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[Ulrock]

First off this is my first Warhammer army ever and I decided to go with the stalwart Dwarfs! My friend and I are both new to the game and he is starting a Chaos Warrior Army, was wondering if this is a good Army start and what would be better against him.

General, Dwarf Lord 276pts
MR Steel, RO Preservation, RO Stone, MR Spite, GW

Runesmith 122pts
MR Balance, Shield

Thane 90pts
BSB

Cannon 125pts
RO Forging

Grudge Thrower 105

20 Hammerers 270
FC, Lord will go here along with BSB?

30 Warriors 295
FC, Shields

30 Warriors 325
FC, GW

14 Thunderers 196

14 Thunderers 196


Total 2,000pts

[bam4k]

Your BSB needs some protection! I would personally drop the Lord, Tank up your BSB and add Accuracy and some Penetrating to your grudge thrower. I also like engineers on my war machines. I am not a fan of thunderers, I prefer Quarrelers w/GWs for missile troops. I would honestly drop the thunderers for more war machines and GW wielding dwarfs. Everyone has their preferences for lists, and this is not a bad one. The biggest issue is your BSB is naked. That really needs to be changed.

[Alebelly_Cragfist]

Organ Guns are great against Heavy armour elites such as his Knights. My cousin hates the OG rules (we both started again last year, he chose WoC and I chose Dawi).

As Bam4k stated, it's highly advisable to take 2x Ro Accuracy and 1x Ro Penetrating on your GT. It may well be that you'll face large Marauder blocks as they're wise choices for the points cost. You'll need an accurate large template WM with some hitting power to take them down in short order.

I'd also lose the lord in favour of a Rune Lord at 2K. You could get away with just a RL and BSB Thane.

You may want a rune of burning on the cannon if he's taking any regen units like Trolls or Nurgle Troops.

If you can find the points, make at least one of your 30 Warior units a 40ish horde for the extra killyness and boost your Hammerers to 30+.

3-4 warmachines is advisable so he has to think more carefully about his deployment. That said, read about the castle formation and you'll be a tough nut to crack

I hope it goes well for you. Chaos vs Dawi is a great fluffy head to head

Edited by Alebelly_Cragfist, 06 January 2012 - 01:56 PM.

[Ulrock]

I redid the list how does this sound, I took out one of the Warrior Regt. and toned my Lord, so now I have
38 Hammerers 486pts
-FC, Lord and BSB go here

39 Warriors 405pts
-FC, Runesmith will go here
Cannon 130pts
Ro Forging, Ro Fire

Grudge Thrower 105pts
Ro Accuracy

He has mentioned that he will be bringing two big 40 man hordes of Marauders and they will be frenzied, the other units are 2 regiments of chaos warriors but are smaller blocks of 20 men. He won't have any ranged units but I have no idea on whether he will have Magic or not.