New player 500 points

[Anton Nickel [SWE]]

So me and some friends are all starting new armies and begin at 500 points.
Realy like the idea of a zombie horde as we progress.

Hero:
Necromancer, lvl 2, lore of Vampires.
100 points
Core:
24 zombies, standard. 77
20 zombies, standard. 65
Special:
Corpsecart 90
5 Hexenwraith, champ. 160
Total 492 points.
So i can put in 2 more zombies in one of the units but is the list any good? Could it work?

 

[The Sun King]

Hi man and welcome to the forum!

The real problem with this list is that you lack killing power. If this is the models you've got - just play around with it and read on the forums how to expand the army. If you got other models please post them so that we can help you optimize. One thing I would recommend was getting a super cheap level 1 vamp instead of running a necro. Give him heavy armor and ES and that's it... he'll be able to take most things head on in a 500 pts game. The HW are a nice unit but they are more of a supporting unit so I wouldn't recommend them at this points level(although they could work). The corpsecart is slow and hard to kill... but I never recommend them since they are exactly that: slow. I think a good 500 pts would be something like: a block of ghouls, the aforementioned vampire and a varghulg. That way you keep it cheap and hardhitting.

 

[Swaiper]

Vargulf is too many points for a rare on 500 though, but then again so are 5 Hex Wraiths...

On 500 pts id go that Vampire Sun King talked about and then ghouls... maybe sneak in a unit or two of DWs against war machines
I would want to sneak in 3 Crypt Horrors though :> love those guys...

Vampire, Heavy Armour, Enchanted Shield

19 Ghouls

3 Crypt Horrors

2 x 5 Dire Wolves

 

[Anton Nickel [SWE]]

Okey, thanks for replies!
We are about to place our order this weekend so i'm still free for changes in the list.
The thing is i realy dont like gouls, not the ones from GW anyway...
Tried a list with more power...
Hero:
Vampire, barded nightmare, HA, lore of Vampires.
Core
20 zombies, Standard
20 zombies
Special
5 black knights, barding, lances, standard
3 crypt horrors

The crypt horrors are basicly couse i dont know what to take otherwise and at 500 points people dont like T 5 MI

 

[Swaiper]

You are up on 254 pts on Special now, lose the banner and ur fine. Apart from that youve got a very nasty looking list for 500 pts. The mini bus is actually pretty damn cute