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Morning Dakka,
Im interested in seeing the 1000 point army you would field (out of your respective lists) to combat my WE. Ive had luck in my gaming circle, but i am entering my first GW-run league and wonder what kind of resistance i should expect from a competitive list 'tweaked' to take on WE.

Spellsinger
Level 2
Calingor's stave

10 Gladeguard
10 Gladeguard
5 GladeRiders, musician
3 Treekin
5 Wildriders, command
5 Waywatchers
*edit men to kin

I would take:

Herald of Khorne on a Jugg with Firestorm Blade and Armor of Khorne.

Herald of Slaanesh on a Steed of Slaanesh w/ Soul hunger and Siren.

10 Horrors
10 Horrors
6 Furies

5 Fleshhounds
5 Seekers of Slaanesh w/ Standard and Musician and Siren Standard.

This should do fairly well against your list.

Though a do have to say it is a fairly solid list at 1000 points. There aren't going to be many lists that can average out a win against that.

yeah, demons have some great anti WE options. Siren standard makes me , and flaming attacks on a combat monster are never good for my trees.

*bump* 52 viewers and only one thousand point army? how small of games do yall play?

For Fun I would run up with OK.

Hunter +2 Sabrecats (Laurel)
Butcher Blood Cleaver
Butcher Bangstick
4 Bulls
3 Iron Guts
3 Iron Guts

I would hope to stomp the small units so I can suround the more cohesive units.

Don't know how I would do though.

3 Treemen? Do you mean Tree Kin?

this is my standard all comers skaven list for 1000pts. i use it to consistantly thrash my mates wood elves army. all the small units woodies traditionally use are mauled by warplightning, warpscroll and ratling gun fire. i'd be fairly confident i could beat whatever is left once combat starts by sheer weight of numbers if nothing else.

HEROES
Warlock engineer / warp blades, storm demon / 85
Warlock engineer / warp blades, warp power accumulator, warpscroll / 110
Warlock engineer / warp blades, warp power accumulator / 75

CORE
20 clanrats / spears, standard & musician, ratling gun / 199 (warlock)
20 clanrats / spears, standard & musician, ratling gun / 199 (warlock)
20 slaves / musician / 44
2 poison wind globadiers / 20
2 poison wind globadiers / 20

SPECIAL
20 plague monks / additional hand weapons, standard & musician / 175
5 gutter runners / poisoned weapons / 70
997pts

This is my standard 1000pt army

Herald of Tz with Master of sorc (fire natch)
The Masque

10 Horrors
10 Horrors

5 Flesh hounds
5 Flesh hounds
5 Flesh hounds

995pts

@Viking: i find that under 1500-2kish the ogres suffer from deathwing syndrome: to few guys to compensate.

@Bork: i can see how you manhandle (rathandle?) your friends WE, it would definatly be an uphill battle for me.

@Russell: are hounds frenzied, or just hate? armies that dont panic are always hard for the WE i feel.

Hounds neither hate nor frenzy. Almost nothing in the Daemon army book frenzies. Only one usless named khorn lord does that, even blood thirsters have taken anger managment courses.

Being a Skaven player, and having playtested WE a lot, I have to say that you have a lot to worry about from the Skaven list. The wounds are waaaay against you, and if you haven't routed at least three units by the end of the second turn you're not in a good spot. Basic rat swarms with movement 6 are great for sending straight at archers - people tend to shoot over them, so you either need to restrict their movement or waste spells on them.

On that note, I always try to take two warlock engineers... maybe not in a 1000pt game, so warp lightning isn't as much of a problem with your level 2 wiz.

My 1000 pt list is similar to /bork da basher - watch out for the Storm Daemon and the Warpscroll, eh?
I prefer to take a chieftain in this sized army, because the Bands of Power+halberd is cheap, powerful, and unexpected. I also take atl least 40 clanrats, 20 monks, 2 ratling guns nd 7 gutter runners, but again, in smaller games I leave out the slaves and put a stormvermin unit up instead. The monks can run ahead, soak up wounds and not run away, andd if they make it into combat you're .

Empire Cavalry

Warrior Priest - HA S Warhorse Barding Icon of Magnus Hammer of Might (150)

Battle Wizard - HW Warhorse Lvl2 Doomfire ring (140)

6 x Knights - Full Command (178)

6 x Knights - Full Command (178)

6 x Knights - Full Command IC War Banner (221)

6 x Pistoliers - Musician Outrider w repeater pistol

total - 999

PapaSmurf

O&G
Orc big boss: martog's best masha, enchanted shield, light armour
night goblin shaman lvl 2: staff of sneaky stealin
20xnight goblin archers fantaics??
20xnight goblins: spear shield fanatics??
18x orc boyz, full command, choppa, light armour shield
5x wolf riders, boss, spear, light armour
10x arrer boyz, light armour, choppa, bow
5x savage orc boar boyz, big unz, spear, shield
6x squig hoppers.

total points 1002
seeing how i play woodies as well i know to try to get to there in hurry to negate all those damnable arrows. out of that list ur playing my biggest worries would be the treekin and wild riders the skirmishers can lose CC easily enough to combat res against thicker blocks. I always take a night goblin shaman lvl2 in low point games due to their cheapyness. it surpirses me that you dont have a noble with HoD arrow that item works wonders in smaller games

chaos (mortal)

exalted champ, horse.
as many knights of chaos as possible.

that WE list has nothing that really poses a threat to a 2+ save, let alone a fast moving, solid army.

Damsel level 2 chalice of Malfleur war horse (135)
Paladin BSB with virtue od noble disdaine and gromril great helm Barded bet warhorse (124)
6 KOTR full command 168
6 KOTR full command 168
10 Errant knights full command Errantry banner 241
22 peseant bowmen skirmish 154