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i am playing a fortress seige battle against a dwarf army with 3000 pts of vampire counts. i have no idea what to do tactic wise. HELP!

How many points of dwarfs are there?

1500 pts of dwarves as the rules state.(half the attackers)

Try to get insidewith flying vampires and the like

the problem is
a few flying vampires, swarms and fell bats will det raped in 1 turn against an entire dwarf army.

but wont a dwarf army me mainly ranged and cannons are easy to kill

ur the one whose got the dwarf army. stop posting tips to your enemy. tomlowbridge

why not i'm only giving you some advice mate

coz we know eachother so if i wanted tips, i would go round ur house and ask for it.

but its too late to come round, soz ill use da internet.
It will be a fun battle

fun battle, hah, it'll be a massacre.

we will kick ass tom, we will thrash them silly zombies

ok it will be fun, anyone else on the forum have any advice for the vampires.

yes, has anyone got any tips on vampiric sieges?

REAPER666 wrote:yes, has anyone got any tips on vampiric sieges?

Uncountable numbers of Skeletons. It worked in Army of Darkness.

Oh wait, it didn't...

skeletons wont work coz of the defended objective rule making the attackers only hit on 6's.

its true, use zombies then to siege the walls.

3 dwarves will hit 1 zombie first, 2 will hit, 2 will probably wound, even if one wounds it will all be over.

zombies just won't work.

One big problem with vampire counts is that they have no ranged weapons to destroy walls etc, even though that isnt a good idea anyway as the walls are incredibly tough, i would use zombies to assult walls as they are basically useless and put some good units such as grave guard in siege towers, put their killing blow to good use

siege towers. that is the best idea yet. ty

i suppose, but if you come againgst lots of cannon fire, ur srewed.

maybe one or two powerful vampires can fly in and cast some magic and raise zombies inside then fly away next turn (Somewhere safe) and come back again and cast some more, this way they have to deal with enimies on both sides and will take all concentration off of the siege towers and advancing troops

its a risk i am gonna have to take. i could get a cuple of flying vamps to fly into the towers of the fortress and kill the cannons.

yes, using powerful flying vamps to kill and chase down the cannon crew would be a good idea, but would still be vunerable to dwarven infantry fire, which can mutilate even a vamp up pretty bad

a vampire in the towers would be out of sight of the drarves on the battlements so i woul be safe.

take more time writing ur spellings all over the place, and i thought i was bad

my spelling on a pc has nothing to do with this conversation. get back on topic.

as there is a vampire hacking up a cannon crew alot of the dwarves will be thinking ' oh **** ' and decide to shoot at the vampire instead of the siege towers, making thier desent that little bit easier and safer

it does when i don't know what you mean, and anyways look at summoning zombies inside to tie up assulty units and charge the walls with flying vamps, could work