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Game 1 Continued: I started off deployment with my 4 units of dogs deployed in dart formation, each spaced 7" apart from the last. Followed that with skeletons, and one unit of vargheists on my far left flank before he was down. He deployed (my left to right): doomwheel, big clanrats, small...

Hi all, Fresh off the heels of another tournament. This one was VICTORY OR DEATH, held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The venue was the Fraternal Order of Eagles hall (similar to a legion), which is our usual clubhouse...so kind of a hard tournament to skip :P. It was run by Dale from...

I'm thinking the chiefs will start in the units then pop out to chaff me when I get close. Not sure where the assassin will be. Other VC lists are certainly bizarre. List with the throne is especially interesting. The other BK deathstar I think lacks some flexibility that I'm hoping the...

I'm thinking I just push? Stop 15" away and cast Curse of Years at his unit, or Gaze at his characters if they've stepped out of the unit. Raise Dead can keep his random movers from coming towards me since they're stuck going straight. I'm thinking that Wind of Death is a good pickup here as...

I lied. First round opponent is Roman with his skaven. Interesting... Grey Seer: 240.0 Pts General Magic Level 4 Warlord 190.0 Pts Heavy Armour, Fellblade [100.0] Warlord 193.0 Pts Halberd; Heavy Armour, Wizarding Hat [100.0] Assassin 170.0 Pts 2ndWeapon; Throwing Stars, Weeping Blade...

Well the list is already submitted, so there's that :P First round opponent is a skaven list, also rated an 8.0. Lists aren't posted yet but I hear he's got a crapload of chieftans. Should be interesting. At an 8 I'm expecting that he also brought all his toys.

Honestly, I wasn't super impressed by GG. I ran them last season and found them a little too cumbersome and predictable. Plus they bleed combat res like crazy against elite units, and don't really give me a solid answer against high volumes of attacks like witch elves and savage orcs. They also...

Beating savage orcs is just a matter of using dogs to redirect them off into nowhere, then dealing with them one at a time. Run your dogs 2-wide to give them more maneuverability. This also allows you to angle them slightly to put the savages in their "flank." They will be forced to close the...

Vampires aren't very good at "just going for a tie." We have very little capability of dealing damage at range, and thus the "sit back and go for a tie" isn't really an option. We will just bleed points if we do it that way. Might as well push. However I agree that going for an 8 is aggressive...

Cool, I'll take a look. Honestly I'm kind of underwhelmed by babyvamps. Too squishy for my liking. Sometimes it's dicy even with my vampire lords, and they're honestly just as efficient Swedish-wise for the points. The wight kings are a better buy under Swedish, I feel. Especially with Banner of...

A friend of mine was looking to do this, so I'll pass along some thoughts: 1) Black knight bus, 3-wide, with full command. You can then put a mounted necromancer/liche priest into the unit as an undead "damsel" and run her protected in the second rank. I'd include a mounted vampire lord and...

I suspect that they'll just release 8.5, and all the real development efforts will have gone into fine-tuning this supposed skirmish-level play that will serve as a launching point for new players. Would make the most sense, given how much they've been drumming up hype for their IP. Round bases...

Honestly, I think this is the key reason we haven't seen more interesting UL lists out there. Everyone is either trying to shoehorn in their TK or VC lists into a UL format, without really taking advantage of the interesting synergies. I actually play both armies competitively so I've put a lot...

Just run the bus 3-wide. So long as you have a vampire lord in that unit at all they need to kill him AND the champ before he's pushed to the front.

My terrorgheist isn't ready or I was going to do something similar. Basically dropping the second lord for a terrorgheist, a wight king with sword of antiheroes and potion of toughness (and banner of the barrows on the knights to make the two wights hit harder), plus two spirit hosts. That...

The banner does also give rerolls to entombed units arriving around the banner, no? Sort of like a homing beacon. Could be interesting, as the banner could be used to bring up something from VC along with some other generic TK units. Mix with Lore of Undeath and I think you've got an interesting...

True, but a full turn of elf shooting will wreck just about ANYthing in our list. Trick is threat maximization, redundancy, and obfuscation. Give them multiple targets to shoot at, and plan contingencies for whichever your opponents picks. To use my current double-blender, double-varg-4pack...

So I'll admit that my view is a bit skewed, as last time I ran them it was with Ramhotep and a 3+ rerollable armour save, but I found them to be extremely durable (like...chewed through a witch elf deathstar without losing a single model durable). Definitely run them with std+mus for the extra...

Also in defense of Tomb Kings, they have some other strong contenders beyond the casket: 1) Basically their entire core is better than VC core. Skeletons are better than zombies unless you're doing an invoc spam list. Skeleton archers are a better wizard bunker than zombies, and have a lot of...

They're certainly not the worst. Their issue is that there are other options out there with more synergy. For instance, a unit of black knights will probably run you roughly the same cost. However, that unit can a) bunker a vampire lord, b) regains 1+WL wounds per casting of IoN (versus 1 on...