r/tombkings

I’ve gotten into this game for a while now, and I still can’t seem to wrap my head around all the intricacies of combat. Why do my giant necrosphinxes get like 2 combat res points which a block of infantry will get like 12 for just existing? Can’t seem to find a collective list of all modifiers for combat and the rule book just has a small list with the addition of “and more that apply” cause the writers are too incompetent to actually list these. Like over kill isn’t even listed in it? I need some serious help cause fighting these chaos warriors feels like there’s nothing I can do against them when my warriors can’t heal fast enough to take the damage and I lose my what feels like 30 combat res pts and lose that many more warriors and I can’t deal damage cause every skeleton just has a wet pool noodle to swing with.

Tomb Kings of Khemri - Bones Brigade - [2000 pts]

# ++ Open War ++ [2000 pts]

## Characters [663 pts]

High Priest [205 pts]: Hand Weapon, Wizard Level 4 [30 pts], Necromancy, Warding Splint [35 pts]

Mortuary Priest [131 pts]: Hand Weapon, Wizard Level 2 [30 pts], Elementalism, Talisman Of Protection [30 pts], Barded Skeletal Steed [16 pts] (Hand Weapon, Barding)

Royal Herald [141 pts]: Hand Weapon, Light Armour, Shield [2 pts], Great Weapon [4 pts], Battle Standard Bearer [75 pts] (Icon of the Sacred Eye [50 pts])

Tomb King [186 pts]: Hand Weapon, Heavy Armour, Shield [2 pts], General, Great Weapon [4 pts], Armour of Meteoric Iron [20 pts]

## Core [663 pts]

Skeleton Horse Archers [139 pts]:

• 11x Skeleton Horse Archer [11 pts]: Hand Weapon, Warbow, Skeletal Steed (Hand Weapon)

• 1x Master of Horse [6 pts]

• 1x Standard Bearer [6 pts]

• 1x Musician [6 pts]

Skeleton Warriors [195 pts]: Magic Standard

• 30x Skeleton Warrior [5 pts]: Hand Weapon, Shield, Light Armour [1 pts]

• 1x Master of Arms [5 pts]

• 1x Standard Bearer [35 pts]: Banner Of The Desert Winds [30 pts]

• 1x Musician [5 pts]

Tomb Guard [329 pts]:

• 26x Tomb Guard [11 pts]: Hand Weapon, Light Armour, Shield, Halberd [1 pts]

• 1x Tomb Captain [6 pts]

• 1x Standard Bearer [31 pts]: War Banner [25 pts]

• 1x Musician [6 pts]

## Special [464 pts]

Necropolis Knights [186 pts]:

• 3x Necropolis Knight [54 pts]: Cavalry Spear, Hand Weapon, Light Armour, Shield, Necroserpent (Hand Weapon)

• 1x Necropolis Captain [10 pts]: Great Weapon [3 pts]

• 1x Standard Bearer [7 pts]

• 1x Musician [7 pts]

Tomb Guard [278 pts]:

• 26x Tomb Guard [10 pts]: Hand Weapon, Light Armour, Shield

• 1x Tomb Captain [6 pts]

• 1x Standard Bearer [6 pts]

• 1x Musician [6 pts]

## Rare [210 pts]

Screaming Skull Catapult [105 pts]: Stone Thrower (Skeleton Catapult Crew (Hand Weapon, Light Armour))

Screaming Skull Catapult [105 pts]: Stone Thrower (Skeleton Catapult Crew (Hand Weapon, Light Armour))

Hello r/tombkings,

Hope your bones remain strong and full of Calcium. Having played a few games and learning the ropes at 1000 points I am making my way towards my first 2000 point game of TOW. I drafted the above list with models I currently own or intend to own (still need 2 x more boxes of Tomb Guard). I went rather infantry heavy on this list as I think fielding a truck load of mummies and skeletons feels pretty on brand for Tomb Kings. I'll break down some of choices here:

- High Priest on foot will be hiding behind these walls of Infantry and supporting with Arise as well as all of the Necromancy / Lore of Nekahara spells to debuff targets. Meanwhile the Mortuary Priest is hiding in the Skeleton Horse Archer bunker doing similar and utilizing the extra mobility to go patch up units that need some extra Arise while still maintaining range/sightlines for the Archers.

- Royal Hearld in my opinion is fairly necessary in this list. He's stationed next to the Tomb King in the Tomb Guard block with the Halberds to turn that unit into a blender with the combo of MWBD and his Icon of the Sacred Eye. With all the buffs plus Halberds they are WS 6 and STR 5 in combat.

- Big blob of Skeleton Warriors with Banner of the Desert Wind to go tar pit an opponent's block of guys I don't want my stronger units tied up by. The Banner gives me some extra movement to go rush down and get up in their face quicker. With the Mortuary Priest on Horse running around I can also help buff/Arise models to create an endless combat if I dedicate enough resources towards it.

- Speaking of aggressive units, Necropolis Knights will be playing the flanks and looking for a juicy charge into an opponents side flank. I also chose these guys because they're frankly super sick looking.

- Second group of Tomb Guard to watch my flanks / shielding my back lines to protect my Screaming Skull Catapults

- Two Catapults to try and trigger Panic tests so I can pick and choose my fights a bit more or pin/cause units to flee that I don't want to fight that turn. Another "I just think they're neat" choice.

Anyways, would love some thoughts from the community. I appreciate any help. Really loving the game coming from AoS and how much more player expression there is in list building!

Quick rule clarification. Ambushers held in reserve can be summoned with from beneath the sands during the command sub phase.

Ambushers are rolled during the start of turn sub phase.

So does this mean you have to roll every turn (beginning round 2) during the start of turn sub phase. If you succeed they have to be placed as reserve.
If you fail, you roll another time during the command sub phase for beneath the sands. And only then they will be summoned by the rules for from beneath the sands?

And how about turn 1. Ambushers start from turn 2. but from beneath the sands doesnt state any turns. So would you roll for it during command phase of turn one?

Hwy fellow Kings of the tombs.

Im curious how you make use of your special units contingent when not playing mortuary cult with extra Necrosphinx and bow shabtis.

Besides scorpions, which are the obvious choice there is not much stuff that’s convincing.

Personally Im a huge fan of necropolis knights but I never take more than four of them.

Do you even end up filling the special slot?