To beat the current metagame, I think the power lies in the Sect. Many people consider Fell Reapers excellent harassers, while Nightmare Reapers and the Uhlrik Charger are very strong Charge units. The Corrupted Priest is a powerful healer. Feral and Rancid Bloodsuckers are very mobile swarm units. I'm also very fond of Death Merchants as "lone wolf" scout figs, that can come together and swarm effectively; the LE Ribhan Cragg is a really cool Command fig, too. Lastly, everyone saw the Zombie Baron's power at GenCon.

I'm working on a few different armies, but this is the best so far, any thoughts?

Necro Cavalry:

Uhlrik Charger
2X Fell Reaper***
2X Nightmare Reaper***
Shade*

300 points exactly. What I usually do, is send the Shade and Nightmares to harass, and charge with the Fells and Uhlrik. For instance, first turn, split the Fells to flank the opponent, and charge with Uhlrik. Next turn, charge that figs flanks with the Nightmares, and push the Uhlrik to attack again (Vampirism eating the push damage). The fig is usually pretty beat if not dead.

Since all warriors eventually die, I would say yes, Necropolis will be the way of the future...

No, but seriouly DerangedBlue I think you have a good idea here. Just think about the normal KI Swarm has 12 movement, 3 Damage, but about a 14 Defense. So think about how about the Anti-Swarm Swarm. A Swarm made out of Rancid Bloodsuckers. They have 10 Movement, 9 Attack, about a 15 Defense, and 2 Damage, but with Venom! They also get Vampirism down the line as well. Also if you wanted to you could put in a Formation of Ferals, with an 11 Attack and Weapon Mastery, to deal with the figures with toughness. Now of course a Host/Lost, and or Dragon and or Chariot, would probably eat this alive, but I would play this in areas where they don't use these types of figures.

Hey DerangedBlue if you want to talk bout strategies PM me and we'll see what we can come up with. Let me know.

rancid blood suckers(aka hobos) would be torn to shreds by a ki swarm because they are 28 pts for a low attack 1 click of venom and i think 3 of vamp then they die so unless you real lucky your gonna die from 2-3 attacks by the swarm

Zaxan, how about:

2X Fell Reaper (this seems to be in most of my NS armies...)
2X Feral Bloosucker***
4X Rancid Bloodsucker***

300 pts. again. Make formations of 1 Feral, 2 Rancid and attack loners while Fells harass. Then, come together to take out formations (or visa versa). Maybe I should use weaker versions of Bloodsuckers, but in more multiples?

i wish i could get that charger.

I thought you were looking for that not yet made fig LORD OF ULHRIK!!! nyaahahhahaahhaha... jk only icewater... yeah... the charger is nice but it's cost is big for a charger, but it's better than half-troll behemoth and orc captain... ^_^

Siunds nice and if you do decide to switch them out I have found that the (**) versiouns do pretty well. They dont have as high as Damage and they have an 8 for Vampirism instead of 9, but they are still good. Here is my 200 point Bloodsucker Swarm:

3 Ranicd Bloodsucker**

2 Feral Bloodsucker***

1 Faith Healer***

1 Shade*

Total= 199

The reason for the Faith Healer is that this has not as many figures as the typical swarm, therefor I thought I would need a figure to heal my figures, I know that the majority have Vampirism, but you can't always count on only one click.

Let me know what you think.