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Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 7:43 pm
by Kinslayer
Kinslayer wrote:Hi all just signed up im jason,

Ive played warhammer almost 8 years now but for the last year of that time i havent had an army, i have just followed the game through white dwarf and forums whilst helping my brother build and paint his wood elf army, mainly due to lack of money.

I decided to continue my druchii army (which i sold save a few models) with the release of the new book now, i still have my characters though i need to buy more warriors and the new models.

You can check out my army lists and give me some feedback would be much appreciated:

http://www.druchii.net/viewtopic.php?t=54948 2250pts
http://www.druchii.net/viewtopic.php?t=54947 4000pts


cheers



I whacked up three posts upon signing up back whenever, the one above and the 2 army lists it links to. No idea what I was on about back then, all I do nowadays is Roleplay :twisted:

Of course, back in those days I was known across these lands as 'eartrender. [waits for Calisson reply] ;)

Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2009 9:29 am
by Calisson
Kinslayer wrote:[waits for Calisson reply] ;)
You asked for a reply, and here comes the answer! :D


"You" Joined: 04 Jun 2008 and made 6 posts that day.
Probably it is this figure which is the most significant, if I can compare to the present:
Total posts: 3034 [0.43% of total / 6.14 posts per day]



Your first quote is slightly inaccurate in several points.

Firstly, your quote is somehow only indirectly about your first post:
your actual first post was the "4000pts" thread you hyperlinked; the second post was the "2250pts" and the post you fully quote was technically your 3rd.
Of course, in the spirit, they came along all together so there's really nothing wrong telling that it was your 1st post.
I notice that with the "4000pts" post, your real first post, you showed an impressive ambition while admitting "my druchii army (which i sold save a few models)". An attitude seen later on again, if I recall correctly?



There is another, more obvious inaccuracy:
Kinslayer wrote:(...)
At that time, "Kinslayer" did not exist.
I would have expected
Heartrender wrote:(...)
... < drumroll > ...


but I was wrong :shock:

The real quote should have been:
< Ta Daaaaaa! >
macejase wrote:(...)



That's true!
"You" Joined: 04 Jun 2008
Until Sat Jun 07, 2008, "you" were known as macejase.
There are mentions about Heartrender only after Mon Jun 09, 2008.


Therefore, there is a third inaccuracy:
Kinslayer wrote:Of course, back in those days I was known across these lands as 'eartrender.
Not only is it hard to believe that a newcomer is that quickly "known across these lands", but it seems that your first name change occured after only 3 to 5 days spent in D.net. :o

This one change, I have to admit I did not noticed at the time. :?
OK, now that you partially uncovered some of your remote past, would you offer some more explanations about this little known "macejase"?

Conclusion:
you are definitively a great roleplayer!

Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2009 10:11 am
by Gethsemane
Gethsemane wrote:
SeraphKast wrote:The Level 4 has the Staff and a Focus Familiar


And this would be illegal. You can't have 2 Arcane Items (except dispel scrolls and power stones of course).

Interesting articles on the magic phase, all 3. Personally I tend to favor less magic, but it's fun to let loose with it every once in a while. :D

Not entirely sure if that puts me in a positive or negative light, but there it is. :o



Edit: Oh crap... apparently I tend to end my posts with a smiley. :roll:

Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2009 7:05 pm
by Malekith's psychologist
Wow, does anyone read the forum rules? I for sure didn't till i got a warning....

i liked the story, but i saw sum mistakes tactically-wise, u treated dark elves as chaos warriors or summit like that, but druchii r also trained in ambush & sneaky tactics, due to their low T3 & low AS they can't be full frontal combat units, the druchii aren't as dumb or undisciplined as u put them in ur story, but under them jungle conditions i'll give u the benefit of doubt (by the way, it was obvious the water was gonna be poisoned, i bet any druchii would've seen that from miles).
Well, if that story was anywhere close to the truth the campaign wouldn't be 50/50. But it gladdens me to see ur hatred 4 the druchii, that will only envigourate our troops & keep raiding ur temples!!

Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2009 9:21 pm
by Kinslayer
Calisson wrote:
Kinslayer wrote:[waits for Calisson reply] ;)
You asked for a reply, and here comes the answer! :D


"You" Joined: 04 Jun 2008 and made 6 posts that day.
Probably it is this figure which is the most significant, if I can compare to the present:
Total posts: 3034 [0.43% of total / 6.14 posts per day]



Your first quote is slightly inaccurate in several points.

