Miners of the Underworld!

Hey everyone this will be my Gnoblog about my Dwarfs!!!
Thanks, RS

Yeah  :bullface: Dwarfs are always good.. And welcome to the Ogre Stronghold!

i konw they're good
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Just having a battle agaist Malekith now so I'll get a report up soon
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i had abattle with malekith and he won by more victory pts becuse we ran out of time
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I would like to play malekith again some other day when we get more time and hopefuly play 1000 pts
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rune smith - too many 1-line posts here, you'll not get any responses unless you give a bit more detail and expand on your thoughts.  Pleasse read the forum primer (link in my sig).

i second wildcard and say that you chose a good army! go dwarves!

thanks for the advice wildcard I won't forget that and good say cloud,I will defet malekith one day.
cheers, RS

would this army of 500 points of dwarfs be good enough to take down this army of chaos

my army.
josef  bugman
rune smith
15 rangers
1 bolt thrower
1 bolt thrower

dark ones army
exalted champion
12 chaos warriors
16 maruders
please return any infomation about the army
 thanks, rune smuth

Eh, probably not. Joseph Bugman is very expensive, and special characters are best used in a large game where you can back up their cost with a large army. And you have two characters, which is excessive in a 500 point game, one of which is a runesmith (useless if the enemy has no wizards).
Your only unit is a unit of 15 rangers. Which while good, are expensive, and have that special deployment rule. Let me repeat that, you have a single unit of expensive infantry, with no support or flank guards.
The bolt throwers are nice, but ultimately aren't what you need.
It breaks down to this; you have good, yet expensive troops, but you don't have an army. The chaos player will soak up what your bolt throwers can dish out, and once they reach you you don't have much in the way to beat them off with.
Keep in mind I don't play dwarves.

I could get rid of bugman and put some warriors in the game and keep the bolt throwers but I have only to genrals a rune smith or josef bugman and i would get rid of the rangers and put longbeards in beacue it cost to many points i only need the rangers for bugmsn and put in a small unit of minorsso this could be my new army list.
1 rune smith,
15 longbeards,
15 warriors,
1 bolt throwerand
1 bolt thrower.
is this good enough reg06
thanks, rune smith

I could get rid of bugman and put some warriors in the game and keep the bolt throwers but I have only to genrals a rune smith or josef bugman and i would get rid of the rangers and put longbeards in beacue it cost to many points i only need the rangers for bugmsn and put in a small unit of minorsso this could be my new army list.
1 rune smith,
15 longbeards,
15 warriors,
1 bolt throwerand
1 bolt thrower.
is this good enough reg06
thanks, rune smith

Not an expert at dwarves and lacking the book atm but I'll give it a try. Fill me in if I'm mistaking myself concerning points.
My advice would be to get a regular thane for the obvious reasons: It's less expensive and got an additional attack. Overall a better fighting profile.
The Runesmith feels a bit useless with the cheaper option of the thane as i mentioned, espesially since that chaos player doesn't wield a sorceror. Should he opt. in taking a bound spell or so your 2 basic DD will work just as well.

Have you given your units any kinds of upgrades? Like full command? I'd go for that if you haven't.

And finally...How come the 2 bolt throwers? With those points you could easally put in some miners and expand your units to about 20 or getting like crossbowmen (better range than the hanguns) and expanding the units. Or taking both miners (a small unit of 5+ something) and adding some crossbowmen.

Pardon any unclear advices
/// oNe

Just a small point, dwarves actually have 4 DD basic. So no runesmiths is plenty in a game under 1000 points.

I think the minors is a good idea becuse they are quite cheep in points and i'l put one bolt thrower but i dont have thane and full comand im not igsacly sure what a musition dose in a battle so could you tell me what it would do so this could be my army.

my army.
1 rune smith,great weapon
15 longbeards,great weapons and full command
15 quarrles, great weapons and full command
10 minors, with great weapons and full command
1 bolt thrower
my calculations might be wrong but its good enough at the moment but keep ideas coming in fast.
thanks, rune smith

Use Bugman as a thane.
When tied in combat a musician breaks the tie and you win by 1. They also add +1Ld when rallying.

So if I bugman as a thane and then get rid of the rune smith then my army would be like this.
my army
1 thane with great weapon rune of stone and rune of striking
15 long beards with great weapon
15 warriors with great weapons
10 minors with great weapons
should i use sheilds instead of great weapons.
thanks, rune smith

Nah, Dwarfs need to get in there as a threat, I don't usally see a list with Dwarfs having shields. For me Dwarfs and shields don't mix. Shields and DE on the other hand different story.
Thanks, Malekith

so should stick with great weapons on my dwarfs
thanks, rune smith

Hold on!
Now Malekith is a dark elves player and not a dwarves player.
IF Lord Firmshaft doesn't come by to stop me, this would be it:

1 thane with great weapon rune of stone and rune of striking You can't have a rune of striking on a great weapon ( well not without another master rune). so lose the great weapon and take the rune of swiftness and rune of might. Rune of stone is okay, but give that dwarf a shield too.
15 long beards with great weapon
15 warriors with great weapons
10 minErs with great weapons
should i use sheilds instead of great weapons.Miners can't have shields but for the rest try to get both ( shields against shooting and great weapons in combat)

Other comment: if you play a game and have normal setup( 24 inches apart) then you will have a problem.
any army with shooting will get 4 or 5 rounds of shooting depending who goes first.
This will happen:
you get shot for 5 turns and at the end you will get charged with the few models you still have.
Even if your miners get on the table early it's rather easy to counter that: one unit against a full army. when the miners are gone, they can focus on the rest of the units.

Try to get some shooting in your army.
a unit of handgunners in stead of miners would already give you an edge in games at low points.

lexy thunderers wold be useful but thay cost more than minors but its a good idea so the army list should be like this at the moment
my army list
1 thane with great weapons, rune of swiftness,rune of mightand rune of stone.
15 lomgbeardswith great weapons,
15 warriors with great weapons,
10 thunderers,
1 bolt thrower.
That shold be my army but my calculations might be a little wrong so i'm not bothed if you count the points if you want so keep ideas comeinig in
thanks, rune smith.