I have had some success with them, and as people have pointed out they suck against skaven. But they are good if you are facing units you need to hold up, or when you have to accept the fact that some units of yours will be charged. IE: if you are facing empire knights, high elves, VC, brets.... In ...

No, a pegasus isn't a large target. One really good reason for the pegasus is protection. The pegasus gives you effectively a 3+ ward save until it dies. As long as you get behind the lines before that happens and/or soulstealer, you should be able to keep her alive against many armies until help a...

Not only that but your sorceress mounted on a pegasus is now missile bait, since its a large target. Getting a sorceress into combat, as you pointed out is foolish. Some people put her on a dark steed and in a unit of 5 DR so she is protected from missile fire. Then she can roam about rather nicely....

For DE, fanatics are not as much a problem. Land five harpies, so that one harpy is 8" away and the rest are lined up right behind her. (That way you minimize your chances of getting hit by fanatics or charged by him.) XXXX XXXX XXXX H H H H H The fanatics come out. If they miss, fly your harpies of...

I think corsairs would still maintain high standing against cityguard (equally as good) since: 1. Corsairs have AS 4+ against missiles vs spearmen AS 5+. 2. They get 2 attacks/model during first combat (if you need to break someone immediately they are the better core for it). 3. If flanked, rear at...

Its a bridge too far...

Well there you go. The answer to that is in WD. I'll have to think of a harder/better question for next time.

I agree, Word of Pain. Sorry Baron, while some of your points are valid, they are just not applicable to all horde armies. The O&G is the most balanced horde out there, IMHO. The usual strategy of how to beat them works nicely. By interfering with marches, you can concentrate firepower nicely. Y...

Ok I had an argument with the manager at GW. I said, if GW made cityguard regular core, people would have three desireable choices, instead of just two. Many druchii would be happy. They would sell more box sets because right now everyone knows spears are not as good as corsairs when fighting the wa...

Sorry Baron, while some of your points are valid, they are just not applicable to all horde armies. The O&G is the most balanced horde out there, IMHO. The usual strategy of how to beat them works nicely. By interfering with marches, you can concentrate firepower nicely. You can set up great fla...

Most generals I have been fighting have been S6 or more. So it makes no difference either way in that respect. Its useful only against S5 or less units/models, remember that. If you going to be fighting regular S3 or S4 troopers a lot its very nice. It is still reducing the armor save modifier agai...

FatonToast wrote:now theyre running you get to choose which one pursues first if its the dark riders the next beastman unit will form up the same way or if uyou choose to pursue with W first the DR can get a rear charge

You have to roll to pursue with the unit with the highest US first.

OK you have a combat like this where A and B are in the same army while Y is in another army. BYYYYY BYYYYY BYYYYY BYYYYY AAAAA AAAAA AAAAA Y loses combat and breaks, fleeing 7" up (north), away from A. A has a higher unit strength and thus rolls to pursue first. He rolls a 4 and thus fails to catch...

Make sure you get rid of those stupid helmets, bloody coneheads. Main reason I don't own a HE army is due to the silly helmets they wear. Now when I see a nice painted unit of blackguard, thats the shiz. Love that 18th century look to them, with their elegent cloths and lithe bodies. Truly the way e...

steja wrote:lol i like this - there's for once no idiot replies, and the gw people delete the thread. Just shows you what sort of a board they're wanting to create

Calm calm, its still there, see my previous post for the html.

Its there.

http://www.games-workshop.com/membership/eshare.pl?do=ShowArticle&BoardID=2&ID=1128990

Dark Alliance wrote:We are working towards a reasonable petition so I would be grateful Langman, if you would vote in our poll here in petitions, re the changes.

Your opinion would be valued. Unless you already have, in which case I thank you.

Voted just now. Put in my meager suggestions also. Thanks for asking!

Against heavily armoured T4 troops like chaos, I leave them off. Against T3 troops they are nasty! When you park them in front of a guy's unit and start shooting, he wants to charge you, even if its a dumb idea. Something psychological about that. But also you'll be surprised how useful it is to get...

Well right now when it comes to the O&G horde, I have no problems winning. Having m5 and having some hard hitting units, I can generally choose a flank and break through, coming around behind to screw the player up. With flyers, DR etc, its not hard to slow him down a little, also, in order to g...

as for langmann if you wanna try and fight beastmen head on go for it ut this is just a stratergy im going to try when i play a beastman guy I'm not that stupid. Getting by them as Baron pointed out will be very hard. What I pointed out what that your strategy, as nice sounding as it is, will in pr...

heartly agree with you baron the only way i could possibley see dark elves (even with the tactic i proposed and amazing luck) is if we get so cheap heavy cav or just something lol its true beast have the same weapon skill as our troops can easily have the same leadership high toughness more strengt...

I vote yes. I think most of our units are fine and some quite good. I think some simple things need changing with some of them, such as CoK ld8-->9, option to buy HA for execs, blackguard should have burning (constant) hatred, war hydra's breath weapon is broken (why use it and get charged??? Its fl...

just one thing i really think beastmen should have movement 4 Yes, because then it would be easier to implement your strategy. You are hoping to win and overun any combat, without getting your own flanks exposed. Not all BM units will fold, and not all overuns will contact a next unit. Not all BM p...

Q: "How do you use spearmen offensively" A: You don't. Sorry, I'm being a little facetious. Learn this now: against everyone druchii units work best in combos. As people have said, 20+ units are best here. I always use them with a combo. The best combo I have found so far is the hydra. I think of th...

There will be NO new book. None, nadda, nothing....

There may be revisions in Annuals/Chronicles.

Whining will get us squat. Perhaps a reasonable petition may, as Dark Alliance says.

But there will be NO NEW BOOK.

So forgettaboutit.