Age of Sigmar/Tactics/Old/Death/Deathwalker

These are the rules for Deathwalker prior to the release of the Legions of Nagash Battletome, and as such are no longer matched play valid.

Ready to play a horde of brain eaters without any leader? This is the right place for you!

Warscrolls

The common keywords of these warscrolls are: DEATH, ZOMBIE and DEADWALKERS.

Leaders

Sure, yea, well... WE DON'T NEED THEM. WE'RE FUCKING ZOMBIES, WE JUST NEED BRAAAAAINS!!!

Troops

Battleline

• Zombies: Zombies are awful. Really fucking awful. But they also have the most potential in the entire game. They start out with a single attack at 5+/5+/-/1 but get better the more you have. If you add a bunch of buffs, you can turn that to a 2+/3+/-/1 easily. So yeah, the Zombie Rape Train relies more on support than anything else, but gets you quite a lot of mileage. Zombies can also infect the guys they kill and two Zombie units can actually combine in order to get to greater numbers, which grants them better To Hit and To Wound rolls. Noise Makers make sure that you can always charge under 6".

Others

• Dire Wolves: They're like normal wolves, but they're dire. With most units of the vampire counts, the tenor has been that their strength is in numbers and that one-on-one they lose out to most other similar units. Not so with Dire Wolves. These are what Chaos Warhounds wish they could be. In a game that loathes tarpits and chaff, these guys are the best there is. They have high movement, two wounds each and a 5+ save that can be increased by being close to a Corpse Cart. They can roadblock anything slower than them and take forever to kill and have just enough attacks that people don't want them to strike first.

• Corpse Cart: On its own, the Corpse Cart is awful. They have a bad save and a bunch of weak attacks (choose always the lash over the goad) and a choice of +1 to casting rolls for Death Wizards or -1 to casting rolls for enemy Wizards. What they do however, is turn Zombies into the unholy rape train that they are by adding +1 to their Hit rolls and making it easier for your Necromancers to summon more of them do NOT add a hero in your zombie army, it's probably one of the easiest way to lose!

Army Building

Due to lack of leaders it's impossible to form a pitched battle army. All the solution written here have therefore DEATH allegiance.

1000pt.

The army comp for this is pretty straightforward. Start with 1 units of 40 Zombies (or two of twenty to merge prior to charge, in this way you'll have two different unit which regenerate d6 models)and add a Corpse Cart as centerpiece to buff the zombies (if you are going pure Deadwalker equip it with a Balefire Brazier to keep enemy wizards at bay) along with a unit of 15 Dire Wolves. This will make a total of 440pt., now double that and add a Necromancer or a Wight King with the Ruler of the Night command trait (for added survivability of your zombies with a 5+ extra save) and the Ring of Immortality (just to be sure, in case any enemy unit manage to pass through your horde and attack your general). With 226€ and the impressive count of 113 models, you're done.

At 113 models it's pretty sure you will outnumber the enemy, but here it comes the sweet surprise. Your enemy should choose a sudden death objective.

1. Assassinate is out of the games since your only selectable HERO is deep behind your zombie wall and you have to kill him twice.
2. If he choose Blunt just name a zombie unit and smile at your +4 bonus to hit, +3 to wound rolls and your 5+ extra save.
3. His only solution for Endure is RUN, but we will follow, slow and purposeful.
4. With Seize Ground he have to come at you, but we already have lots of ways to resist 4 turns.

Still, the zombies are pretty fragile so it's really easy to lose by minor victory. Essentially you should kill faster than your opponent, and with no save at all this could be pretty difficult. Start from the weakest and most killable enemy units to fill your lines and send the Dire Wolves to block the big guys until you are ready to face them.

Allied Armies

There are a couple of choices to be made: if you're going to add a hero he must be kinda resistant and he should be able to buff the zombies adding some resistance. In the Death Grand Alliance the only model to fulfill that is the Wight King with Baleful Tomb Blade. Give him an Infernal Standard, deploy it next to the central Corpse Cart and enjoy your 6+ invulnerable save 18" bubble. If you want just to buff their attacks, the classic choice would be a Necromancer with his Vanhel's Danse Macabre spell (casting value 6, a SKELETON, MORDANT or ZOMBIE unit within 18" pile in and attack twice in the next combat phase) or a Vampire Lord (same as the necromancer but it's 15" it applies to any DEATH unit and it's a command ability, so you can use that and then cast a Mystic Shield).

External links

Rules are here

https://www.games-workshop.com/resources/PDF/AoS_Warscrolls/aos-warscroll-zombies-en.pdf

https://www.games-workshop.com/resources/PDF/AoS_Warscrolls/aos-warscroll-dire-wolves-en.pdf

https://www.games-workshop.com/resources/PDF/AoS_Warscrolls/aos-warscroll-corpse-cart-en.pdf