[TOW] Dwarf army list: No Points for You! (and maybe also no fun...)

Chaos Dwarf Discussion Army List and Gaming Discussion
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With the Arcane Journal for Dwarfs and the Doomseeker rules there’s the potential for a pretty thematic albeit borderline beardy army composition. I present to you: No Points for You!

Dwarfen Mountain Holds - Royal Clan - No Points for You! - [2000pts]

++ Main Force ++ [2000pts]

Named Characters [315pts]

Ungrim Ironfist [315pts]: Hand Weapon, The Axe of Dargo, The Slayer Crown, Light Armour, General

Characters [185pts]

Dragon Slayer [185pts]: Hand Weapon, Master Rune of Swiftness, Rune of Fury, Rune of Cleaving, Rune of the Dishonoured

Core [500pts]

Quarrellers [50pts]:
• 5x Quarreller [10pts]: Crossbow, Hand Weapon, Heavy Armour, Shield
Quarrellers [50pts]:
• 5x Quarreller [10pts]: Crossbow, Hand Weapon, Heavy Armour, Shield
Slayers [400pts]:
• 20x Giant Slayer [400pts]: Hand Weapon, Additional Hand Weapon

Special [1000pts]

Doomseeker [215pts]: Hand Weapon, 3x Rune of Fury, Rune of Endless Battle, Rune of Wrath, Rune of the Reckless
Doomseeker [135pts]: Hand Weapon, Rune of Endless Battle, Rune of Wrath, Rune of the Hateful
Doomseeker [130pts]: Hand Weapon, Rune of Wrath, Rune of the Hateful, Rune of the Reckless
Doomseeker [100pts]: Hand Weapon, Rune of Blazing Fury, Rune of Wrath, Rune of the Hateful
Doomseeker [105pts]: Hand Weapon, Rune of Wrath, Rune of the Hateful, Warrior’s Rune
Doomseeker [110pts]: Hand Weapon, Rune of Wrath, Rune of the Dauntless, Rune of the Hateful
Doomseeker [95pts]: Hand Weapon, Rune of Wrath, Rune of the Hateful
Doomseeker [110pts]: Hand Weapon, Rune of Speed, Rune of Fury, Rune of the Hateful

The Dragon Slayer and 8 Doomseekers don’t give any victory points for the opponent once they have been killed - I just need to make sure they don’t survive the battle. That means, the opponent can get 915pts MAX (including the 100pts for killing the General). Ungrim is with 20 Giant Slayers, which are of course unbreakable and they can all issue and accept challenges. To get those points, they would all have to be killed. Now of course that’s not that hard with W20 at T4 and no protection, but still. (I still lament the necessity of 10 Quarrelers because of the “minimum 3 units” rule)

The Doomseekers have various combinations of additional attacks and hatred, coupled to runes to make it all viable. That first one truly is a menace if he charges :wink: Now I know this list needs to score at least 1015 points before everything is dead to win and that may not even be THAT easy against certain opponents, but I’d be willing to give it a try :joy:

Question is: If your opponent deploys this list, do you immediately leave the table and call him an asshole or do you wait until the game is over to punch him? :innocent:

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A player in the tournament I attended recently was fielding something like this, only not as egregious :sweat_smile::

++ Main Force ++ [2000pts]

Named Characters [315pts]

Ungrim Ironfist [315pts]: Hand Weapon, The Axe of Dargo, The Slayer Crown, Light Armour, General

Characters [470pts]

Daemon Slayer [274pts]: Hand Weapon, Rune of Parrying, 2x Rune of Striking, Rune of Grit, Rune of the Dishonoured, Great
Weapon
Dragon Slayer [123pts]: Hand Weapon, Rune of the Dishonoured, Additional Hand Weapon
Dragon Slayer [73pts]: Hand Weapon, Additional Hand Weapon

Core [510pts]

Longbeards [162pts]: Unit Options (Drilled
• 10x Longbeard [14pts]: Hand Weapon, Heavy Armour, Great Weapon, Shield
• 1x Elder [6pts]
• 1x Standard Bearer [6pts]
Royal Clan Warriors [83pts]: Shield, Unit Options (Stubborn
• 7x Royal Clan Warrior [10pts]: Hand Weapon, Heavy Armour
• 1x Veteran [6pts]
Royal Clan Warriors [83pts]: Shield, Unit Options (Stubborn
• 7x Royal Clan Warrior [10pts]: Hand Weapon, Heavy Armour
• 1x Veteran [6pts]
Slayers [91pts]:
• 7x Troll Slayer [91pts]: Hand Weapon, Additional Hand Weapon
Slayers [91pts]:
• 7x Troll Slayer [91pts]: Hand Weapon, Additional Hand Weapon

Special [705pts]

Doomseeker [190pts]: Hand Weapon, Master Rune of Alaric the Mad, 2x Rune of Speed, Rune of Endless Battle, Rune of Wrath,
Rune of the Hateful
Doomseeker [195pts]: Hand Weapon, Master Rune of Swiftness, 2x Rune of Cleaving, Rune of Endless Battle, Rune of Wrath, Rune
of the Reckless
Doomseeker [75pts]: Hand Weapon, Rune of Grit
Dwarf Cart [65pts]: Dwarf Crew (Hand Weapon), Draft Pony (Hand Weapon), Bugman’s Cart
Hammerers [180pts]: Drilled
• 7x Hammerer [17pts]: Great hammer, Hand Weapon, Heavy Armour, Shield
• 1x Royal Champion [12pts]: Rune of Passage
• 1x Standard Bearer [42pts]: Rune of Confusion

He did ok, coming in 6th out of 10. Small victories, and lost to the TK player who got in second. I assume he lost cause he couldn’t catch them, the TK was the same list I played the other day - all avoidance and magic :face_vomiting:

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There you go!

I have a feeling when doing something like this you either go all in or leave it. But good to know it neither was total crap nor had everyone moaning (and tbf no reason to be mad at someone who brings a list that goes 6th out of 10)

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Id love to play your dwarf list. Wouldnt care about vps. Hobbo archers and sneaky gits to decimate naked dwarves every turn if possible
Could probably get you down to movement 1 too with earthshaker and illusion spells

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Hahaha, yeah, a small arms fire heavy list will tear through them like paper :joy:

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Two alternative versions have the 20 Giant Slayers switched to either

  • 30 Trollslayers. Sacrifice some offense for 10 additional wounds
  • 29 Royal Clan Warriors with Shields and all the special rules. More wounds which are better protected. Unfortunately Ungrim cannot join them, so he’d be on his own. Have seen the guys on Mountain Miniatures run a lone fighter though, it’s not even that bad. And the whole list is much less thematic and fun.
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Oh just because I thought about it again: Sadly we don’t have access to Illusion.

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Lol i meant elementism anyway. They have the movement debuffs

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