Beginning VC player

[WitchKing03]

Hello everyone. Im new to VC and trying to figure out what to buy. I will probably play 1500 to 2000 points games. That being said I was considering buying the batallion box but I get the feeling the units, both from looking at stats and reading some posts, are not really worth it. Should I just jump to buying Grave Guard or is the batallion box viable?

I am trying to maximize usefulness while minimizing how much I spend.

 

[Bishop]

The army/battallion sets are generally really good deals. They can save you a fair bit of $. However, if you don't plan on using certain items then they effectively "lose" the added value because you get items that you don't want. It really depends on what you want to use.

Do you have an armybook yet? Any ideas in what direction you want to take your list?

 

[WitchKing03]

I do have copy of the book. I guess I do not really have a direction at the moment. I suppose I was looking to buy the batallion, a vampire lord, and a box of grave guards as a beginning purchase. However, I do not know if that buy is necessarily usable. Zombies will die fast and so will the ghouls, the skeltons would survive a lttile better since they have shields, as would the Grave Guard.

But I have no idea

 

[Bishop]

Most people (but not all) tend to use Ghouls more so then anything else. I personally use Skeletons more, because 1) that's what I have, 2) I absolutely hate the current GW ghouls, 3) I like the look of the Skeletons better.

Zombie are basically going to be used for Raise Dead only.

If you wanted to have a mix of Ghouls and Skeletons ... both have their uses, IMO; then the bigger boxes are a good deal.

And you can't go wrong with Grave Guard!

 

[Rising Necromancer]

Zombies do die, thats what they're there for. Just thought you should know. Now then just think about where you want your army to be. There's no rush to choose right? Take it really slow and just don't sweat it.

 

[Count von Nickel]

If you won't be playing in a GW shop, buy some mantic stuff. I got 110 models for 80 bucks! With those models plus a few wraiths, and a couple of characters, I had 2000pts.

 

[Count Darvaleth]

Ghouls are actually quite resilient, when compared to most of our troops. With them you can really taker advantage of the horde rule in the rulebook; I use a unit of 40 Ghouls fielded ten-wide and they generally do ok (when not charged by fething Chaos Knights!).

Grave Guard are a must. Blood Knights are also quite an interesting choice BUT they are so expensive that it is just not worth using the GW set for them. Converting another of their knight kits (Chaos Knights, Bret Knights, or even High Elf Dragon Princes) is the way to go.

I bought the battalion, and I must say unless you have phenomenal willpower and plenty of spare time a lot of it will stay in the box for a veerry long time. I still have to build about 15 skeletons and all the zombies from the box, which I bought last August. (Although Necrons and Tau did jump the queue, I suppose...).

Choose what you like the look of to start with, then we can work a strategy around your army from there. That's how I do it, anyway.