1700 pts vs lizards

[Hardt von Carstein]

so this is my army list I think I'll be using:

1 vampire, flayed hauberk, lord of the dead, dark acolyte, helm of commandment 190 (in ghoulbunker, general)

1 vampire, walking death, infinite hatred, sword of battle, cadaverous cuirass 190 (in skeleton regiement)

1 necromancer, book of Arkhan (In corpsecart) 90

10 dire wolves 80

10 ghouls champion 88

10 grave guard great weapons 160 full cmd

1 Corpse cart 100 lodestone

29 skeleton warriors full command spears 236

19 Skeleton warriors full cmd 172

6 black knights 144

1 giant 205

1700 total


Landscape is around a bridge and a river with no other way across the 2 sides. Intense fighting on the bridge. I've never played with VC and my opponent never with his lizzies. I've built 1 vampire for summoning and staying back using his LD around tightly packed units, the other for fighting at the bridge hopefully breaking his saurus units.

i plan on attacking with my skeletons supported by the giant and the combat vampire to break through his units and slowly wear them down. I just put every VC model I had in the army to make it to 1700. So if anyone can suggest some tacs for how to use them or if anything is wrong with the vamps etc please do so!

I'' be expecting saurus, skinks, 4 kroxies, stegadon, salamanders (yes he gets 2 rare choices I've agreed to it)

houserules is no magic items on units only characters

please help me improve this list and my tactics, battle is in 2 days. I'm not sure what to do!

 

[Anerion]

Since you mentioned you're working with what you got, then I won't discuss the army list but rather just offer some battle tips.

With the bridges this might be hard to do, but you can't let the kroxigors charge you. S7 but T4 means if you can land a flank charge with your black knights or giant, then you'll have the best shot of taking the whole unit down.

With the skinks screening the kroxigors (assuming he does this), you can just auto-break the unit with the black knights to ensure you reach the kroxigors. If you position your black knights in the front, then try to get your giant to the flank, so either way he positions, he will be flank charged by one of your units.

Salamanders will be nasty to your army and they're not even easy to kill in combat so keep that in mind with who you charge them with. The stegadon will be very hard to take down as well.

Overall, you both have some heavy hitting units, along with the added bonus of your magic, it should turn out to be a good battle. Looking forward to hearing how it goes.

 

[Skorne]

Your general vampire setup is illegal, your equipment comes to 55 points. I would switch the sword of battle to the sword of might. May give your vamp a better shot at bringing down down some of the bigger things. What about using Infinite Hatred and Beguile on the combat vamp, rerolling to hit and wound if Beguile is sucessful would seem to be a good way to bring down the bigger things. Useful unless their LD is high. I do not believe that they get to roll 3 dice against this. I may be wrong though.

 

[Hardt von Carstein]

thanks for the tips, I'm switching flayed hauberk and the cadaverous cuirass between the vampires. i don't think beguile is such a good idea since they can use the generals LD with the cold blooded rule.

Just think inf hatred + a lot of attacks would be a good idea, since nothing except the stegadon has more than Toughness 4, might change it though. Battle in a few hours now.

 

[Skorne]

Write up a report and let us know how it turned out!

 

[Hardt von Carstein]

http://vampirecounts.net/showthread.php?tid=3757

battle report in forum!