An admin of the forum here. (woosh, this will be one of my few posts on the forum this week o_o)
Loekhi said:
Hi all folks!!!
I´m Loekhi, from Spain (I know my nickname isn´t spanish at all, don´t worry, I´m used to)
I collect vampires since 2003 (more or less) first I took dwarves for years, but I hated seeing my troops dying in the battlefield because of my bad tactics and lack of morale (I haven´t passed a Ld 10 test for ages), so I chose the Dark Side.
I want to be the dagger between the ribs of a certain well-favoured human nation which believes that has been chosen by gods only because they have whirlwinds and tanks... I want to be the avenger of my brothers in arms, fallen because everytime they tried to rebel against "the good ones" dictatorship, there was a stupid imperial, bretonnian or elvish prat on their path...
I have the eternity to reach my obejctives, so...
Hi Loehki, welcome to the forum! I have to admit Loehki is pretty funny name. I have to say that morale doesn't exist in the
VC army.
From Spain eh? Come habla espagnol?!? (Did that make any sense? :O) I admit, too, that you're the first Spanish member I've seen on both Carpe Noctems (there is one before). :grin:
umoarsman said:
I guess it's my turn...
I'm completely new to the Warhammer universe, and am coming over from playing Flames of War (a WWII miniature wargame). Several friends of mine and I have banded together to form our own small WFB group here in Minnesota. I picked up the VC rulebook and have started painting my first regiment of skeletons (after all, what's a VC army without the mindless horde..).
Any thoughts or tips for a beginner would be appreciated!
Welcome umoarsman... I guess
VC are a good army to begin with. Important to realise is that this army is predominantly playing around Fear. Zombies are not there for killing, but rather for swarming and then auto-breaking the opponent. We tend to call this 'static combat resolution', or short static CR (standard + outnumber + 3 ranks of zombies behind the first). CR is explained in the Rulebook (if you haven't read it yet).
I often hear people say that Zombies are utter useless because they can't kill a thing. That's why I told you about the static CR.
Magic is also important. The spell 'Invocation of Nehek' is proclaimed holy in all regards of Necromancy spells.
It's the first spell on the list so any Wizard (ahem, Necromancy practicer
) can take the spell. It's of great tactical usage, which will be shown when you read the spell's describtion.
I guess those are the main pointers. I always tend to take a standard bearer on each rank and file unit for the static CR. There are some useful Magic Items, such as Black Periapt, Book of Arkhan, Rod of Flaming Death (not always that useful), and some others.
Ghouls are pretty useful for screening or as some sort of 'hardish' flanker... especially against Ogre sized units (with more than 1 Wound). Dire Wolves are perfect for screening and/or flank charges (they're ranked so if they flank with Unit Strength 5 or greater they cancel enemy rank CR).
That'll be it. If you have more questions or want pointers, be sure to ask them in Tactics. It can be useful to read some Battle Reports too, the BR section is crawling with them and they are very good (we good some pretty fanatic BR posters
)
ArchMagosAlchemys said:
Salutations.
The Handle is from DakkaDakka. VC is my 'first' army from 5th ed days. I live on Asrai.org mostly at the moment, but fondly await the new VC book and will re-tool my army accordingly.
Welcome! I remember your name on Asrai and Lost Glade (?). To be honest, your username quite fits the magic role
VC seems to portray at the moment.
What do you think the new
VC will bring?
