Blood Knights & More! Rare Units of the Vampire Counts
February 2, 2012 by beerogre
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Darrell and Andy take a look at the Rare Units from the Vampire Counts Army Book... what unspeakable horror await them within?
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From rare units my favorite has to be Black Coach and it has been that since 6th edition. Blood Knights are typical heavy cavalry. They hit hard. Too bad that models are overexpensive. 80€ from 5 resin models is just too much. Varghulf fills role of big unridden monster.
Indeed with the price that is the same as Island of Blood which okay they are resin and nice models but still that’s bit to much. Still I’m converting mine from grail knights to keep with my Bretonnian theme and know others have done dragon princes and similar things so other options are out their.
I basically went with Dragon Princes. For the heads I used Mantic Ghouls….looks pretty good in the end, and only ended up costing like 30$
I was thinking using Empire Knights myself.
With new monstrous infantry options, i’m not really in love with the Vargheist. His small base is really the draw for me, since it limits the amount of attacks back he can get. I’m going to be playing a VC list over the weekend. I’m running a unit of bloodknights with a CC vamp hero in the unit (crazy amount of high st attacks). I’m also running a Terrorgheist. No cannons, so the plan is to hold the terrorgheist within 12″ of my general for a turn or two then fly him behind enemy lines and have him use the… Read more »
Cairn wraiths do not sacrifice all their attacks to do one Heroic killing blow, they exchange them to do an attack that automatically wounds with no armour saves if it hits, so a few of thse in a unit can scare the crap out of monsters etc.they can also use their normal attacks to deal pain to monsrous infantry etc at str 6. the scream on a terrorgheist is not 2d6 plus its 2d6 plus its remaining wounds. there are other things but ive just lost hope correcting them xD , on the dont take things that can kill your… Read more »
I’m sorry to say this, but you guys think to much in “Landraider and Terminator-tactics”; you don’t really see the tactics/combo’s you can pull off, only statistics. I know you’ve only just read to book, and it’s impossible to see the big picture, but you’re about to make the same mistake you did with the Necrons. Synergy is the big word for the new Vamps. As an example: You have your big 50+ zombie unit ( which you are all fan off) and a unit of 30+ Skeletons as front line. Behind that you’ll have a corpse cart ( or… Read more »
So thoughts on rares. Varghulf I find has to be a support creature to actually do anything as charge into almost anything bar artillery by itself and it stands a good chance of losing most of the time and good luck getting it into the artillery without taking a shot to the face. As a flanker though it is good as decent move it can help support your infantry but we have hex wraiths, vargheists etc so while in the old 7th ed book it stood by itself because no real competition now it does which makes it a bit… Read more »
I was never a big fan of fielding the Wraith unit in the last book, tried them shortly before the rease of the new book, and have used them in every game since. 4 Wraiths + 1 Banshee, a lot of points, but great to kill off monsters and monstrous infantry. Their main weakness is, as usual, combat resolution, so you will have to choose your targets carefully, try to get in the boni for charge and flanks… also a very good unit for supporting other combats. As has been mentioned above, the Mortis Engine enables your lvl 4 Wizard… Read more »
Cairn wraiths are always worth taking. Got a unit of these into the watchtower, sould anyone shift them? Could he Fudge. Blood knoghts aren’t as good anymore just because you can’t have a vampire in there with the blood drinker anymore, to regenerate there wounds. Varghulf still good, just watch out for shooting. Black coach still underestimated. Hard as nails always will be.
Not digging the mortis engine or the bat beast thing. mainly because the models are too big and in my opinion cack.
vargheist is the best rare in the book. Its hard as nails for there points.
btw a really awesome substitute for Blood Knights :
http://www.coolminiornot.com/shop/media/catalog/product/g/z/gzm0735_1.jpg
http://www.coolminiornot.com/shop/media/catalog/product/g/z/gzm0702_1.jpg
http://www.coolminiornot.com/shop/media/catalog/product/g/z/gzm0736_1.jpg
http://www.coolminiornot.com/shop/media/catalog/product/g/z/gzm0734_1.jpg
http://www.coolminiornot.com/shop/media/catalog/product/g/z/gzm0720_3.jpg
they each cost in betwenn 16,99-18,99$ which is in the end still a lot less then the GW ones if you buy 5 of them and I think they also look way better.