Crypt Horror Unit Size

[Undead4Life]

Hi, everyone!

Noob here looking for opinions, anecdotes and advice!

I'm assembling a generalist Death force; Skellies, Zombies, Dire Wolves, Necromancers, Vampires, etc. A more specialized unit I'm implementing is Crypt Horrors, specifically the Attendants At Court formation.

My question arises in how large a unit is optimal for running Crypt Horrors? Minimum requirements are, of course, two minimum-sized units of Horrors and a Crypt Haunter Courtier. These things plus the cost for the formation comes to a nice, round points total that is not insignificant.

I'm torn between running Attendents at Court barebones, but I' also thinking about going full committal with it and making the unit sizes 6 models or even more.

If anyone has any insight into the optimal way of running these big, grisly brawlers, please share!

 

[ElectricPaladin]

I've had minimum squads do work. I suppose it depends on the size of the game and what you're up against.

 

[Undead4Life]

Ah, yes, should have specified: 2000 points and common foes are Ogors, Chaos Warriors and Knights, Dark Elves, and those are the ones I know about. I'm just getting in to AoS and I haven't fully scoped out the local scene!

 

[ElectricPaladin]

Well, I've never played a game that big, so I'm not sure I can help you...

 

[Oppenheimer]

Since Flesh Eaters are all about returning dead models to existing units you need to keep your units big enough to not be wiped out by the time your hero phase comes along. I would say minimum size for any unit that you want to have a hero restore models to is 2x the minimum.