Something occurred to me on the drive in to work this morning. A 200 point Chariot with T6 W5 4++ and the Blessings is already pretty good, and close to being an autoinclude for most lists. In the v0.12 sneak peek, it was revealed that the new Cult of Yema bonus (that's The Cult of Pleasure AKA-not-...

Hi all, has anyone tried these? m http://elementgames.co.uk/images/products/15582/23680-large.jpg Seems like they would make perfect Sea Dragon Cloaks and avoid the hassle of cutting up Corsairs! But I suspect they are designed for 40k Salamanders so I am slightly concerned about the size.

If you had to choose five adjectives to describe your faction, what would they be? What special characters do you feel represent your faction the best? What is your least favourite thing about the fluff for your faction, or the thing y Martial, prideful, ambitious, wronged, ruthless. Some great expl...

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I'm increasingly convinced that this is some sort of introduction type ruleset. The lack of any balancing mechanism plus references to past victories (look up the Triumph section) seem to give it away.

Good spot.

Isn't there a rules question here? Models with the Flying Carpet can't join units, but don't assassins have to start hidden?

Indeed! With the SCGT now over (boo!), it's time to get back on the dark elf train starting with my much neglected Witch Elves/Shade Clan.

Please drop me a PM if you have any of these spare. I need about 10. I can offer bits swaps or straight up cash.

That's a good point. I'll see if I can get it up to 25+

My experience has been that MMU is the worst of both worlds. The units are big enough to attract attention, but too small to absorb much damage, and then don't really contribute much punch once they start taking hits. Then once they are depleted, you don't have any redundancy that you'd get with MSU...

Where does the sorceress go in that list?

This is thr biggest problem I'm having with foot lists.

Problem with dropping the Witches for sisters is that you lose you core tax. I've been theory crafting infantry lists a lot recently and reached the following conclusion: Due to their cost, it's difficult to get a list to work which has sufficient numbers of black guard/sisters that they don't get s...

T.D. wrote:-> Mounted makes sense to get the best out of the Lore.

That's what I figure. I just hate how that then dictates the rest of the list (ie a Warlock bunker).

So, I've been thinking a lot about Dark Magic recently. I've not been totally sold on Metal due to the high casting values, and I'd rather avoid Shadow, but Dark has a lot of synergy with Warlocks (it gives redundancy through multiple Doombolts, or Soulblight and Word of Pain being must-stop combat ...

Sad to say that a Carnosaur Oldblood is not the best killing machine. That's one on a Cold One with something like a 1+ reroll/4++.with some sort of mega Killy weapon. Even then killing bith in one round of combat seems to be a wild statistical anomaly just due to the number of attacks and wounds in...

No. You have to go back to the terrain phase, move the peice in question, then skip ahead again. Frustrating, but not the most frustrating. That I reserve for the inability to export an image of every turn in one go, or being able to change the default image export folder, meaning you have to go thr...

Unbound in Fantasy?

I'm done. Will not touch this.

Had a one day event under this comp on Sunday, and a few things emerged which you might find interesting: ⋅ Fortitude, especially mobile fortitude, is really important - but smallish units of Cavalry, not their edgier Fast Cav cousins. ⋅ Scenarios are crucial. ⋅ To that...

Yeah, score 2-4 seems to be the 'sweet spot.'

Get +2 vs the outright filth that's dwelling down on comp 0-1, but still have enough of the good stuff to smash the fluff bunnies up on 6+.

6!

I'm regretting my decision to go comp 3 already...

Sangfroid wrote:I will be going for my first SCGT to this year, manticore already purchase (and ready to be shot off turn one :-)

You hero. Beastmaster with Hydra sword?!

Yes, that would work and indeed very well.

Tournaments have been including "missions" for some time though, and increasingly recently. The main issue is in making infantry viable, as mobile scoring units become even more dominant than they are now.

All in all Placing a sorceress in a unit that is to go in to combat is just plain wrong. You never ever want you sorceress to be in contact with any units for prolonged combat. While the BG are one of our best units at prolong combat. Are they, though? Low model count + low AS. Surely you'd want th...

I'm really keen to try Shadow.

Which is odd, because under the old book it was one of my 3 rules for playing Dark Elves (the two being, no Hydras, and no Assassin Manbane shenanigans). Maybe it's just been so long that it has lost it's hate.