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Well with summer break coming up I'm about to have some time on my hands, a lot of time in fact. To keep myself busy my project for the summer will be to build, paint, and play a 2500 point army before I go back to college in August. Seeing as every army has to start somewhere, this one starts with the list. So without further ado here's the list:

Lords
Vampire Lord Victor Von Drak - 529 points
heavy armor, fear incarnate, aura of dark majesty, Skabscrath, red fury, talisman of protection, dragonhelm, shield, level 4
I know a lot of people like to take a ghoul king, but for fluffy reasons I'm going with a vampire lord.

Heroes
Vampire Elizabeth Von Drak - 209 points
heavy armor, quickblood, fear incarnate, enchanted shield, talisman of preservation

The Three Hags
3X Tomb Banshees

Core
48X Skeletons - 295
full command, Screaming Banner
Victor or Elizabeth goes here along with a banshee

49X Skeletons - 275
full command
a banshee goes here

5X Dire Wolves - 40

Special
33X Grave Guard - 416
full command, great weapons, banner of the barrows
Victor or Elizabeth goes here along with a banshee

Rare
Terrorgiest

Terrorgiest

The idea is that the grave guard anchors the center, with skeletons to both sides, and the giests bring up the flanks. The dire wolves will charge up a flank and go war machine hunting.
So is this list a good start, or are there some tweaks i need to make?

I run a screamer list and I have found having all the banshees with the screamer lord to work alot better than spacing them all out

Good news everyone! (you're reading this post in Farnsworth's voice now aren't you?) I ran the numbers on the cost of the list and it's almost half of what I thought it would be. that means I've got enough left in my hobby budget to get another VC army. I've got this idea of an undead alchemist suspending corpses in tanks of warpstone solution, creating super zombies. the super zombies will be represented by ghouls. it's still a screamer list, but it replaces the infantry with ghouls. here's a list I cooked up:
Lords
Albert Van Drak, Strigoi Ghoul King - 435
Skabscrath, dragonbane gem, red fury, aura of dark majesty, fear incarnate
now you might be wondering what I'm doing representing a scholarly alchemist with a savage ghoul king. well Albert's been experimenting on himself. Normally he's only as strong as his sister Elizabeth, but now before he goes into battle he hulks out. I'm going to represent him with the ghoul king from the terrorgiest model, and sculpt a medieval lab coat onto it.

Heroes

The Assistants
Johann Marcus, Necromancer - 125
level 2, dispel scroll

Wilhelm Birkin, Necromancer - 115
level 2, channeling staff

The Former Assistants
2X tomb banshees

core
47X skeletons - 285
full command, the screaming banner
Albert and the banshees go here

29X crypt ghouls - 300
crypt ghast
Johann or Wilhelm go here

29X crypt ghouls - 300
crypt ghast
Johann or Wilhelm go here

20X zombies - 60

20X zombies - 60

Special
3X crypt horrors - 124
crypt haunter
the fluff behind the horrors is that they're super zombies that have had a bit of Albert's blood added to their tanks.

3X crypt horrors - 124
crypt haunter

rare
terrorgiest

terrorgiest

the strategy is the same as the above, but with the zombies acting as a meat shield for the ghouls. (switching from Farnsworth voice to best eye doctor voice) which is better, number one or number two? BTW cookie for the character name references.

theme wise i thinkbif yiur going for it... just go allnout and get rid.of the skellies for more ghouls... otherwise. seems like alot of fun man. i did a ghoul list. looked pretty impressive...


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i cant find the exact list but... here goes a rough remember... strigoi ghoul king. necromancer level 2. 50 ghouls (with the king) 20 ghouls (with the mancer) 2/3 units of 6 horrors. 3 units of 3 vargheists.