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Originally Posted by Orthanus  Firstly thankyou for your speed reply, its nice to see my opinion is heard-out too.
I would like to ask you about a style of play called Anvil and Hammer. The idea is to take a 30-man block of skeletons with full command, h/w shields and banner of undying legion as an "anvil" unit. You then take a unit of chariots, a tomb scorpion, or even a unit of tomb guard with a champion and a "Hammer" unit. You charge/ get charged with the unit of skeletons who play a battle of attrician (spelling again) with enemy until in the next turn when the "Hammer" unit smashes from side or rear. This does serious damage and i want your opinion as to whether it could be a viable tactic in games as low as 1000pts, where our poor skeleton's necessity for general and hiero dominate the points. Assuming this is effective would this not easily win back the 100 points lost assuming the unit dies. Also in small battles of 1000pts i see no problem as numbers will be few and casting concentrated
P.s. being new to this, could u explain the credit system, i have 238 at the moment. |
This kind of thing may be of more use in the ''Beginners Guide to TK'' thread, so i may look at moving it if thats ok with you?
But yeah, basically at 1K, you're right in that tghe TP+LP dominate your selection. And personally, i always recommend a second Priest too, otherwise your magic is all but nullified. So given that comes to... 375pts with standard gear included, lets look at the rest:
Ideally youll want 24 skellies (to add the Prince to) No BotUL available yet (unless you want to splash out on T.Guard?) and youll want FC, bringing the unit to 240ish.
Youll need a second core minimum, a single Tomb Swarm is your cheapest option
So youll have about 380pts left. Now, Chariots are a nice cheap hammer, but they just wont always have the necessary punch to get through decent armour. hence im gonna work this with 3 Ushabti.
140pts left
Pretty much limiting you to 1 more selection from:
3 Chariots
1 Scorp (+1 swarm base)
3-5 Carrion (+0-1 swarm base)
SSC + upgrade/swarm base
Personally i never leave home withoutn an SSC, so for me, the list would look like this:
Prince w/ Collar + GW
Hiero w/ Cloak
Priest
24 Skellies w/ HW/S/LA + FC
2 Tomb Swarms
3 Ushabti
1 SSC
A tad small maybe, but should be effective against the right opposition.
Oh, and finally, Credits:
http://www.librarium-online.com/foru...dit-stuff.html