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Taking a trip to the GW store to play a game duration about two hours. I have some wiggle room on the models, but these will be guaranteed to be fully painted. Major wiggle room is with characters-got those for days...

Heroes:

Captain - full plate, pistol, BSB, Steel Standard, barded steed 147

Warrior Priest - heavy armor, Great Weapon 72

Battle Wizard 65

Core:

19 Empire Knights - full command, great weapons, not Inner Circle 448

39 Militia - full command 263

20 Handgunners 180

Special:

6 Pistoliers - musician, Outrider w/ repeater pistol 138

14 Greatswords - full command 181


Haven't played in a while. Any thoughts?

It looks solid so my criticisms are purely personal choice

Knights should be run as inner circle, with shields and the steel standard, 1+ save is brilliant imo!

The bsb is an interesting build, making your warriors priest the general? I'd stick the WP in the knights aswell! I'm a fan of the knight bus because with buffs that is a freight train

You didn't mention the lore for your wizard, beasts is good and so is life

I'd squeeze the handgunners and greatswords for a steam tank, the impact hits alone will wreck face

Good luck!

The greatswords will die before they do anything fighting against ogres, same with the handgunners. A steam tank will work wonders for you.

As for lore, you can go life and hope for regrow or stone skin.
You can go death to try to murder their monster CC characters
,You can go beasts for a good sig spell looking at S6 T4 knights on the charge. Lastly I think shadow can do some good as well with just useful powers all around.

Good luck and have fun!

Halberds for the str 4 are way better then militia. Also against ogres I wouldn't rely on knights. Honestly unless he doesn't use ironguts at all I wouldn't use the knights. Ironguts just murder knights. Pistoleers are great since ogres will never catch them. The greatswords wwon't even make it past one round of combat. Drop them or double them in size, double at least.

Awesome! Didn't expect much response, but here it is!

I revised the list when I looked at what models I actually have... I went to 17 knights and 19 greatswords.

A lot of the list is based on what I have painted. I started the army as a painting project and lo and behold became playable. Most of the models are in my gallery. I can't do shields because they have great weapons already, so I'll see how it actually works out. I've been doing some magentizing tonight. Mostly for the standard bearers to begin with.

I'll let you know how it goes. Thanks for he input.

The militia can do OK against basic ogres because they have 2A base, with wildform these are S4 T4 5 point models which can do a lot of wounds. But for this to be effective you need to kill his/her CC beast (normally a slaughter master or a butcher).

So, the game was played. I lost.. Should have listened to some of the advice. The next step in the Escalation, it will be 1750, so next hobby project is CANNONS.

See battle report here: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/604471.page