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So I bought the mega army, and it includes:

1 Vampire Lord on Zombie Dragon; 1 Mortis Engine; 1 Necromancer ; 1 Corpse Cart; 20 Zombies; 20 Skeletons; 10 Crypt Ghouls; 5 Black Knights; and 3 Vargheists.

However I need help with the choices,

The vargheists can be crypt horrors, the Mortis engine can be a coven throne, the zombie dragon with vampire lord can be a terrorgheist, and the blood knights can be hex wraiths. So many choices! Currently i'm pretty sure ill take the terrorgheist and put the vampire model on a spare steed i have from another box, and im pretty sure ill start building up crypt horror models instead of vargheists.

Howver I got no idea whether to build a Mortis Engine or a Coven Throne, and no idea whether to build black knights or hexwraiths.

I should probably say these are my first vampire counts models, and i'll probably build up to a list that a friend of mine uses when he plays at the South Coast GT tournaments in the UK

Cheers for any tips

brian

Build the dragon as a terrorgeist, and mount the Strigoi on foot.
Build the mortis engine as a mortis engine. I'd either get 5 more black knights, or build them as hex wraiths.
Build Vargheists as Crypt horrors instead, and get more.

-Matt

I agree with matt

How to arm skeleton warriors?

Hand weapons and shields

Skeletons hand weapons and shields, lots of them to win. Hex wraiths will return better results than black knights. Most competitive armies for VC take 2, regiments of 5 Hexes.

HawaiiMatt has it spot on.