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Dark Rider shenanigans

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So all troops with murderous prowess got martial prowess right? :? Has anybody started using Dark Riders in groups of 9? or groups of 6? 3 x3 or 2 x3? Seems they could make some nice assassination units now in addition to their usual roles.
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Good call!

I was always jealous of High Elf "Cube Cavalry" ...and now we can do the same with Dark Riders, Warlocks and Knights :twisted:
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You lose horse attacks. Horse attacks are priceless.

But cubes of stubborn black guard can be pretty handy.
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3x3 gives you 4 S4 hits on a puny human sorcerer, versus 2 max going five wide, pretty nice for character stabbing. Cubes also please the OCD in some of us, so precise...so even.......................
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Curse_Bearer wrote:Cubes also please the OCD in some of us, so precise...so even.......................


Now if only their bases were square too....... 8)
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Curse_Bearer wrote:3x3 gives you 4 S4 hits on a puny human sorcerer, versus 2 max going five wide, pretty nice for character stabbing. Cubes also please the OCD in some of us, so precise...so even.......................


I count 6 str 4 hits. 8) Oh and two str 3s. Just in case he somehow lived through 6 spears.
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S6 hits with Knights :mrgreen:

Cubes of doom :twisted:
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Gidean wrote:
Curse_Bearer wrote:3x3 gives you 4 S4 hits on a puny human sorcerer, versus 2 max going five wide, pretty nice for character stabbing. Cubes also please the OCD in some of us, so precise...so even.......................


I count 6 str 4 hits. 8) Oh and two str 3s. Just in case he somehow lived through 6 spears.


Against a 20mm human wizard, you'd only get four 25mm cav bases in contact to allocate hits. Against Warriors, Daemon, Orc, etc you can totally throw six spears in their face, and you'll probably need it then haha
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Curse_Bearer wrote:
Gidean wrote:
Curse_Bearer wrote:3x3 gives you 4 S4 hits on a puny human sorcerer, versus 2 max going five wide, pretty nice for character stabbing. Cubes also please the OCD in some of us, so precise...so even.......................


I count 6 str 4 hits. 8) Oh and two str 3s. Just in case he somehow lived through 6 spears.


Against a 20mm human wizard, you'd only get four 25mm cav bases in contact to allocate hits. Against Warriors, Daemon, Orc, etc you can totally throw six spears in their face, and you'll probably need it then haha



But with Martial Prowess being added to the Dark Riders the 3rd rank attacks too. 6! :D
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