Post: #1

First I have to mention that I do not have the new book in my possession yet. My local hobby store promised to get it for a while, but when it didn't I got fed up and ordered it online, it should arrive on monday or tuesday. The reason I'm mentioning this is because I dont know the exact points cost of the units anymore.. So this is more of an outline of what I intend to try gaming with, posted here for advice so I know what models to buy or not of the new ones

I do not play competitively and usually only 2,000 point games. If this looks retarded, please tell me. (or if it looks ok :P )

This is my intended army idea:

Lord
Vampire Lord (either fear combo or just mass murderer... depends on the opposition I guess)

Hero
WK BSB or Krell (no idea if he's even a hero choice, or worth the points, but I will be getting the model anyway. It's awesome )
Mounted killy vamp
Necromancer (probably naked due to lack of points)

Core
All the skellies I need to hit 500 points, in a huge horde with spears, fc, probably screaming banner. (again, no idea of points now, but I'm guessing around 80-90 models?)

Special
GG unit (as many as points allow...)
3x Vargheists

Rare
Terrorgheist
Blood Knights

Vamp Lord goes with skellies, Krell/BSB goes with GG and mounted vamp with BKs. Necro hides behind units to raise fallen skellies/GG (lord could do this too).

Skellies and GG form center blocks, with vargheists and TG on one flank, BKs on the other.

The general idea here is that every unit is quite a threat... Nothing here can be safely ignored (well maybe the vargheists since they are only three..). The skelly unit will hold forever, as well as probably do some damage with it's 40 attacks. The other units protect it's flanks or attacking the enemies flanks depending on the situation. TG will probably fly around and scream at stuff depending on what I face.

I'm fed up with using so much ghouls as a lot of you probably are too, and I hear skellies are cheaper now. I really like the idea of having a huge block of them if they are more viable

I hear blood knights are cheaper as well, and I really like the models (havent gotten to use them much :/), but I'm not even sure it is possible to field a unit of 5 and a terrorgheist in a 2000 point army... And 4 might be too few?


*I will update the thread if I change something due to advice or get the points straight.

Post: #2

Im not sure if you will have enough points for all that, and if you don't, i'd drop some heroes. one krell is 41 skeletons. so you might get some points that way.

also, you lack magic, which can be bad depending on opponent :P