[Archive] 2500 machisist list

Geist:

The new list.

Lord same as is. Lore of Hashut is just too good to give up on. Ashstorm will win games hands down by itself.

BSB until I can get some games in he stays the same. He has had a shield I just never wrote it down(thought it was obvious), how else does he get a 2+ save?

The robo dogs aka khans (I hate goblins so for me they will be metal and flame mechanical dogs). Those are staying and some how I have found points to give them full kit ie shield armour and spear plus wolf. Solid redirects while coming in under 60 pts.

Blunderbusses for the win that brick stays the same. Why fire some one asked me? First I can nuke a hellpit or hydra in one shot if I get x3 on the multi shot roll. That frees up the magma cannons to nuke something else.

Speaking of magma cannons yes they stay.

One skullcrakcer despite all the naysaying about them I still will have one. The local meta as asked before belived in big bricks of rank and file. Thats tasty for me. Why the second one got removed. Because every time I tryed to get one for cheap on e-bay the price would go way stupid high. So in comes the pitch hitter.

Home built scratch put together Kaadi destroyer. Due to a lack of putty in my area and I cant get enough damn chain bits he is in progress needing much love and care. I will post a pic of him as soon as hes done and I figure out how to post pics here. He is massive 7 inches tall and in the veune of an arm of chains his right arm is nothing but chains blades and skulls.

Samanos:

So basically your list is something like this:

prophet

BSB

4 Khans on wolfs

1 unit of blunderbusses

2 magmas

1 skullcracker

1 destroyer

you dont have anything that can counter units that have 2+ ward against flaming (which will stick to your destroyer).

your magmas will nuke everything propably but if you dont have a demonsmith nearby chances are they will nuke themselves as well. I advise like before to drop 2 khans and add a demonsmith. The prophet will need to be closer to the enemy if you want to use ash storm so he weont be able to babysit them.

Again I also advise to add a normal iron demon instead of a skullcracker. It is clearly superior in any respect. it can kill monsters and monstous inf/cav/beasts. That leaves your magmas and destroyer to handle hordes (I would not recommend wasting magma in monsters. chances are they are not gonna kill it when you need them to and they are much more effective against rank and file) and if need arises can engage into combat.

Geist:

2+ ward vs fire yup that will suck. So that all cav high elf dragon prince army will beat me every time with out fail. Now when have you ever seen that army on the indy circut? I sure havent.

You have made an argument unlike the other yobbos on here about why you think what should be what. For that I respect your advice. I will not be changing out the skull cracker I remain conviced its better than the normal choo choo as a horde killer. As for monsters, dragons are not much seen in these parts and a kaadi can handle anything outside of suneater.

As to loosing 2 khans for a engineer to baby sit the magmas. I shall see how the games play out.

Samanos:

Sorry I do not know what indy circuit is (tournament i guess, if yes does it have its own rulespack ?).

About the 2+ ward vs fire, it doesnt have to be a HE army. any character with a mount and dragonhelm/gem will stick to your destroyer for the rest of the game so this is something to keep in mind.   

Truth is the best way to see what works and what not is by playtesting, advice can only get you so far.

try your list and let us know how it goes! :slight_smile:

Geist:

I cant just give you a link for the circuit, but type in your google engine indy gt circuit. YOu will see many fantasy tournament on it. Yes there are rules packets, but each one is different and usually you dont get a packet until day of the tourney, as the build limits if any can be found on the various websites.

Yes the 2+ mounted dude will wreck my shop. Just will have to ashstorm that guy alot and then run his mount over with the choo choo and hope enough hits go onto the mount.