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If you dont have any objections to Rangers, definitely through in a unit of them. I always loved using them and having them pop out on the enemy when they least expected it. I really enjoy slayers too, but they definitely fall quickly if they dont get into melee asap, or at least have good cover, so I wouldnt recommend using them in a 2k battle. Keep in mind thou, no matter what may seem like an ideal army, you have to know what youre going up against. If they are bring out massive amounts of shooters, you will want to be able to take the damage and be able to counter. If they bring out all melee, you dont want to have all shooters. Warhammer is awesome cause its about balance, but also your skill with each unit type, so definitely try out whatever you can prior to committing to any one thing.

Not sure about Hammerers or Longbeards but Ironbreakers rock. Their save makes them hard to shift unless have armour piercing or high strength.

Also think about taking crossbowmen in 15 strong blocks. Give them shields and they can be pretty useful in hand to hand once they get charged later in the game.

My last Dwarf opponent fielded 2 such units and they did fairly well against my Warriors of Chaos.

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James

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depends if a fun army then thats fine but if you want it to be conpetive either gun line with thorek ironbrow in or ranger army bugman thorek ironbrow with the remainder as a gunline or a comabt army with youv'e guet it thork ironbrow

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There are two basic builds of successful tournament armies.

Firstly is the straight up gunline, with several units of thunderers, a couple of cannons, a couple of grudge throwers and a couple of organ guns, all topped off with an anvil, possibly even Thorek. It's pretty effective, though extremely frustrating for the opposition. Don't take this if you're after a fun game.

The next successful build is a mostly close combat one. Generally it features three main combat blocks, magically runed up. They are usually a block of Longbeards, a block of Hammerers and a block of Ironbreakers. Always le by a Dwarf Lord, runed up to be basically unkillable, and usually in the hammerers with a Battle Standard Bearing thane to make a basically unshiftable unit. Fill in the rest of the points with thunderers, a cannon or two etc.

While these are the two most successful builds, they're not the most fun build. In my opinion that's the speedy dwarfs!

Take an anvil, but only use the movement rune. A couple of close combat blocks (moving before the game with the strollaz rune), a unit of Rangers, a couple of units of miners, a couple of gyrocopters.

Surprisingly quick and effective.

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