First, thank you all for your advice on the forum. Alas, due to poor rolling and allowing myself to get suckered in the set up, I lost resoundingly. I responded to thr threat of three bloodcrushers and a horde of bloodletter with a Herald by fielding my hydras and chariot. Ultimately they were destr...

I will also be playing TK on Saturday-I'll make sure I have a couple of hydras, and run the Harpies with a Master on DP to take out alters, war machines etc.

Greetings fellow Druchii. It has been over a year since my last posting, and a lot has changed in the game which we do not appear to have touched on yet. In particular, I am very interested to know what tactics to employ against the 8th ed Daemons of Chaos. I recently held the local Daemon-Master to...

my apologies, I appear to have ommitted the other unit of spearelves that I had. there were 2, one 10-elf body guard for the SS and a 15 elf regiment with FC. Intersetingly I had followed advice concerning VCs which suggested I go magic-heavy. Also, witch elves weren't there to attack vampires, but ...

Greetings fellow Druchii, I was well and truly mullered by a VC army last night-Vampire general and BSB in a big unit of Grave guard, a skelly reg with a vampire, a necromancer, a unit of ghouls, black coach and corpse cart, a Vargulf (?) , 5 dire wolves and 3 bats. He had 11 power dice at his dispo...

Greetings fellow Druchii. Let me say first that I am a fan of the model, and converted Malus to be my Dreadlord on Manti. However, time and again I have been disappointed with the performance of said beastie. Admittedly this may be due to poor tactics, but it does not seem to pack the punch or insti...

Greetings fellow Druchii. During a game the other week my opponent seemed to think that in 7th Edition, RXBs have to fire twice, rather than have the choiceof single or auto fire. He became a little insistent about this, even after I had checked with another de player. Could you please confirm the t...

on the whole I tend to run my Dread on manti with a Sword of Might, Shield, Heavy Armour, Sea Dragon Cloak and Pendant of Khaelith. I have been somewhat disappointed with the performance of the manti in the league games I have been playing, as he seems to die far too quickly. At 410 points of a 2,00...

Watch out for tomb scorpions. I had 2 pop up out of the sand and they destroyed my 2 reapers in round 2. Ensure you have sufficient defence against them. Take dispels-as many as you can. Tomb Kings are big on magic. Avoid ashanti constructs.

Greetings, fellow Druchii. Well, Malekeith has seen fit to lend a small (10) unit of Black Guard in my efforts to further the glory of our race, but it has got me thinking- what is the optimal size for a unit of these elite warriors? Should I stick with the relatively inexpensive but nevertheless po...

My Dreadlord on Manticore was utterly destroyed by two (count 'em) Lion Chariots. The first killed the Lord, then was mauled by the Manti. Then the second charged in and mullered me. To add insult to injury, that was after a HE archer unit ONE RANK DEEP actually managed to hold against a flank charg...

Hi Beanz, As I had said in my original post, we're talking about a power gamer here. In 40k he runs a 1700 point Ravenwing force with Azreal in his Land Speeder, which is basically a flying tank. So yes, he likes sick lists. To be honest, if I had known what the masque could do earlier on, I most li...

Shoot it at all times. RXB, DR with RXB, Reapers. Shoot it till it looks like a hedgehog, and if you can get magic off on it do so. Play the numbers game and keep your guys out of its way, or at least mutually protected. If a character can get in there with sufficient protection, great, perhaps a De...

I thought I would provide a bit of feedback on my brush with Daemons, especially after the contributions made by you all who gave me advice. First, know your enemy. By that I mean if someone has models of plaguebearers on a table, check that that is what they are. My opponent's ones turned out to be...

Well, I thought I would provide the benefit of experience and hindsight following the slaughter of my army by my opponent's Daemons. Those of you who responded to my previous postings may have some further comments to add once you have read this. I shall try to avoid a blow by blow account, as I do ...

Ok, so the lat couple of changes I have made are these-Dreadknight now has Ring of Hotek (he's in the same unit as the Dreadlord, so It doesn't matter who has it), and the RXB units have been merged to create a 20 strong unit with FC. The DR are now split into 2 units of five. As I said before, I do...

I often use RXB with full command. I find that the versatility of the unit is well worth the cost. I have the opportunity to form a wide frontage (say 2 ranks x10 ) which can absorb a fair amount of the inevitable enemy fire. By advancing and then reforming, I then have a good sized unit with which ...

Oops forgot the Dreadlord has Sea Dragon cloak, too.

In the absence of CoB, harpies, Black Guard etc. current army list is as follows-please note the changes from my first posting! Dread Lord on CO-Armour of Eternal Servitude, pendant, Crimson Death 1 x L2 sorceress, lore of fire, sacrificial dagger and dispel scroll 1 x L1 sorceress, dark steed, disp...

Hi BigAl-no Khornate nasties except for a unit of bloodletters. I have about 18 RXB (more if I wanted) but the points won't allow more.Thanks for the hint about wards for the assassin. Again, if I go down this route, the cost will be taken from core spears. As with Harpies, there is a lack of CoB in...

Some good stuff coming out here, thanks. I may have to revisit my list, plug in another RXB unit and get a bolt thrower at the cost of the 2 chariots. I feel OK about magic defence, 3 dispel scrolls should go a long way to helpng me there, with 4 dispel dice. There may be a way for me to wrangle a s...

A few words on challenging VC characters-here they are:"Van Horstman's Speculum". My (reasonably) regular VC opponent always has it. And it will kill you.

Hi all. I had posted a lengthy reply to phierlihy's feedback, but $%&^* AOL crashed on me. Suffice to say that yes, a ward save is a good idea, and I used to run with a 4+ when they didn't cost 70 points. Maybe I will use the pendant. Yes, something a little meatier than a Sword of Might may be ...

Thanks for the advice. Version 1 of the army list looks like this- Dreadlord on Cold one,H/armour, SD cloak,sword of might,null talisman, Ring of Darkness 2 x sorceress lvl 2, one on dark steed-3x dispel scroll and one sacrificial dagger 1 x 25 spears, full cmd, with Banner of Murder and Assassin 1 ...

Of late I have been using a nice cheap sword of might and gone for 4 strength 5 hits from my Dreadlord (or Highborn as he was once known). This puts his hitting power on a par with his mount, which is a manticore. Now, if I can just avoid getting smashed by Lion Chariots.....I have toyed with the id...