Firstly, your quote is somehow only indirectly about your first post:
your actual first post was the "4000pts" thread you hyperlinked; the second post was the "2250pts" and the post you fully quote was technically your 3rd.
Of course, in the spirit, they came along all together so there's really nothing wrong telling that it was your 1st post.
I notice that with the "4000pts" post, your real first post, you showed an impressive ambition while admitting "my druchii army (which i sold save a few models)". An attitude seen later on again, if I recall correctly?



There is another, more obvious inaccuracy:
Kinslayer wrote:(...)
At that time, "Kinslayer" did not exist.
I would have expected
Heartrender wrote:(...)
... < drumroll > ...


but I was wrong :shock:

The real quote should have been:
< Ta Daaaaaa! >
macejase wrote:(...)



That's true!
"You" Joined: 04 Jun 2008
Until Sat Jun 07, 2008, "you" were known as macejase.
There are mentions about Heartrender only after Mon Jun 09, 2008.


Therefore, there is a third inaccuracy:
Kinslayer wrote:Of course, back in those days I was known across these lands as 'eartrender.
Not only is it hard to believe that a newcomer is that quickly "known across these lands", but it seems that your first name change occured after only 3 to 5 days spent in D.net. :o

This one change, I have to admit I did not noticed at the time. :?
OK, now that you partially uncovered some of your remote past, would you offer some more explanations about this little known "macejase"?

Conclusion:
you are definitively a great roleplayer!



Woah, I didn't know I used that name! :oops: Heck, I can't even remember it!

I am known as macejase still on Warseer, although I never use the site. Strange how a name change I used so early, although you know what they say - START HOW YOU MEAN TO GO ON :twisted: :roll:

The mob with the pitch forks has made me settle on this name though, if I change again I'd half expect Rork to turn up on my doorstep throwing Daisies at me :lol:

Also, I know I was not known across the lands the day I joined... that came a few days later :P

I did also mention that I put up three posts at once, this introduction and the two army lists it linked to. If I recall correctly, I only put the army lists up first as I was intent on having some replies by the time I finished my introduction!

Which also brings me to the next point you bring up... Yes, I did sell my dark elves once again! In fact I quit warhammer altogether and currently have 0 models, 0 books, 0 paints, 0 everything! It's all gone now. I still follow the game though, and am hoping that once I have the money of a proper paid job I can restart. I'd like to restart both games, and although I am fixed on the idea of restarting 40k with the Space Wolves (my first ever army), I still have no idea what I would like to try with warhammer! I'd like to give Tomb Kings a shot, although I can't say for certain until we see what GW does to them!

Finally, thankyou Cal, I do my best to be the Roleplaying Deity my new title dictates 8)

Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 3:31 am
by Layne
22 is the toughest, longest running, fastest dnet RPG ever, so let there be no doubt.

Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 2:59 pm
by Kinslayer
Layne wrote:22 is the toughest, longest running, fastest dnet RPG ever, so let there be no doubt.



Damn right :twisted:

Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 7:31 pm
by Mdk
After digging deep in the black archives I discovered my first post.

No introduction back in 2002, why would I, I wasn't supposed to visit this site that often. The only thing that changed in these 8 years is my spelling (After some hard lessons from Silas for instance). BTW, I still have troubles against those damn Dwarfs. (And lost the battle that day).

MDK wrote:Good to see that he is a fine choice against
Dwarfs since my next battle is against them.
But what did you mean by positioning of the apprentices?
How should I use them? And what is the mest thing to do
with a Hydra against Dwarfs?

Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 8:42 am
by Falahk
my first post was this following very innocent replay to a random army list (oh and my spelling still sucks), this was close to 8 years ago, on the same day that i joined the forum

Falahk wrote:wath abuot this:

Noble 84
halberd, hevy armor, sea dragon cloak
in chariot 95

Sorseress 150
level 2, darkstar cloak

20 Spearmen 225
ch,st,mu, Shields

5 Dark Riders 90

5 harpys 65

5 Cold one knights 190
ch,st,mu

Bolt thrower 100

total 999

Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 10:49 am
by Comrade igor
Heh, 2 out of 3 spelling mistakes in your first sentence is never a good start Fal. :D

Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2009 10:27 pm
by Crazyhorse
Oh back in the good old days:

crazyhorse wrote:ok i am new at this so i may have made a few stupid mistakes i appologive ahead of time.
General dark elf highborn
heavy armor, sheild mounted on a cold one
blade of ruin and black amulet 223 pts

sorceress lvl2
2 dispell scrolls 180

assasin
rune of khaine and manbane 175

12 warriors w/ Xbows 156

20 corsairs w/ musician 205

2 groups of 7 dark riders w/ Xbows 336

10 cold one knights w/ musician and banner 317

10 harpies 130

war hydra 220

i have all but 13 of these models and i am thinking of putting the knights and the corsairs in the middle harpies on the left dark riders on the right and xbows on the left. not sure where i would put the assasin or sorceress.
any help is welcome thx

Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2009 10:47 pm
by Tutankhankh
This one ;) .

