New guy: first 1000pts

[angelofdeath]

Hi everyone,
I'm new to this forum and this is my first post so try to bear with me if I make any mistakes

I've been playing for about 5 years but I'm fairly new to VC and was considering starting the list at about 1000pts
so here it is:

vampire (general) - dark acolyte, summon ghouls, helm of commandement

vampire - walking death, infinite hatred, sword of might, flayed hauberk

necromancer - IoN, book of arkhan

10 ghouls (bunker unit with general)

15 ghouls (fighty vampire in here)

20 zombies

5 dire wolves

corpse cart

3 cairn wraiths

So the plan, well the caster vampire is gonna try to boost up the ghouls with the help of the necromancer.
Cairn wraiths are in there for some hitty power and the zombies and dire wolves to hold stuff up and be generallyy annoying.
Finally the bigger mob of ghouls are gonna be beefed up by the helm of commandment and the miasma from the corpse cart

Any comments or criticisms are very much welcome
thanks guys

 

[Berkinator]

I would trade the unit of zombies for more wolves, and beef up the ghoul unit. You can just raise some zombies, and they are much easier to raise after making a unit thanks to their special rule. (raise D6+4/IoN)
I'm guessing that the necromancer is on the Corpse Cart? Then he can join the ghoul unit and replace 10 models and you can get even more wolves or anything else you want with the leftover points from the zombies.
It's pretty good overall.

 

[angelofdeath]

Thanks for the advice Berkinator

yeah i think i'll trade in the zombies for another 5 dire wolves and add 5 ghouls to the bigger unit of ghouls to beef them up a little.
as for the necromancer i'm kinda split between putting him in the corpse cart with the big unit or not putting him in the corpse cart and let him bunker with the casty vampire in his unit of ghouls o.o what do you guys think?

thnks in advance for any commments and criticisms

 

[TMS]

I've personally never liked putting my Necromancer on top of a Cart and then stuffing him into a unit, it makes him much too easy to destroy in my opinion. I much prefer having him roam around on foot, free to join and leave units without any inherent consequences.

 

[artisturn]

I would consider adding a Banshee to your Wraiths, it will give you something to do in the shooting phase other than being shot at and in such a small game the Banshee scream can be brutal.

I played in a 2000 point 3 player game last night and my unit of 2 wraiths and one banshee took down a Stegadon just by screaming took a couple of tries but she brought it down.

 

[angelofdeath]

Thanks guys

Masterspark: yeah i think i'm gonna keep him off the corpse cart to let him roam around, good advice methinks :tongue:

artisturn: yeah the banshee scream sounds seriously nasty but i can't see where i could get the points from without kinda compromising any part of the list at the moment any thoughts?

cheers