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As the topic suggests, I have started out by picking up some vampire counts stuff.

I'm off to a good start by pick up 20 skeleton warriors, 20 zombies, 10 ghouls, a corpse cart, and vlad von carstein.

My target point value for an average game is 3000, and money is not too much of an issue at the current time.

Here is an example of what I'm looking at;

Lords-
Vlad von Carstein
Count Mannfred (Hellsteed)
Heroes-
Necromancer x2
Vampire x2
Isabella
Wight King (Battle standard bearer)
Core-
Crypt Ghouls (10) x2
Skeleton Warriors (20) x2
Zombie Horde (20)
Corpse Cart x2 (I like these, they have lotso attacks)
Dire Wolves (10) x2
Special-
Black Knights (5) (Hell Knight) x2
Grave Guard (10) (Musician)
Rare-
Cairn Wraiths (5) (Tomb Banshee)

Comes out just over 3k, With upgrades still possible.

Any comments or suggestions are especially welcome. Thanks.

Grave Guard don't work well in small units. I'd suggest you'd get an extra box of those so you can wield a fully ranked unit (20). Dire wolves won't get rank bonuses being fast cavalry and as they are support/throwaway-units in any case you'd best wield them as multiple units of 5 (unless you wan't to use one or two of the tarpit-variety which is 7 strong with champ to tie up nasty characters).