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Vampire Counts [2400 points]

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I've been thinking about doing an undead horde for ages now. I really the the idea the Harryhausen esqe skeletons roaming across the land. I really want to push that Horde of death kinda vibe, so hordes rather than huge monsters.

Lords

Vampire Lord
-Master of the Black Arts
-The Flayed Hauberk
-Blood Drinker

Heroes
Necromancer
-Invocation
-Dance Macabre
-Raise Dead
-Septre de Noirot

Necromancer
-Invocation
-Dance Macabre

Vampire
Ghoulkin

Core

40 Skeletons
- FC
- Banner of Endless Nightmare

30 Crypt Ghouls

20 Zombies
- FC

Corpse Cart
- Unholy Lodestone


Corpse Cart
- Unholy Lodestone

Special
30 Grave Guard
- FC

20 Grave Guard
- FC
- Great Weapons

Rare
Black Coach

So i've got 4 casters to try and bolster my forces, I was looking at the block of 30 Ghoul Kin with the Vampire to get the Early march and get into combat fast. I was thinking 6x5 for them. Them with the big block of Skeletons try to be my Anvils as it were. With the Grave Guard giving me some hitting power. My Vampire lord rocks out with the big Grave Guard unit.

What to do with the Necromancers is a problem, I was thinking about them taking the Corpse Carts as mounts, riding along behind my big units. But that leaves them vulnerable to cannon fire etc. Or maybe I should throw them into units drop the Corpse Carts and buy some more toys, maybe a Second Black Coach with the points.

Thoughts?

Aramoro
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Whether you mount the necros depends on whether you have the hero allowance, with the new ed I'd say don't bother any more

Make sure at the minimum you get a ward save on your general or your seriously screwed, if he dies your army dies. I'd lose the unit of 30 GG and buff your 20 unit to 40, with GWs, horde, and banner of the barrows they can dish out serious hurt, especially if you can put other magical buffs on them.

possibly give one of the CCs balefire.

You should have some points over to get some bats or a scouting vampire to kill war machines, It may not be a thematic but VCs are slow and you risk being shot back to death
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