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 Post subject: 1500 pts army for tourney
PostPosted: Mon May 04, 2009 3:42 pm 
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My friends, I'm going to give a first shot to my bretts army in a local tourney at 1500 pts. Hope to read your opinions and recomendations.

Paladin
Grail vow
Virtue of audacity
Sword of might
@grail knights

Paladin BSB
Warbanner
@ KOTR

Damsel
Warhorse
Dispell scroll x2
Lore of life
@ grail knights

Damsel
Chalice of malfleur
dispell scroll
Lore of beast
@ grail reliqueae

Grail reliqueae
20 Battle pilgrins

Peasant Bowmen x 11
Peasant Bowmen x 11

KOTR
8 knights
musician

Grail knights
5 knights
Banner of defense

Pegasus knights
3 Knights

What do you think about it, what could be improved? Thanks in advance for your help.


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PostPosted: Sun May 10, 2009 10:23 am 
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Are you expecting to see that much magic in 1500 that you'll need two damsels, 2 scrolls, and the chalice? I think your list is very top heavy, and if you end up against a dwarf army built for hand to hand, or a gunline you could be in deep


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PostPosted: Mon May 11, 2009 7:29 pm 
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mmmm, maybe you're right. i don't think i'm going to face many heavy magic armies. I've modified my original list and looks like this

Paladin (@ GK)
General; Lance; Heavy Armour; Shield; Grail Vow
Sword of Might
Virtue of Audacity

Paladin (@ KOTR)
Shield; Knightly Vow
Armour of Agilulf
Sword of Battle

1 Paladin Battle Standard Bearer (@ KOTR)
War Banner

1 Damsel of the Lady (@ GR)
Chalice of Malfleur
Dispel Scroll

1 Grail Reliquae
18 Battle Pilgrims

12 Peasant Bowmen
12 Peasant Bowmen

7 Knights of the Realm
Musician

6 Grail Knights
Standard; Musician;
Banner of Defense [30]

3 Pegasus Knights
Musician

This too like's to me a lot, give a little more punch to the KOTR unit & one more grail knight. How does it looks? Thanks for your comments Brett.


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PostPosted: Thu May 21, 2009 7:07 am 
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I think you have too many characters still... At 1500 I'd stick with 3- General, BSB, one damsel.

I also generally prefer to keep my damsels mounted. She's not an offensive caster, she won't cast anything, so you put her MR where you want her to save something... the KOTR or GR unit. Plus, when mounted she can be protected from challenges, and directed attacks by being placed in the middle of the second(and beyond) ranks of the Lance formation.

With the points you save from the extra paladin, buy some Men At arms to work with the Grail Reliquae, then combine your two bowmen units into one skirmishing unit. With bowmen, quantity has a quality all it's own. 20 skirmishing bowmen is my usual unit I run, and my gaming group has learned to really hate them. Skirmishing bowmen in a forest make my friends cry. You just have to watch out for things that don't roll to hit... templates, stone throwers, and magic missile type attacks. 20 bowmen vs a bolt thrower though is easy... you'll hit with 7ish, 2.5ish will hit crew, 1.25ish will wound. And vs other troops, depending on toughness, and armor save... it can also be devastating.


The Terminator doesn't fear the lascannon He fears the lasgun. Because there's usually just the one lascannon. The lasgun usually has a couple hundred friends. What I'm getting at is that the key to bowmen is volume of fire. Rain down so many arrows that the law of averages says he'll fail enough armor saves to make it worth it.


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PostPosted: Tue Jun 02, 2009 8:50 pm 
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Well, Ive played the tournament las t week & finish in first place, there was 12 players on it. I played three games against Dark Elves, Bretonnia & Dwarves... achieving 2 masacres & one solid victory.
I used the second list i posted, i will try to post a battle report. thanks for your help.

Regards


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PostPosted: Wed Jun 03, 2009 12:42 pm 
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