Dealing with Steam Tanks

[Guidebot]

Hi all; it's been a while =)

Myself and two friends are getting back into WFB. We've each got 1000pts armies for some smaller scale fun. I'm VCs (obviously), and my friends are Empire and WoC.

My Empire mate is thinking of bringing a Steam Tank. I have to say, I'm not actually sure how I can hurt/ kill this thing!

My list is settled and nearly all painted (I'll post some pictures when I get back to it, I'm away on a work assignment for a while at the moment), which means I really don't have a lot of wiggle room for changing my army.

So, I'd like to ask, using the following, how do I hurt a steam tank

-Lvl4 Necromancer Lord (seed of rebirth, dispel scroll)
-Vampire, H.Armor, Hand weapon
-Vampire, H.Armor, Hand weapon, Book of Arkan

-20 Zombies, Banner, Music
-20 Zombies, Banner, Music
-20 Zombies, Banner, Music
-5 Dire wolves
-5 Dire wolves

-Mortis Engine, Blasphemous tome

I have another 60 zombies painted and ready so I can raise quite a few more bodies.

Many thanks all, hope this is the right place to post.

 

[countwuzzy]

New rules allow spending 50% of points on lords, which would allow you to get a vampire lord. Equipped to kill a steam tank.. From what it sounds like you don't have a vampire model. With your current selection of models. I can see the steam tank almost impossible to kill.

Now you don't havevto kill the steam tank. Tar piting it works too. Zombies being healed by IoN is one of the best/cheap ways to do that.

Most popular option is using spirit hosts. I'm sure you can squeeze one model in. And even though the new models are well worth the price. You could custom build your spirit host by throwing 2-3 zombies on a 40mm base. And paint them green, or ghostly. Poor mans spirit host.

 

[Adam_Barrow]

Squeeze the 4X points for a single Spirit Host and call it a day. One extra model to sort, and it's dealt with every Stank I've played against.

 

[Aedin]

Got to agree with Adam. Unless your fighting daemons, ethereal is strong at 1k points.

Heck if you use UL bring a casty vamp lord and just summon another 1k points lol.

 

[Seneschal]

Hello and welcome back

I would take a wraith hero instead of a host as you can plop one into a unit for protection against magic missiles until you charge him out to intercept the tank.

 

[Trapdoor Daemon]

Agreed with the above. Once had a banshee tie up a friends steam tank the entire game. Just feed it ethereals and ignore.

 

[Guidebot]

Ok guys thanks for the ideas. Seem's i'll have to bite the bullet and find some ethereal in the list.

Do you think forbidden lore of metal might be worth a shot with a vampire? I have the two in the list and it seems like with it's 1+ save lore of metal might be good to harm it.

 

[Nicreap]

The problem is lore of metal is situational, if it has high armor saves you will do well if not you won't and you don't have anything that will really benefit from the buffs. I say the ethereal is the way to go. The steam tank cannot ever kill it alone, and then it is stuck sitting there wasting points not doing anything. a 40 point model holding up a 250ish point model is what you call a bargain.