Ranged units for death

[Melcar]

Hello fellow scribes...

Im looking for advice on how to best get som ranged units for my death rattle army. 

What is the best way to get some ranger units? 

Nb: Currently my army is completely death rattle, but for obvious reasons I use Death allegiance! 

Cheers

[BaldoBeardo]

12 hours ago, Melcar said:

Hello fellow scribes...

Im looking for advice on how to best get som ranged units for my death rattle army. 

What is the best way to get some ranger units? 

Nb: Currently my army is completely death rattle, but for obvious reasons I use Death allegiance! 

Cheers

You're boned....

Deathrattle have no ranged units. If you're following the ally rules in GHB, then you can get access to a couple of big things - like the Mortis engine - but nothing that is primarily a ranged unit (I.e. minis with bows).

If you're not worried about deathrattle allegiance you can take some skeleton archers / horse archers.

[Sheriff]

Tomb kings. They won the grand tournament heat earlier this year i think. 

[Squirrelmaster]

There's no ranged units in Deathrattle, but then there's no Deathrattle allegiance abilities so right now there's no reason not to go full Death. It's not a stretch to imagine that GW will do a Deathrattle battletome at some point with new units and allegiance abilities, but I'm guessing you don't want to wait until then.

Right now, the best ranged stuff Death have would indeed be Tomb Kings. Skeleton Archers are still not great unless you're running a full Tomb King army with all the right buffs (and maybe not even then), but Ushabti with bows, and Screaming Skull Catapults, can both be decent. The Casket of Souls also deserves a mention, depending on what kind of ranged attacks you're looking for. Of course, that all depends on your willingness to run out-of-production compendium units.

Tomb Kings aside, Arkhan the Black offers decent ranged-attack spellcasting. Few opponents will be willing to just sit back and take Curse of Years without worry, though it's not exactly reliable and doesn't work so well against MSU armies. It's also not easy to build a whole army around, Death doesn't have much else in terms of simple destructive spellcasting. Otherwise, you're looking at the Terrorgheist (but there's multiple different versions floating around so it's a little unclear which you can/should use, and they differ noticeably on the ranged attack front), and maybe banshees, but they don't work well against high bravery armies.

Actually, Screaming Skull catapults work well with banshees and terrorgheists, lowering the enemy's bravery before hitting them with screams.