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does this work? if not, what changes should be made?


Tomb Kings

2399 points

Army of the Black Tower

Lords:

Arkhan the Black
General
Hierophant
360 points

Core:

5 Skeleton Horse Archers
Master of Scouts
80 points

5 Skeleton Horse Archers
Master of Scouts
80 points

3 Skeleton Chariots
Master of Chariots
175 points

3 Skeleton Chariots
Master of Chariots
175 points

17 Skeleton Archers
Musician
Standard bearer
122 points

Special:

3 Carrion 72 points

Tomb Scorpion 85 points

Tomb Scorpion 85 points

3 Sepulchral Stalkers 165 points

3 Sepulchral Stalkers 165 points

5 Necropolis Knights
Standard bearer
Musician
345 points

Rare:

Hierotitan 175 points

Screaming Skull Catapult 90 points

Screaming Skull Catapult 90 points

Casket of Souls 135 points

It's not bad at all, but there are two main things lacking.

a) Tomb Kings are a magical army, one thing you are really lacking in. You should be dominating the magic phase.

b) This is more of a personal thing for me......rank and file troop! There is an over reliance on shiney toys, you are just scraping the 25% min for core units, but if youf hard hitters do not win the combats quickly they are going to vanish very quickly due to combat resolution. The large units of skeletons should pin the opposition in place then hit them in the flanks with your rare and special units. Keep the archers at the back to protect the catapults and casket and cut down on all the on the points on the specials for some big units of spearmen.

I know its not as exciting, but it is a bit more balanced.

Arkhan dominates the magic phase
+D3 dice a turn from the casket
+D3 casting to each spell from the titan
3 dispel dice stored as power dice from arkhan
and he is level 5 death
so what is the reasoning behind you thinking i lack in magic?
not being defensive or anything, just curious

For me it is a case of all the eggs in one basket, it's just a personal thing but one lucky cannon shot or a goblin doom diver on the head and you have lost all your magic and only character.
I play chaos dwarves, I could have Drazoath on his monstrous but I think that having a Lv4 magic user on foot and a couple of Lv1 or 2 is a better spread as well.
This is just my personal choice, different Lore spells from different directions.

Its just how I choose to play.

difference is drazoath and any other miunted character can be picked out, whereas arkhan is sitting pretty in his archer unit at the back of the board

Ahhh, my bad, I was thinking old school Arkhan when he was mounted on a dead manticore as a chariot. I did not realize we was on foot these days.