Vampire Counts Rumours

[Danceman]

Fun??? I personally would say confusing as hell!

Certainly will be nice to have some choices instead of the two we have now.
Also ironic that the rare choices are one of lesser units in our army(bar bat swarms of course). So having a few rare choices like everyone else certainly isnt uncalled for.

I sincerly doubt the Vargulf will replace the fell bats, it would make no sense whatsoever replacing a lone monster with a flying unit.

 

[Mortis]

I doubt Varghulfs will replace anything. Rather they'll add what VC has been needing; a lone monster.

I'm personally excited about more rare choices. I've always thought it to be dull that VC only have two in the current army book.

~Mortis

 

[FatOlaf]

@ Richie: Exactly, no longer will it be, does the enemy have S7?
Yes
Ok 2 banshees then!.....

 

[Mercury]

Mind you that the Black Coach is no more. It has been replaced by the Bone Cart.

Is this confirmed?!? It doesn't seem like so long ago that I was reading about the multiple power-ups available to the Coach in 7th ed, providing you expend power dice. Bit of shame IMO if they are doing away with the Coach altogether - I love the model, just think it needs a rules tweak to make it more viable in-game.

 

[Miklos Vak Vados]

So, will there still be a Vampire Lord worth 2 hero Slots? I always thought this was stupid. Other lists have the mega heros and they only count for one hero choice. I would love to take a Lord myself but I need the extra hero to be effective.

 

[Master Vampire]

Mind you that the Black Coach is no more. It has been replaced by the Bone Cart.

Is this confirmed?!? It doesn't seem like so long ago that I was reading about the multiple power-ups available to the Coach in 7th ed, providing you expend power dice. Bit of shame IMO if they are doing away with the Coach altogether - I love the model, just think it needs a rules tweak to make it more viable in-game.

Personally I think you're messing up things. I thought the Bone Cart was the one getting power dice for extra abilities. It also doesn't make much sense to me that we would get 2 Chariots who are both pretty fluffy (no bog standard Chariot).

Then again, one can be a Rare choice and the other a mount for characters....

 

[Mercury]

I may be getting confused, but this is the first I have heard of the Black Coach being nerfed.

Also, this is stated elsewhere in this thread, and in the rumour round-up:

The Black Coach is going to make a lot of people happy (or scared). For a start, 4+ ward save- no word on immunity to S7 attacks though. However, it can go a little bit mental in the magic phase! Any wizard within 6" can donate a power dice, which you roll and for every 6 you get, it permanently gains a new ability, including...
1) Scythes
2) Hatred
3) ? [My money's on immunity to S7 destruction]
4) Ethereal
5) Fly

Prob suggests the Black Coach will be staying unless anyone can confirm otherwise??

Besides, if the Bone Cart model is pulled by Zombies (as the rumours of the model suggest), then surely it will not be a chariot per se, as Zombies have movement value of 4?

 

[Redna Xela]

Maybe those zombies were pro-athletes before they died and were rezzed

 

[Skaramak von Carstein]

I would certainly be sad to see the Black Coach go, and also feel an addition to the rare would be nice, without needing to resort to DoW

 

[Redna Xela]

Wait, I know! Zombies with perma Vanhel's!

 

[Maxim Von Carstein]

I think the new rumoured Black Coach Special Rules make it Broken even though they are highly fluffy..

 

[Master Vampire]

Maybe those zombies were pro-athletes before they died and were rezzed

lol. That would be odd. Braindead but marching 18" eh? :mrgreen:

 

[Maxim Von Carstein]

haha, pro-athlete zombies indead ooops indeed lol i hope that they keep spells such as Van Hel's for Necromancers...depending on what they do to our magics it sounds like vampires will be doing alot less raising and buffing of undead..

 

[Richie]

@ Richie: Exactly, no longer will it be, does the enemy have S7?
Yes
Ok 2 banshees then!.....

Yeah using Banshees against Lizardmen is a bit of a no brainer altough having said that I encountered a guy recently who hates using Kroxigors (for some reason he failed to notice that Kroxigors come with great weapons so he had been using them as though they just had standard hand weapons!)

 

[Maxim Von Carstein]

haha....musta felt retarded when he found out XD

 

[N.I.B]

Nothing has been said about Coach being dropped, on the contrary we have confirmed rumours on it getting a slight boost.

 

[Mercury]

Thanks for that, NIB. I thought that was the case.

Was speaking to someone within in the company about the new VCs, but haven't really been told anything above and beyond what's been written here before, unfortunately. He's a reliable source, but was being pretty cagey, suggesting that he really couldn't tell me much or new very little. Basically he just confirmed that there will be 5 plastic boxed sets for VC: Skellies (new), Ghouls (new), Dire Wolves (new), Grave Guard (new) and Zombies (as present). There was also talk of the Knigts of the Blood Keep, Varghulf and 'Corpse Cart' - nothing much in terms of gameplay, just confirming their existence really. No mention of Wraiths in units though, even when pressed.

 

[Grish]

I don't know if this has been posted already, but here's some of the models we've already seen painted...

http://www.westpointhobby.com/

Click on the vampire counts link.

 

[Master Vampire]

I don't know if this has been posted already, but here's some of the models we've already seen painted...

http://www.westpointhobby.com/

Click on the vampire counts link.

The pictures have been posted, but these are more clear. The paint jobs are reasonable I guess.

Makes me realise that the left and right GG are the same, just positioned differently.

 

[Skaramak von Carstein]

Not sure that I am too keen on the manfred mini, but the others look great.

 

[Master Vampire]

I thought the art about John Blanche's half bat like vampire is on here (look at the Rumour Round-Up topic for reference), but I just found a link that art with the actual model in front of it: concept conversion

Mind you, it's labeled as a 'concept conversion'.

 

[scudlu]

the GG models use the same head and shield but aren't the same model you can see the one on the left (their right) has spikey shoulders and the one on the right doesn't

 

[Belladamma Voltaire]

Have at thee; a link to something of interest - the new vargufl, mannfred and the new grave guard in a single sneak preview;

http://www.westpointhobby.com/

Its in PDF form so you'll need the appropriate reader.

 

[Skaramak von Carstein]

Getting excited here!! :grin:

 

[Belladamma Voltaire]

That amnnfred miniature is going to be converted into my new Chaos general, it has been decided. I only need to replace that sword and I have a superb general.