My only problem with the HPA is that it has nothing to counter it's strengths excepting it's cost, which is reasonable. 3d6 movement means even a slightly poor roll will be six or seven inches, which is slower than other Skaven, but not terribly slow. And while randomized movement hurts, you have as...

All you have to do to counter deathstars, if GW or as a house rule, is cap the size of deathstar-units. You can't have much of a Shade Seathstar if you aren't allowed more than 10 per unit under, say, 2000 points. I personally think it would be better if every unit had a maz size under 3000 points a...

This is my biggest bother with warhammer right now and the main reason I am struggling to have any real interest in the game. Game balance aside, other armies keep racking up new troops while we've only lost them. Personally, I think there is plenty of room for more units, both lost and to kit out a...

I really hate how Chaos is done now. I prefer a combined army, I think the daemon summoning from icons is lame and seperate lists is pointless. I prefer the "warband" style where you buy a charcter and he has to take a certain amount of approved troops to go along with him (so a Warrior Lo...

I think the main weakness with this is armies that (this will sound obvious) don't shot much. I've thought of something along this line and he is probably very usefull against a shooting army without something mobile to foil him (either try to lead him astray or a charcter on a powerful mount that w...

Yeah, but using and allying with is different than feeling any particular religious feeling. People worship gods-you don't see an Orc Shaman running around making bargins with Khorne and so forth behind Mork's back. Malkieth has seen gods overthrown, I doubt he feels like bending knee to them when h...

r3flexx: This is cheesy? Not trying to sound sarcastic, but how? At 2000 points you can take ten levels of magic and I took seven. I know its a lot of shooting, but I still don't see how that is cheesy considering the amount I have underpowers my combat ability. I could drop a level of the lvl4, and...

Does anyone know when in the history of the gameworld Malus Darkblade is set? Reading through the DE army book, there are lots of major events in the books that don't get even a hint of a look-in... you'd think such a major Chaos incursion would, for example! Yeah, that was another thing. To me, th...

I'm buying stuff again, but before I do I wanted to test the waters of what people thought about this: Char: Supreme Sorcerer -lvl4 -DP -FFam -PStone (355) Sorcerer -lvl2 -TofFur -PStone (170) Sorceress -2 DScroll (150) Core: 20 Warriors (120) 20 Warriors (120) 10 Crossbowmen (100) 10 Crossbowmen (1...

There was a period of time that I stopped running the khainite elites(exec and WE). The reason being is that as everyone as been saying, they're kind of a hit or miss unit. In some games you watch as they annihilate half the enemy army all by themselves, while in other games they get shot to pieces...

I think GW limits itself by not having more mounts. In the Dark Elf case, I see a great modeling opportunity in having a Beastmaster that has a larger selection of mounts (Wyvern, Griffin, other "vicious" enough mounts for a DE to have around). This would not only allow more flexability in...

Dark Elves are one of the armies with the fewest major changes. THrough the history of the DE very few new units have been made and few cut out (no more Beastmaster, City Guard). And in general the units perform largely the same, although new rules have made them more or less effective. The Special ...

Faced several dozen Squig Hoppers in Fifth Edition. I had to forfeit because his movement phase took forty minutes every turn.

I don't like the S7 rule on chariots. If a S7 hit doesn't kill a two wound goblin hero, why would it totally destroy a chariot in one hit? Odds are, many S7 hits will probably take out a chariot with multiple wounds inflicted (like from a war machine) but I think it is silly for a model charging wit...

the five cold ones that come with the COK box are incorporated into the three sprues in that box together with all other details (and, btw, each of the three sprues is different) - so the only way to get the cold ones themselves is to get the whole sprues. The old cold ones (the battlecow ones) use...

I need some Cold Ones for Chariot Conversions, but can't find just the CO on GW's page. I looked under DE, Bitz, and mounts and no luck, can anybody help me out with this?

For me, not really. I find most of the new "gods" to be just filler. WFor example, I see "the dark mother" as just a meangingless phrase that they created to replace "oh my god," and the (I think this is right) Mistress of a Thousand Cuts is just a "spooky" th...

My biggest problems with the Darkblade fluff is how religous they've become. In the oldest fluff I saw DE society as much more secular with a small cult of Khaine, most elves seemingly worrying about their own skin and looking up to Malkieth (who, in fantasy terms, is mortal. In the new book and the...

I've skimmed through the various posts, but might have missed some points as far as certified distances go and what not, but let me try (and I'm going with the mitigate charges vein of thought). It seems like it is possible for the Corsairs to reform enough to move out of the Dragon's LoS and hopefu...

This is just another variant on a list I've been working on, trying to be balanced, trying to stay away from most (some) of the automatic stuff, but using the Ring since I have little magic protection and a Hydra to apologize for rarely using one over the last ten years. Master -Chariot, HA, SDC, La...

I was looking at the various pieces that come with the Corsair frames and was wondering if anyone had tried to use them (in conjuction with other bits, like the Warrior frame which seems to have some solid stuff) for conversions. Looking at the frame I can kind of see using legs and arms with warrio...

I would probably attempt to charge the Riders and the Harpies at the Dryads, simply because killing them leads into the units behind. I would not try to charge the harpies at the Dryads simply because they are more likely than not to fail their fear test . And if that happens, they end up blocking ...

Considering what is going on in the rest of the battlefield, I assume the Dragon (terribly exspensive) is at best two to three turns from having a significant impact on the game by engaging any meaningful DE units. As it stands it will probably attempt to kill whatever is sitting in front of it righ...

All in all I think the GW perception of races is human based. Elves and Dwarves are portrayed as being "dying" more because, in my mind, that they see things as one dimensional. Dwarves see thing in a sense how they relate to enemies, they hate O&G for attacking them, mostly-disdain El...

After checking out the new HE and TK chariots (last I played TK was barely and army and HE had the older chariot I think) I have to say I'm unimpressed( as far as DE conversions go-I see DEs wanting more protection beacuse of that 3+ save). I've been planning on chariot conversions (three in my late...