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Me and my friend had a game yesterday. His list was nurgle heavy list with epidemius. Depending on how much unsaved wounds the daemons of nurgle cause, epidemius grants substantial bonus to nurgle units. Now, during the daemons' first turn, a beast of nurgle charges my reaver unit. The reavers promp...

This is my third game using Caledor-themed(or so I hope) 3K list. Before this I had games with Khrone-heavy WoC with new bloodthirster, and second game with vampire counts. This game however was against dwarfs. However, the dwarf player was actually a friend of mine who used VC in the second game. A...

Hi, Loriel. I also run High Magic as my army's primary lore of magic. However, just like many of your battle reports show, high magic does encourage putting 2 or more characters in the 'bunker'. Better if that bunker has innate ward save, like dragon princes and phoenix guard. You might be aware of ...

You probably know that dropping the dragon mage get your list better. If you e.g replace it with strike first griffon noble and lvl 2 (lvl2 high power stone+fire ring, lvl2 metal scroll+fury ring is a good combo) you get still 3 monsters. Split the archers with two mages, skim the core that you get...

It has been a long time since I stopped expecting balanced and competitive games from WHFB. While I believe balance between 8th ed. armies are on decent level, ambiguous rules exposed to extreme exploitation and the sheer varieties of lists I might face were what made me forego pure 'competitiveness...

Hi Hero, or any other dwarf / rule expert. Just to be sure on this... A lonely gyrocopter cannot march and steamshoot, but when there are 2 or more gyrocopters in 1 unit, they can march and steamshoot? Is this correct? I heard this of a local dwarf player. Gyrocopters' unit size is 1 model. So mult...

Sorry to barge in, but what's the usual setting for vampire lord with nightshroud? I suppose the lord's weapon would be lance, since taking great weapon would take away his most valuable asset : Red Fury + ASF combination. In addition, wielding great weapon would worsen his armour save by 1 point. I...

Huge block of white lions with Allarielle and other sorts of combat characters to keep her at second rank. As a player who also has a dwarf army, deathstars are something dwarfs have trouble dealing with. With the exception of gyrocopters, dwarfs lack mobility seriously. This often leads to units be...

After running cavalry-heavy HE list for a year, I decided to use more infantry and Teclis which i haven't had chance to employ for a long time. The list itself isn't highly competitive compared to other lists found in this forum. I do try to make a list that works efficiently, but it isn't the top p...

Vanguard, Free Reform and the ability to move normally after regrouping are what make me still take reavers. Minimum sized SH unit is good chaff and anti-chaff, but when I take chaff it's usually for their mobility. (My anti-chaff unit is usually a pair of chariots) And reavers still excel at this i...

1- VS Legions of Chaos, Khorne. My first game since the arrival of the book with the Banner. And it showed how awesome it is. However, unbreakable (Khorne Ascendant) daemons, 4 Skullcannons, 2 bloodthirsters, ability to exchange any double on the Storm of Chaos table for summoning daemons How was h...

What are the thoughts on the new rat ogres? I'm not a fan at the moment. They're too steam punk for me. I didn't like the plague drones in pics though but think they're awesome in RL now I've seen them so I'm still going to wait and see. Maybe its the bright colors that does it for the rat ogres? M...

Unless you can literally spam impassable terrains or obstacles to block cannonballs, no. I believe increased cap for lords to 50% of the army helps little. Sure, players can now take both Lv4 mage and a star dragon lord even at 2.5K. It just assures you can at least keep your Lv4 even when the drago...

May I suggest playing with scenarios / by the book terrain? I mean, looking at his lists, it lacks anything to take the watchtower, and at best it has 4-5 fortitude points at 3K for Blood and Glory. Meeting Engagement and Dawn Attack can be problematic for him, as he will have worse mobility than y...

