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I found some of my dwarfs (mostly from BFSP) and some dwarf slayers my friend gave me.

heres what I have so far (without upgrades or anything)

Heroes:
Thane 65 pts
Runesmith 70 pts

Core:
14x dwarf warriors 112 pts
10 Thunderers 140 pts

Special:
1 cannon 90 pts
8 Miners 88 pts
60 dwarf slayers 660 pts

Rare:
Organ gun 120 pts

A couple of misc. dwarf models I have are:
Goblin Hewer w/ malakai makinson and crew
1 Dwarf Lord w/ hand gun
1 Dwarf Lord
2 LongBeard command models
1 Daemon slayer
1 Games Day special edition daemon slayer
1 Garagrim Ironfist

Now... the question is : Where do I go from here
whats the best way to expand my army to make a more balanced army

And also would I be able to use Malakai makinson as a stand in for a master engineer?

aaaaaand thats it. so thank you for reading and hoping to hear from you guys soon.

I take it your friend was working on a Storm of Chaos Slayer army at some point?

Malakai makes a great stand-in master engineer as far as I'm concerned. I can't really imagine someone having an issue with it.

If you are shooting for a more balanced army, I'd get some more warriors. If you want to be more shooty, get some more thunderers or quarrellers. Right now you have your minimum core. The thunderers are fine, but the warriors either need to be 20+ with standard musician and usually a veteran, or they need to be a unit of 10 with shields and nothing else (for redirecting).

The cannon should absolutely get the rune of forging, with the rune of fire if you face regenerating targets (and not if you face plenty of star dragons).

The only way to get that many slayers in the army is to have a slayer character. I think the most *efficient* slayer character is the un-upgraded dragonslayer. I'm sure one of your demon slayers would be a fine stand-in.

Longbeards are good core because of the runic banners they can bring, and hammerers are top-notch special choices because of stubborn, with the potential to be immune to fear/terror with the Rune of Courage or a Dwarf Lord.

If you do get more combat blocks, a BSB becomes more and more critical. Right now, not such a big deal, since most of the army is made up of unbreakable or shooting stuff.

In the meantime, there's no better way to get a feel for things, especially specific to your local meta-game/playing style than to actually get out there and play.

RZ

With those models I would try to build a playable list and see what you think.

Try this;

14x warriors w/ shields and command = 151 (put your thane here)
Thane = BSB, MR of gromril, rune of resistance (1+ rerollable AS) then you can either go for more defence with runes of preservation and furnace or increase his offense with either MR of swiftness (ASF), Rune of might (double strength if toughness is over 5), or rune of fury (+1 attacks). = 165

14x longbeards w/ shields and command = 205 (233 if you want GW too) (runesmith goes here) (use your 8 miners, 2 longbeards, and other misc. models)
Runesmith = shield and GW, MR of binding or balance, and a rune of spellbreaking = 151

10x thunderers w/ shields = 150

15x slayers w/ a troll slayer = 180

15x slayers w/ troll slayer = 180

cannon w/ rune of forging = 125

organ gun = 120

Dragon Slayer = 50 or Master Engineer = 70

total = 1477 or 1497

I think you could manage a game with this list, might not win, but maybe competitive. It will at least give you an idea of how they play and I am sure your friends won't mind if you use your models to represent other units if you want to try them out.

boogeyman wrote:With those models I would try to build a playable list and see what you think.

Try this;

14x warriors w/ shields and command = 151 (put your thane here)
Thane = BSB, MR of gromril, rune of resistance (1+ rerollable AS) then you can either go for more defence with runes of preservation and furnace or increase his offense with either MR of swiftness (ASF), Rune of might (double strength if toughness is over 5), or rune of fury (+1 attacks). = 165

14x longbeards w/ shields and command = 205 (233 if you want GW too) (runesmith goes here) (use your 8 miners, 2 longbeards, and other misc. models)
Runesmith = shield and GW, MR of binding or balance, and a rune of spellbreaking = 151

10x thunderers w/ shields = 150

15x slayers w/ a troll slayer = 180

15x slayers w/ troll slayer = 180

cannon w/ rune of forging = 125

organ gun = 120

Dragon Slayer = 50 or Master Engineer = 70

total = 1477 or 1497

I think you could manage a game with this list, might not win, but maybe competitive. It will at least give you an idea of how they play and I am sure your friends won't mind if you use your models to represent other units if you want to try them out.

Thanks man for the List!!! that was really nice of. I'll be sure to give it a try thanks again!!