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Fellow Journey Followers! Seekers of the truth of the setting sun and inhabitants of the windy plains.

I will be joining(running) a small escalation league at one of my LGS. 500pts-1000pts-1500pts-2000pts

It is meant to help get peoples armies painted. Sort of a paint or die thing.

So, 500pts of my unpainted Tomb Kings. This will give me a reason to go in a completely different direction and try out other things with the TK.

So, 500pts:
Liche Priest
26 Skeleton Spearmen Full Command
5 Horsemen with Light armour, Champ
3 Necropolis Knights

So. I will be getting this painted and will be plating games with it. A small side quest if you will. I might keep it with a "magic lite" theme. I am thinking of getting that into a 50 spearmen block it will give me the chance to also paint up my necrotech and one of the many kings / princes that I have lying around.

@ Noc: Thanks for the support, I hope this thread provides insight and inspiration.

As for the 500pt game that I had, I decided to keep the champion in the horsemen unit.

My list:

Liche Priest
26 Skeleton Spearmen with full command
5 Horsemen with Champion
3 Necro Knights

Her list:

Lv 1 mage with lore of life.
12 Seaguard
7 Phoenix Guard
Bolt thrower

We both took the basic spell for the lore and rolled a meeting engagement. She had her entire army show up, my skeleton spearmen unit decided to stay in reserve.. luckily there was some LOS blocking terrain that my hiero could hide behind no not get shot to death.

So our deployment looked like this:



So basically her turn 1 sees some of the horsemen die to shooting, she miscast with her wizard and blew up 3 seaguard. My turn 1 saw the horsemen charge the bolt thrower and the knights charge the phoeniz guard. The skeletons moved towards the priest to bunker him.

The phoenix guard held well and managed to kill all but one of the knights before all dying. And the horsemen got charged by the seaguard who then overran towards the top of the table. I was able to bring back 2 wounds on the knights and this is what the game looked like just before my 6th turn:


And then I charged in with the knights and sniped the mage. Giving me a solid win!


And now on to the tactical discussion:
- Lv 1 mage... hmm, unless I am rolling 6 dice at the spell I doubt I will get anything off.
- The spearmen look menacing but if charged by a hammer I feel that they will die horribly.
- The knights as expected did awesome.
- The horsemen did not dissapoint. Can't wait to build on the concept of this list.

Cheers!

Great Stuff Iago, 500 points seems.. so small.

Seems like your Necropolis Knights are your #1 preforming unit.

I can't wait to see some more.

Its def close between them and the warcat.

Iago, I must say I always look forward to your updates.

I am moastly drawn to the hobby from a collectors standpoint (I moastly play 40 K) but I really like your reports. It gives me hopes for my TK who perform terible.

I am wondering about your knights though. Why do you not give them any command?

Also, in your chariot death attack is it not better to shave 250 points by dropping the king. It apears that what chariots usualy do is dealing 4d6 S5 inpact hits and hitting from the side breaking the enemy unit. Does the king/prince really do anything besides negating the hits that come back at you? Would it not be better to inwest in another chariot giving you 3 ekstra wounds while saving you 200 points?

How do you see the heroes? The king/prince, necrotect and any mage with lore of Necraham lore seems like unit enhancers/multiplyers. Even the herrald gives +1 in combat resolution and one less curmble efectivly giving you 2 ekstra HP if you lose the match. Could this be combined with cheap 4 point skeletons or 5 point spoearmen. 40 spear skeletons FC with a decent prince is around 384 points. Quite cheap it seems for 40 WS 5 attacks. Give them smite or cursed blades or debuff the enemy and you are seing some very cheap wounds. (The King and prince are very good for what we pay for them.)

Latest Game 2500pts VS. Lizardmen.

Same list that I have played against a few times. How will I fare this time?

Stay tuned.

@Niiai: I am glad that this thread has provided some inspiration. Your questions:
- I only have 3 of them and they are usually on a flank.. and they take on units that tjhey will munch on usually. I dont really want to spend more points on them then I have to... keep it cheap, keep it simple.
- I dunno, I like the king. Whenever I was using not a king the chariots ended up dying all the time. Combats tend to be more protracted then I expect and its the King, in the format that I run him, that ends up busting me out with his high volume of str 5 attacks.
- As for the heros, I do like all of them. Recently I have been using a necrotech and I do like him. As for the prince, I either run a king or a prince. THe thing is because I am already forced to take a priest I dont want to invest too much on the characters as those points can then be spent elsewere in the army. As for the BSB I have always loved the idea, when I do run him I would with the flaming banner... and then either run him with the chariots, or run him with the archers.

Recently I have been running the magic lite format... so I have a lv 2 and a lv1 and thats it... so far so good.

Cheers!

A level 1 and a level 2, but you have the casket and the hierotitan, so you are not that magci light. Perhaps spend an ekstra 100 points for a level 3?

Sorry I was rambling on thinking of 2000pt games and lists.

I would run the hierotitan always because he is awesome. I can do without the casket (but 2500... why not?)

