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I tried to do something a little different here.

The concept is that the Dread Knight Vampire Lord stays on my main battleline, deployed behind the Corpse Cart which is flanked left and right by two units of ghouls and screened by the graveguard. He has a small unit of Dread Knights as a personal retinue that are mostly used to flank charge anything that hits my Ghoul units head on. The Dreadknight also has Summon Ghouls just to help out a little more. I didnt give Ghoulkin because I need my battleline formation to stay solid, and the ghouls would outrun my Grave Guard and Corpse Cart.


The second Vampire Lord is a lvl 4 caster w/ all of Lore of Beasts. I'm chucking 6 dice at Transformation of Kadon first turn and hoping to hit them pretty dang hard in the back of their lines thanks to his scout move and fairly large charge distance. If I can deploy up to 12' away with my scouts, then all I need is a 6 on the charge dice to hit them with a first turn charge w/ hopefully a rather large and nasty beast.

There's 2 more vampies who can scout move with the lvl 4. They both have 2+ armor, ones got Iron Curse Icon, and the other has the Talisman of Lycni in case he needs to charge out of the unit of special characters into a warmachine crew.


I realize this is a little different than the standard VC list, but I wanted to do something other than stand around and give my huge blocks of skeletons/ghouls WS 7 and ASF/Hate. Please give some CC and let me know what your think about the strat in general.

I'm aware it's very much an Alpha strike sortve list, and if they get to reform and shoot the crap outta my Vampire Scouts first turn, I'll be hurting. I just love the though of (yes, possibly miscasting into a hole.) transforming after a scout move and eating up some dudes with a giant Vampire Hydra while his other sneaky buddies pick off other weak backfield elements, stopping them from automatically lining up their most choppy dudes on my poor Ghouls.





2500.0 Pts - Vampire Counts Roster

Vampire Lord (1#, 250.0 pts)
1 Vampire Lord @ 250.0 pts (General; Vampire; Hand Weapon; Lance; Undead)
1 Dragonbane Gem
1 Dread Knight (Barding)
1 Nightmare
1 Summon Ghouls
1 0. Invocation of Nehek

Black Knights (6#, 168.0 pts)
6 Black Knights @ 168.0 pts (Musician Mus; Standard Bearer Std; Hand Weapon; Lance; Heavy Armour; Shield; Undead)
1 Skeletal Steed

Vampire Lord (1#, 345.0 pts)
1 Vampire Lord @ 345.0 pts (Vampire; Level 3 Upgrade; Hand Weapon; Undead)
1 Dark Acolyte
1 Forbidden Lore
1 Hunter in the Dark
1 0. Invocation of Nehek

Vampire (1#, 160.0 pts)
1 Vampire @ 160.0 pts (Vampire; Hand Weapon; Undead)
1 The Flayed Hauberk
1 Talisman of the Lycni
1 Hunter in the Dark
1 0. Invocation of Nehek

Vampire (1#, 175.0 pts)
1 Vampire @ 175.0 pts (Vampire; Hand Weapon; Undead)
1 Armour of Silvered Steel
1 Ironcurse Icon
1 Hunter in the Dark
1 0. Invocation of Nehek

Crypt Ghouls (30#, 240.0 pts)
30 Crypt Ghouls @ 240.0 pts (Poisoned Attacks; Undead)

Crypt Ghouls (30#, 240.0 pts)
30 Crypt Ghouls @ 240.0 pts (Poisoned Attacks; Undead)

Crypt Ghouls (30#, 240.0 pts)
30 Crypt Ghouls @ 240.0 pts (Poisoned Attacks; Undead)

Crypt Ghouls (30#, 240.0 pts)
30 Crypt Ghouls @ 240.0 pts (Poisoned Attacks; Undead)

Grave Guard (25#, 365.0 pts)
24 Grave Guard @ 365.0 pts (Musician Mus; Standard Bearer Std; Hand Weapon; Heavy Armour; Shield; Undead)
1 Royal Standard of Strigos
1 Seneschal (Hand Weapon; Heavy Armour; Shield)

Squad (1#, 75.0 pts)
1 Corpse Cart @ 75.0 pts (Regenerate; Thunder Stomp)

Validation Report:
Edition: 8th Edition; Game Type: Normal Game; Army Subtype: Vampire Counts Army
Roster satisfies all enforced validation rules

Total Roster Cost: 2498.0

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