I played a game yesterday vs Warriors of Chaos and my opponent had a big block of scary Warriors of Nurgle with an Exalted Hero in it. Lvl 4 Sorceress w/ Lore of Metal removed 10 or so with Searing Doom, then cast Plague of Rust on them, then next turn cast Transmutation of Lead on them - so their 3...

OK SO: played two game with this list, one was a 200 pt loss, one was a 2000 point victory. 200 pt loss wasn't really my fault however, the game was a very very bad one: game type we rolled for was Battle for the Pass, and we rolled for a river, which we thought would be cool to have going across th...

If we're considering dropping more units for more standards for the silly game type I suppose in that sense it would behoove you to remove the harpies for the banners. Seems like you're of the opinion that I should just screw that silly game type and use the list as-is - and in the one-in-six chanc...

Indeed! a unit panicking nearby and the rest of the army saying "meh" and "heh stupid harpies" is always worth a chuckle on the battlefield. So are you of the opinion that I should nix something else in favor of the second squad of harpies? Liiiikeee......... crossbows....? there...

Svarthofthi wrote:That game type seems silly though. What army breaks when one unit is mowed down? Casualties are to be expected you cowards. Now go forth, to the front line and amuse me.

Agreed!

More harpies in favor of fewer shades, though? Shades are awesome!

@a18no: Yeah, 5 points seems like a good number. So two more banners... @Meteor: I really don't want to drop the second unit of shades, I like having the two units of shades. What about harpies? I could dump one of the units of harpies I guess, they're not really as necessary as they were in 7th, an...

In a related note, I was reading through the game types and rediscovered "Blood and Glory" - in it, an army has a "breaking point" equal to 1 for every thousand points the army has, rounded up. In the case of this army, it would be three. It then is given a fortitude equal to 1 f...

btw theres still an error 19 corsairs only http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlLA/original/042804_khaaaan.PNG KHAAAAAAAAAAN!!!!! OK SO HERE IS VERSION 4.2 REVISION A Supreme Sorceress, Lvl4, w/ Pegasus, Darkstar Cloak, Pendant of Kheleth, Black Dragon Egg. 400pts Sorceress, Lvl2, w/ Tome of Furion, ...

It's true that the Ring of Hotek isn't as good as it used to be @ defending against magic. But, what you can do is take your Master and park him behind the enemy wizards - because he/she/it will almost definitely be in a unit, and force the wizard to be affected or move forward to still cast. You me...

@Diablo: when you're saying 14 is a weird number of crossbows, how many do you usually take in a unit?

That's weird. I've got it in AB as well and it totals to 2496 for me. lemme see: My Supreme Sorceress is 400, but that's my fault: she's got the Black Dragon Egg, I haven't mentioned that in a few posts. damn! The only other thing I can see wrong on yours - which is also my fault - is that my BG hav...

@Auere: That makes sense. It is done. @Thanee: The Extra Hand Weapon is there in the Shades, I just neglected to put it there. My bad. So here's version 4.1 of "The List" - arranged in a more pleasing manner. Supreme Sorceress, lvl 4 w/ Pegasus, Darkstar Cloak, Pendant of Khaeleth Sorceres...

@Diablo: I need 14 crossbows to complete the prophecy. The stars are in alignment on this, the 14th hour of the 14th day - place ye the 14 crossbows upon the golden hill, and the Everstar will be awoken! Praise be to the Everstar! Praise Bal'Thalos the Dark One! I just like having them in two ranks ...

Yes indeed, one more Shade to make two units of 5 would be nice. That would be better than nice, in fact. I really want to do that. However, the only thing I could really get rid of would be one of the units of harpies. For a refresher, here's the list again... Supreme Sorceress, lvl 4 w/ Pegasus, D...

So, taking in to account what advice everyone has offered, here's version 3 of my balanced 8th edition Dark Elf army list: Supreme Sorceress, lvl 4 w/ Pegasus, Darkstar Cloak, Pendant of Khaeleth, and Black Dragon Egg Sorceress, lvl 2 w/ Tome of Furion and Seal of Ghrond Death Hag, Battle Standard B...

@Gethsemane: I HAVE to choose my lores now? I can't be like "hey man, let's play warhammer! OK let me make my list..." then 30 seconds later - after choosing my lore - be like "OK I'm done making my list let's play." Is that cheating? that sucks! Basically I was thinking either D...

First of all, I'd like to thank everyone who's replied to me. It's really awesome that there's a community like this that's so willing to help. D.net is awesome. OK so, seems like sorceresses on foot are better. Seems like the Scholar build is better than the weird thing I had. Seems like more Black...

@Thanee: Yes, yes you're definitely right with the lvl4 on foot, I'm not sure what I was thinking w/ having her on the horse, since she's got the dagger and stuff anyways. @Meteor: That's a very interesting idea - giving the lvl4 the Lifetaker. Lifetaker's an awesome one and that'd be pretty cool gi...

I neglected to say that this is a 2500 point army that I'm doing, and w/ the current build it's @ exactly 2500. So here's what I've gathered so far... @ Meteor: FEWER Black Guard? Really? I can understand the need for Shades, but at the expense of the Black Guard? - although I can see where you're c...

Dear D.net, 8th edition frustrates me. I've only played one game, and it was against the Lizardmen. My opponent hadn't ever played 8th either. There were a handful of things we did wrong, mostly dealing with cavalry - specifically the Swiftstride and Vanguard rules - and a few other things like how ...

GW Gore Red goes awesome with the bronze, as well as Chaos Black. I also like Liche Purple - or is it "Lich" purple...? I can't remember. When I'm saying bronze here I'm thinking the GW Shining Gold - and it's nice because most colors look good with it. Gore Red especially, I think. GW Cha...

Alas, I lost. He got about 1600 points, and I got about 800. But it wasn't my fault: I rolled atrociously. My Lord on the Manticore was held up by a unit of cavalry for literally three turns, while his lord wreaked havok along my lines. I basically had 26 rolls over the course of the game where my M...

Wow, that looks incredible! Good for you! Have you done any other Eldar work in the same style?

Good advice Starphoenix, I've played this particular guy before on several occasions, and he actually picked up a High Elf army because we all decided that the Vampires are overpowered, like the Tyranids in 40k. I am confident, however, that I'll do fairly well against him as we were all newbies at ...

I heard from my Lizardmen friend that played him yesterday that his General is like crazy powerful, He's on a horse that has 9" movement, his close combat attacks auto-hit w/ S7, and every wound he deals he gets another attack. Also I guess he's a lvl 3 caster? I dunno. He's got some Wraiths, a...