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Making an empire army list, I was going to start lizardmen, but my younger brother decided to do them instead of his tomb kings, so considering we will be facing each other very often, I'm deciding on a different army with a lot of variety. He will be taking the advice you guys gave me in a previous thread into account so thank for that.

Anyway, I want to build an empire army that has these units in it: Halberdiers, Wizard, Demi griffon Knights, an awesome badass captain and a fat block of Greatswords.

I was hoping to get an idea of an effective army list including magic at the 2000-2500 points level that I can work towards completing, as I don't want to waste any money buying models I wont use.
Qualities I would like in an army list
-Two block combat units (I was thinking Greatswords and Halberdiers)
-DGK knights unit (one larger or two smaller?)
-Wizard of some kind
-More offensive than Defensive
-Abilities to use in all three phases

Even just a list of units I should include (I get really confused when it comes to the heroes and how they should be equipped) would be awesome.

Have you bought the book and built some lists? I would start there. Post the lists you come up with and we can critique. I would also start deciding how you want to play? What's your play style?

True, will do.

Hellblasters....that is all

Seriously though get 2 hellblasters they are awesome make sure you have a master engineer with them though. Use some knights as well though (the reiksguard ones)
Definitely pick up the army book and make some lists and post them on here.

They are a decent army and fun to play so post up a list when you make one and we can help you refine it

Get hurricanums for buffing GS and halberd blocks, war alter of siggy is also great for buffs, bathazar gelt is fantastic vs anything but daemons, and DGK are best in MSU, and of course cannons, sweet cannons.