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I have Lizardmen... What next?

Look-wise, I'm leaning on two:

Daemons of Chaos: Only if it wouldn't be ridiculously horrible to field a all Khorne army.

Vampire Counts: Only if zombies are reasonable core now that new codex is out ...

And Orcs are my fall back... If neither of those do what I listed above.

Zombies are still the poorest core choice. Skeletons got better. Dunno about Deamons..but personally I'd go for Greenskins anyway.

Zombies are great at what they do I don't know what you're talking about.

3 points for an unbreakable tarpit that you can raise an average of ~10 with on a spell that casts on a 6+ and affects every unit nearby.

Ok I'm down to 2 if all-Khorne isn't feasible... is it?

All Khorne can be done. 'letters are the best core choice and the Bloodthirster is a beast. You will hurt due to a lack of magic, herald of tzeentch with master of sorcery is the best hero choice and the lack of flamers would hurt but it is viable. I think I saw an all khorne army in the army list section it looked good to me, though some kind of chaff would be nice since it's not that many units, maybe some furies painted red.

Just curious why all khorne? Seems no real rythm nor reason compared to the magic heavy counts and such. I mean its posible but wont be the best possible list.

Hmm I going to put my new question in a new topic..

You can easily make all Khorne. But you might get bored. You have to realize you only have a handful of units. But an army of pure anti magic is a neat concept. Get a Bloodthirster with that armor that negates magic weapons.

Still, some reason to have a dispeller, if nothing else would help. Even if you don't cast. Put a Herald of TZ in chains and give him a dispel ability. That will help.

That said, an army of bloodthirster, bloodletters, Bloodcrushers, maybe Skulltaker or Herald. That's 100% Khorne and depending on how you set it up, it can do a crapload of dmg. It would be really scary seeing it.

The real issue with an all Khorne army is that half the time your army is on autopilot (munching through anything stupid enough to stand in front of it) and the other half you have no control over it as it chases after everything. Yes you hit like a truck, but redirectors will cause you to pull your hair out pretty quickly.

Hmm, well... I guess I'm leaning more on Orc/Goblins more than anything right now. At least in my head...

Note that one common "trick" for an All-Khorne army to have anti-magic is a "Captured Sorcerer". Take a Level 1 / 2 Sorcerer who has the sole purpose of some dispel item / gifts, and don't do anything with him beyond such.

A problem with all-Khorne is that you will be easy to deflect with small throw-away units. Frenzy must pursue, so one well placed unit can theoretically take your unit out for several turns of the game (either two turns to charge then reform / come off the edge, or more if the unit fails to flee / get wiped out for some time).

O&G are a very effective army when used properly- which is, not as an out and out combat army. They have incredibly good chaff and war machines and magic, backed up by some really good units.


Purely combat lists tend to get completely demolished, it's just the wrong way to play the army.

I'm looking at borrowing a mate's O&G army to take to an event some time soon, the list is very heavily based (and may in fact be an exact copy) of the O&G that has been taking names on the UK scene...

Black Orc general

Savage Orc level 4, Fencer's Blades, Lucky Shrunken Head

Night Goblin BSB, Poison Banner

Black Orc, Stubborn Hat, Dragonhelm

Night Goblin Shaman, Dispel Scroll

2x Doom Diver

2x Rock Lobba

2x Mangler

2x Pump Wagon, +1 D6 move

Troll

Troll

Troll

37 Savage Orc Big'Uns, full command, AHWs

100 Night Goblins, full command, nets, bows

5 Wolf Riders

5 Wolf Riders


Incredibly abusive, and I hated playing against it, but I really really want to take it to a tournament myself for some reason...