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Hello all,
So after posting my forseeable 8th O&G list last week, it's time to bring out my main army list for 8th.
List is as follows.

Vampire Lord, Flayed Hauberk, Crown of the Damned, Book of Arkhan, MotBA, Forbidden Lore, extra magic level 435
Necromancer, Black Periapt 70
Necromancer 55
30 Zombies 120
30 Zombies 120 (these will probably be run 3x10 to use the horde rule)
5 DW 40
5 DW 40
20 Ghouls 160
20 Ghouls 160
20 Skeletons, FC 180
20 Skeletons, FC 180
19 Grave Guard, GW, Banner of the Barrows, FC 322
5 Black Knights, FC, Barding 180

C&C appreciated.
Greetsz,
Mr. Self Destruct

It has to happen!?

It looks like a nice balance of their possible units, which I like a lot. I've heard a lot of people say they never pay for zombies, since you can just raise them?

And I just figured out "DW" = Dire Wolves

Well, it looks like an army that won't go away quickly, and since the theme of 8th edition seems to be no hard hitters and all combat res, then it might do well. However, I just can't bring myself to only bring one vampire and 5 black knights. Especially at 3000pts.

If I could make a suggestion, 6 dire wolves with a doom wolf is an unbeatable tarpit for heros on flying monsters. They might be less prevalent next edition, but just position them to charge the said unit where it drops along the flank/rear. Charge with doom wolf, he must accept. Hero slaughters doom wolf for max overkill (+5), you outnumber, so 4 crumble leaving the hero locked in combat during his next turn, and you ready to charge him with your hammer...

Also, nowhere in the book does it say ANYWHERE that the standard game is 3000pts. I don't know where people keep coming up with this super high unwieldy number.

That aside, ghouls are simply a killing unit now. They can't capture objectives so can't be relied on. I'd use the points, shrinkl the units and make a zombie horde or bigger skellie units. Both of them CAN capture objectives.

And wouldn't he just crumble the entire unit of direwolves anyhow? You can't put a character in fast cav. Once you do, they lose the fast cav rule, quite a change in 8th.

How do you do three units of 10 zombies? The minimum unit size is 20+...?