New VC army

[lancere6]

Hi,

I have just started a vampire count army. I currently have

1 x Vamp lord

Im mainly interested with the VC is converting models and hopefully getting some new ideas on some converstions...also the zombies are awesome.

Im looking for some suggestions on what i should include in a vamp army (1000pts for now).

Here is the vamp lord i completed. Made the coffin out of Icey pole sticks. PLease give me some feedback and suggestions.

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Also should mention i also collect a lizardmen army.

thanks

 

[Onikaigo]

Very nice Vampire there. You made it look almost like he and his little friend are coming out of that coffin in a very, very big hurry. And leaving a few splinters for the unwary that might've been too close to it.

If this is an indication of your level of quality, I'm excited.

As to what you want to include...That all depends on preference.

Do you like Skeletons, Ghouls, or Zombies? Each has specific roles and plays their part in a VC army. Ghouls are somewhat more offensive, with a higher toughness and two poisoned attacks and accrue far more kills for Combat resolution than skeletons. Then again, skeletons have Armor, and can get a far better Combat Resolution than ghouls ever will.

And then there's zombies. The ultimate expendable unit. They will almost never kill anything, but it's amazingly funny when they do.

So, depending on if you want an aggressive army, or simply like the look of Bone, or hordes of rotting flesh....it's all what YOU want.

Some specials/Non-counts as core units that everyone seems to like, though, are Dire Wolves, Fell Bats, and Corpse Carts, and there are all kinds of Tactica around the forum for each one of those units.


But, then again, the Core units have to come first.

 

[The Dark Sheep]

The vampire looks awesome. The skin on the wing is especially nice looking. Looking forward to seeing more.

(Hmm... Seems I used the word "look" three times in as many sentences :tongue: )

 

[lancere6]

Thanks mate

wing was pretty easy to do.
-Mixed bronze flesh with some cheap white paint
-2 coats of that (as I undercoated in dulux matte black paint)
-covered it in that new watered down brown ink Stuff
-then highligted the tips of the wing with the left over mix.

It was total luck it came out like it did. I have some pics of the coffin if anyone is interested. I do things on the cheap.

Regarding my army
-seems like ghouls are my best option to rack up some kills. Only thing is I didn't want to have anything alive in the army.

Is there any other count units that can inflict alot of damage??

- Mick

 

[Disciple of Nagash]

Welcome to CN!

Great painting so I look forward to seeing your log

Ghouls are not classed as "alive" in the rules, however of course we all know they are fluff wise. The heavy hitters tend to be Grave Guard (especially with GW), Black Knights to certain degree, Wraiths and Vargulfs are quite good hitters, but nothing hits harder than Blood Knights. In fact I think they are the hardest hitting Knight unit in Warhammer.
If you mean core, sadly no, the hardest hitting core are Ghouls.

However if you look in the To War! section, there are plenty of threads to help you out (I suggest using the search function).

Any questions feel free to ask.