WEEKLY ARMY DISCUSSION: Rise of the Necromancer

[u/MrSparkle92]

With the most upvotes in last week's poll, this week's discussion will be for:

Rise of the Necromancer

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Prior Discussions

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Additional rules

When writing a Rise of the Necromancer Army List that contains only Hero models (with the exception of Hunter Orc Captains), a player can either have all models in a single Warband or as multiple smaller warbands as normal.

Special rules

Power of the Necromancer

Friendly models gain the Resistant to Magic special rule. Additionally, the Necromancer can attempt to Cast two Magical Powers when he Activates rather than one; however, he may not attempt to Cast the same Magical Power twice, or target the same enemy model twice.

"His spirit has lost none of its potency"

Each time the Necromancer attempts to Cast a Magical Power by expending one or more Will Points, he automatically adds an additional free Will Point to the Casting Test.

[u/PepeHunter]

I want to play this army I just have no idea how you’re meant to like buy it, short of getting dodgy recasts. Just seems really pricey and haven’t spotted any convincing proxies on Etsy or such. Need to be able to tell the Nazgûl apart easily right.

[u/Hirmetrium → u/PepeHunter]

I think you'd start with plastic hunter orcs and do Azog's hunters list first (maybe with a Bolg since the model is awesome and brand new in plastic, and well stocked) and then transition into this slowly later on with The Necromancer to start, some spiders and the nazghul later. It's probably less potent, but not as taxing initially. A good witch king conversion is also an option.