Well, after recounting my models, Ive found out that my previous list was unuseable(sp?) by me and so i've come up with this one....

Hero:
Thane with heavy armour, rune if stone, great weapon. 68 points

Core:
19xDwarf warriors with great weapons, heavy armour and a full command section. 215 points (These will be lead by the thane and be ranked 5 men wide)

16xDwarf warriors with hand weapons and shields, heavy armour and full command. 169 points (This unit being down in numbers is the biggest change)

10xThunderers with a musician and a veteran with a brace of pistols. 152 points

10xCrossbowmen. 120 points

Special:
Cannon with rune of forging. 135 points (I actually gave the cannon this in this list for two reasons: 1) Moderator Lordloverrocket told me to take it and 2) losing the cannon to a misfire would suck as thats 1/10 of my points gone to some bad luck)

Rare:
Gyrocopter. 140 points (I love my gyrocopter)

Now, you can either gasp in amazement or rate this list, whatever floats your boat, i'll be using it later today against my mates empire (Im expecting to lose, and if my opponent wins, he'll never hear the end of it :rolleyes: B) )

I like to use the following in a bog std 1000 pts, if I know who I'm going to play beforehand then I'll tailor some aspects of it accordingly

Thane 131 pts

Hand weapon, Dwarf Handgun, Great wpn, Gromril Arm, Rune of Stone, Master Rune of Spite


Thunderers x 12 with full cmd inc vet with brace of pistols and shields 207 pts
( I know this is an expensive unit but a missile unit that can rank up in combat with a 4+ arm save just saves me taking 2 specific units.)

Warriors x 19 with full cmd, hvy arm shd 196 pts
( this is where my thane goes and so provides me with a stopper unit, hopefully this unit will be targetted by any chargers and hold the unit to be charged in the flank by

Warriors x 20 with full cmd, gt wpn, hvy arm, shd 245 pts


Slayers x 10 110 pts
To hold a flank, board edge hopefully on other or thunderers.

Stone thrower Rune of Accuracy 110 pts

This takes it to 999. Its not perfect but what is?

Just got back from my game, the empire player had:

2 mage thingies, one level 1 and one level 2.

2 blocks of spearmen (16 or 20 men strong)

5 pistoliers

An engineer

a great cannon

a hellblaster

10 huntsmen

and a load of handgunners



Well, I pulled off a draw, though, as this was for a league and the table in the rulebook makes it very hard to get a descent win in, we called it a win for the empire as the player had an extra 100 VP's than me. It was a cool game, I only lost my unit with great weapons and the thane, and that was just plain luck for the empire player. He rolled a misfire for his hellblaster, but then rolled a 6, meaning he fired 15 shots into the unit, killing 12, stupid empire........
Then the handgunners killed another few leaving just the thane, standard and musician. The next turn the remaining guys dies due to a cannon.....

The Gyrocopter was great, it killed some scouting henchmen, some spearmen, took a wound off of one of the empire mages, killed 2 hellblaster crew and 2 cannon crew and absorbed a tremendous amount of firepower. The thunderers did hardly anything and the crossbows killed about 5 models in total (a mixture of huntsmen and spearmen). A really cruddy guess on the first turn for my cannon didnt help (dunno what possesed me to gues 40" on a 48" board), neither did the poor setup I gave it, but, then again, I didnt really have many juicy targets. My hand weapon and shield warrior unit were horrased by the pistoliers, and got in range to charge a unit of spearmen just in time for the game to end, that was partly my fault though, I attempted a charge on the pistoliers wich failed, I figured I had nothing to lose but I should have continued marching forward and then they may have got into combat.

Im going to buy a runesmith soon and try to fit that into my army, everyone at my store seems to take 2 mages so I need to be prepared, I'll probably drop the thane, 1 character is all that is needed, i'll also give the runesmith a runic weapon as there are some undead players cropping up with ethereal characters that id like to have a chance fo hurting. I enjoyed the game, learned from it, and am glad of the outcome, in 2 months, Im hoping to be able to beat the empire guy, as all in all, I think I did pretty well, especially as it was only my second ever game of fantasy and it was against an opponent who has played for around 4 years B)

1000 pts with a great cannon and a helblaster with engineer. Not nice! I did warn you about the blasters potential though. If you are enjoying your 1000 pointers just wait until you progress to 2000 or more then the fun really begins as you can really experiment with the army list and come up with a good army, dwarves dont really have a good time in smaller battles (at least its not as bad as a chaos warrior army choices.)