Originally Posted by
Anggul
Hello all,
I'm starting to get my head around the many concepts used in your average Fantasy battle.
My 2400 list at the moment is as follows.
Lord: 400pts
Sorcerer lord: lore of Metal, level 4 wizard, mark of Tzeentch, third eye of Tzeentch, enchanted shield, talisman of preservation, chaos familiar, disc of Tzeentch: 400pts
Hero: 386pts
Exalted hero: great weapon, helm of many eyes, talisman of protection, ironcurse icon, scaled skin, mark of Tzeentch, battle standard: 216pts
Chaos sorcerer: lore of shadow, level 2 wizard, dispel scroll: 170pts
Core: 786pts
Chaos warriors (18): mark of Tzeentch, shields, full command: 336pts
Chaos warriors (18): mark of Nurgle, shields, halberds, full command: 390pts
Chaos warhounds (5): 30pts
Chaos warhounds (5): 30pts
Special: 745pts
Chaos knights (5): ensorcelled weapons, musician, standard bearer: 235pts
Chaos knights (5): ensorcelled weapons, musician, standard bearer: 235pts
Chimera: flaming breath, regenerating flesh: 275pts
2317pts
As you can see I still have a few points left to play with.
I used to put the shadow Sorcerer with a block of Marauders but they have been terrible without fail in every game I've played. Granted I'm not very good so that contributes a great deal, but I thought a second unit of Knights would be better. That does, however, leave me without a decent place to put the Sorcerer. It's hard to find a good place when you don't have any ranged troops.
I get the feeling two units of Warhounds isn't enough chaff. They don't tend to accomplish anything. That said, I'm not very good at the redirection etc. yet. My deployment and movement feels unwieldy and like I'm just setting myself up to be destroyed. Would Marauder Horsemen be a good thing to add or just more Warhounds? Or is two units enough and I just need to be more clever with them?
I wonder if it's even worth having the shadow Sorcerer. He's really useful against big ranged units but that's about it. Otherwise I usually find myself using all of the power dice on the metal Lord and the expensive shadow guy not really doing anything. It would require losing the chaos familiar on my Lord if I want to keep the dispel scroll. I suppose I could keep him but drop to level one as he's really only there for miasma. Seems pretty steep just for miasma though.
I'm also thinking my BSB is too expensive and maybe I should downgrade the helm of many eyes to a dragon helm, or even swap the helm and halberd for a sword of might and shield. though it would only be 13pts cheaper.
Last of all are the two big expensive Warrior blocks too much? Should I just have one?
Thought? Advice is very much welcome on both the list and how to deploy and move with Warriors of Chaos.