Hey All! Long time no chat! It's been a while for me, I played back in 6th and 8th heavily, before finishing out 8th edition with my VC (including surprising the **** out of some folks at the last 8th edition Buckeye Battles with a Vampire Lord on a Zombie Dragon, but I digress) and then AoS hit, an...

this is an old post so I am not sure if you already solved this, but battlescribe is a tool you can use as an army builder. You still need your battle tome or warscroll cards for the rules, but the tool will print an effective army list to meet the standards of any Tournament Organizer so you should...

I have both and enjoyed what I have read so far in both. Some parts are a little like the history sections of the army books, but overall I think they are excellent reading material.

Oh, and if they conclude the civil war, I am with the archaon band wagon.

Thanks for the feedback everyone. I went 2 cauldrons because I was concerned about making sure everything was within 6" for the buff. With two tha effectively gives me two 12" bubbles I can work with for maximum coverage. I chose not to have any witches because that would take away from mo...

So I just found out a tournament I am going to early next year is specifically ruling that the Cauldron is "read as written" so it affects shooting and magic in addition to close combat. When we read that, my good friend encouraged me to abuse the F*** out of it and go all in on a shooting...

I am pretty sure he was actually referring to the monster itself being male and not the handlers. I am not sure how he knows they are male, but Calisson is obviously a much better parazoologist than I.

I will chime in and agree with both sides here. I think the IDEA or INTENT of the swedish comp system is a noble and excellent goal. I like it. However I think the nature of humanity and how fallible humans can be, the implementation of Swedish comp leaves a lot to be desired. I believe the intent o...

I agreee with Heartsbane, if you put a sorceress in the CoK unit, then go for beasts over life. Life has some higher casting costs, and with only two spells its going to be very easy for your opponent to pick the right spell to dispel each round nullifying her. Plus the signature spell for Beasts is...

Red I think that what people were saying is that the same issues you have with them are the same issues we have as Dark elf players in general. They are no worse at being killed from shooting than witches and are actually slightly better with at least a shield. Is the shield worth 4 points? No, but...

Yea my Gen Con plans fell through and I managed to get on a team so I get to go.

Just curious if I will see anyone up there. Looks to be a lot of fun at the tournament.

I played Lizards because I don't have all the Dark Elf stuff painted that I would want to use. Ended up getting 2nd in the best painted category with them so it was the right choice I think. Ended up going 4-1-0 with a very soft list -- I can win with it, but it's not good at pulling off the massiv...

Suppose a Vampire Lord on a Zombie dragon is equipped with Glittering Scales. The zombie dragon swarm of flies forces enemy models in base contact with the dragon to be -1 to hit. Glittering Scales also inflicts -1 to hit the vampire. Does this mean opponents are at -2 to hit the vampire? What happe...

Lore of Dark Magic on the Supreme Sorceress. I considered Death for all the spells that ignore armor, but I think I need word of pain too much for what it does to help my army. I considered making the hag my BSB and dropping the one I have for a level 2 dark with the tome so I can get word of pain i...

So I am finalizing my list for Buckeye Battles and would like some feedback. Buckeye is Swedish Comp for bands, so that needs to be kept in mind. The core of what I am taking looks like this: 2500 Pts - Dark Elves Roster Total Roster Cost: 2406 Dreadlord (1#, 282 pts) . . 1 Dreadlord , 182 pts = (ba...

Why only 1+ AS units? Their S6 makes them equally good at any armour over 6+. There's a lot of stuff that would be covered in that category that aren't Skullcrushers, and which S3, S3AP or S4 units would otherwise struggle to scratch. Plus, there's also the question of wounding - again, S6 is great...

I think Askador raises a good point. You will meet some armies that have 1+ armour saves, but these are mainly WoC and Empire. WoC should not be a hard matchup for DE anyway, and I don't really see what the Executioners will do here anyway. The Empire matchup becomes so much harder if he has HBVGs ...

Models mounted on Monstrous mounts use the mount's T and W, regardless of their own. Tis be the rules. It's another example of GW writers not knowing the rulebook rules and making up new stuff (The biggest one is the lizardmen special character who improves a unit of terradons he joins... that can'...

6's to wound? What? Don't roll to hit, place ball 6" in front of CoB/Shrine, any roll bar a (!) or a '2' followed by a '2' hits the target since its base is so long. Str 10 vs T 5 is 2's to wound then on a 5+ its destroyed (Causing D6 Wounds) Sad times Sorry I meant roll a 5 or 6 on the # of w...

6's to wound? What? Don't roll to hit, place ball 6" in front of CoB/Shrine, any roll bar a (!) or a '2' followed by a '2' hits the target since its base is so long. Str 10 vs T 5 is 2's to wound then on a 5+ its destroyed (Causing D6 Wounds) Sad times Sorry I meant roll a 5 or 6 on the # of w...

I ran a TT list against Dwarfs on Saturday. He had first turn, 2 Cannons & a Stonethrower (all with re-roll artillery dice rune) By the end of his first shooting phase my Tower units, (Hag Cauldron BSB, Shrine) were both dead. Before even being able to move! How on earth can you tactically plan...

The guys posting above me have some great, well accepted points.

Here is a list to the Character Compendium Thread that discusses many many different options for character loadouts and their uses. It is a bit long so it might take some time to wade through, but it is well worth the read.

http://druchii.net/viewtopic.php?f=3&t= ... c3e5278365

Wtches against 1+ armor? Let's do the Mathhammer. Let's go whole hog and use the 30 Witch + Cauldron/Obsidian Blade Hag + Razor Standard setup, and we'll even be nice and say your opponent let the uberfrenzy spell through. There'll be 7 Witches in each combat rank, so 29 attacks in the front rank p...

So I've been toying with different builds to try and get a character that can handle big scary things for me. (Blender Lord, Blood Thirster, Demon Princes, etc.) Using the Bloodthirster as a model for tough stuff to fight, I went back through the character compendium and unless I am missing somethin...

Executioners are good for the Phoenix. They already have ASL and getting again does exactly nothing to them. Executioners get absolutely murdered by a Frostfire phoenix. You only hit on 4s and wound on 5s. It in return hits on 3s, wounds on 2s, no armor save and has thunderstomp. Plus the phoenix h...