Don't get me wrong I do love the better caster... I have run a lv 4 + prince (or lv 4 + king) for quite a few games... and they never dissapoint.

Latest game vs the Ogre army in the campaign!

I was able to witle the ogres down (more like, his firebelly killed ogres with miscasts) and then the snakes finished the main unit off while debuffed -1str - 1 tough... it was awesome.

Win to the TK!

Man you really like those snakes.

I am not sutch a fan of the model.

2 questions:

1: What do you think about the nechro sphinx?

2: I think of TK as a crumbeling horde, but you seem to be using high T models and really melle monster (chariots, war cat, snakes, hiero titan etc.) Do you think of TK as a heavy hitting armybook?

Niiai:
1. I have not used it. I feel like the warcat is better for its points. But in a list where you are going for volume of high toughness... fly and t8 comes in all to its own.

2. I think TK have some very killy elements! I love the horde feel of the legions of skeletons and bowmen but I also like to win games by dishing out the damage and taking the fight to my enemy at the right time. Something not everyone expects.

Cheers!

Ok fellow journey travelers, here are the battles that I played last week at the LGS. As you know, i have been participating in an escalation paint or die league... so far I failed the first leg and then for the second leg I only added 5 models to the list to get me back on track.
Regardless... first game I played was a pitched battle against Wood elves.

Here is our deployment:


So I was pretty confident, having the high armoured snakes across from the gladeguard, and the chariots in front of the wardancers with the giant facing the dryads.

So he moved up. Not much else happened.



I then moved around, shot a few wardancers.
Then in his next turn he moved up and shot down one of the snakes. Those str 4 long bows are nasty.
Then I charged with the snakes... and he killed another, and although I only needed a 5 to get in I promptly rolled a 4 for the charge with the snakes... and they lost another... and failed to get in.

He then charged into my face... and cast his one spell (free move and can charge) irresistibly on the wardancers who ran into the chariots... and wiped them out. Ouch.


I then charged the dryads with my horsemen and the giant... but he made about 5 of his 6 ward saves.... and the stomp only killed one. Enough for me to win combat, but he held. I was able to get a boosted inv save bubble. Although it did not help much.



Then those treekin ran in... and murdered the giant. The only think I had left alive was the skeleton bunker at the end of the game.. with 2 members left, the hierophant had died.
Good game. I got absolutely destroyed.

Things that I learned or remembered after.

The treekin are flaming, should have sent the chariots and their flaming banner straight for them.
Don't underestimate the wardancers... holy moly, they had so many attacks!

So, on to game 2. A rematch against the high elf from last week that annihilated me.

He moved up, so did I and shot a bit. I got a boosted movement off and used that to encircle the enemy army.

My snakes got into the bolt thrower, and then needed a 6 to overrun into the magebunker... and rolled a 4. Arg... this meant the chariot charged them in the flank = dead snakes. So my swarms had also arrived and tied up the archer unit on the far right (off shot).
My horsemen, in this picture had been one man strong, moved up and then a boosted movement had brought them back up to full.


Then he moved up some more, and I was able to get a succession of long charges, the chariots into the phoenix guard. Chariots eventually died, but did some damage, the giant got into the chariot and killed it, and then ran through the remainder phoenix guard. The horsemen took out the remainder of the archers and the mage, the swarms finished off the other archers...

A victory to the tomb kings!

Iago with TK beat by a Wood elf's army! Wow, I am impressed. :-)

Yeah, hehe. I know, I went in underestimating it big time. And with no archers... hehe.

Thanks again for posting these. You keep giving me ideas, which is good and all, but I was hoping to buy models slowly for this army.

Apparently I am not very good with the whole delayed gratification thing, it seems.

I do not recall seeing you use carrion and have basically heard only good about them this edition. Is it the lack of models? (that is my current excuse) In any case, do you have any more thoughts on them?

Besides a Heirotitan and a catapult they are near the top of my list of things to add.

I do like the carrion and I have run them quite a few times. I own 2 of them and I fill the third in with a rank filler, they never really dissapoint and they do what they are supposed to do.

Excellent.

Thank you kindly.

Keep up the good work!

So a small hiatus. But here is the next one:
So , 1500pts game vs dwarfs from last week:
Deployment, battle for the pass:

Then we moved up, the lines clashed:


My chariots were up to their usual antics wrecking face


At the end of the game I was able to finally take out his warmachines with my one catapult, yay.



Anyway, one thing that did happen this game was the failing of 4 out of 5 dangerous terrain tests for my chariot unit that overran across some fences... ouch!

Then I had another game on thursday. I got absolutely annihilated by some warriors of chaos. The crux of the game was when my chariots failed to kill a warshrine to overrun into another unit of warriors, this would have pulled me out of the charge ark of the chosen.. alas it was not to be. Then the chosen mowed through the chariots.

The turning point of the game was his chaos knight rolling 4 sixes out of 5 hits against my warcat to wound... bringing it down in one round of combat!

Cheers!

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