Idea for a 2500 points army

[William von Carstein]

Hey guys, Ive started to collect quite some VC models and I made a 2500 army list that I like to build (no I do not own all units just yet). However I would like to know what you guys think! Perhaps you have some tips and tricks. Now without further ado here is my list

2500 points VC List

Lords

Vampire Lord (LoV, Redfury, Quickblood, Beguile, Ogre Blade, Talisman of Preservation, The other trickster's shard, heavy armor and shield) ((General))

Master Necromancer (lvl 4 wizard, LoV)

Heroes

Necromancer (lvl 2 wizard, LoV, Dispel Scroll)

Wight King (Warrior Bane, Nightshroud, Enchanted Shield)

Core

40x Crypt Ghouls
5x Dire Wolf
5x Dire Wolf
7x Dire Wolf (doom wolf)
33x Zombie

Special

38x Grave Guard (Great weapons, Full command, Banner of the Barrows)
7x Hexwraith

Rare

1x Terror Gheist

Total amount of points is 2500 Perfection!

Now I have no idea if its a good list or not but it seemed a pretty cool one ^^. I like the brutal killing power of the VL so I would like to keep that at least. Now the reason I took a Master necro instead of just giving the VL lvl 4 is that its a melee beast and if its my only +4 lvl wizard Im slightly hesitant to rush it into combat. So ofc I would shelter the Master necro and the wight king in the GG unit. The normal necro goes into the skelly unit and tries to pump it up with MotD. Direwolfs are there to disrupt and distract enemies. The Crypt Ghouls is the bigass hammer ... the idea here is that I keep them at full strength with IoN. Hexwraiths are there for bring the rapetrain to anything nonmagical or then siegeweapons (still not sure to run it 1x 10 or 2x 5). Finally the terrorgheist is there to fly around either distracting the enemy's heavy fire or flanking/ screaming the enemy to smithereens.

Anyway there you have it. Dont be gentle with me! I like good criticism!

 

[wintermonger]

Looks good.

One point though. Necro can't have the book and the scroll as they're both arcane items.

 

[William von Carstein]

Looks good.

One point though. Necro can't have the book and the scroll as they're both arcane items.

Cheers! I completely overlooked that! Ive edited the changes! total points is now exactly 2500!

 

[John Rainbow]

I just wrote a bunch of stuff and then erased it after I saw you had made those changes. It would be more helpful if you would edit your original list instead of using a footnote.

 

[wintermonger]

Good effort but I'm pretty sure you have to be a wizard to take an arcane item so WK can't carry it.

 

[William von Carstein]

Edited (not only as a footnote) and just scrapped Book alltogether,.. I had seen the book in other builds on the wightking however after some research (google is your friend and leading back to this site to another forum ) you were right and you cant use it on the king ...

Well full list should be up to date now ...

Still the only other response I got was ... looks good... nothing else that springs to mind? ...

 

[wintermonger]

I personally wouldn't bother with beguile with that VL build. He wants to be churning rank and file for CR and letting the WK or unit champ answer challenges. Plus if you can part with ten more points somewhere you can buy back the book of arkhan (it's really good).
I'm also not a fan of master of the dead. May as well use zombies instead. They can be raised above starting size anyway and also get the extra D6 from IoN.
I'd maybe drop the BSB on the WK as well since you can't have 2 magic banners in the same unit. Give barrows to the unit and give him some gear. I like fencers blades and OTS (if you take it off the vamp that'll free up the Lord points for the book) then he really is ready for challenges (hitting almost everyone on 2s with 4 killing blow attacks that mess with ward saves).
Just a few ideas. Hope they help.

 

[bigbadbat]

Banner of the Barrows should go into the GG. That way it's safe until they are all dead. If the WK gets plunked it's bye bye +1 to hit, and you don't want that.
For me, the Hexwraiths don't cut it unless you've got a mobile general. That's just taste, though.
If anything drop the number of HW to 7 and beef up those GG.
If points allow, drop beguile from vamp and give him dispel scroll. Think you could drop the lvl 2 and spend those points better.
I'd also drop the skelly and use those points for zombie bunker for MN.

 

[William von Carstein]

Now there are some good pointers! Ive edited again lol (last time for now!) Im going to try this list first and then maybe change more things around according to your advices. Thanks a lot Bigbad and Winter

 

[bigbadbat]

NOW that's looking tough!