Topic: DoW 2000

[MrDWhitey]

Now, I know there's an army list forum, but I'm squeamish of posting non empire stuff up there. Thus, I have a copy pasted post from Dogs of War Online, as I know people here will have input too.

Well, I've spent a few years flirting with the idea of Dogs of War, and with the release of Warlord Games English Civil War models, I think I'm going to take the plunge in 2 weeks and order a ridiculous amount of them.

I've made a very simple army list I intend to try out in a week with proxys for a campaign:

30 Pike, Heavy Armour, Full Command 360

30 Pike, Heavy Armour, Full Command 360

10 Crossbowmen 80

10 Crossbowmen 80

10 Duellists with Pistols 90

10 Duellists with Pistols 90

5 Heavy Cavalry with Barding, Muscisian 120

5 Heavy Cavalry with Barding, Muscisian 120

Cannon 85

Cannon 85

1470

Paymaster Heavy Armour Barded Horse
Brace of Pistols 83

Hireling Wizard Level 2 Warhorse 109
Scroll 25

Hireling Wizard Level 2 Warhorse 109
Scroll 25

General Heavy Armour Shield Warhorse
Morning Star 123


1944

There's 56 points spare to do additional magic items for my Lord. I'm actually, weirdly enough (coming from Empire/Chaos/Delves) swamped by the lack of magical items to choose, and thus have far more troops than I would normally. Smile

Final thing, I utterly love giant units of pikes. They'd be arranged 6 wide and 5 deep.

The final push was the campaign over at the Warpath, that combined with ECW by Warlord games and I could not resist.

By the way, I will have around 120 handgunners from buying 6 boxes, around 60-80 of these will be spare. 

Edit: Unless I go down Renegade Miniatures. But I don't get how many are in a blister.  And do their pikemen come with pikes?

[Dannyfave]

There's a DoW forum???

[MrDWhitey]

http://dogsofwaronline.com/forum/index.php

[Parka]

Here's my current list does well vs most armies apart from those with ethereals.  Last time I played it I beat a blackknight heavy vampire list and a 2nd level slann magic list.  The levels on the wizards are useless until the 4th turn, but meh.

Mercenary General 130 Pts
Lance Morningstar; Heavy Armour
Enchanted Shield
Warhorse

Paymaster 81 Pts
Barding; Lance; Morningstar; Heavy Armour; Shield
Warhorse
Hireling Wizard   145 Pts
Magic Level 2
Dispel Scroll x2
   
Hireling Wizard   145 Pts
Magic Level 2
Dispel Scroll x2
   
5 Voland's Venators 195 Pts

5 Heavy Cavalry 95 Pts

5 Heavy Cavalry 105 Pts
Barding

5 Light Cavalry  55 Pts

5 Light Cavalry 55 Pts

9 Duellists 81 Pts
Pistol

9 Duellists  81 Pts
Pistol

4 Ironguts @ 237 Pts
Standard War Banner

1 Maneater 90 Pts
Great Weapon; Heavy Armour

1 Maneater 90 Pts
Great Weapon; Heavy Armour

20 Long Drong's Slayer Pirates 315 Pts

1 Halfling Hot Pot 50 Pts

1 Halfling Hot Pot 50 Pts

Look no pikes

[MrDWhitey]

Shame, otherwise I might look at your list 

I like Pikes. Alot.

[Parka]

I think your best bet if you're going to use sucky but pretty pikes is to use ricco's pikes with your general and then another unit of for your with paymaster.  Use one maneaters with each unit along with a unit of duelist with pistols.  D3 cannons are bs maneaters with GW's are far better and it means you can get 2 Halfling Hot Pots.

I'd also use one unit of cavalry without barding as it really helps out any kind of cavalry stand off.  Long Drong's Slayer Pirates are one of my favourite units in the game vs undead they ROCK!