Ulthuan

Hi Curu, Thanks for posting all the ETC content (and all the other other content over the years). Took ages to read through it all which really makes one appreciate how much time and effort you have put into this stuff. Really enjoyed (as always). Best of luck with your next steps in wargaming. Chee...

Congratulations again Curu. I thoroughly enjoyed reading the reports. Great job!

Nice job. 'grats!

Awesome stuff!
Congrats

Great stuff Curu. Thoroughly enjoyed reading (much more interested than the last batch of uncomped reports with Teclis).

Planning Ahead it is :) So, tell me, what do you all find most hard about this aspect of the game? I would say the recurring problem I have had that relates to this is that I often find that my support units are not where I need them to be when I need them. Sometimes a unit of Reavers can’t quite g...

There are pros and cons for both approaches. Fiery can actually help with defense (if you can get it off) as it will tend to kill your opponent's next magic phase when they need 19+ to dispel it. Once the scroll is gone it's not uncommon for the opponent to try and dispel your attempt at fiery and f...

I've recently had a couple of games using a 28 man block of swordmasters (without BotWD) and with a high mage, ironcurse icon and magic res 2 in the unit. I found that in the early turns (when the enemy still had a scroll) that it was hard to give them a decent ward boost as the enemy would scroll t...

Thanks for all the reports and analysis from the team tournament. Very interesting. Can't say I like scenarios 3 and 4 for your upcoming tournament. Dimensional cascade can be game ending and sometimes you get unlucky and miscast on even low numbers of dice (I recall my friend miscasting twice over ...

Just keep firing multi-bolts at it. Mathematically single bolts are better than multi-bolts against a steam tank (unless you can get of some hexes on it). Single bolt hit: 1 hit * 1/2 chance to wound * 1/1 chance to get past armour * 2 (d3 wounds) = 1 expected wound per hit Multi-bolt, 6 hits: 6 hi...

Hey Curu. As always, thanks for the reports. Congrats on the selection to your ETC team! The Lvl 4 + LM list looks a little light on chaff at first glance. I'm guessing you want to rely on magic to force opponents to come to you and fight on your terms in most matchups. I suppose the silver helms he...

Hi Curu, Thanks for the most recent report. I imagine this wasn't the most fulfilling game of Warhammer you've played. Regarding the BSB in a SH bus: If I understand correctly, you generally made way with him to the front rank (with the philosophy of using his S6 attacks to help maximize the chance ...

I was wondering about the wheeling and shooting with the sister unit so I figured I'd do some math and plot out the effective maximum (at least one sister shooting) threat area for a unit of sisters of varying size (5*3 and 7*3). Thought I'd share in case anyone is interested. http://i.imgur.com/IEj...

Hi Curu, Some questions regarding the various SH character bus lists you have run over the last year or so: When you have your BSB with BotWD, do you generally try and shield him in the second rank and have prince + other (non BSB) character up front with the full command group? Do you find you some...

Thanks for putting in so much effort to produce this great resource. As a relatively new player I found the advice regarding skewed deployment particularly relevant to some of my games. (I'm going over past wins and losses in my head and I think I'm starting to understand why I lost some games unnec...

Hi Curu. Thanks for the report. I was just wondering why you felt obligated to push to get dwellers early. My first thought was to try and pick off the points he had on the left in the Frostheart and and Silver Helms. That Frostheart really looked vulnerable to me where he put it his T1 as both purp...

Just read through your Teclis list design idea and I actually had been pondering a very similar style of list (scaled to 2400) a little while ago. 2400pt High Elves 8th Ed Roster Lords (450pts) Teclis Heroes (525pts) Lothern Sea Helm Battle Standard, Golden Crown of Atrazar, Shield of the Myrwyrm, T...

Thanks for all the reports and analysis. Great reads.

Thanks for all the reports. Great to read, as always.

Accordingly it (and thankfully all the chariots/monsters with war machine weapons) have the slow to fire rule. Tiranoc chariot and Lother skycutter don't have slow to fire rule. Can they stand and shoot? The Tiranoc would be able to (no war machine weapons). The Skycutter would be able to fire the ...

Good topic. Regarding Archmage coven, I think without the possibility of double banishment you'll have trouble getting any off. There just aren't that many spells that are generally (i.e. not too situational) threatening from range. I think that in early turns (when you most want to be eliminating t...

I definitely think that that is not a successful charge. I have heard people who like their random movement toys claim that pretty much any movement (or pivot) that causes the random movement unit to touch an enemy counts a charge. However, the rulebook clearly says that "If the move is found t...

Thanks all for your submissions. I think that Rod's reasoning and conclusion are the most sensible and that was the way I was leaning anyway. I don't agree with the argument that he's not a war machine and so doesn't have slow to fire. By that logic Ironblasters and Hellcannons can stand and shoot (...

To give you an idea of when to use single-shot or multi-shot: (Assuming 2/3 of shots hit for both single-shot and multi-shot and that the single bolt is being fired at a model with at least 3 wounds) http://i.imgur.com/xTUhEoO.jpg Note that this doesn't take into account the possibility of rank pene...

This must have been answered before but I can't seem to find said answer. The way I read it: BRB and Errata for page 109: "Unless specified otherwise, all weapons in this section (and all other weapons mounted on war machines) have the Move or Fire and Slow to Fire special rules." HE book:...

I have to say, after reformatting the relevant tables (see above) my opinions of SM relative to WL is improving (in CC at least). When you consider a part of the kill ratio tables where SM have a significant advantage (T3-4, WS5, AS 4+ or worse) there are a lot of elite infantry units that do fall i...

Hmm, just realized that neutral ratios of 1/1 aren't always represented by the neutral color (yellow). I'll fix it tomorrow.
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@Gaz, seeing the table, can you also run the numbers for either 10 (in 7+3 formation) or 14 SM/WL? Sure thing. Inspired by cptcosmic, I think I have found a better way (using color gradient) to represent how much of an advantage/disadvantage each unit has against common enemy stats so I'll include ...

Where the comparison matters is against non-magical attack troops for example infantry. The elite block will usually be deployed towards the centre of the table (because of M5) and so will often end up fighting these. SM's are better here. If you only have one elite block it needs to be able to dea...

he specificially marked differences of 20% or more but a smaller advantage is also an advantage (WS5 with up to T5 and up to 3+ AS) Fair enough. I arbitrarily chose chose 20% but I include the numbers so you can interpret those directly. The colors are purely a visual aid that one can ignore if the...