I'm not sure about alarielle the avatar of isha being able to take banner of avelorn.
HE army book specifically states that the banner can be used when you use alarielle the radiant, not the the avatar of isha.
The End Times : Khaine also doesn't list banner of averlorn as an accessible item.

Ferny wrote:If they don't get stubborn for being dragons, do they then get to join units whose footprint they overlap with as they are not monsters, thereby benefiting from BotWD vs magic?

Actually, they both have unit type Monster(Special Character).

Title might sounds silly, but then again there are people who would argue over every bits of word which they see as exploitable. While reading through Khaine rulebook, I noticed that characters on dragon who had their stats merged(e.g. malekith, imrik) had no mention of them being 'dragons' ruleswis...

There will be very minor change to my current dragon HE lists even after the release of WH : Khaine. A unit of 15 glade guard as a substitute for HE archers and that's it. I wish to use Imrik instead of custom HE prince on star dragon, but I'm very reluctant to buy the old model, nor am I sure about...

Curu Olannon wrote:Imrik is overcosted, I believe. He hits like a ton of bricks, but his defense is lacking. Considering Karl Franz costs the same...

True. But I'm just so satisfied at the very fact that a prince on star dragon has merged profile.

Thanks for uploading all those pictures, curu. Now, I'm only interested in Imrik as using dragon is my foremost priority in playing HE nowadays. His rules seem much better than I expected, with decent ward save and nice additional rules. However, the fact that I have to use the ugly old model means ...

I would gladly take dark riders and hagbane glade guard for core, but we never know before the real book is released.

Hi Sinsigel, Thanks a lot for the report! It is great to see a game where new lords/heroes allowance is used as it provides the example of what armies we might see in the near future. Of course playing at 3K is different than smaller games but it was very interesting to read about this game regardl...

What a bloodbath! I think your BSB really needed a Charmed Shield. Could you not find 2 points for it? Charmed Shield might have helped in this particular matchup's first turn. However, the shield can be easily stripped off by using BS-shooting, and taking the charmed shield means I have to wear dr...

I played a 3K game with an acquaintance of mine last saturday. Both of us had revised our lists after the sudden FAQ allowing max 50% of lists on Lords. I came up with double star dragon while he took out both Kairos and Lord of Change. Lister were like following High Elves Lords Prince(Star Dragon,...

WL or DPs with BotWD. Both receive a 2+ ward vs his 10 attacks. DPs have the advantage of not suffering from thunderstomp (which is not magical...), which means you should suffer less then 1 wound per round of combat. Big unit, 2 ranks, banner, charge and you have him testing on 7. Better then noth...

Unless all other armies' mounted characters get same treatment(i.e. lords on monsters using combined profile and saves) and End Times : series are fully released, I don't think there is a decent way to effectively deal with Karl Franz. It is a transitional period for warhammer fantasy IMO, and Empir...

I read the FAQ while writing star dragon lord list. Me and me fellow gamers play 3,000pts games most of the time, and with 1,500pts for Lords bringing double star dragon is definitely possible. However, do note that the dragon lists I'm devising nowadays aren't entirely for competitiveness. My aim f...

Just read the changed official FAQ. At 3K games with 1,500pts for lord, putting both prince and archmage on star dragon is possible. Not sure how the list would actually work in games, but this is the new 3K list. Comments are welcome. Lords Prince(Dragon Armour, Star Dragon, Star Lance, Charmed Shi...

This second list is for 3,000pts games which I play quite often with my acquaintances. Changes include second phoenix and another Lv2 mage for dispel bonus with staff of sorcery. (Thus giving me +3 bonus to dispel) Lord Prince(Dragon Armour, Star Dragon, Star Lance, Charmed Shield, Talisman of Prese...

Currently, you have 8 drops plus characters. To maximise your chances of getting first turn I find 6 drops(or maybe 7) plus characters to be optimal in a Star Dragon list. To this end I recommend you lower your number of core units from 5 to either 2 or 3, the exact makeup is entirely up to you. An...