In the words of the discredited Glam rocker Gary Glitter "Its good to be back, so good to be back".
After a while away from VC playing various other armies I have decided to return to the undead for 2015. I have barely used VC in 8th but ran them fairly heavily in 7th. I am not desperately interested in a ET legion and am looking to stick with the vamp theme. I am an occasional tourney player but far from WAAC. What I need to do is make my old 7th ed fit for purpose for 8th (just as 9th beckons!!)
My box-o-tricks looks like this;
Characters
3 x mounted vamps
1 x Mounted WK (can be BSB)
1 x mounted vamp BSB
2x Vamps on foot (unpainted)
1x WK bsb on foot
1 x Vamp on zombie dragon (50x50 base) (oh yeah!)
Troops
Dogs x 5
Zombies x c80
Ghouls x30
'Ghulf x1
Hexwraiths x10 (recent acquisition)
BKs x 19
Bloodknights x 5
skeles x 48
Black coach
Corpse cart
Spirit host x6
GG x 30
10 infantry generic fillers
3 cav generic fillers
New Toys on the desk
Crypt Horrors x6
vargheist x6
My previous builds were (as you can probably guess) pretty cav heavy. It is Mousillion themed and also functioned as a Bret army. As a result I would like to keep some cav units in thematically but I am not wedded to BK bus + blender lord build.
So here are my queries;
1. What else (if anything) do I need to pick up for a decent 8th build
2. Since 7th there seems to have been a shift from ghouls to skeles. Is the current thinking that they represent better "core tax"?
3. What would be a good "beginner build" so that I can start to relearn the army.
4. Which of the above should I plan to leave in their boxes!?
5. Any general wisdom to a returning player?
I know that one piece of advice is going to be "pick what you like the look of" and I am with you there but I still want to be able to give the guys at the club a bit of a game while I relearn rather than leave them at turn 3 while I clear away all my toys and they wander off with a massacre and a short evening!
Thanks in advance for your thoughts chaps! I hope to post my progress (or lack of it) here kicking off this Friday with 2.4k against Empire.
After a while away from VC playing various other armies I have decided to return to the undead for 2015. I have barely used VC in 8th but ran them fairly heavily in 7th. I am not desperately interested in a ET legion and am looking to stick with the vamp theme. I am an occasional tourney player but far from WAAC. What I need to do is make my old 7th ed fit for purpose for 8th (just as 9th beckons!!)
My box-o-tricks looks like this;
Characters
3 x mounted vamps
1 x Mounted WK (can be BSB)
1 x mounted vamp BSB
2x Vamps on foot (unpainted)
1x WK bsb on foot
1 x Vamp on zombie dragon (50x50 base) (oh yeah!)
Troops
Dogs x 5
Zombies x c80
Ghouls x30
'Ghulf x1
Hexwraiths x10 (recent acquisition)
BKs x 19
Bloodknights x 5
skeles x 48
Black coach
Corpse cart
Spirit host x6
GG x 30
10 infantry generic fillers
3 cav generic fillers
New Toys on the desk
Crypt Horrors x6
vargheist x6
My previous builds were (as you can probably guess) pretty cav heavy. It is Mousillion themed and also functioned as a Bret army. As a result I would like to keep some cav units in thematically but I am not wedded to BK bus + blender lord build.
So here are my queries;
1. What else (if anything) do I need to pick up for a decent 8th build
2. Since 7th there seems to have been a shift from ghouls to skeles. Is the current thinking that they represent better "core tax"?
3. What would be a good "beginner build" so that I can start to relearn the army.
4. Which of the above should I plan to leave in their boxes!?
5. Any general wisdom to a returning player?
I know that one piece of advice is going to be "pick what you like the look of" and I am with you there but I still want to be able to give the guys at the club a bit of a game while I relearn rather than leave them at turn 3 while I clear away all my toys and they wander off with a massacre and a short evening!
Thanks in advance for your thoughts chaps! I hope to post my progress (or lack of it) here kicking off this Friday with 2.4k against Empire.
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