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What are people thinking about with their vc's in AoS, what's good, working for you etc...

Looking to start vampire counts after finishing up goretide and just looking for thoughts and opinions on what's useful for the vamps.

Look into the formation with the ghouls. It can really pack a punch.

The Ghouls for sure, Ghoul King, Crypt Ghouls and Horrors have some nice synergies.

Also Zombies en masse, with Corpsecart backup will be hard hitters that also replenished themselves with a Standard and their Newly Dead ability- but they might be limited depending on your comp (wounds/points/army limits). Combine this with a Wight King BSB for an even tougher unit.

Then you have your summonings if that's to your liking (again can be severely limited by composition packages if you use them). But otherwise a tough wizard such as Arkhan (or Nagash....) combines with a few Morghasts of any kind will make sure you can put down plenty of new units on the battlefield each turn!

I find the VC army list a good one, but for fun and for nice synergies, so you'll be pleased diving into it.

I played them recently and depending on the armies you are facing a terrorgheist is amazing. Especially if ridden by a strigoli. Against rats or beastmen you can easily disrupt any plan they have.

I''m also looking to start up a VC force. Personally I'm looking at building a force centering around skeletons. The deathrattle horde looked like a good start but now I'm looking abit more and correct me if I'm wrong but could a I also field TK tomb heralds with my mainly VC force?

With a standard bringing back d6/d3/1 a unit and each Tomb herald guaranteeing another 1 model on top of that seem like a fun idea for fielding a sort of undying legion.

Couple that (if possible) with other buffs available to units with the deathrattle keyword and I see the sea of beige being a not too shabby choice.

Skeletons with grave guard with mounted skeletons (and ghosty skeletons) lead by a wight king with a necromancer and maybe a mortis engine behind them would be a cool army.

I'm more a fan of full monster mash, since that's always been my dream army with VC - double vargulf, vargheists, coven throne, blood knights, bone dragon, bats bats bats, ghosts ghosts ghosts.

 Ir0njack wrote:
I''m also looking to start up a VC force. Personally I'm looking at building a force centering around skeletons. The deathrattle horde looked like a good start but now I'm looking abit more and correct me if I'm wrong but could a I also field TK tomb heralds with my mainly VC force?

With a standard bringing back d6/d3/1 a unit and each Tomb herald guaranteeing another 1 model on top of that seem like a fun idea for fielding a sort of undying legion.

Couple that (if possible) with other buffs available to units with the deathrattle keyword and I see the sea of beige being a not too shabby choice.

Have tried that, mixing the tomb herald with wight king, makes for a tough unit to kill for anything deathrattle, as long as they have the keywords you are fine. They are both death, so would not even be going against alliance lines.

Krell and a necrotet seem like good choices for a skeleton force,eespecially with a large unit of grave guard.

Trying this tomorrow night (we have agreed limits as we are still working the game out )

Lady Choine, Nuncio of the Lahmian Sisterhood, Vampire Lady on nightmare (Hero 1)
Sabine Blood-Daughter of Lady Choine, Vampire Lady on foot (Hero 2)
Crimson Company, 10 Black Knights with Hell Knight, Standard Bearer and Horn Blower (Unit 1)
Eternal Guardians, 20 Skeleton Spearmen with Champion, Hornblower Standard and Tomb Shields (Unit 2)
Host of the lost, 20 Skeleton Swordsmen with Champion, Hornblower Standard and Tomb Shields (Unit 3)
The Black Crusade, 5 Blood Knights with Kastallan, Standard Bearer and Horn Blower (unit 4)
Kihals the Lost, Vagulf (Monster)