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Can anyone give me an idea of how this army ran/runs? Im likin the new models they're commin out with so Im thinkin of gettin into them. Whats their magic like? Any info would be appreciated ^_^

It's all new and as of yet largely unexplored.

According to the "Coming Soon" article, they can do mass skeleton infantry, monster hordes, or a combination of both.

So anyone's guess really.

They just went up on preorder today, and it looks like big changes may be in store, relative to the old book. So... stay tuned?

They look to be fairly competitive. 4 pt core, plus a ton of chariot impact hits, not including new monsters and such. I think they will be Top Tier once people get all the new models and learn how to play.

Wow..
Imagine for a moment, 2x as many arrows per turn in the air. Many Khalida players are putting up 160 shots per turn.

You could ostensibly be wounding 120 times per turn against t3, with 40 of those wounds being guaranteed wounds (assuming 500 shots in a 2500 points army)

I already play VC and had not planned on starting a second undead army however, the Warsphinx and Necropolis Knights have me reconsidering...

Yeah I LOVE the warsphinx model and the necropolis/sepulchral knights look awesome too.

The thing that concerns me is that skeletons are their core and well, skeletons are one of the worst infantry models in the game next to zombies.

I would like to know, if anyone knows, what the casket of souls does/did, as well as what some of their magic was like in the old book.

Casket used to force a roll for every unit that could see it. Roll-victim's leadership=wounds. It was able to do tons of damage to low leadership armies, but was less useful against things like dwarfs. The real benefit of the casket was that it had to go last in the magic phase. Opponents had a habit of saving 2-3 of their dispel dice in order to counter it, which left the rest of your magic phase relatively unmolested.

-Jim



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As far as old book magic went, there were only 4 spells.

One was a magic missile. Not great.

The second gave an extra move phase to the unit it was cast on.

The third gave an extra attack/shooting phase to the unit it was cast on, but only models in base contact with an enemy could attack and only one attack per model.

The fourth brought back destroyed models as long as part of the unit still survived.

-Jim

I'm just saying things in the past tense here because it's all going to change to some degree in a month.

The Incantations that were used were kind of like an Empire Warrior Priest's prayers. They had a short range, and didn't use power dice as normal - you rolled a set amount of dice (depending on whether your caster was a Liche Priest or a Liche High Priest) to set the value your opponent needed to beat to dispel.

Since they weren't power dice in the traditional sense, it meant that you were totally unaffected by the variations in the Winds of Magic, and that you really benefited when WoM was very low, as your opponent could easily run out of dispel dice.

Of the four incantations, three were fantastic and really defined the TK as an army.

- You could give a unit an extra move. Deadly with chariots.
- You could give a unit a free set of attacks - this was especially wonderful with large blocks of archers and the Screaming Skull Catapault.
- You could heal wounds, even bringing models back from the dead. If they were skeletons (as opposed to undead constructs or carrion), you could bring back even more.

You were even able to cast a few of these (extra attacks and extra move) with your Tomb Kings and Princes.

The skeletons statline sucks, especially for the cost. But with archers that ALWAYS hit on a 5+, regardless of movement, long range, cover, or whatever and the ability to bring back models almost as fast as the enemy can kill them, the idea was always to win a war of attrition. I always loved the Khemri method of victory through despair - it's like zombie movies... EVENTUALLY they're going to get through.

I've heard the magic system is going to change, which I'm not too thrilled about. I kind of liked its uniqueness and the limitations it imposed.