I've been lurking here since I joined up a while ago, and just haven't found any reason to post yet. For what it's worth, my Druchii are still awaiting painting, and most of them assembly as well. I work sloowly.

Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2009 5:26 am
by Sassmaw
I don't know what to pick for my 2000 point army. Do i use a highborne or take a high sorcceress? i know the advanteges of each unit but hich is better? :!: :!:


Well thats mine.... just realised how stupid those exclamation marks are..... O well :P

Re: Your first post on d.net

Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2009 5:34 am
by Calisson
Welcome Tutankhankh in D.net. :)

Above, your first post indeed.
Not sure how nostalgic you are, though.
Gnosis wrote:Come on, whip out your first posts and let's get nostalgic!
At least, you show that you care about the lesson learned from the old timers:
Perfect use of capital letters, not a single spelling mistake (not counting the voluntary twist in sloowly).

If one can judge from a fist post what will be the trend,
- you're indicating ("while ago", "sloowly") that you're going to take ages before you reached your 10th post.
- not only your first post was half off topic, furthermore it was placed in the wrong forum (although the name of the present forum is aptly named "Off topic", you could have rather used the more appropriate "Website Discussions / Introductions").
- however, your first post was carefully prepared (including avatar & signature) and you indicate a subtile sense of humour so you're forgiven. ;)

Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2009 5:36 am
by Azure
Wow, I fail. At everything. wrote:has anyone ever tried a army with 2 reaper bolt throwers a unit of foot men...hopefully 1s that could hold like black gaurd ) in the middle with 2 roups of 10 reapeater cossbowmen. and on the outsdie of them 2 units of dark riders small or large ur choice? so it would look like this



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Hmm. No capitals, multiple spelling mistakes... oh and did I mention the 1337 sp3ak? And theres no way anyone has ever thought of using missile troops with... another unit! God I was smart back then, what happened?

It also had to be moved and re-explained. Don't worry boys and girls, if you want to be a moderator just stay around long enough!

Approximately 6 years or so =P... OMG THATS A LONG TIME HAHA
-Rex

Re: Your first post on d.net

Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2009 4:32 pm
by Tutankhankh
Calisson wrote:Welcome Tutankhankh in D.net. :)

Above, your first post indeed.
Not sure how nostalgic you are, though.
Gnosis wrote:Come on, whip out your first posts and let's get nostalgic!
At least, you show that you care about the lesson learned from the old timers:
Perfect use of capital letters, not a single spelling mistake (not counting the voluntary twist in sloowly).

If one can judge from a fist post what will be the trend,
- you're indicating ("while ago", "sloowly") that you're going to take ages before you reached your 10th post.
- not only your first post was half off topic, furthermore it was placed in the wrong forum (although the name of the present forum is aptly named "Off topic", you could have rather used the more appropriate "Website Discussions / Introductions").
- however, your first post was carefully prepared (including avatar & signature) and you indicate a subtile sense of humour so you're forgiven. ;)

Thanks. As for nostalgia, is seems like it was just yesterday... oh, wait...

It probably will take ages to reach my 10th post, because the good folks at D.net always seem to say whatever I believe needs saying without my intervention. As for going halfway off topic, I apologize for that, but the opportunity was just too good to miss.

So thanks for the welcome. I'll probably go back to lurking now, until I've familiarized myself with the army and can post something actually constructive. At that point, I'll probably be heading to whatever introductions thread might be appropriate and introduce myself.

[/off topic]

Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 3:38 pm
by Langmann
My first post started a long argument. First of many. Rork wasn't around yet at that time but if he were I would have beaten him down in that one as well....


Oct 14 2002
Ok here's a question that's causing some debate hereabouts. If you have a unit of corsairs, with standard, musician and champion, in a 5x4 unit (5 across, 4 deep) and someone charges it with a regular unit and wipes out five corsairs, does that include the champion? In other words, does the champion behave like a character in this situation or not? Can he strike back?

