Army of Sand - TK 2500 pts

Thanks for your feedback and for taking the time to reply.! :-)

I agree with you . Fiery breath is a thing.

Hierotitan is also great

but then why I didn't include them?

Bear with me.

In the middle- late game ( if I don't have target for the casket ) generally I use the supportive spells of nehek.

I have to save points ( on fiery roar also ) in order to play as many monsters I could.( that's why you don 't see any upgrades)
Problems of playing a death star of Tomb Guards is that they are slow ( M4) and people generally avoid to front them for all the game.
If I play TG, generally, I play also hiero +casket and in 2 turns cannons can kill both compromising my magic for the rest of the game.

My Tomb King is in the block of skeletons.
Horde formation 10x6
This unit has several purposes
- hold the back line of my army
- tarpit ( I can keep busy a dangerous unit while my monsters finish the job somewhere else. Or I can even flank charge with my monsters for a last alfa stike ( here we must be careful because skeletons can die fast and we can take too many wounds on our monsters if we crumble )
- hold points
- win vs small units
- guard the Liche bunker unit ( He can support the skeleton horde with magic simply staying behind them, well protected)
- win the  war of attricion
They have armour save 5+ , parry save 6+ , ward save 6+ vs war machine and WS 6
59 + Tomb king ...my Royal Guard unit.

Thank you !
with the casket there is a good percentage I got minimum  5 or 6 dice.
In this case, in the first 1-2 turns,  I use all of them for casting the casket spell.( serching for IF).

In the first 1 -2 turns generally I don't have any unit in melee, so I don't care that much of Nehek spell Ward save 5+.( even if it can protect my units from shooting). 
The spell  multiple (2) it's useful if we have a big unit of archers...But it won't affect too much my shooting phase because I have just 11 horse archers.
Desication is very good but  more useful in melee  (so in middle - late game).
if I have more than 5- 6 dice then I go for the ward save 5+.

Nehek is a nice lore and my two "must have" are
- Neru protection 
-Desiccation
Both, if casted to support the Skeleton block,  can be crucial.

Ward save  5++ doesn't need to be explained
the block can rely on his  WS 6   + Armour save 5+ and ward save 5++  

Desiccation is very useful

-1 T -1 S  

1)with WS 6+ we are already quite skilled in hitting and with this  spell  our skeletons will also wound quite effectively ( bringing a T 4 Ogre or warriors of chaos to T3... means we will wound half of times) 
2) when they will wound us with -1 S  points I invested in light armour will be very useful.
A Strenght 4 attack will still leave my Skeleton with an  AS 6+ and ward save  6++ (I still roll for  Armour save  which I wound not have without the upgrade ).
and if  a S4 attack becomes   S3 ... means having Armour save 5+.

All this just to say that These 2 spells supports very well our block or Skeletons. ( but not only)

The  feeling i have playing my list is that I don't have to rely so much on magic to make the army works.


lot of people are playing a second lev 4 lore of light .
Double liche is not my cup of tea.
have you ever notice  that an additional  liche lev 4 costs 210 points -....like one Sphinx?

Moreover we have also to drop our Tomb King and replace him with a Prince. :-( 

Imho investing in a ( lore of light) wizard has just a "theoretical "potential. 
A sphinx ( if not killed  by cannons) has  a "real " effectiveness.

Giving WS 10 to a Unit which has  already WS 6....is not a great change.
It can be interesting if Icast it on a monster ...but monsters can t  do  so many attacks like a big block of infantry.
Birona is a game changer for us ? really?
or the shooting "lasers spells ? 
and if we roll bad in magic phase ...in the moment we most need magic support?
no thanks .
For now ..I choose one more sphinx and I add it to my others monsters and heavy cavalry.



I will try to post some pictures of my army sooner or later. be patient my friend.
This big unit is so cool.I love to see it  on the battlefield!

You can use the same list and drop this 

- Talisman of Endurance [30pts]
-  5 x Skeleton Horsemen [70pts]
- Necrolith Colossus [175pts]
- Necrolith Colossus [175pts]
- 2 horse archer 28 pts 
- standard bearer necro knights 10 pts
- light armour skeleton horseman 10pts 
- ironcurse  icon 5pts 

 -503 pts 



Lords  496 pts
Core   521 pts 
Special 845 pts 
Rare 135 

TOT 1997 pts

in this way I tried  to "keep" the main structure of the army .:-)