DreadLord Pegasus Tactics?

Dirty Mac · Post by **Dirty Mac** » Sat Oct 29, 2011 12:24 pm

Hi, I have a tournament coming up, and I fill be fielding My Dreadlord on a Dark Pegasus fir the first time.

It's the standard, HA, Shield, SDC, Whip of Agony, Crown, PoK.

I was wondering how he should best be used.
The enemies I will be facing are HE, Chaos Warriors , Dwarfs, Wood Elves. Possibly Empire and Bretonnia, Ogres too. I have a practice game against HE this Tuesday and it would be nice to have some idea of how to use him to my advantage.
The HE player will have , Dragon princes, White Lions, Phoenix Guard Mage bunker.
eagles and core. maybe 2x Bolt Throwers.

Thanks in advance.

Tmarichards · Post by **Tmarichards** » Sat Oct 29, 2011 2:21 pm

Use him to tie up your opponents biggest, nastiest unit while you kill the rest of the army. He's also a good war machine hunter. Every now and then he'll be able to snipe a character, but this will usually only happen vs bad players.

Don't commit him too early on, he's very good at controlling board space. Also, don't go near anything with Killing Blow.

Dirty Mac · Post by **Dirty Mac** » Sat Oct 29, 2011 2:46 pm

I will have a unit of corsairs , should I screen him with them till I can get him in to the flanks? I am concerned that he will get shot to bits or Magic'd to death before I can get him to combat.

The avenger · Post by **The avenger** » Sat Oct 29, 2011 3:22 pm

Dirty Mac wrote:I will have a unit of corsairs , should I screen him with them till I can get him in to the flanks? I am concerned that he will get shot to bits or Magic'd to death before I can get him to combat.

I think you should drop the Whip on him and take Soulrender/sword of might (fI use the first) and the Dragonhelm. This will give him the same AS, but he'll hit much harder and have 2+ wardsave flaming attacks, including spells from lore of metal and fire.

As he has 1+ As against ranged attacks aswell as the pendant, he's doing quite fine on his own, but on a rare occasion he'll fail his tests, right Tom?

But against daemons and dwarfs, who both have an "you-must-charge-me"stuff, I find it nice to have him in units, as he can't be forced to charge out by himself.

Tmarichards · Post by **Tmarichards** » Sat Oct 29, 2011 3:29 pm

[quote="The Avenger"]

As he has 1+ As against ranged attacks aswell as the pendant, he's doing quite fine on his own, but on a rare occasion he'll fail his tests, right Tom?

Only on those rare occasions such as the first turn of my second consecutive game on table 1 at Throne of Skulls against Dwarf cannons, yes

Dirty Mac · Post by **Dirty Mac** » Sat Oct 29, 2011 8:59 pm

Ok, is it safe to have him strike last?against HE he always will, but against the other armies too? Against dwarfs he will be taking out War Machines if I handle him correctly.

The avenger · Post by **The avenger** » Sat Oct 29, 2011 9:08 pm

Dirty Mac wrote:Ok, is it safe to have him strike last?against HE he always will, but against the other armies too? Against dwarfs he will be taking out War Machines if I handle him correctly.

It's not a problem at all. He can take pretty much hard stuff, and still get to strike.
In CC he'll have a good AS against low strength and still a descent ward.
Against s5 he'll have a 4+ as and 5- ward. Cool stuff

I've played mine with the soulrender, and I'm pleased

Mortiferum · Post by **Mortiferum** » Fri Nov 25, 2011 1:31 pm

Would this build be good against Monsters - specifically - Hellpit Abom, TK Warsphinx and Colossus, and DE War Hydras?

I understand it has an awesome save / ward saves but do those of you that use this build use it to hold off monsters or just the large hordestar units?

Prince fabulas · Post by **Prince fabulas** » Fri Nov 25, 2011 2:51 pm

Warsphinx can be a problem as T8 is really hard to wound and Tomb Gaurd have killing Blow also khemri can get a spell that improves all kb attackes to kb on 5+ and all other attacks get regular kb.

Also watch war hydra (or any reasonable sized DE units) as it can be cauldroned to give KB and it is hard to wound.

Zed · Post by **Zed** » Fri Nov 25, 2011 7:57 pm

I played today vs TK and i tried using dreadlord on pegasus with Sword of Might, PoK, Crown of Command and Dragonhelm. And it was awesome. He totaly bugged Necrosphinxs and held it in place for 3 rounds until COK charged it and killed it outright. The rest of the TKs units were handled with ease but Dreadlord on Pegasus really was the badass on the table