ZOMBIE PIRATES!!! 2000pts

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There be pirates! Arrrr!

I've always had a soft spot for zombie pirates since the origional list was released in 2005. Using the current vampire army book I've tried to come up with a useable army that can make use of some "zombie pirate" models.

CHARACTERS

Luthor Harkon (General)
- Level 1
- Sword of Might
- Enchanted Shield/Heavy Armour
- Talisman of Preservation
- Red Fury
- Quick Blood

Aranessa Saltspite (BSB)
- Floating Skiff (Coven Throne)
- Level 1
- Sword of Battle
- Heavy Armour/Charmed Shield
- Red Fury

CORE

50 Zombie Pirate Deckhands
- Musician/Standad

50 Zombie Pirate Deckhands
- Musician/Standad

30 Zombie Pirate Deckhands
- Musician/Standard

5 Scurvy Dogs (dire wolves)

5 Scurvy Dogs (dire Wolves)

SPECIAL

8 Animated Hulks (Crypt Horrors)

2 Deck Droppers (Fell Bats)

2 Deck Droppers (Fell Bats)

Spirit Host

Spirit Host

RARE

Rotting Leviathan(Terrorgheist)

TOTAL POINTS = 1998pts

A quick breakdown of the models I'll be using

Luther Harkon - Pirate of Sartosa Captain
Aranessa Saltspite - Current Female Vampire model with converted flying boat (coven throne)
Deckhands - Zombie/militia conversions etc
Scurvy Dogs - Old chaos hound models
Animated Hulks - Ogre pirates
Deck Droppers - Fellbats carrying zombie pirates
Spirit Hosts - Banshees, spellsingers, female based syreen models etc etc
Leviathan - Forgeworld Merwyrn

As far as the list goes, my core is limited to zombies/dogs unfortunately I'm hoping my crypt horrors can act as a decent anvil for the coven thorne and terroghiest.

The general will hang out in one of the zombie units.

Any opinions on the list? Or ways to improve it?

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[Zully]

I love what you have done with your army theme here, I am currently running a "re-animated corpse" theme on mine, my Crypt Horrors are flesh golems

in my lists anything ethereal is either pirate/headless horsemen themed while everything else is either a re-amimated corpse or a Vampire of some description (my fluff is that my vampires are actually members of a noble family who have discovered a non-magical way of raising the dead)

my mortis engine is an old skiff sailing on a sea of spirits (ive actually made the model using the old Revell pirateship and ALOT of greenstuff)

re: your list, personally I would drop your BSB and run it as a ME instead, if you insist on keeping as a char (not a problem if you are) drop the sword of battle for sword of swift slaying/sword of striking (hitting on 3's with an extra attack imo is not as good as hitting on 2's/rerolls) and from my limited experience/feedback from this forum, BSB isn't worth the points in a VC army.

if you drop the BSB for a ME, the points you save you can get a couple of level 2 necros (I would convert a model to "ships cook" / "cabin boy" ) death snipes and an extra nehek/curse of years/danse is awesome, both a level 2 necro casting nehek and the ME will offer excellent synergy to your ghouls

rest seems solid to me

 

[Time of Madness]

Thanks for the comments.

My local tournies plays with a modified blood and glory scenario eevrygame. There is a primary scenario and the secondary scenario is always based on blood and glory. So the extra standard the bsb gives me provides the army with additional fortitude.

That being said I would be open to switching out the thorne to a mortis engine. Would you run the list with just the one vampire?

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[Zully]

That being said I would be open to switching out the thorne to a mortis engine. Would you run the list with just the one vampire?

I largely play smaller games <2000 I always feel exposed if I don't have a high level caster on my side for dispels/1-2 dice neheks

if you would prefer a vamp BSB instead of a necro, go for it, I would still drop the sword of battle and try and grab the sword of swift slaying for a proper baby vamp red fury/quickblood combo

its a toughie

you could drop the sword of battle for a sword of striking for a poor mans red fury combo leaving you 5 points off upgrading the mortis with a tome which would give you 2 lvl 3 casters for 20 points, but not without risk

I would run what you want, ultimately im just giving you some suggestions to round the force out

 

[Arcade]

I understand the Forgeworld Merwyrn is chariot base size, so may look a little lost on the terrorgheist base.

 

[NoisyAssassin]

You might want to consider waiting for the Arcworlde Undead Leviathan to come out to use as a Terrorgheist:

 

[Time of Madness]

Thanks for the comments. The plan was to run the merwrym, he actually looks great on the larger base.

After seeing the Leviathan in the above post I may have to change my mind. Looks great!
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