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Whate are your thoughts on a small 12-15 man unit of warriors with MoK and additional hand weapon ?
I know halbers are better but dont want to pay 20$ for a set of 10 :(
this is for a 1000pts list by the way.
My level 2 sorcerer is going to be hiding with another unit of 12 warriors with MoS and shields

In a small game like that, it sounds pretty viable to me. Your opponent is unlikely to be able to bring the means to significantly reduce the damage output of that unit before it hits combat - not without completely neglecting your other units anyway - and it should be able to do significant damage to most other units you'll come across.

Having fantastic Core choices is really a huge benefit in low-point games.

Thank you for the reply.
would this setup however become poor as I expand my list to 2000 pts? I would really hate to have to snap those weapon arms off

Extra Strength 4 attacks are great at 1000points. And like Shadow mentioned, Warriors should be able to tackle almost any threat at 1k points. Nice!

Mathematically halberds are better and here's the kicker. They're actually free. Y'know those lances that come with Krushers and knights that you'll never use? They make great halberds and look even better than the official GW ones. The problem with hand weapons is you only get ~25% more damage inflicted, but that damage doesn't help you break units you wouldn't already beat, whereas halberds help you kill those big scary monsters and such.

You usually only need enough halberds to do up the front rank. At least everywhere I have played as long as your front rank is accurate no one seems to mind what the rest look like.

My models are sword and board, I run them as halberds though and no one has ever had a problem with it.

The true benefit of the halberds is that they are strength 5 and that wrecks most monsters and infantry that you would be fighting. But in a small game the extra attacks would probably be as good.

On a side note, a unit of 28 with halberds looks very intense. I made mine from knight lances, dark elf spears and some scratch builds. My gaming group has nick named them the blender.

Speaking of extra hand weapons on warriors...

I was thinking about doing a unit of Nurgle Warriors with extra hand weapons, then throw in Uncle Festus and get him casting Blades of Putrification...20+ str 4 attacks with poison wounding on a 5+ might be fun. You'll get 6 or 7 from the poison alone and a handful more with just plain old strength 4. That's a lot of wounds to have to fend off.

Just a thought.

akempist wrote:
Speaking of extra hand weapons on warriors...

I was thinking about doing a unit of Nurgle Warriors with extra hand weapons, then throw in Uncle Festus and get him casting Blades of Putrification...20+ str 4 attacks with poison wounding on a 5+ might be fun. You'll get 6 or 7 from the poison alone and a handful more with just plain old strength 4. That's a lot of wounds to have to fend off.

Just a thought.

Interesting premise, it sounds like its good. My gut tells me halberds are likely still better due to the extra wounds in the wound roll and armour negation but I'll check this math later.

How does multiple units of warriors perform?. One of the lists I was thinking about was one lord one sorcerer Lord, one exalted hero bsb and one sorcerer each leading a unit (was thinking different Marks but could easily be done with one mark) but its 4 units at 2400!.

Or thinking two or three units with AHW Khorne and one with lord one with hero BSB, just relying on weight of attacks really to break things.

Gateway.

That is all.

I think it could work. Warriors are pretty resilient on their own, Iv'e found so I like to kit them out the same way... MoK plus extra hand weapons. And the size of the unit you mentioned should be just right for the size of game you're playing

akempist wrote:
Speaking of extra hand weapons on warriors...

I was thinking about doing a unit of Nurgle Warriors with extra hand weapons, then throw in Uncle Festus and get him casting Blades of Putrification...20+ str 4 attacks with poison wounding on a 5+ might be fun. You'll get 6 or 7 from the poison alone and a handful more with just plain old strength 4. That's a lot of wounds to have to fend off.

Just a thought.

True and the 5+ regen is nice too but what if you don't roll that spell. Any strategy that relies on getting something you randomly generate isn't that great IMO and i would consider other alternatives. I think he would do better in a MoN Halberd unit personally. In fact that gives me something to try next game..