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Putting together a sample 2500 point Beastmen list and I'm really torn about how many chariots I want to run. I did a sample on that was chariot heavy, somewhere around 14-16 chariots, 3 units of harpies and a chaos spawn, but alot of people are saying that OTT and wouldn't be fun to play against.
Toned it down somewhat, adding in 2 units of 6 minotaurs but still ended up with 10 or 11 chariots - not sure though because I hear alot of people say they don't mesh well with a fast chariot army.
Thoughts?

I would love to play a 15 chariot list tbh. Sure you smash units in the first round, but after that your looking at a bunch of steadfast blocks and your only doing 4ish attacks per turn.

If you dont break em on the charge you just lost combat.

lol with that many chariots I'm finding I can usually get 3 on a unit at a time and just impact hits usually knocks them down to a very manageable size. Throw in a couple characters, primal fury and mounts - gets very killy very quickly. Mvt 7or 8, with 3 dice taking the highest is pretty good (avg 10 I think) for impact hit causing guys.

The minotaurs - march out first turn and then hopefully be able to get in there turn 2 or so. Still though at T4 and basically no armor, they seem pretty squishy. What I'm hoping though is that folks will focus on the chariots coming their way and have to ignore the minos - otherwise they take a beating from the chariots.

Throwing multiple impact hit causing units at a single enemy unit is devastating. And three chariots thats 3D6 hits at streinght 5 before even ASF get to hit sounds great to me

Whatever chariots you take you NEED an anvil unit to use them in conjunction with. As once chariots start getting denied combined charges or start dieing/get split up their effectiveness falls dramatically.

How many chariots would you like to face if you had to use your opponent's list and they were using beastmen?

That should give you your answer pretty quick.

hmmmm chariot army... sounds like a good idea to me.. but i would imagine your poularity with other gamers would plumit to a point where everyone slike.. no i cant be bothered losing. though magic could still nuke you.

Yea theres a reason why chariots as military units fell out of favor after roman times!

Still dont fully rely on them but use them as said as a hammer unit. I think a juicy block being sandwiched by a chariot and minos is going to be knee deep in impact hits!

I think that if i was a warrior on a battle field, witnessing that many chariots with characters and huge beatmen coming at me, id be thinking.. where is teclis when you need him.. hang on.. there he is.. teclis could you do me a favour? just purple sun them bunched up chariots please.

I'd ask him for a Throne of Vines enhanced Stoneskin...

Or shield of thorns.

I think I'll suggest big monsters, with that many chariots around to hopefully missile away any warmachines a ghorgon or two could be pretty devastating, though once again, lack of anvils :\

I'm curious if you use the terrain set up rules in 8th? If I saw this army across the table I'd be sure to put as much dangerous terrain clogging up the middle of the board to make you take as many difficult terrain tests as possible.

Minotaurs are still movement 6 right? That should be plenty fast to go with chariots I would think.