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Special rules are: undead, miasma of deathly vigour and regeneration. It can carry either an Unholy lodestone or Balefire. More on these options later.
It's a support unit which doesn't count toward your core allowance. It's a mount option for your necromancer, but honestly it doesn't offer him enough protection and takes up valuable character points. While it does get thunderstomp, it isn't a combat unit. It's most valuable use is buffing your units and as a dispel dice soak.Miasma of deathly vigour is a bound spell (3) giving Always Strikes First until the start of the next magic phase. This can work nicely with a vampire with the nightshroud. However, with most undead infantry units it is of little consequence whether they strike first or not, but it is useful to hamstring units that normally do have ASF, like high elves. It might also be useful for blunting those ogre charges.
Balefire can be very useful, (-1 to enemy casting rolls for casters within 24") but I think to really get the most out of this you need two corpse carts. -2 to all casting rolls can be really annoying. To an army that relies on the magic phase and includes units who are impervious to mundane attacks, this is a good choice. Getting both carts within 24" of the enemy caster can be a little tricky, however.
The unholy lodestone grants an additional wound to targets of Invocation of Nehek within 6" of the cart. It's quite meh, unless you have ethereal units (it won't heal vampire units) within it's 6" range. It's irrelevant how many lodestones you have in range too, you still get only 1 additional wound. Now, if it healed vampiric units...
Overall, the corpse cart seems really useful until you look under the hood. It's almost worth taking, and I'm sure there's a build out there it might work well in, but for me, the points are still best spent elsewhere. Shame, as I love the model. Perhaps if the new army book improves the core choices it might be a more viable option.
Oh Mr. Saturday... I cannot agree with you more. I have two corpse carts myself and looking at a rolling cart full of zombie pieces with a necromancer riding shotgun sounds fantastic. They are far too short lived and far too low support to justify 100 points. I still field them though, just because they look so daggone cool!
ReplyDeletePlayed with the original cart back in the day and still have the model somewhere... I was excited to see the new model in 7th Ed. and bought two, as they added to both the playability and visual appeal of the army.
ReplyDeleteThen 8th came along and wreaked more then a few units in the VC list. I'm hoping as a bare minimum that the new VC book will make all the units at least viable/have a role on the table top. But even this seems a lot to ask.
I still have original corpse cart shown here, and have (unpaited yet) newer one... Great models, lot of vampiric feel to it... and as I much more prefer feel of army then latest winning combo of units and items, they are really cool:) for me anyway:)
ReplyDeleteGood read, really hope they make it a more viable choice in the new book as it is a really cool looking model.
ReplyDeleteI hope when the VC are 8th-ified, the corpse cart gets a re-jig. It's just so damn appropriate to have a creaky cart full of rotting corpses and malignant magic sitting in your line. I also have the new cart, which is sitting primed waiting to be painted. It's a wonderful model, I was hoping to have both the original cart and the new one in the army, but not the way it is at the moment, sadly...
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