Starting tomb guardians

HI, I am startinga new tomb guardians warband for a campaign following what i assume is the regular mordheim rules (gw rulebook), though all warbands are allowed (some unofficial and experimental warbands have house rules in place to tone downtheir competitiveness) All upgrades and new members are to be bought using the mordheimer.com rules. I'm really hoping for some tips concerning tomb guardians because I have heard they have the highest learning curve. Ive written up a starting list:

Tomb lord w/ 2h weapon, bow, arrows of asp, light armor

Liche priest w/ staff

Acoyalty w/ sword and mace

Acoyalty w/ sword and mace

4 skeletons w/ bow and 2 daggers

1 skeleton w/ bow, arrows of asp and 2 daggers

total: 499


is it best to start with as many characters as possible? or spam skeletons?

thanks

Always aim for as many heroes as possible, if you're playing a campaign that is. It's the heroes that bring in the cash to buy more members and gear, if they stay un-Out of Action:ed.

thank you, I think im going to play a counts as undead warband, so I'll take 3 dregs a vamp and necro

Erhh... asp arrows are special equipment... a skeleton cannot have it ...

Thanks, ill just use the 10 points to give my tomb lord a bow as well

Personnaly I would invest in henchmen that can get xp so you can filll your hero slot as soon as possible.

Take 2 tomb guardians instead of skeletons.

Also, we play with a house rule that allow you to have 0-3 tomb guardians instead of 0-2 just in case your tomb lord dies so you can fill your 6 hero slot anyway.

The warband is experimental and have ''mistakes''.

1- You cannot fill all your hero slots if your leader die. (Having 0-3 tomb guardians instead of 0-2 solve the problem)
2- In the spell description, I think the term ''mummy'' refers to tomb lord and tomb guardians.
3- Not very clear, but I think that tomb guards use the tomb lord maximum profile.

Personnaly I'd go like this:

(203 GC) Tomb lord : Sword, Mace, Bow, Asp arrows, Light armour
(85 GC) Liche priest : Serpent staff
(33 GC) Acolyte : Sword, Mace
(26 GC) Acolyte : 2X Mace

(46 GC) Tomb Guardian 1: 2X Mace, Bow
(46 GC) Tomb Guardian 2 :2X Mace, Bow
(46 GC) Tomb Guardian 3: 2X Mace, Bow

(15 GC) Tomb scorpion

Total : 500 GC

Put the three tomb guardians alone in their henchmen group to raise your chances to get heroes...

This is more efficient than aestetic or original... If you want more fluff for weapons just drop the scorpion and the light armour (total 35 GC) and invest it in other weapons instead of maces... But if you aim for efficiency more than narrative and fun I think you have it here.

I'll bring the hero death to the guys attention, cuz he was adimant about making tomb guardians better, and what model should i use to make tomb scorpions? a scarab base?

Well, Its supposed to be a big scorpion...

Ideally I think its should fit a 20mm or 25mm base.

Personnaly I used those one. They are just a tad too small for my tastes but they are cheap.

http://www.reapermini.com/OnlineStore/scorpion/sku-down/03528

You should check those too... its a good range of mummies to get Tomb lord, acolytes, lich priest and tomb guardians for a low cost.

http://www.reapermini.com/OnlineStore/mummy

Well...

The issue about the number of heroes limited to 5 if the leader die is really more a mistake than anything else. Adding another tomb guardian is easy, fix the problem and do not increase the warband potential much.

If you dont do this the warband is the only one I know that cannot fill his hero slots if one die. Big, big, BIG disadvantage and they are rather limited with characters getting experience. Even by doing this its hard to fill all hero slots so... good luck

Thank you it should help that I get an extra exploration dice