After skimming through many of the rumors that are out about the new Dark elf book (I have a lot of time) the thing that has stood out was the idea that all darkelves will have hatred toward all races. This to me seems like a plus and a minus. the plus is the ability to reroll to hit rolls and imune to pycology on the first round of combat. the minus is that you have no choice in persuing the enemy if they break.
the question i have been thinking to myself is, will it still be worth the points to have a noble on a coldone in an infantry block. In the past it has worked out for me to have the noble on a coldone since it seems that more and more things cause fear and it is always handy to cause fear yourself.
Hatred makes you immune to pycology so on the first round of combat you do not have to worry about fear checks or auto breaking because the opponite causes fear. But what about the second round and any rounds after?
So tell me what you think about this, I would like to hear.
God put me on this earth to do one thing, to kill you all, or maybe not, only time can tell.
Yeah huh sorry but Frenzy makes you Immune to Psychology, Hatred does not.
And if Frenzy loses combat while they are frenzied, they lose their Immune to Psychology AND autobreak if outnumbered by fear, right away, on the same turn.
Deroth he means to use the noble to be put into an infantry block to make it immune to fear as many armies are able to cause fear and auto-break our expensive infantry blocks (apart from spearmen they just usually die against a fear-causing unit/character).
Dark Elf Tally using the 6th Ed. list
W: 11 D: 2 L: 8
Dark Elf Tally using the 7th Ed. List
W: 24 D: 2 L: 6
