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My buddy (who plays tomb kings) and I are going to enter a tournament next month together and play Undead Legions!

Here's the list that I came up with. You can tell I'm excited about getting a shooting phase!

Vampire Lord: 524
Heavy Armour + Shield + Hellsteed + lvl 3 Lore of Undeath
Red Fury + Quick Blood + Beguile
Ogre Blade + Talisman of Preservation + The Other Trickster's Shard

Liche High Priest: 235
lvl 4 Lore of Nehekhara + Dispel Scroll

Tomb Prince: 104
Great Weapon

Tomb Prince: 104
Great Weapon

2x 5 dire wolves: 80

2x 38 Skeleton Archers: 456

10 Skeleton Horsemen: 120

3 Necropolis Knights: 195

3 Vargheists: 138

Casket of Souls: 135

2x Screaming Skull Catapult: 180

Terrorgheist: 225

The list is a 'come and get me' type list where I intend to pound the other army with shooting. In the magic phase I hope to draw out dispel dice by summoning units in annoying places and then casting a multiple shots bubble (affecting both catapults and both archer units). If I can get that bubble off I should be able to do a devastating amount of damage (up to 152 bow shots at bs3 + 4 stone thrower shots). Otherwise I should still have enough shooting for my to soften up enemy hammer/death star units for my own hammer units (vampire, vargheists and necropolis knights) to gang up on. I fully intend to keep the vampire and his cavalry unit back and charge the vampire out on his own. The skeletons are just LOS wounds.

What do you think? Should I drop the terrorgheist to beef up my hammer units?

Your hammers are all a little anemic. Necroknights and vargheists should be bumped up to 4. I'm not convinced that the two princes add much to your list either.

10 horsemen is also a really small bunker, especially without light armour. I've found that people can chew through it in a turn no problem and put cannonballs right through my vampire.


I'd consider dropping the two skullapults to make up room for some more hitty elements. 4-5 knights, 4 or 6 vargheists, level 4 on the VL. If you have access to one a hierotitan would be cool.

I'd also say beef one of those units of archers up to 50 models, and drop the other one for a unit of chariots to run with your hammers. Without ways to decrease a target's T I really haven't been impressed with big units of archers.

a few things. Smiting doesn't affect the skullapults. sadly.

The summoning range on undeath is pretty bad, but you can keep creating chaff as needed. Since you can get 3 varghiests on your sig spell, maybe add more snakes and horsement.

The princes are good, but I think I like one large unit of archers with a prince say 50ish and small 10 man drops otherwise.

And I agree on the titan. NEhek and undeath don't have a lot of reach on turn 1-2 maybe 3 if you are being defensive, so having shems would be a bonus.

 Acardia wrote:

The princes are good, but I think I like one large unit of archers with a prince say 50ish and small 10 man drops otherwise.

I've run it before and wasn't super impressed. Doesn't have the teeth to really punch through much of anything, and you really need a reliable way to reduce your opponent's T to make effective use of big archer bricks.

If you want to do this then go for a gunline approach with a VL on shadow/death, a LHP or second vampire on death/nehekhara, two upgraded skullapults, a pair of caskets, and some big bricks of crypt horrors/some such. Maybe even a pair of mortis engines for once the enemy hits your lines.

In a list like this though they're just not super useful, and you're better off trading those princes for another unit of vargheists or something, and the archers for basic HW/S skeletons just as tarpits and steadfast breakers.