VC vs TK: why did you go for the Vampires?

[Sirihar]

I collect both. VC because its Vampires, TK because its Egyptian, and they so rock!

 

[Maxim Von Carstein]

The fluff! The fact that alot of the fluff is similar to folklore in my part of world! The way the army plays, personally i dont like chariots and warmachines. I prefer infantry to these, also the fact that Vampires are Wicked!

- Maxim

 

[Sethreios]

Well...

I began with TK and thought that VC would come as a natural follow-up.
I will not need new skeletons that's for sure got more than 100 from my TK forces alone so... more skellies, not needed

 

[Danceman]

VC to TK for me. I´ve had my moments of jumping back to VC but in the end they just couldnt offer as much as the TK. There I said it, TK player I am(and dawi!)

I find it very likely I will return to VC once the new book arrives, perhaps sooner.

Cheers

 

[Lythus]

Yey, My first post!

I chose VC because I have this strange attraction to vampires... It has always been there and probably always will.

And I love (almost) all that is evil... Let there be darkness!

 

[Mercury]

Zombies ftw!

Just love those old George A. Romero films and the classic Hammer Horror movies, and Shaun of the Dead of course!! Was there ever a Shaun Von Carstein??

 

[Thanmar Thrask]

Tomb Kings don't have that ''Shambling Horror'' look for me.

They more seem to be a profesional army dressed in skeleton suits.

Thrask's 2 cents

 

[ArchMagosAlchemys]

Khemrians weren't available and I got a DEAL; two 5th ed VC army boxes for US$174 together.

 

[Rockchickjen]

The tomb king models were incredibly boring. Line after line of bog standard skeletons.
A lot of the other army models were quite boring and uninteresting too.

I'm a big fan of zombies and vampires, it was like this army was made for me! lol.

When I told my other half what army I had decided on he just sighed and said 'why am I not surprised?'

The others in our group also said similar things.

I also thought it would bring a new dinmension and game play into the group. There is dwarves, empire, chaos mortal folk and dark elves.

The VC army seems to work a little differently in some respects. So thought it would make for more interesting games.

 

[Elyrioth]

Fluff, solely fluff. Prefer the old world gothic undead to the whole Mummy undead. Would prefer a Liche general to a vampire. But Necrarchs are a good sub!

 

[Agoz]

I think at the time I had just finished reading Dracula, or watching a horror movie,... or something, and I wanted to get into warhammer fantasy, so in a wave of compulsion buying I bought a vampire counts army, and I've been playing undead armies ever since. On a side note the tomb kings book wasn't out yet.

 

[Belial]

Well... To me, a Vampire is a lot more full of character, than a mummy. Plus, the Khemri armies have just too many skeletons... So has VC of course, but the VC has much variation at least. TK chavalry look so much like their rank and file troopers, and while that is fine for other armies, it is just too dull IMO. Black Knights are much different from ordinary skeletons, so no chance of getting bored there. Plus, the fluff is much greater. And I like the playstyle better(especially something as simple as being able to raise new troops). Plus, though there is now that I am picking up VC again, there was no Tomb Kings book or army when I chose them first, excpet some old models(perhaps from when there was just "Undead"?).

 

[Didymus13]

Three things, really:

1. Klaatu
2. Verata
3. N.... I always forget the third one... Definately an "N" word.

Sir Didymus
PS: Hi All, Finally out of lurker mode.

 

[Master Vampire]

Three things, really:

1. Klaatu
2. Verata
3. N.... I always forget the third one... Definately an "N" word.

Sir Didymus
PS: Hi All, Finally out of lurker mode.

Nosferatu? Invocation of Nehek? Necromancy? Nhouls? Neletons? Nombies?

Btw, welcome

 

[SethDrallitoc]

I too began in the days of UNDEAD.

When it became vampire counts and I was becoming more mature in my painting and model making style I went mad and built my shambling hord.

and then when the tomb kings returned I went mad again and bulit an army of those too....

I am not a player though so the difference in rules is never a problem.

 

[MustEatBrains]

Im also one of those who started with a unified Undead army "back in the days". When VCs were first released, I simply went with them because they were there, Khemri was not.

I actually didn´t quite like the first VC book, so I switched to Khemri once the mock-up list appeared in WD. When the second VC book came out, I switched back, first trying out the Blood Dragons, and then - finally - settling for the Necrarch. Evil, maniacal and undying sorcerers raising huge Hordes of the Dead trying to destroy all live, all the while trying to increase their own arcane power... fun! :mrgreen:

I still have my old TK army, but couldn´t really get myself to play them again in quite a while... besides, the VC background has been much better explored by GW in novels and such - Tomb Kings could be more interesting (there´s more than enough interesting stuff in egyptian mythology about the Dead and Life after Death), but I doubt that GW will ever go there. A pitty, but it leaves me more time for my Vampires.

Oh, and then there´s the Zombies of course! Lots and lots and lots of Zombies!

 

[Danceman]

Three things, really:

1. Klaatu
2. Verata
3. N.... I always forget the third one... Definately an "N" word.

Sir Didymus
PS: Hi All, Finally out of lurker mode.

Nosferatu? Invocation of Nehek? Necromancy? Nhouls? Neletons? Nombies?

Btw, welcome

Noodle!

I´ve played TK on and off but the thing that puts me away from them was as others said... bones, bones, bones and more bones.
Really fun to play though, infact its the best book GW has made so far IMO.

VC is both, fun to play and fun to model.
The return of the bone cart is gonna be fun too, probably my next project after the strigoi lord. I guess once you´re bitten there´s no turning back

Cheers

 

[Didymus13]

Thanks all

Yeah, I don't think I'd psychologically be able to do only bones. I need other, completely different models to keep my interest up and VCs fill that grave nicely...

'course I have to keep my purchases boxed in the crypt until the new book comes out (just turned to WHFB), afraid of purchasing soon-to-be-obsoleted units and all. I have high hopes for the army's fun-factor tho... And of course counting all the enemy casualties (1 dead man-at-arms, 2 dead men-at-arms, 3... 3 dead pikemen, ah! ah! ah!) should give me a psychological advantage

 

[N.I.B]

Why did you not collect the other Undead?

There were no TK 5 years ago. And even if there had been, vampires are far sexier than dried up mummies.

 

[vulcan raven]

i chose vampire counts over tomb kings

a) because they're vampires (too cool)

b) the vampire army in the fluff is raised by the vampire for the vampire, i just like the idea that if one vampire gets -=pissed off/wants to/gets up on the wrong side of the coffin=- it then could summon its own army.

a friend of mine is collecting brettonians, do i want to throw together a group of vamps and launch a mock crusade. hell yes

 

[TheAdmiral]

I chose both. Easy.

My Lustria themed Undead army can be fielded as both TK and VC. That, folks, is the bliss of fully converted armies.

 

[W0lf]

They dont have vampires?

No seriously...

without the vampires wheres the appeal?

 

[Lord_Voltex]

I thought the name was cooler

 

[Sid]

1.)zombies (*come on flesh eating dead things)
2.) vampires (*blood drinking dead things)
3.) the TK didnt apeal to me (i just finished a project on ancient eygpt when i started)

 

[Sphynx]

Heh, Wolves and Bats. What a crazy reason to pick an army eh? Seriously though, the wolves and bats were what got me started on Vampire Counts, that and waiting for the Wood Elf book to finally come out.