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I'm in an escalation league and the first week entails games at a tiny 500 points. I have not played a huge amount of WHFB this edition so any advice would be useful

I have just about any unit type at my disposal, so any suggestion can be created..

I see going at it a couple ways, either as a single brick of bloodletters and perhaps a flanker...or something a bit more diverse.

I'm probably going against beastmen, empire and chaos dwarves.

Thanks

At 500 points i would definately plump for the Masque as your general, she's very cheap her ability to minus D3 leadership from units is great to help you with fear tests and morale checks.

i would then invest in bloodletters to fill out the core plus a bit. then look at something like Fiends of Slaanesh for flanking punching power.

As a quick idea:

Masque- 90

15 Bloodletters- 180
10 Horrors-120

2 x Fiend of Slaanesh- 110

Total= 500

Masque is cheap and useful as explained.
Bloodletters are the punch.
Horrors add a some magic to the army
2 fiends running around indvidually or together will beeffective at this level.

Also gives you some variety. though an initial swap out if you are not bothered about some magic would be to exchange the horrors for plague bearers, use them as the anvil for your letters/fiends to counter charge.

some food for thought

I would say, if there are no magic restrictions You should really consider picking up:

The Blue Scribes 81pts

29 Horrors 360pts
Standard

Fiend 55



Basicly with good 2d6 roll for magic you can be such devastating, scribe with 6 from for example death metal or life wins game by it own.

Fiend is a blocker against armies with 1 good unit, you olso can use him to kill machines, skaven weapon teams or some fasts.