Cheap Eagles? Wood Elf Hawks?

[Silver sword]

How do you think Wood Elf Warhawks would work as a cheap alternative to Great Eagles?

[Luna Guardian]

Why not. I'm using them, but you should base your army in Chrace, Avelorn or Cothique, as the models have a very "woodland" look to them

[Andrew_uk]

I plan on using terradons for my eagles. My army is based in Caledor and the terradons body is very similar in shape to our dragons

[Foxbat]

I also used them. I just painted them up in GE colours.

Also, I converted one of the WE riders into a HE rider. It was a drag cutting and filing all those vines off the model though. The best part was that I used two rare earth magnets so I can use them with or without a rider.

[Silver sword]

I also used them. I just painted them up in GE colours.

Also, I converted one of the WE riders into a HE rider. It was a drag cutting and filing all those vines off the model though. The best part was that I used two rare earth magnets so I can use them with or without a rider.

The warhawks have vines or the rider??

[Silver sword]

I plan on using terradons for my eagles. My army is based in Caledor and the terradons body is very similar in shape to our dragons

Wow, thats a pretty cool idea. A Dragonrider, & Dragon princes, along with those Terradon/Eagles makes an awesome Caledor theme.

[Foxbat]

The warhawks have vines or the rider??

Yeah check out the photo of the model on the right (http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catal ... prod800878). BTW it was this WE rider I converted to a HE rider.

[Silver sword]

Hmmm...ok. Thanks.

[Jeroen]

Disadvantage of the warhawks is that they are not very stable; this week another one of my warhawks litteraly 'broke' during battle. It's just too much metal on one small pole

[Lord Anathir]

With the new true line of sight rule some people might take issues with smaller hawks being used for great eagles.

[SpellArcher]

Wow, thats a pretty cool idea. A Dragonrider, & Dragon princes, along with those Terradon/Eagles makes an awesome Caledor

I always fancied something like this, a la Thieves World or Fire and Ice.

[Griffon Prince]

I was wondering about this myself actually. I have two of the old HE eagles and a few of the old Warhawks. The reason I use them is that fact that they can all fit into my army transport with the rest of my list. I'm not in the best of health and I'm only capable of carrying so much so instead of spending $120 US on 4 of the new eagles and trying to carry them in a seperate box, I use what I already have.
So yeah, I've been worrying that some players would have issues with me using the smaller models because of the true line of sight rule.
Another question, what bases should they be on? The ogre sized or the monster sized?

[SpellArcher]

One of my Eagles is an old Warhawk from the 5th edition range and the other is from the 1980's Tolkien range and about the same size.

Couldn't you just agree with you opponent that it would be a bit larger and give him the benefit of the doubt for TLOS? It's only 50pts after all!

[Andrew_uk]

Silver sword wrote:
Wow, thats a pretty cool idea. A Dragonrider, & Dragon princes, along with those Terradon/Eagles makes an awesome Caledor

I always fancied something like this, a la Thieves World or Fire and Ice.

Wow, thats a pretty cool idea. A Dragonrider, & Dragon princes, along with those Terradon/Eagles makes an awesome Caledor

I always fancied something like this, a la Thieves World or Fire and Ice.

I have my spearmen *nearly* done, and a noble on the way I plan on starting a blog for the army when I have something to show in it maybe in 2 weeks or so. I've done the spearmen with dark elf dragon shields to tie in with the theme and I have plans to maybe use Corsairs models somewhere (maybe white lions or shadow warriors, though I'm not a big fan of either unit) also if I can make them look more High elfy I might use black guard models as my 'dragon guard' though I'm not sure yet as that would be a big conversion project; I would have to greenstuff their skulls and hooks into gems and maybe use empire militia halberds on the black guard poles, but as a basic model they look really cool and dragonny

[Griffon Prince]

Good idea Spellarcher. Thanks for that.
Is it still legal to use the ogre bases with them or do I need to upgrade?

[SpellArcher]

I might use black guard models as my 'dragon guard'

Great idea!

Good idea Spellarcher. Thanks for that.
Is it still legal to use the ogre bases with them or do I need to upgrade?

I'm in the same boat and I don't know I'm afraid!