The Gunslinger

Had a go creating a custom Necrach Vampire by following some of the bloodline abilites from an old Vampire Counts army book. At 140 points he is the same price as a normal vampire lord, but more directed towards spell casting. I like the idea of using the leader from the Grymwatch as a conversion for this model and changing the halberd to a staff to represent the Unholy Staff.

I saw this as more of a tool to create thematic heroes that are represented on the model. So with the Ethereal, I would expect an explanation and a conversion as to why it had it. If someone can give me a good reason why a giant squig or khorne lord would be ethereal I would play against it, if it's just an obvious power move I won't. Personally, I think this is great and I can't wait to make a custom Lahmian Vampire for my army!

Well at the minute when I play at 1000 points I run the Skeletons in a block of 40 and two units of 5 dire wolves. The problem is if I want to leave a unit defending a backfield objective it has to be a unit of wolves because I can't waste the skeleton block, but then I loose of on their movement and screening usage. So adding a small unit of chainrasps or skeletons would let me cheaply hold a back objective without sacrificing a mobile, useful unit. Most games now I leave one unit of dogs in the grave and then bring them out when I need them later on. But if I want to try and alpha strike something big with my black knights then having two screening units seems like a good idea.

Is it too much battleline or not enough? I do like the Mortis engine idea, so that might be the way I go with it. Would that work positioned behind the skeletons and with the necromancer to form a pretty solid centre to the army?

Hi everyone, hoping to get some feedback on my list as I take it to 1500 points. I just play fun games at my local gw so it doesn't have to be super effective and some choices are purely thematic but if I'm making any really stupid mistakes please let me know! So I have been playing 1000 pts games so far and have only played two games with the new legions of nagash book. I went with Legion of blood because it fits with my Lahmian vampires, plus I like the bravery mechanic. I enjoy the carryover from old-school vampire counts of lots of keep heroes spread around my army with big units of skeletons and ghosts. Anyway here is my idea for 1500 points, it builds on my existing list which are the units in bold. Vampire with wings, General, Walking Death Vampire on Nightmare, Orb of Enchantment Banshee (was a wraith in the 1000 list) Necromancer, Overwhelming Dread 40x Skeletons warriors 5 Dire wolves 5 Dire wolves 10x Chainrasps 6 Spirit Hosts 10 Black Knights. So the plan is to pair the winged vampire with the spirit hosts because walking death gives her the same mortal wounds on a 6 as them so I was going to paint her slightly ethereal so they match, plus she can fly so can keep pace with them easily. She can give them an extra attack too which means they should be able to handle pretty much anything together. The other vampire gets to go with the Black Knights. The idea here is to find the biggest, meanest enemy hero and get a first turn charge with vanhels and the +1 attack from the vampire. So hopefully each knight can put out 6 attacks on the charge and with her orb of enchantment, he won't be able to attack back between the two attacks. The Banshee would hang out with the skeletons and necro to use that -2 to -3 bravery modifier to do some scream damage. The chainrasps are a home objective holder and the wolves are screen units. It leaves me with an extra 20 points I'm not sure what to do with. I would like to find an extra 20 to take an endless spell, maybe gnashing jaws for that extra bravery debuff, but I'm not sure where to get it. I could swap the chainrasps with wolves, but their movement would be wasted, plus I don't really want to buy and paint another 5 wolves when the chainrasps would be much more exciting. Or I could turn the mounted vampire into a wight King but that seems silly to loose out on her extra attacks from the legion of blood abilities. Anyway let me know what you think, any little tweaks or suggestions are more than welcome. Cheers