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8 man army?; What?
Topic Started: 8th August 2005 - 01:00 PM (531 Views)
Cain666


What is this 8 man army I am hearing about? How can you meet the minimum requirements for something like that-what does the list look like?
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I aint heard of an 8 man army, do u mean the scenario when u only get 7 characters? (sheer heroisum) thts about as close i think u can get to an 8 man army.
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I made a 10 man chaos army once, it was only 1k, it had 2 units of 4 knights, a sorcerer on steed and a daemon with upped to a lvl 2 wizard. The guy I was playing used a life spell to flatten my daemon with a hill in the first turn, thus killing 1/3 of my army, my general, and half my spell casting prowess with 1 spell... I still won tho. (this was a cheesy army that I would hate to make again but i had a very limited # of models to work with.)
Aside from sheer heroisim (which can actually have more or less than 7 men) that is the closest I have seen to an 8 man army.
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you mean the tzeench chariot army.

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rest chars mounted on chariots and the rest of the armys points is spent on chariots
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the official smallest possible army is a tzeench chaos one. it consists of enough chariots to fill up your core choices, a tzeench lord on a dragon, and a few more tzeench characters on chariots.
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Heres a little looksee (except I put some screamers instead of the last chariot, so i'm not 7 points over)

http://www.thegreatuncleanone.com/viewShort.asp?ArmyID=60515
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I have actually seen a army similar to one of the chariot armies in play. I think the guy had a couple of chariots, a lord on the flying disc, a couple of characters in chariots, and a choas giant.

Probably one of the cheesiest armies I have ever seen, and the guy who was playing it looked like he had played warhammer for a while, so I was a little surprised he had brought the army.

The army couldn't have been bigger than 12-15 models. My buddy beat him easily when the guys casting didn't go well, and he kept miscasting and losing the magic phase and such.

Eventually his lord panicked, and ran off the board and he just surrenedered, it was sad really.
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speaking of small armies, cant u make a minutar army, with a doombull and tons of minutars, it would be pretty small

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thats the problem with a one trick pony army... that tzeeth list needs magic phase to do well. nothing 3 warlock engineers with 2 dispell scrolls each cant handle long enough to run over with the horde....

idea sounds great tho, but 15 dice are hard when someone expecting it
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Ohhhh, I think you can probably go smaller. What about Dragon Ogre Shaggoth Chieftan and a couple of Dragon Ogres... wait... no... that'd still be more models. More fun though. :lol:
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Eh Shaggoths don't change DO's being a rare choice... small beast army...

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Mino's...

Pretty small..
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http://www.thegreatuncleanone.com/viewarmy...p?armyid=158619

a 5 model chaos army.... i will point out now that you would change the magic items... since all the heroes have the same items.
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I see people are returning to the days of 5th edition Chaos....where if you had more then 20 people in a 2000 point game, it was rare indeed (and yet those 20 could still smash most things in their path...hell, one of my opponents back in 5th edition used to regularly field a 7-12 man strong chaos army... soooooo glad they changed that. There's just somethign wrong with calling a force that small an "army").
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I don't think people are returning there, its not like you would find many people who would take such a list except just to try it once for fun.

If you wanted to go cheesy, I wounder if an all screamer army would not be better. One exalted deamon, or even a herals since he is cheaper, and then ca 54 Screamers. That would be tricky to face since the army could do 54 automatic hits on you each turn without actually engading you in combat :P All the need to do is take out your artillery and wait.
Although if there is room to fly around with 54 screamers like that is another thing.
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