skipping it entirely works for me.

Suggestions welcome
Hope this works for you!