1K tag team - random partner

[Jack Shrapnel]

Hey there,

Trying to devise an effective, combat oriented, fast list for an upcoming tag team tournament where you are randomly assigned to your partner. all lists must be 1000 points. Comments and recommendations greatly appreciated....


General: Vampire, Dread knight, Walach's bloody Hauberk, ghoulkin

Wight King: BSB, barded skeletal steed, sword of kings, enchanted shield

Core:

22 ghouls (with ghast) in 6x4 formation when vamp joins
22 ghouls (with ghast) in 6x4 formation when wight king joins
5 Dire wolves

Special:
3 fell bats

Rare:

Vargulf

Total 998 points.

The only magic I plan on casting is one dice ION's with the three dice available.... which is why I wanted the blocks on the bigger side to begin with - so I'm not having to rely on building my force before I can attack.

Tactics are to engage the enemy as quickly as possible, which is why I opted for ghoulkin rather than infinite hatred... was a toss up for me, but thought that speed was more of the essence than anything else.

dogs and bats provide a cheap disposible screen for my advancing ghoul blocks... and the vargulf... well he's a vargulf!

 

[Zaggo]

It seems that you have very little in the way of magic. While this is fine for many vamps lists I would question the choice here. Else where in this thread the merits of this are discussed, however: in my personal experience the vamps at 1k can often and reliably out-magic many of their foes.

I would pick up with this on another theme of your force. Namely, Ghouls! Personally I have had huge success with these grave obsessed chaps at the 1k level.

I would suggest dropping the wolves and the bats (although the later here only grudgingly, as they are truly excellent) and making the points up with more ghouls.

Coupled with this I would invest some more points into a second vamp. Equipping both vamps with some magic capability and ‘summon ghouls’.

Also I really question the worth of a BSB here – I don’t take on at 1K, preferring to spend the point on troops. Only in the larger games can you splurge on characters. Not that I mean to demote the BSB to a ‘splurge’, but imo there are better things to buy for your points here.

On good dice you can nearly double your numbers by the time you reach combat which is mouth wateringly good!!

 

[Morr]

The BSB cant have any choices from the armory.

 

[Ricw]

I missed that when looking it over. That may be the most common list error of all time.

I've been using army builder in demo mode to "proof" my units as it will flag things like this. I haven't paid the $40 to build a full army but I will build a "unit" complete iwth accompanying characters and then print a sheet for it. Then I just compile the sheets into the army I plan on bringing. Summing a list of unit points is not the hardest thing ever.

I"m still fairly new to constructing armies myself so it helps me catch obvious errors like this or exceeding the magic points allowed...[/align]

 

[Croseus]

The only thing I would really recommend is to swap ghoulkin for summon ghouls. Having your single dice castings of IoN go off on a 3+ really helps with only 3 dice, even if you're not summoning more models (lack of models for it).


O and btw

"The BSB cant have any choices from the armory. "

If the bsb doesn't take a magic banner, they can have magic items as normal

And yay for first post!