Recommended against Highelves: Shadowblade!!!

Darkkhan · Post by **Darkkhan** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 7:04 am

I had a game with 2400 points. Shadowblade killed 3 RSS, 1 Lvl 4 mage, a chariot (poiton of strenght+shuriken) and 5 swordmasters! ok, the HE-player was a noob and made a poor deployment, but i never see a so effective assassin.

Archon_matt · Post by **Archon_matt** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 7:17 am

that's a pretty good haul...but let's remember here that he is a special character and therefore cheesy/screwed up. best not to use special characters against noobs, they usually have no idea how to kill them or tie them up. anyway gj on slaughtering our pitiful brethren.

Darkkhan · Post by **Darkkhan** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 7:27 am

i agree with cheesy against noobs after this match. but i said him before, that i will using shadowblade. but next time i will use other nice things to kill the highelves in other interesting ways...

Macknight · Post by **Macknight** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 7:42 am

well you cheated him on mistake, the potion of strength only can be taken prior to CC, so it doesn't get you the S for thrown weapon.

kill the asur by any means necessary, they deserve far worse.

Darkkhan · Post by **Darkkhan** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 8:55 am

why cheated? the potion raises the strength of shadowblade to 7 and the shuriken uses the Strength of the wearer.

Crawd · Post by **Crawd** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 10:43 am

Why do you need Shadowblade to beat the High Elves? I have beaten them with my 6th edition list that doesn't have any special characters...

I would only use Shadowblade if I'm playing against Teclis or Thorek. Fight cheese with cheese, like we say.

Comrade igor · Post by **Comrade igor** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 11:14 am

Crawd wrote:Why do you need Shadowblade to beat the High Elves? I have beaten them with my 6th edition list that doesn't have any special characters...

The OP is pleased with how Shadowblade performed and wanted to share that with the community, no need for the snide comment.

Crawd · Post by **Crawd** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 11:20 am

I just wanted to share to the community that you don't need Shadowblade to fight the High Elves as the topic title says. :roll:

Milney · Post by **Milney** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 11:39 am

Crawd wrote:I just wanted to share to the community that you don't need Shadowblade to fight the High Elves as the topic title says.

Topic title says reccomend, not requisite.

Massive difference - and definately no need for sarcasm, especially if this difference eludes you.

Crawd · Post by **Crawd** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 11:55 am

Milney wrote:
Crawd wrote:I just wanted to share to the community that you don't need Shadowblade to fight the High Elves as the topic title says.

Topic title says reccomend, not requisite.

Massive difference - and definately no need for sarcasm, especially if this difference eludes you.

Oh sorry Mr. Perfect!

Maeth · Post by **Maeth** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 12:48 pm

Come on now people no need for the sarcasm and belligerence, lets leave that for when the pathetic High Elves appear.
As for the performance of Shadowblade very nice work! I am rubbish at Warhammer and my Shadowblade only managed a mighty 2 Glade Guard before the rest killed him.

Wasn't my day...

P.S. I personally believe his old experimental rules were much better, but thats probably because his awesomeness/cheese allowed me to win a game or two.

Macknight · Post by **Macknight** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 2:12 pm

darkkhan wrote:why cheated? the potion raises the strength of shadowblade to 7 and the shuriken uses the Strength of the wearer.

the potion only can be used prior in any Close Combat phase and lasts until the NEXT player's phase, therefore skipping any shooting phase, thats why you can't have S7 shrikens.

Mr. anderson · Post by **Mr. anderson** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 2:20 pm

Shadowblade certainly does have some deadly potential, but I think it is not nice to use him in friendly games (though I don't blame you - this is just my personal opinion

) even though he now is an official character, simply because he still has such mean rules. Whether he has four attacks or ten, he still kills expensive mages outright. And those mages often cost more than Shadowblade's points, and shadowblade takes them out like nothing else, without even giving them the slightest chance to do some damage - the same goes for war machines and the likes.
In tournaments where there is the risk of skellie-bunkers and the likes, using him is fair enough, just to make things even.

I personally believe his old experimental rules were much better, but thats probably because his awesomeness/cheese allowed me to win a game or two.

The rules indeed were deadly, which is why I understand that they changed him (I'm disappointed nonetheless because it was one of the few joys of being a Dark Elf player to say "You may be better than me, but we still have the best assassin. BAM!").

HUZZAH!

Minsc · Post by **Minsc** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 3:51 pm

I don't really like the new rules for shadowblade. He only has 4 attacks!

Even though potion of strenght and his special hidden-rule makes up for it in a way, I still don't like him.

I'd rather field 2 normal Assassins than field him.

Azure · Post by **Azure** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 4:43 pm

Minsc: Me aswell.

Darkkhan: Mind telling us how you used him. That seems like a pretty hefty kill tally for a lone assassin with only 4 attacks!

-Rex