Okay, so everyone knows about huge deathstar hordes loaded with characters. But have you ever taken this to an extreme level? Aren't VC uniquely positioned as the ideal army to pull this off, as the only undead army with stellar combat troops, who can raise them back easily? Any other army is risking losing their entire army to an unlucky panic check - not VC. Plus having a huge powerful unit mitigates our two weaknesses - we won't be crumbling from losing combat because our might will be focused into this one unit, and we will have the surplus bodies required to make sure there's always some left to raise back. Flanked by two dragons and a Phoenix? Just keep raising and grind them down.
To clarify, I'm talking about something like 70 Grave Guard with the Banner and a Blender Lord, Blender Vamp and Wight King in a 2500 points list. Or a Black Knight Bus... with 40 Knights plus all the characters. Fill the rest of the list with necromancers, wolves, and zombies to get in the way of enemy chaff. More extreme than extreme. Something which you can literally throw an army at, and the army will bounce off. I've found that however many Black Knights I have, it's not enough. 10, 12, 15, they can get ground down and the Lord crumbles. That won't happen with 40 of them. It would be inefficient, but would it also be nigh-unstoppable? What is going to overcome a charge from a black knight blender bus, when the bus has 8 ranks?
I haven't played with VC for a while now so perhaps I'm just going crazy, but it had never occurred to me before to just keep adding to one unit. Why take more than 40 Grave Guard, when you can get another unit instead? The diffence is, 40 Grave Guard + another unit + something else can be picked off, ground down, isolated, delayed, etc etc. 70+, however, just aren't going anywhere. Unless you're up against a gunline, and even then we're probably the army most capable of dealing with that, since we can easily raise the unit back.
To clarify, I'm talking about something like 70 Grave Guard with the Banner and a Blender Lord, Blender Vamp and Wight King in a 2500 points list. Or a Black Knight Bus... with 40 Knights plus all the characters. Fill the rest of the list with necromancers, wolves, and zombies to get in the way of enemy chaff. More extreme than extreme. Something which you can literally throw an army at, and the army will bounce off. I've found that however many Black Knights I have, it's not enough. 10, 12, 15, they can get ground down and the Lord crumbles. That won't happen with 40 of them. It would be inefficient, but would it also be nigh-unstoppable? What is going to overcome a charge from a black knight blender bus, when the bus has 8 ranks?
I haven't played with VC for a while now so perhaps I'm just going crazy, but it had never occurred to me before to just keep adding to one unit. Why take more than 40 Grave Guard, when you can get another unit instead? The diffence is, 40 Grave Guard + another unit + something else can be picked off, ground down, isolated, delayed, etc etc. 70+, however, just aren't going anywhere. Unless you're up against a gunline, and even then we're probably the army most capable of dealing with that, since we can easily raise the unit back.
