Editing Warhammer/Tactics/8th Edition/Undead Legions (section)

===Buying and designing your army===

Start with the Vampire Counts Battalion, it doesn't matter who you are, the battalion has 20 ghouls, 20 skeletons, 10 Dire Wolves, and a Corpse Cart, which will do just fine for every wizard in the game because those are all good options, and they are also all options that, excluding the Corpse Cart, can be summoned relatively easily using the Lore of Undeath, and they are all good support options no matter what army you are running.

Better yet, get one of the new End Times bundles. Now normally you'd think that GW's "one click bundles" are basically a bunch of weird crap put together with no real discount. WRONG. At least the three army bundles (The Black Host, The Army of the Silver Pinnacle, and the Army of Sternieste) all have discounts than buying the items individually (and these are significant discounts, like 25%). Of all of them, The Black Host is probably the best buy, as you get the Terrogeist kit, meaning you could build it up as a Vampire Lord on zombie dragon and then turn the strigoi ghoul king into another vampire lord on foot. You also get a Wight King (although not that impressive) and 20 Grave Guard. There's also 20 skeletons, which is never a bad place to start. The Army of Sternieste is also pretty good, considering you get 15(!) Hexwraiths/Black Knights and a decent block of zombies, as well as a Necromancer and Vargheists. The only one that's kinda lackluster is the Army of the Silver Pinnacle, as it gives you 10 Tomb Guards (which the Grave Guards are superior to) and a Tomb Banshee as opposed to a more useful hero and elite troops. It does come with the mortis engine and 20 Ghouls, as well as 16 archers.

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The big question when deciding to build an Undead Legions army is, 'Who is your leader?' To a very large extent, who you want running the army determines how you should build it. Become familiar with your chosen leader's rules, and then take things that supplement your leader's area of expertise.