potential tomb kings army

[chief]

I'm looking into starting a tomb kings army and have wrote a quick 2400 point list to see what people think about it

Lords
Tomb King w/ shield, armour of destiny and sword of strife

Liche High Preist lv 3 w/ talismin of preservation, enkhils kanopi and using the lore of Nehekhara

Heros
Liche Preist lv 2 w/ talismin of endurance and using lore of light

Liche Priest lv 2 w/ talismin of protection and using lore of light

core
24 skeleton warriors w/ full command, light armour and spears

2x10 skeleton archers w/ light armour

2x5 skeleton horse archers

3 skeleton chariots w/ full command

special
29 tomb guard w/ full command

3 tomb scorpions

rare
2 screaming skull catapults w/ skulls of the foe

casket of souls

All in all it comes to 2396. any useful feedback would be helpful

thanks

[marlowe]

Too many characters, drop the king.
No horse archers- they crap as when they put and about they can't march
Drop skeletons or tomb guard for bigger units of skeleton archers. Their shooting is quite effective
More chariots are never a bad thing.
Try some of the big beasties and defo keep the casket.

In general skeletons are only worth holding a hero for fighting use chariots and big beasties, must haves are casket and catapults.

Mark

[chief]

thanks for the feedback mark. i have taken this into consideration and came up with this

Lords
Liche High Priest Lv 4 w/ talismin of preservation, enkhils kanopi using the lore of Nehekhara

Heros
Liche Priest Lv 2 w/ talismin of endurance using lore of light

Liche Priest Lv2 w/ talismin of Protection (because a 6+ save is better than no save) using lore of light

Core
60 Skeleton archers

3x3 Skeleton chariots w/ full command

Special
3 tomb scorpions

Khemrian warsphinx w/ fiery roar

Rare
2 screaming Skull catapults w/ skulls of the foe

Casket of souls

this list comes to 2400

[bensaunders]

I've not played WHFB in years, or TK ever (though I'm currently trying to decide between TK and VC for a potential army), so take this with a pinch of salt, but...

I'd consider having one block of skeletons (or tomb guard) equipped for close combat, when the enemy reach your lines. Unless you think archers led by a character can hold their own or that a chariot charge will stop the enemy in your tracks.

(It depends how you play I guess - I gather that TK players/lists divide into offensive and defensive and you appear to have gone for the latter build.)

[chief]

yeah i think the way this army is built is more defensive as it can through out a lot of shots in the shooting phase and power dice in the magic phase.

i'm not completely sure how am going to balance this 1 out exactly.

[chief]

i'm now thinking about dropping the tomb scorpions for another warsphinx

[marlowe]

That's no bad now Scott, a small block of sleletons just to hold characters archers are good enough to take the fight

[bensaunders]

Jan 19, 2012 18:48:44 GMT chief said:

i'm now thinking about dropping the tomb scorpions for another warsphinx

Would you have to drop all three? It may depend how you play/who you'll be facing, but I gather they can be pretty useful for tackling enemy war machines and so on. How else would you deal with the bank of dwarf cannons that will no doubt be targeting the sphinxes?

[chief]

yeah tomb scorpions are useful that wa. the only thing wrong with it is they cant charge the turn they come up. but a suppose someone turning a cannon on an 85 point model is better than turning it on a 225 point model