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Tomb Kings; How to beat them?
Topic Started: 6th September 2004 - 03:44 PM (294 Views)
meeskat
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My friend plays tomb kings, and I was wondering.. any tips on how to beat them? (Thus far his army has no bowmen :D )
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The best way to defeat any undead army is to kill their general and that is what skitterleap is best at (especially in eshin). After you do that, concentrate on his high leadrership (tomb prince/king) units and things that cause terror(bone giants) as he can still scrape a victory using these things to make your army flee. Be cowardly, its in your armys nature.
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Kraven Tailblade
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Kill the Head Hierophant/priest at all costs!!!
Once he dies the army crumbles like VC.
Shoot him,Warp-lightning,WLC, Tunnel teams,Assassins,Skitterleap.
Get to him ASAP and take him out.

If you're playing a big game he Screaming bell might be useful. Taking the Standard of the Horned Rat(fear) will make one of your units cause fear and be immune to it.
Make sure your unit outnumber him so you don't auto-break.
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Jackety
FEAR THE LEMMING!
Yeah. Take a things-catcher for the sole purpose of killing the tomb prince/heirophant.
Avoid combat with the Tomb Prince unit at ALL COSTS!
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Agriant
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There's also one thing to watch out for. The Casket of Souls. I've had many a bad experiance with that thing. Keep a few mages around and block his incantations. Oh, get an assassin and give him the warpstone throwing stars for 50 pts. That is guaruntted to take down any Tomb King hero (unless he's on that damn casket!)
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Warlord Quickpaw
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If you want to beat him just stand back with 2 cannons, lots of jezzails, lots of gatlings, and lots of wizzards.
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Agriant
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Oh yeah, if you can get a grey seer, try and get plague. Undead, low toughness, lots of fun!
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Jackety
FEAR THE LEMMING!
Try Vermin Tide.
Low toughness, low armor, many hits...
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meeskat
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Thanks for all the advice :D Im glad he doesnt have a casket of souls yet :rolleyes: im still new to warhammer, and he read me the rules to that beast... ah its a beast. bone giants sound like beasts too.. but so far... none of those! Basically what he has is the Batallion and 3 ushatabi. Kill the herophant.. Ill remember that ! thanks
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My assasin always goes hirophant hunting they dont usualy suvive the warpstone stars
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Sammy the Squid
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Snipe the Heirophant with WLC or skitterleaped assassin. or plague, but I think that removing the Heirophant in the first turn would be great! Theyd collapse before they reached you (maybe not but thatd be funny!!!)!!!
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Skaven Clan Rattenkrieg - 108/58/20
Dark Elves - 44/14/8
Hochland Empire - 33/14/4
Malkavian Vampires - 23/22/4
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Hmm - interesting question here with Skitterleap and the Heirophant/Master Necromancer. Let's say that the opponent is buried deep in a large skeleton unit, with another skeleton unit about a quarter of an inch in front of that... say... 20 models in a straight line across the field, to prevent attacking the character.

Is there any way to get the Assassin in there, with or without stars?
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Sammy the Squid
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Sadly, I dont thin you could... but Id be very angry at my opponent for such cheesy deployment...
"If the squidman can't do it, no one can!!"

Wins/Losses/Draws

Skaven Clan Rattenkrieg - 108/58/20
Dark Elves - 44/14/8
Hochland Empire - 33/14/4
Malkavian Vampires - 23/22/4
Beastmen - 50/25/2

Have not completed a Painting Vow since July 07!!
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Jackety
FEAR THE LEMMING!
Skitter leap so you're the closest model to the Heirophant. That shooting restriction of independant models becomes nothing.
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Sammy the Squid
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Yeah, but if theyre deployed like that you wont be able to fit the assassin in there... Deployed so close that his base wont fit between the forward unit and his unit...
"If the squidman can't do it, no one can!!"

Wins/Losses/Draws

Skaven Clan Rattenkrieg - 108/58/20
Dark Elves - 44/14/8
Hochland Empire - 33/14/4
Malkavian Vampires - 23/22/4
Beastmen - 50/25/2

Have not completed a Painting Vow since July 07!!
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