Some weeks ago I had my first battle (1250 pts) in over a decade against a whole lot of Skinks. While I lost, it was a fairly near loss and it only happened because I did not have the reliable high strength attacks to fend off his a) stegadon and even more dangerously his b) Saurus old-blood (or scar vet, I don't know. Fighty hero) on cold one with GW and stegadon helm. (S7, T6, 2+AS and so on)
Now this week I will have a battle of 1500 points against a different player.
I will be using most if not all of what I had used before but there are still some things I'm in doubt about and wondering what the best options were. Because even though it's just a friendly game, I'd still like to win.
My original 1250 points army was:
Level 2 Sorceress (used Dark) for 115 pts.
3*10 Darkshards, with shields and full command for total 480 points.
1*10 corsairs with AHW and full command for 140 points.
1*5 Dark Riders, shields, rxb's, full command for 140 points.
Cold one Chariot for 115 points.
1*5 Shades, naked, for 90 points.
1*5 Cold one Knights, full command 180 points.
Now, it was my idea to raise the points cost to 1500 and I intend to fill up the gap with:
2nd Sorceress, lvl 2 for 115 points
1*5 Doomfire Warlocks, with champion for 135 points.
As it is now, this seems to be a very magic-heavy MSU list that prefers to avoid combat.
Thing is, I also have some painted Masters I'd like to use and my shades had let me down in the last game (there was not much they could do against a saurus hero on cold one, but still. They were weak, they deserved to die.) so I was wondering if it was a good idea to drop the shades and exchanging them for a master with heavy armour, sea dragon cloak and great sword. This would cost 84 points but if I dropped the shields from the DR as well as the shades (which were ten points over my previous list oops!) I'd end up with 1499 points.
What do all of you think?
My enemy is either going to be Ogre Kingdoms (with monsters), Warriors of Chaos (and he might try to cram in a daemon prince) or empire so I think I'll need something capable of cracking good armours or high toughness.
(and as I was writing this I realised I had made a mistake in my original "1250" points army because the shades are 90 and not, as I had written down, 80 points)
Another question, what lores of magic should I use? The warlocks don't have a choice and I'd like my sorceresses to stick to their painted themes (one is Dark/Shadow/Death, the other Fire/Metal) but that's optional. I will probably go with metal as long as the foe is not Ogres (haha take that, 1+ armour save!) but I'm not sure about the others as they all have their strengths and weaknesses. What works best against which foes in your experience?