I think he is treated like a character.

Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 4:03 pm
by Borog
I found the assassin to be useful with rending stars in a unit of 10 Corsairs with rxb against the Asur. March them up to a small unit of swordmasters and you can kill quite a few with two rounds of shooting and the rending stars. The assassin can still take out the few remaining with 4 attacks.

It's risky revealing the assassin however, as such a small unit with an assassin is a likely target for the boltthrower and will not be charged. I waited to reveal the assassin until the Asur charged (White lions so he thought he could handle it) In the end my unit fled, but reformed and got one more stand and shoot! So 10 corsairs and assassin took out 20 white lions

But my assassin is usually there to kill off the front rank as DE troops are so vulnerable, especially against Asurs ASF. So I would use RoK any day, the rending stars was just a one trick pony.


ah yes, sharing my wisdom in the not so distant past. Neglecting to mention that this was my first game with the new rules, and my second game playing with druchii altogether :P

edit - "my assassin is usually there..." pft... :P

Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 5:43 pm
by Ulric darksoul
I wrote:i've made a couple of fast moving lists, trying to be the least cheesy possible, and the most general lists possible. so i've like to read what do you think. here they go:

Noble: lance, heavy armour, sea dragon cloak,shield, mounted in a cold one
Seal of Ghrond. this guy should be in the CoK
Sorceress: level 2, darkstar cloak in a steed
Sorceress: level 2, tome of Furion in a steed
These two should be near the DR's, at the 5'' of the unit.

Assassin: manbane, rune of Khaine, additional hand weapon

2x 5 dark riders with rxbows BSB in one of them and musician in both
5 shades, so they can take shoots for the assassin
5 cold ones knight with BSB and the banner of murder (spicy)
1 chariot with spears
1 war hydra

as you can see, i've made the changes as suggested, but put in the banner... not so sure about it anyway..

the other is really similar to this one, but the hydra is a spellthirster hidra, the two DR's got only the musician, the shades got armour (ths one was for using the ponts...) and the chariot got the spear too... that would be

Noble: lance, heavy armour, sea dragon cloak,shield, mounted in a cold one
seal of ghrond
Sorceress: level 2, darkstar cloak in a steed
Sorceress: level 2, tome of Furion in a steed

Assassin: manbane and the rune of khaine, additional hand weapon

2x 5 dark riders with rxbows, musician
5 shades, so they can take shoots for the assassin
5 cold ones knight
1 chariot with rxbows and spear
1 war hydra spell thirster.

i've made some changes, hope you like'em

What do you think about this two? are they good, or bad?

anyway, thanks for all your help!



And i never got toplay this lists ;) just going to the point, straight forward, without introducing... how rude ;)

Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 5:56 pm
by Fr0
Oh god, first that I can see in history not sure if it was my first actual post;

- why i hate rxcrossbow warriors
May Wed 2005, 2005 3:06 pm wrote:I love them.

Part of the reason I chose Dark Elves as my army (apart from the Witch Elf on the cover Razz )

24", can shoot twice, BS4, S3. I don't care what you say, that's hot! I have a City Guard unit 7 wide (28 strong! Very Happy)
that's 14 shots. 5+ at long range, and repeating are still good odds. Of course, that's just one example.

Personally, I don't field an army very often that doesn't include at least 2 units of 10-20 RxB's.

Fr0

Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 7:27 pm
by Calisson
It was apparently your second post. Posted: Wed May 25, 2005 9:06 pm

The first was a poll: Posted: Wed May 25, 2005 8:44 pm

Dark Riders - RXBs or not?
Poll: RXBs or not?
Yes 83%
No 16%
Fr0 wrote:For 6 pts, the option to have Fast 'Cav equipped with RxB's seems like a fair deal to me.

If you can get them in deep (if you are not really harrying the enemies flanks with them) you can take out smaller units with them.


My personal opinion, they are definitely worth it!

Fr0
(for the time differences, I live in Continental Europe, not in Canada)

Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2009 9:42 am
by Sidorio
Found it... and amazingly I'm still working on that army. :P

I'm going to get myself a small army up real quick, but i don't know what guys i should buy. Any tips for what models i should buy in order to get a small army up quick (i'm thinking about a 1000pts). My theme is a corsair raiding force.


I loved corsairs then and I love corsairs now.