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Made in us
Fresh-Faced New User




Friend and I just started playing Warhammer Fantasy, and this is our first attempt at a 2k list. We've both played 7 armies in 40k, but that was a long while back and the rules in Fantasy are obviously different. We want the army to be as competitive as possible, and were thinking that an all mounted/fast moving and beast themed army might do the trick. Here goes;

-Dreadlord
*manticore
*heavy armor
*sea dragon cloak
*shield
*ring of hotek
*pendant of khaeleth

-Sorceress
*dark steed
*level 2 wizard upgrade
*dispell scroll

-Sorceress
*dark steed
*level 2 wizard upgrade
*dispell scroll

-Cold One Knights x5

-Cold One Knights x5

-Cold One Knights x5

-Dark Riders x5
*Repeater Crossbows

-Dark Riders x5
*Repeater Crossbows

-Dark Riders x5
*Repeater Crossbows

-Harpies x5

-Harpies x5

-War Hydra

-War Hydra

Total=1962

Got a few points left over, not sure what to do with them. General idea is to use harpies to tie up warmachines, casters, and other soft/glasscannon units. Cold knights just combat, hydras because they are B/A, and lord on a manticore because I want the power and flexibility but don't want to go the dragon route.

Any ideas and help is greatly appreciated.

This message was edited 2 times. Last update was at 2008/08/24 19:23:03


 
   
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Oberleutnant





First thoughts...you have no magic weapon to go after ethereals. bare minimum, look at like the killing blow lance on your general.

Second...its not written, but at a bare minimum, look at musicians in your DR. that LD bonus to rally is really nice with the fast cav.








 
   
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Fresh-Faced New User




Shotgun wrote:First thoughts...you have no magic weapon to go after ethereals. bare minimum, look at like the killing blow lance on your general.

Second...its not written, but at a bare minimum, look at musicians in your DR. that LD bonus to rally is really nice with the fast cav.




Alrighty, replaced shield/heavy armor/Sea dragon cloak on lord with Blood Armor, and gave him Crimson Death instead of lance. Also added musicians to each DR group.

here's most current list:

-Dreadlord
*manticore
*Blood armor
*Crimson Death
*ring of hotek
*pendant of khaeleth

-Sorceress
*dark steed
*level 2 wizard upgrade
*dispell scroll

-Sorceress
*dark steed
*level 2 wizard upgrade
*dispell scroll

-Cold One Knights x5

-Cold One Knights x5

-Cold One Knights x5

-Dark Riders x5
*Repeater Crossbows
*Musician

-Dark Riders x5
*Repeater Crossbows
*Musician

-Dark Riders x5
*Repeater Crossbows
*Musician

-Harpies x5

-Harpies x5

-War Hydra

-War Hydra

Total=2000
   
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Deadly Tomb Guard




South Carolina

What no black guard?? I say lose a unit of knights and field a 15 man block of black guard........they come in very handy.

 
   
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Fresh-Faced New User




Well, we played our first game again vampires. He had a dragon with a sorcerer lord, two units of very buffed knights, 3 plates of ghouls, and 2 caster characters. We lost pretty badly, but it was because we played terrible (first fantasy game and all ).

Our biggest problem in the game was the huge amount of space our cav took up....we could hardly move at all! That and the fact that our 2x hydras were wasted...due to us placing them poorly, one got charged and gibbed by dragon, the second got charged and gibbed by a unit of knights. His dragon ate through everything until it got to our lord, who stopped it in its tracks...but far too late.

The two sorcs did almost nothing the entire game....their most use was the 2x dispell scrolls which we used to dispell a spell that can move a unit 8" (van dance or something?). Their spells were weak against T4 ghouls, except for the AOE template one.

We were considering some pretty extreme changes, but I'm unsure as to how well they will work out...if we dropped both sorceresses and one unit of cold knights, we could change the lord+manticore to a master+manticore, and add in a lord+dragon (exact same as our current lord, but on a dragon vrs manticore. Manticore was messed up pretty quick, and it ended up just being our lord on foot).

My main concern is making a competitive list, but still having something fun. From all the lists I've seen, people are taking mostly a magic/shooty heavy list with very few mounted guys. I LOVE the cold ones, so much that all of our dark riders are modified cold one mounts+riders. Also of concern is using units that we have already purchased.....this game was 50% proxied pieces. Our models so far are: 2 units of CoK, 2 sorc (one mounted), lord on cold one, 10 corsairs, 2x hydra, manticore, 3 characters, and an assassin.




PS: Is it a good idea to pair units of slow black guard with faster hydras/CoK's/beasties?
   
 
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