2500 pt Army List for Tournament

[Louise De Pointe]

Hey folks, this is one of my first posts on this forum, and, from what I've seen, it's a pretty good one (forum... I just read that over again and I realized I sounded like the most pompous d*#$%bag in the world, but I was talking about the forum, not my post.)

I am playing a tournament (2500 pts) with my friends and I've come up with a list that, if possible, I'd like it reviewed.

There are three other participants- one plays Wood Elves, one plays Dark Elves, and the last one plays Warriors of Chaos.

My list looks like this at the moment

HQ:
Vampire Lord
Upgrades Purchased-------
Hellsteed
+1 magic level
Abilities and Equipment---------
Master of the Black Arts
Forbidden Lore
Lord of the Dead
Equipment---------------
Cadaverous Cuirass
Helm of Commandment
Wristbands of Black Gold
Sceptre of Noirot
Total: 485

Vampire
Abilities and Equipment------------
Avatar of Death (Shield+handweapon)
Walking Death
Equipment-----------
Gem of Blood
Sword of Battle
Total: 185

Necromancer
Equipment-----------
Book of Arkhan
Total: 90

Necromancer
Equipment-----------
2x Dispel Scrolls
Total: 105

Core:
20x Skeletons (2x)
Upgrades-----------
Standard Bearer
Banner of Endless Nightmare
Musician
(for both) Total: 394

20x Ghouls
Upgrades------------
Crypt Ghast
Total: 168

(2x) Corpse Carts w/ Balefire
(for both) Total: 200

Special:
15 Grave Guard
upgrades-------------
Great Weapons
Standard Bearer
Banner of The Barrows
Musician
Total: 258

7 Black Knights
Upgrades------------
Standard Bearer
Screaming Banner
Musician
Total: 232

5 Blood Knights
Upgrades----------
Standard Bearer
Flag of Blood Keep
Musician
Total: 385
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Total: 2502

This list gives me 7 Dispel Dice and 10 Power Dice
3 level 3 Bound Spells (Arkhan and 2 Corpse Carts)
A decent basic Vampire to Lead my Grave Guard
Some natural magic resistance in the form of two Balefires and two dispel scrolls
A decent Anvil (2 large Skelly blocks that can be increased beyond starting size)
and an Amazing hammer (Blood and Black Knights hit flanks, while Grave Guard w/ vampire hit head on)
while my Lord can fly back and forth providing mass IoN casts on any part of the army that is suffering, in addition to his WS bonus he conveys via Helm of Commandment. He also can get a degree of flexibility w/ his Forbidden Lore ability.

So, any comments or suggestions?
My only personal Critique is that I feel that I made my Commander a bit expensive in order to compensate for the fact that he's vulnerable to ranged weapons (a problem when dealing with Wood Elves) and to give my army a HUGE magic boost.

(edited for clarity purposes)

 

[bebopasorus]

as a consistent foe of wood elf's i often use the EXACT same lord set up. bunkers are such a waste of points, ghouls > skirmisher elfs. i wanna get them stuck in, or at least use them to pen the fleet footed elfes to a soon to be bloody corner. a flexable lord goes around and isnt no slouch him self, but the KB close range glade guard bows can ruin a battle, thus 5+ armor save really pays for its self just by making those 6's to wound not insta death(assuming a failed 3+, which just handy v ranged or magic).

if you dropped the SoB + BoEN you could make BSB vamp number two and add an extra skele AND be at 2500 even which is way better than being over your allowed points.
slightly more rebuild if you make vampire hero as AoD(hw/xhw) + Walking death(45 bloodline points) + flayed hauberk (2+armor FTW) + BSB he could be swapped into your army by dropping BoEN, an adding a skeleton. he would still have 4 attacks(fancy) 2+ SCR 2+ armor and you would lose sometimes +1cr(if you have ranks) and your "magic attacks" rule- so you couldn't hurt ethereal's


SUMMATION:
good list!

Vampire
Abilities and Equipment------------
Battle Standard bearer
Avatar of Death (handweapon+ extra Hand weapon)
Walking Death
Equipment-----------
Flayed Hauberk
Total: 195

A favorite build of my own. if you can make 12 points SOMEWHERE