Heirich Kemmler and his dead buddies

[UndeadSi87]

so it's been awhile since I posted an Army so I thought i would give it a shot.

This is a current one i'm working on, primarily bcasue I have and love the old Heinrich Kemmler model and had to include him in an army of some description.

So I chose La maisontaal abbey, probably one of the most significant battles of Kemmlers later career. I wanted to capture the theme of an invading necromancer in Brettonian lands and it seemed like a good idea to include and nice selection of mounted troops.

My concern is that I do not have a lot of hitting power and I will be relying on the Knights and Wraiths to win the game for me. The idea is Kemmler sits in a zombie bunker at the back and Krell and the BSB charge forward with the skeletons and the zombies tar-pit the big juicy units.

I was considering dropping the mounted wight king in favor of a couple of necromancers in order to give me abit more magic output and invocations.

What do you think?

 

[Robitus]

Personally I would drop a wight king to get a necro or two in the list, the biggest issue i have is crumbling because if you lose kemmler you lose any and all influence in the magic area of the game and there is no one to take control of the army, plus a dispel scroll would help a lot.

as for the hitting power of the list, after the first turn none of those mounted units will be marching which will be a problem because without any proper chaff (i suggest a few wolfies) it will be very hard to hit the flank of a unit, which will be the only way you will be winning combat with them.

if you want to keep to a invading kemmler into bretonian lands i would suggest possibly a unit of blood knights, and say they are bretonnian nobles who have been hiding there vampirism and are helping Kemmler? would also allow you to bring in a vampire hero for extra killy power

and kemmler and krell really should be in the same unit because of the synargy they have.

But loving the theme of the list! I think it will look pretty cool on the table top!

Oh aswell split those zombie units up into 4 groups of 20 and to get the spare points reduce the skelly squad a bit and try to spam invo with kemmler because i think kemmler has master of the dead so those skellies will be beyond there starting size soon enough!