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Just wanted to see what folks think about my first "full sized" dwarf army list! Nothing too fancy just using some big blocks of units I've enjoyed play style wise. With a good bit of war machine fire power blasting down field.

DWARFS 2400

LORDS

Lord -313
Shield
Shieldbearers
Rune of snorri Spandelhelm
Rune of might
Rune of parrying
3 rune of warding

HEROS

Thane-153
BSB
Master rune of grungi
Shield

Rune smith-80
Rune of spell breaking

Rune smith-106
Great weapon
2 Rune of spell breaking



CORE

22 long beards-306
Musician
Standard
Shields

22 long beards-306
Musician
Standard
Shields


SPECIAL

34 hammerers- 496
Musician
standard

Cannon-150
Rune of burning
Rune of forging

Cannon-145
Rune of forging

RARE

Organ gun-170
Rune of forging
rune of accuracy

Organ gun-175
Rune of forging
Rune of accuracy
Rune of burning


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Also worth mentioning. My store has a standard for events that a single block of units cannot exceed 500 points. Just an FYI. Bsb and lord go with the hammerers and the runesmiths go with the long beards to give them a little more punch.

Made a few changes, minor but still. Set up the rune smiths in a more preferable way.

DWARFS 2400

LORDS

Lord -313
Shield
Shieldbearers
Rune of snorri Spandelhelm
Rune of might
Rune of parrying
3 rune of warding

HEROS

Thane-153
BSB
Master rune of grungi
Shield

Rune smith-91
Great weapon
Rune of stone
Rune of spell breaking

Rune smith-96
Great weapon
Rune of stone
Rune of the furnace
Rune of spell breaking

CORE

22 long beards-316
Full command
Shields

22 long beards-316
Full command
Shields


SPECIAL

34 hammerers- 496
Musician
standard

Cannon-150
Rune of burning
Rune of forging

Cannon-145
Rune of forging

RARE

Organ gun-170
Rune of forging
rune of accuracy

10 iron drakes-150

4 points.....

You wouldn't rather give up a Cannon for the Iron Drakes instead? With the 4 points you have to spare I'd probably shave off a longbeard from each unit and you'd make up the difference.

I thought about that, but I figured I'd get some games in with the cannons and see which I miss more. I feel like the cannons are more versatile, although I could be wrong.

It's all about the Organ Gun in my brief experience if a few games with my Dwarf list. Runes of Forging on both. Rune of Accuracy on one and Rune of Burning on the other. Pick something each turn both can see and erase it off the table. I've killed a couple End Times charcters/monsters this way already.

Organ Gun is actually the more versatile weapon. Cannon is good for Character/Giant killing. The Organ Gun fills same roll sometimes better and can also deal massive damage to masses of troops and cavalry that Cannons can be effective against but Organ Guns just cut down with ease. There is a reason they are in the Rare Slot.

For example:
Would you rather hit 4 of 10 Chaos Knights with 1+armor saves with 2 cannonballs or deal 4 artillery die worth of Str 5 Armor Piercing hits re-rolling misfires to that same unit? That can be a lot of 4+armor saves and a lot of very expensive dead Chaos Knights as opposed to just 4 if everything goes perfect with cannon shots. Thats assuming you don't have a side shot on that unit with those cannons but anyone that strolls thier Knights into something like that you will likely steamroll anyways.

After playing a few games and reading what you just said. I have changed the list a tad. I think you fellow dwarfs will like it (not much else) the only thing I'm stuck on is I'm not sure if I want to try to give them all at least forging? Or accuracy? Right now I'm sticking to accuracy an all, but we shall see.

Here it is !



2400 organ guns

LORDS-313
Lord -313
Shield
Shieldbearers
Rune of snorri Spandelhelm
Rune of might
Rune of parrying
3 rune of warding

HEROS - 340
Thane-153
BSB
Master rune of grungi
Shield

Rune smith-91
Great weapon
Rune of stone
Rune of spell breaking

Rune smith-96
Great weapon
Rune of stone
Rune of the furnace
Rune of spell breaking

CORE - 632
22 long beards-316
Full command
Shields

22 long beards-316
Full command
Shields


SPECIAL - 641
34 hammerers- 496
Musician
standard

Cannon-145
Rune of forging

RARE - 465
organ gun-170
Rune of accuracy
Rune of forging

Organ gun-145
Rune of accuracy

Organ gun-150
Rune of accuracy
Rune of burning


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Now another thing I'm tempted to try, tempted because I love my kit bashes lord on shield bearers but I also love my combaty thain. I can drop my dwarf lord. Put in a combat oriented thain. And add another cannon. Now that would be 2 cannons and three organ guns.... Seems a little excessive. But just thought if put that on the table!