I've been away from warhammer for a long time and I'd like to get back into it with a new army. I was thinking vampire counts because I like the idea of a wimpy but unbreakable undead horde supported by some badass characters and monsters. I also like the fluff (just ordered Vampire Wars off of amazon)
I'm trying to save some money by buying a couple used armies and then building from there as opposed to building from the ground up.
Here are the two listings (copied and pasted from the ads), I'll be picking them up later today:
Listing 1 - $150
-1 Vampire (Female)
-1 Vampire (Classic Strigoi)
-1 Vampire (Custom converted from Armoured Ghoul on Dire Wolf)
-1 Vampire Levitating/on Hellsteed (Custom from Greenstuff and Bitz)
-1 Wight King w/ Battle Standard (Classic)
-1 Necromancer/Vampire (Classic) on Hellsteed (Fell Bat)
-1 Corpse Cart (Zombie riding Fell Bat pulled by 2 Zombies)
-1 Tomb Banshee (Classic)
-2 Cairn Wraiths (Custom converted from Dwarf Miners)
-3 Spirit Hosts (Custom converted from Dwarf Warriors)
-1 Varghulf
-5 Fell Bats
-35 Grave Guard w/ 2 Full Command Groups (10 Plastic, 25 Classic Metal)
-7 Blood Knights w/ Full Command Group (Custom converted from Classic Ghouls on Dire Wolves)
-30 Skeletons w/ Full Command Group (10 New, 20 Classic)
-70 Zombies w/ 2 Full Command Groups (20 Standing Zombies, 50 Custom Converted to coming out of the ground)
Listing 2 - $120
30 plastic Zombies
60 plastic Skeletons, some broken, sprues available, including command (30 spearmen, 30 swords)
3x Vampire Bats
3x Spirit Hosts
22 metal ghouls
10 plastic dire wolves
Some metal grave guard
Some knights
2 banshees
Misc vampires, mounted and on foot
Misc bits (spirit hosts, vampire bats, sprues)
So in the first listing there's a lot of converted stuff that I probably won't use as he suggests (like the corpse cart and "blood knights") and the wriaths and spirit hosts depending on how good they look. Also they both come with bats so I'll have about 8 bats, although I'm not sure about them because a lot of army lists I looked at on vampirecounts.net don't use them.
SO are these lots worth getting? And if so what should I add to them? Vargheists seem pretty cool. Also a lord on zombie dragon looks badass but I don't know if I can handle that kind of model and whether or not it would be better to stick my lord in a unit.