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Vampire Lord, Lv4, Armour of Destiny, Enchanted Shield, Sword of Striking, Seed of Rebirth, Quickblood: 435pts (Lore of Vampires) (Crypt Ghouls)

Vampire, Heavy Armour, Shield, Dark Acolyte, Fear Incarnate: 156pts (Lore of Vampires) (Grave Guard)

Wight King, BSB, Screaming Banner, Shield, 139pts (Grave Guard)

20x Crypt Ghouls, Champion: 210pts

25x Skeletons, Banner, Musician: 145pts

20x Zombies: 60pts

10x Dire Wolves: 80pts

30x Grave Guard, Full Command, Banner of the Barrows: 410pts

2x Bat Swarms: 70pts

2x Bat Swarms: 70pts

Terrorgheist: 225pts


Is this a good list?
What are its weaknesses?
How would you improve it?

C&C Welcome

Seems fairly solid. Grave Guard Horde + Bat Swarms will most likely decimate most things they bump into.
Though I'd recommend splitting the Dire Wolves.

Ok, revised list:

Vampire Lord, Lv4, Armour of Destiny, Enchanted Shield, Sword of Striking, Seed of Rebirth, Quickblood: 435pts (Lore of Vampires) (Crypt Ghouls)

Vampire, Heavy Armour, Shield, Dark Acolyte, Fear Incarnate: 156pts (Lore of Vampires) (Grave Guard)

Wight King, BSB, Screaming Banner, Shield, 139pts (Grave Guard)

20x Crypt Ghouls, Champion: 210pts

25x Skeletons, Banner, Musician: 145pts

20x Zombies: 60pts

5x Dire Wolves: 40pts

5x Dire Wolves: 40pts

30x Grave Guard, Full Command, Banner of the Barrows: 410pts

2x Bat Swarms: 70pts

2x Bat Swarms: 70pts

Terrorgheist: 225pts

You can't have the Enchanted Shield and Armour of Destiny - you can only have one piece of Magic Armour, so you can have heavy armour and the Enchanted Shield, or the Armour of Destiny and a normal shield, but not both.

you can it says in the rukebbok your allowed one piece of magic armour and one magic shield. looks hokd man. was o.ly looking to see if i could steal any ides.... but unfortunatly its nkt to my themed style...

Yeah:

Warhammer Rulebook, Pg 174 wrote:A model can only have one suit of armour and one shield

This is in the Magic Armour section.

so does thT mean im right?! lol

No
That was in reference to mundane items. Read the rest of the paragraph.

Warhammer Rulebook 8th edition hardcover, pg 502

"...so if you give a model a magical suit of armor or a magical shield, it replaces any mundane equivalent worn by the model"

Warhammer Rulebook 8th edition hardcover, pg500

"A model may only ever choose one item from each category"

Magical Shields and Magical Armor are both in the same category, ergo, you may not give a model both magical armor and a magical shield.

touche then. i may of been of that opinion but at least ive never done it... (ogres) slaughtermaster gets armour of destiny and an iro.fist (bsb) bruiser gets talisman of preservation enchanted shield and heavy armour... ;-) at least i can keep usi.g that combo lol... anyway... we are going off topic... lol...

with your dire wolves... what are the bats doing? could you get rid of them and perhaps put the points else where? perhaps 40 more zombies? or a coach?

The bats were to go with the grave guard in order to give ASL to any unit they are fighting.


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CthuluIsSpy wrote:"A model may only ever choose one item from each category"

Magical Shields and Magical Armor are both in the same category, ergo, you may not give a model both magical armor and a magical shield.

What!?!?

Really?

I've been using multiple pieces of armour for ages and no-one has mentioned this before.
Thanks for pointing that out to me.

RaptorsTallon wrote:The bats were to go with the grave guard in order to give ASL to any unit they are fighting.


Automatically Appended Next Post:

CthuluIsSpy wrote:"A model may only ever choose one item from each category"

Magical Shields and Magical Armor are both in the same category, ergo, you may not give a model both magical armor and a magical shield.

What!?!?

Really?

I've been using multiple pieces of armour for ages and no-one has mentioned this before.
Thanks for pointing that out to me.

Its multiple pieces of magical armor that's the problem.
You can have 1 piece of magical armor and as many normal pieces of armor as you'd like.
"Magical" is the important term here.

I ment magical armour. Anyway, here is the new, rule complient list, with a corrected typo on the vampiric powers:

Vampire Lord, Lv4, Heavy Armour, Talisman of Preservation, Enchanted Shield, Sword of Striking, Quickblood: 426pts (Lore of Vampires) (Crypt Ghouls)

Vampire, Heavy Armour, Shield, Aura of Dark Majesty, Fear Incarnate, Ironcurse Icon: 156pts (Lore of Vampires) (Grave Guard)

Wight King, BSB, Screaming Banner, Shield, 139pts (Grave Guard)

20x Crypt Ghouls, Champion: 210pts

25x Skeletons, Banner, Musician: 145pts

23x Zombies: 69pts

5x Dire Wolves: 40pts

5x Dire Wolves: 40pts

30x Grave Guard, Full Command, Banner of the Barrows: 410pts

2x Bat Swarms: 70pts

2x Bat Swarms: 70pts

Terrorgheist: 225pts

2000pts