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With almost everyone jumping on the vamp bandwagon I decided that I should give the TK a go (since I have my 2000pts of vamps already )

Tomb King; DoE, Dragonhelm, Shield (263)

Liche High Priest Lvl 3; Dispel Scroll (200)

Necrtect (60)

6 Chariots; FC, Banner of Eternal Flame (370)

20 Archers; musc (130)

30 Tomb Guard; FC, Banner of Undying Legion (410)

Warsphinx; Fiery Roar (230)

3 carrion (72)

Casket of Souls (135)

Screaming Skull Catapult; Skulls of Foe (120)

Total = 2000pts

Kind of want halberds on my TG, my only thinking is to take a basic SS, thoughts?

Tomb King; DoE, Dragonhelm, Shield (263)

very, very expensive and not that powerful, I would spend that 80 DoE points elsewhere. (I would also get a prince instead of king though it seems most tomb kings players would disagree with me)

Liche High Priest Lvl 3; Dispel Scroll (200)

only 35 points for level 4, I would go with the level 4. I always field a dispel scroll, so.. cool.

Necrotect (60)

The Tomb Kings community pretty much all gets this so, yeah.

6 Chariots; FC, Banner of Eternal Flame (370)

Yeah, banner is cool. 6 chariots, stronger impact hits, better for combat resolution, good. (I would personally field in two groups of three)

20 Archers; musc (130)

I assume you are using it for a priest bunker? Either way its good.

30 Tomb Guard; FC, Banner of Undying Legion (410)

GET HALBERDS!! AGHHGLLAGHALLL!! Extra strength for 2 points a model! Banner is fine, but augments give you half that recover and they do somethin' else cool so I wouldn't

Warsphinx; Fiery Roar (230)

No envenomed sting? I like it. poison is delicious.

3 carrion (72)

I have never liked carrion, kinda cool. Remember desert wind only moves them 2" lol.

Casket of Souls (135)

Just beautiful. Ah.. This is why we are tomb kings..

Screaming Skull Catapult; Skulls of Foe (120)

I think skulls of the foe is not quite worth it, but hey. Not bad at all.
Total = 2000pts

Kind of want halberds on my TG, my only thinking is to take a basic SS, thoughts?

again.. HALBBEEERRDDSSS,

At first glance, I thought there was no casket of souls... I was excited . I understand the need for it, but that thing alone has made me want to mount my characters on daemonic mounts and join them to units, so they don't suffer the damage from it alone!

Remember, the Banner of the Undying Legions has a bound Augment spell. The Restless Dead means that all Nehekharan Undead that have Augments cast on them regain d3+1 wounds (except Constructs). This means that the Banner will restore d6+d3+3 wounds every time you use it.

Banner of UL is nice! GReat for boosting your ranks in a pinch. Since you're fielding such a relatively small unit (TG) as your anvil I would recommend keeping the banner. Tho I second everyone else in that you should find 60 points for the halberds. Liquidating the carrion unit would do so nicely.

Khatep and I have gone back and forth before about a Tomb King with DoE - and I don't want to start another back and forth about the merits and flaws. I will just say I field Tomb King with DoE and it works swimmingly for me. Either my king gets into combat and eviscerates my opponent (S7 HKB is epic) or my opponent avoids him like the plague and voila I control the battlefield.

I also have to disagree with SKulls of the Foe on the SSC. It feels like here you were just sort of looking for points to spend?

In this list the changes I would make are:

- Carrion for + 72 points

- skulls of the foe for +30 points

- Lvl 4 heiro for - 35 points

- Halberds on TG for - 60 points

- dragonbane gem on Heiro - 5 points.

- bag of chips for the tomb king - 2 points

Remember, the Banner of the Undying Legions has a bound Augment spell. The Restless Dead means that all Nehekharan Undead that have Augments cast on them regain d3+1 wounds (except Constructs). This means that the Banner will restore d6+d3+3 wounds every time you use it.

Why would the bound spell have the restless dead? Its not from the Lore of Nehekara. I'm really confused.

It's a Tomb Kings only magic banner with a bound spell. It's Nehekharan.

Though now you mention that, it is a decent question. Might have been FAQ'd? But it just makes sense, I think.

Only spells from the Lore of Nekahara have the attribute. Is this a spell from the lore of Nekehara? No.

RiTides wrote:At first glance, I thought there was no casket of souls... I was excited . I

yeah did my research with the TK, casket seems like a must no matter what else you field, I know I dont normally field near optimum lists (all elf Wood Elves FTW ) but I like to stand a chance every now and then!

2000 Volts wrote:
In this list the changes I would make are:

- Carrion for + 72 points

- skulls of the foe for +30 points

- Lvl 4 heiro for - 35 points

- Halberds on TG for - 60 points

- dragonbane gem on Heiro - 5 points.

- bag of chips for the tomb king - 2 points

Sold on these changes, a bit disappointed with no carrion as I lack any warmachine hunting units, will squeeze them in when I reach 3k, also does the bag of chips allow my king to get wounds back

I too like the DoE mainly because of the amount of Ogre players in my area, say hello to HKB on 5+ (if I get that spell) and hatred