Wolf Tide Coven

 With Holy Wars VII on the horizon for a lot of narrative people, I've been kicking around narrative army ideas that fit the army building requirements for the events. In short, the army needs to be built at the 1000 point level (no special characters over 400 points) with an additional 500 points of troops (no behemoths or heroes).

One idea that has stuck in my head is a Soulblight Gravelords army based on Radukar the Wolf when he was still a vampire with a fleet and the supporting cast of vampires and troops that he would have had on his ship. 

At 1000 points, you can take 3 leaders, so Radukar is the first, then why not add a Vengorian Lord and a Coven Throne? Going with a sea theme, it only makes sense to use the Vengorian Lord human torso parts and put them on a IDK deepmare to make a vampire lord of the deep. After all Radukar is on a ship, so there is a good chance some of his vampires take on animalistic aspects of sea creatures. 

For the Coven Throne, add the ship hull bits from the Mega Gargant kit to the back and then cut out the ghost horse riders and add in some Fenrisian Wolves. This keeps the sea theme and adds in the wolf theme that dominates Radukar's figure. This also lets you make lots of Sea Wolf references, which everyone knows already. 

With our Hero slots filled. We need 2 battleline units to make a legal list. This could be 2 units of 10 skeletons if you want to add in an endless spell or something small like fell bats. Otherwise you are probably choosing 20 zombies and 10 wolves or a unit of 20 skeletons and 10 skeletons. You have 260 points to work with. 

The real fun and thematic part of this list comes from adding in 6 Vyrkos Blood-Born. These would be Radukar's lieutenants or retinue aboard his flag ship. For these guys, lets use the Dark Elf Blood Bowl team, add in some undead weapons, either the Skeleton Warrior swords or Bladegheist swords and some Tree Revenant heads where needed. Last add on some greenstuffed fur to help carry over the wolf theme and I think you have some pretty good sea-worthy Blood-Born.

Now that we have a TON of vampires in this list. We can fill out the remaining 250 points of that extra 500 with 2 Kosargi Nightguard (gotta give Radukar his bodyguards) and 3 Vargheists. 

While this list isn't super competitive, it does have a very flavorful feel to it. Additionally, if you get Tactical Insight from the Coven Throne off on the Blood-Born, it gives them +1 to hit and wound and +1 to save, giving them 3 attacks at 2+/2+, -1 Rend, D3 damage and a 5+ save. Add in Radukar's Call to the Hunt command ability and they go up to 3 attacks each. Yes, he has to charge something and be in range of the the Blood-Born but thats a pretty nifty attack profile.