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Hey gang I am writing this because I have never played WH before but I have a chance to play a skirmish event. I am not looking for an amazing list but something to have fun with. I love Zombies so I am leaning towards the Vampire Count army , but I hear Empire will be cheaper cost wise. If you guys can give me any input that would be great. I went to my local GW and the new manager there tried to sell me like $200 worth of stuff seriously thanks but no thanks. To sum up he was no help! So I turn to you for help, I am a 40k player that just loves to paint and has always wanted to try WH. Money is not really too much of an issue (not 200 bucks though) so fire away and help a "Newbie" out.

Thanks,
Mike




PS. If this is in the wrong spot please move, Thanks

If you really like the zombie models then go with vampire counts, whats the rules for the 500 point skirmish? and do you want to win or are you more into the painting/modeling side?

Vampire counts are somewhat cheap, for a 500 point scrimish you will be without many choices. At that level it is best to raise dead, so i recommend:

Necromancer 115 PTS
+2 Spells
Wristbands of Black Gold

20 Skeleton Warriors 205 PTS
HW/S
Full Command
Banner of Endless nightmare

10 Crypt Ghouls 80PTS

Corpse Cart 100PTS
Unholy Loadstone

Total cost for the army is $103.25 +tax

Links for what you would need are:
http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat440101a&prodId=prod1050186
http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat440102a&prodId=prod1050104

The cool thing is that you will have 20 zombies to raise in your game also.
The other nice thing about VC at this level is that you can always bring your guys back to life when they get killed, 1000 PTS and less games are more of a war of attrition than anything else. Vampire counts excell at that and seem to be the best army for games under 1000.

Battle wizard =100
Level 2 wizard

25 Halberdiers =145
Full command
8 Handgunners =64

5 Knightly order=115
Lance/shield

Mortar =75

madmartykmf wrote:I love Zombies so I am leaning towards the Vampire Count army , but I hear Empire will be cheaper cost wise

If you love the zombies stick with a VC army. At 500pts both armies are going to able to field a lot but with VC you can have some good fun with magic and ending a battle with more units on the table then what you deployed

It is always fun to double your troop count by turn 2, most players at this low point level can't counter it. 2 dice per casting of Raise dead, 3 for Vanheels, and 2 for invocation. You wont be able to march, but they wll come to you and you can always use vanheels to go 8 foward, but i would just summon zombies if i was you.