well as many may know I’ve been using a marching dwarf army for about a year straight and people are sadly starting to get wise, they make hidden deployments, have armies able to dance around my units and in general cause headaches for myself.

as such... I’m changing my pace and taking a step back to catch people off guard.

Heroes

Engineer - general
Brace of pistols
Rune of stone
Master rune of dismay
110

Thane
Master rune of flight
Rune of cleaving
Rune of stone
Shield
Oath stone
152 points

Rune smith
Rune of stone
Master rune of balance
Great weapon
129 points

Rune smith
Rune of spell breaking
Shield
Great weapon
104 points

Core

Dwarf warriors [19]
Musician
Standard
Shields
186 points

Dwarf warriors [19]
Musician
Standard
Shields
186 points

Thunderers [10]

Quarrelers [10]

Long beards [19]
Full command
Great weapons
Shields
Master rune of grungi
341 points

Special

Iron breakers [19]
Full command
Rune of stoicism
302 points

Grudge thrower
Rune of accuracy
105 points

Cannon
Rune of forging
125 points

Rare

Organ gun
120 points

Gyrocopter
140 points


While the army keeps a significant combat element it’s pulled a switcher and gone from a combat semi hoard to a balanced list with a significant shooting presence (but not a gunline)

with a thane taking the place of the lord as a melee beat stick (who where NEAR as potent... but he has his advantages ;) ) and the battle standard has been dropped for a master engineer (against my own rules I admit, but as I said its for a change of pace) the overall army is different to what I normally choose to run.

The iron breakers have ROCKETED to the top of my list of dependable units list after scoring a succession of fantastic combats in a recent tourney (I didn't win any games... but still they did well). With the inclusion of an oath stone thane they should perform a lot better.

The master rune of flight + rune of cleaving combo is something I’ve been meaning to test out for a while now. a S5 auto hitting character sniping thrown weapon seems rather tasty to me and in the event that the iron breakers defeat everyone nearby after dropping their oath stone, the thane can still snipe at units within 12" ( passing mages anyone? ;) )

Comments are welcome and sought for.

Well certainly no one can complain that this is a one dimensional or cheesy list.

It would probably be stronger as either an all out blitz list or as a gunline, but as you say, you're taking a break from the first, and I assume, not too interested in being the millionth dwarf player to use the gun line.

This would be a very fun list to play against, as it has a bit of everything. I'm very curious to see if you can make it competitive, so keep us posted!

Will you really need 6dd, a scroll AND RoBalance? Infact I find I can do well with just 5dd and a scroll in most battles. We dwarfs are tough enough to let a few spells through. With 5dd and a scroll you´ve saved a good 130ish points. That means points for engineers or maybe a BT or two.

Otherwise, looks good IMO.