Brother Mayhem Posted January 12, 2017 Share Posted January 12, 2017 Hey all! Hope you're all well and that 2017 is going good thus far..! I'm looking at taking a break from painting 40k miniatures to paint my fantasy Undead army, most of which is still on its sprues. I'm looking at making a large skeleton core with the 80 odd Skeletons I have, but I have no idea on how to assemble them/ unit sizes. I have a unit of 40 with spears. How should I build up the other 40? 2x 20? 1x 40? 1x 30 and buy 2 more boxes for another 30 man unit? What should I equip them with too? Sword and shield, or spear and shield? Cheers all! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razorfate Posted January 12, 2017 Share Posted January 12, 2017 Generally you want all your buffs to go into one unit to be more effective. So players make one big unit for this purpose and then fill the rest of the battle line requirment with skeleton crews of minimum models. Units bigger than 20 needs spear, and units with 10 models go better with swords. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tittliewinks22 Posted January 12, 2017 Share Posted January 12, 2017 Anytime i run skeletons its 30-40 with spears 2 units of 10 with swords Usually use the small squads to cover the flanks of my blob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ao_Death Posted January 12, 2017 Share Posted January 12, 2017 Given the skeleton legion ability it is more efficient to stick to the min or max size. At 40 you will want spears. 30 is suboptimal because it only takes one wound to knock you down a bracket which is a pretty big blow to their combat effectiveness. I am assuming you will either be using legion of death or you will be playing tomb kings with that many skels. If your shooting for the legion I would run 40 w/ spears 40 w/ spears 10 w/ swords (or another 40 for the all in build) If your going for TK I would run 40 & 40 and chariots plus Setra?? (Seems good but I'm not a TK player) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tittliewinks22 Posted January 13, 2017 Share Posted January 13, 2017 Ill clarify the only time I run a squad of 30 over 40 is at 1k games with legion. Even though 1 death lowers them, guaranteed 2-7 back a turn usually keeps em at 30 for my turns combat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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