on horse (level 3 caster / horse with barding, heavy armor, shield; 493 points in total). How can a skaven army deal with it? I think he will have ASF, red fury to dish out lots of damage. I have not played against the new vampires till now ... I hope I can deal out some damage with my WCL, WFT and doomrocket before he get's into close combat. I don't think that the infantry blocks are my problem, but the heavy cavalry (dark knights & blood knights) can be. Last game against vampires (with the 7th edition book) the same player runs with 10 dark knights and his vampire lord amok through my slaves units ... Re: Skaven in 8th Ed. Hi blackpawl, in my opinion the best to deal with this vampire lord is to redirct it if its the case that he is with a large block of cavalry so that his points in the game are merly vasted. maybe try to get 3-4 blocks of 20 slaves in the list as a speed bump. But if its not in your favor, try with the furnace and monks to bind the big block, but then you will need more monks. Other than that i would think of dropping the stormvermin and the warlord. maybe try a bonebreaker lord with our beloved s10 d6 wounds rerollable ward blade (dont know the english name by now) to face the vampire Re: Skaven in 8th Ed. I would try and