Cheap Mordheim: Dwarf Treasurehunters

Another fun warband to play against and has dominated our Mordheim league (One dwarf warband was about 200 rating over everyone else) are the Dwarf Treasure Hunters. They are also very hard to knock out of action since you have to get a 6 on the injury chart to take them out through lots of armor (hunting arrows can take them out on 5's though). The easiest way to picture Dwarves are as walking tanks. They are very slow (movement 3) and they start out small because of all the armor you'll be crazy to not use.

The biggest problem with trying to figure out how to put together a Dwarf Warband from a single box or two. Initially I'd recommend a Dwarf Warriors Box since it covers all of your non-range dwarves (dwarf axes / hammers). My biggest problem with this is that you have no out of the box ranged dwarves without using some spare bits or making your own. The next issue with this is that you can't really use a normal dwarf as a substitute for those Troll Slayers (Because they're naked) and make it believable / different enough.

Even if you don't get those bearded crazies known as Troll Slayers you'll still be running a 100% melee based warband, which is okay since you could probably rely on one of the dwarves best quallities, being impossible to kill! With a helmet, shield, and armor you'll pretty much shrug off most hits and even if you start undermanned you'll be able to enlarge your group and if someone decides to get too close those axes are deadly. Another thing is that you could use a non-ranged wielding Engineer until you can get a dwarf with a gun.

Another idea to use would be substituting the Dwarf Warriors box for a Dwarf Thunderers / Quarrellers and focus on your pistols and crossbows instead of melee. This may be a better option instead depending on your playing style though I would recommend picking up that pack of Troll Slayers just so you have some melee focused characters to run interference.

So in short, get either a Dwarf Warriors box if you want to focus on melee or a Dwarf Thunderers box if you perfer to sit back and snipe (Get that Engineer for the range bonus. Your Engineer or your Noble can be made from either box (Remember, max heroes always) so the only thing left is to get a few Troll slayers to round out your warband. They can either be your main melee force (range focus) or a flanking force (melee focus). Looking at it I'll probably do the two box setup myself after I finally get around to finishing my Skaven warband! (Or at least having them all put together and have a roster written out)