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true. but the dwarves will have to engage the vampires in melee if they are on top of the fortress towers.

good point, perhaps a good place to stay and cast magic and wreak havoc from inside the dwarven fortress?

yeah

casting magic against dwarwes good luck. (he chuckles like a dwarf)

well 1500 points of dwarves will have about 6 dispel dice if they are lucky (As they will be bulking out infantry for battlements) and vampire counts power dice... well they will have about... 12 so thats not good for dwarves

i will have about 12 power dice. you can't hope to stop them all.

moving on... Black knights would be an exellent choice on sieges as they can just glide straight through the wall and annihilate any unit in the courtyard if they have the right stuff equipped, plus cairn wraiths if they can be fit in, as they cant be hurt by normal attacks so would make them quite useful against cannons and ranged fire

that's a very good idea, blach nights can drift through the walls and charge whatever is on the floor.

furthermore the banshee can be used to drop dwarf units dead if they have lucky enough dice rolls

the only problem is that the black nights can't attack any dwarves on the battlements.

yes, but if the cairn wraiths can get through then hey presto, however, if outnumbered, cairn wraiths get annialated due to combat resolution. Also (not sure if this is possible) but if a corpse cart made it to the wall and was next to a ladder would it's (Miasma of deathly vigour i think) mean that the troops on ladders get to strike first??? this would be an instant boost as you have a chance to at least whittle down that unit a bit...

that could work, but don't you strike first when you carge anyway and ladder assaults are charges aren't they?

im not sure but would be good just in case, in any other siege circumstances, corpse carts are useless, what about putting crypt ghouls on the siege ladders, thats 4 attacks, they can only hit on 6's aniway which means any attack you hit, you automatically wound

it could do.

that would be a serious problem for the unit defending the fortress

i just hope these tactics pay off even though my enemy is one of the people giving them to me.

yes well ghouls will get slaughtered

depends on the dice rolls

they would, nothing climbing ladders stands a chance, except for vampires themselves.

vampires would do better in siege towers with some grave guard, so they can just slaughter dwarves on the battlement, perhaps even vlad himself

all of my characters hiding behind a seige tower until it hits the wall and then the vamps can climb the tower and charge.
5 vamps v 7 ish shooty dwarves.

bye bye dwarves, one bloody mess

damn right it's a bloody mess.

i think it's safe to say that blood knights and a black coach will be pretty useless in a siege

yeah, cannons will tear them to shreds. even if they live they can't get on the battlements.

yes, a complete waste of points, use more points on siege towers and grave guards

i hear that.

ok, but watch out for those cannons, as they can easily rip towers to shreds

James stop tellin wat were gonna do you stupid gakker. we'll figure sumat out. then we will rape them

This is just some friendly advice, so why does it matter?
And ps go for a nice vampire lord with wings, that should cause some havoc in the courtyard