In the middle of winter the Dwarves of Clan Ingfaer march to war…
The other day Mr Hester contacted me and asked if I would like to join him at the Spiky Club’s Winter War 1 day event on the 12th January in Reading, my Warriors not being ready yet it falls to the trusted stunties to once more march to war.
3 games of 2400pts all of battleline doesn’t sound too arduous but there is a snag, only 5 warmachines (and yes, that is what an Anvil is these days), my artillery train has turned into a tram….
I’ll have a bash at a few lists, then it will be time for some frantic playtesting (1 month only) but over the years I’ve got a good idea of what will work for me.
Besides, I have some grudges to settle….
2 cannons (1 flaming) and 2 grudge throwers (1 flaming)
Big (I mean 30+ big) unit of Hammerers
Big (I mean 30+ big) unit of Long Beards
A bit of Crossbow shooting
Couple of Gyrocopters to run interference and be a nuisance
Lord on Shieldbearers, Runesmith (inc the obligatory 3 spell breakers), Thane BSB – all runed up to the eyeballs – Load em all up into the Hammererers, find a nice corner to sit in and shout “come get me!”
How much more do you need???!!!
Looks like Winter War is filling up nicely – you might want to put a post on the Warhammer Forum though to say you both have paid (assuming you have…) as neither of your names are on the current list of entrants…
Ah the good old Dwarf army. Copy and paste! 😉 However I believe Longbeards are out of favour, so regular Warriors with great weapons are the big core block of choice…
Someone obviously forgot to tell my opponent at Beasthammer that Longbeards have fallen out of favour… but he only finished 7th and top 25 in the Rankings – he must have been a chump… 😛
longbeards are a point more than Hammerers when you give them GW and shields for no appreciable difference and you need a unit of warriors anyway as you can’t have more Longbeards than warriors unless you have a Lord which is hard to do as I’m planning on running an anvil (315pts without runes) besides I’d rather save the 3pts a model for more runes…
What he said!
I personally like Longbeards, but others appear to disagree… 🙂
Isn’t some of the Anvil’s power wasted under this comp pack? You can only generate 2 additional dispel dice… a lord and an anvil generate 3?
Only use I can see is if you want to run combat dwarves who are going to run around the board looking for a fight? With Miners or Rangers might be good…
Can you resist the temptation to go for the ancient power though?!?!?!
And damn it! They comped my zero deployment idea for Dwarves!! Admittedly hard to do at 2400 though…
Wait a minute…. Special characters are allowed….?? (except Teclis…)
Are you planning on using Thorek and Bugman?
What does Morathi do again…?
Are you going too Bryan?
No I’m booked to go to Sheffield Slaughter end of Jan – couldn’t do two in quick succession! One dayers on a saturday are a bit awkward for mw as well. I am giving Buzz a practice game on Sunday using the Winter War comp pack though… My list for that is very similar to what I have in mind for the slaughter.
I was going to ask the rest of the lads if anyone else fancied coming to Sheffield but before I had chance the tickets sold out within 16 minutes of going on sale!!