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It's not done yet, but I did a poll of the fantasy players at my local game store. To see who would be trying out the new Dark Elves.
Much to my surprise no one said yes.
I've always been the only regular druchii player. With only two others who play them far inbetween.
Most of the excuses were along the lines of "I just bought chaos and vampires, I dont have money for that too"

Anyone else seeing something like this happening?
I don't think they'll make much off of just me and my usually empty wallet.
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We have 1 Druchii player in our group but I've started Druchii and another guy will be starting em too, making us 3 players in the club with only 1 HE player (me)! O:

I've bought the majority of my army from Ebay, huge discounts, mostly 50%, won part of it (new high elf dragon kit will serve for my black dragon and won Mengil's box) and bought like.. 1 box of warriors at GWShop a year ago when I felt like starting druchii... :3
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Post by Linda lobsta defenda »

I think with both VC and daemons being such recent releases (and very popular) not all that many will jump onto druchii. Specially when they can play the easy to play powerhouse that is VC.
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Linda Lobsta Defenda wrote: Specially when they can play the easy to play powerhouse that is VC.


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Post by Vogon »

Yes having three fantasy armies released back to back is fairly unprecedented. It wouldn’t surprise me if initial sales of Dark Elves don’t do that well. I know I’ve been hanging on waiting for the new dark elves as have a lot of others but the “look a shiny new army” brigade will probably already have spent up in the last few months.
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Post by Dalamar »

Who knows maybe the Druchii will be yet another powerhouse army? (yeah right who am I kidding?)
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Druchii: 36/4/16
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Post by Linda lobsta defenda »

Dalamar wrote:Who knows maybe the Druchii will be yet another powerhouse army? (yeah right who am I kidding?)


Even if we do, it wont be as simple as the VC since we are still t3 elves. It makes such a big difference.
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Post by Dalamar »

t3 elves that can't come back from the dead unlike all those undead t3 units.
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SilverHeimdall wrote:We have 1 Druchii player in our group


Yeah, me since the 5th edition :P
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The only other DE player I know at my store is sadly quiting our cause, despite me trying to tell him about the new release. And a lot of people I talk too think the new book will make us a non-power house army just because the last few books have been and GW will break the trend. And can you see DE being a power house? unless we got ASF like HE, i doubt it.
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Thing is the book was most likely nearly thru play testing when the daemons came out so unless they were like "god damn this is broken" before they released the book. Also the trend seems to be to give all the new books army wide rules which i like. and I like to think about it this way. We get a new book, could our situation get any worse. In addition I like how with back to back armies we wont get the rush of people getting into the DE and all the old loyal players will still be pretty exclusive without everyone and there grandma playing.
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Even with ASF, I wouldn't exactly classify the High Elves as a "powerhouse" army. Competitive, certainly. But not unreasonably so. If anything, their new abilities justify their points costs.

I *am* a little cheesed off by the S5 WS5 2 attacks per white lion chariots, but that's another topic for another day. ;)

I think the Dark Elf book will probably bring us somewhere alongside High Elves as far as the power curve is concerned. As I've not played against VC or the new Daemons, I can't really say how "powerhouse" they are, but I from what I've read, they seem pretty nasty. Especially the VC...

But then again, they kinda needed some kind of upgrade. One of our local players here played VC in 6th edition, and he's a very good player, ESPECIALLY with his Wood Elves and Brettonians... But I never once lost to his VCs, and on three occasions massacred his entire army to a man. While they did have some tricks up their sleeve, they still needed something to make them more competitive.... and I think the new Blood Knights and Vampires did exactly that.
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cheesed off by the lion chariot?

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Post by Khalius »

Overpiriced... sure, but what isn't in an Elven army. It is a beautiful model though, and it does well against us, just the same as our chariots perform well against HE. Both armies find it almost impossible to cause a S7...
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Ya that star dragon with a +3 strength lance is really rare :shock: :?

Can't say I've played against a non star dragon, not teclis list in 3 months and my club isn't particularly cheesy.

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One thing for sure, our next army book can't be worst than it is right now ;)

Until the release, I'm starting my Bretonnia.
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Post by Demetrius »

Im currently the only regular DE player at my store too. One or two others have an intrest in the new DEs, especially the Corsairs, but I doubt they will do a proper army as they all have lots of other projects they are commited to... Blood Angels entire chapter comes to mind...
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Post by Matras »

Well, we can be at least sure about one thing: if the new DE book is as crapt-up as the old one (either compared to the current new armies or more generally), there are going to be even less Druchii players. Our army already has a bad reputation as being more or less under-powered. Also, there are increasing numbers of tournaments which have rules along the lines of "only two units of the same type per army and NO DRAGONS" which means that you don't see almost no DE's in tournaments here in Germany anymore.

BEsides, as a matter of fact, I took a look at the new Daemon WHFB Army book - it sucks, I would not call it a powerhouse army. VC's, however, are just ridiculous.
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Linda Lobsta Defenda wrote:I think with both VC and daemons being such recent releases (and very popular) not all that many will jump onto druchii. Specially when they can play the easy to play powerhouse that is VC.

This is a very good point. Lets not forget also that Dark Elves are coming out just one month after the new 40K rulebook and presumably new models. I seem to remember in the past that when an army was released it would feature strongly in WD for a few months or so. Nowadays each new major release quickly becomes yesterdays news as something else is released immediately after and is then the new kid on the block. (The only thing I want to see on the block are High Elf necks)
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Post by Lodark »

When I read the title for this thread it immediately made me think of Druchii salesmen.

Salesman: Well, this is one of the more expensive chariots in our range at 400, err, umm, whatever it is we use for money.

Customer: Oh, that's a bit outside our price range are there any alternatives?

Salesman: Yes, I cut your head off with a draich and give it to my kids to play with for wasting my time. :P


On topic: A lot of players are probablyput off by what they've heard about the old book. On top of this, When you just start playing you go for the armies that are currently out.
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Post by Jadin »

hehe

Our local game store currently doesnt carry any Warhammer Fantasy models, but there has been a surge lately in this game. We have the store special order stuff when we want fantasy minis.

I personally have been out of fantasy for 8 years, but the updated Dark Elves are finally bringing me back since most of my friends are buying in now after getting a little burnt out on WARMACHINE for the past 5 years or so.
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Well surely from what we have seen from the rumors that have been going around, it is pretty evident that we won't become a powerhouse. I reckon we will be much more competitive, in the same way as HE but nowhere near as bad as VC or even daemons.
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Post by Azure »

We dont know who is the powerhouse army quite yet. I think with the rumors that are going around Dark Elves have a very large possibility to be top tier in a few months.

As for HE, they were top tier before VC demons, now they are still top tier but a bit behind those. Although we really don't know whats going to happen with demons quite yet.

Wait a few months and see!

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As for HE, they were top tier before VC demons, now they are still top tier but a bit behind those.

*Chuckles*

Lets not forget also that Dark Elves are coming out just one month after the new 40K rulebook and presumably new models.

Not to mention the new Spaaace Marine codex that will shortly follow.

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