Ulthuan

Has anyone tried the Dragon Princes against other heavy cavalry? With I5, Elven Reflexes and Counter-Charge they have a good chance of striking before most other equivalent units even if charged (the exceptions being Cold One Knights and Chaos Knights of Slaanesh, I believe), and with two attacks S5...

Mages/archmages without any Honour that restricts their access to mounts can purchase magic armour since they have access to the Barded Elven Steed (which has barding). If mounted on the Barded Elven Steed they can even cast spells while wearing their magic armour since they gain the Ithilmar Bardin...

The other big one that got resolved was HE mages wearing armour: High Elf Realms Q: Can a Wizard with the Warden of Saphery Elven Honour purchase magic armour? A: No. Seems pretty clear. However, they doubled down on any normal armour = any magic armour since they added the same rule that was previ...

Before folks were getting caught up and needlessly extrapolating from the word "may" that impetuous or frenzied units had to declare a charge if there was an intervening unit because of some convoluted Schrödinger's concept that the intervening unit could theoretically charge at any point...

When I played a game against High Elves with a level 4 Archmage on their side, and only two level 2 wizards on my side, it did a good job of shutting down my magic as I consistently failed to roll an 8 on my dispel roll, which is only about a 40% chance or so, and my wizards had little luck beating ...

Anyway, now that it is confirmed that Drilled is as powerful as hoped/feared, I was pondering the practically and efficiency of deploying Swordmasters in small units of six in marching columns 1-2 models wide so they take up less space in your deployment zone, have them keep back a bit next to your ...

If you argue anything above 5" is marching, well then 0" must be not marching? The rules are clear that manoeuvres can only be performed while moving (second sentence under Manoeuvres, page 124), and to march you must decide to do before moving in order to double the unit's Movement chara...

...Does anyone spot any language that stops characters of various troop types from joining other troop types? For example, I see no prohibition against a chariot character joining cavalry, a monstrous cavalry unit joining infantry, etc. Except for monsters and heavy chariots with the Lumbering spec...

The bigger problem I think is that: 1- if its a light unit/low toughness charging the spears, the spears can handle it. 2- if its a heavy unit/high toughness unit, the spears are probably not going to win anyway (shieldwall is your friend)and the stand and shoot won't do much? 20 archers is 200 poi...

An Archmage with Warden of Saphery and the White Sword has both Killing Blow and Monster Slayer, as well as as a nice bonus to Strength and AP. This could be quite powerful in combination with Spectral Doppelganger, and you don't necessarily have to take Lore Familiar with a level 4. A bit vulnerabl...

And it seems that both players will be able to cast spells in at least the Strategic Phase. However, as they've made clear and the description for Cursed Blades indicates, casting and dispelling will be more localized to the vicinity of each respective wizard, so having a single powerful wizard may ...

While I'm a bit late to the party, for future users who might read this I would add that against a Vampire Lord specifically, you may be better off with the Obsidian Blade or the Sword of Anti-Heroes in case the vampire has the Nightshroud, which negates the Strength bonus from weapons like Giant Bl...

I'll reiterate that the SPECIAL RULES paragraph on page 100 of the rulebook already creates a clear distinction between the special rules of a character and those of a unit he joins. The Regeneration of the character only applies to the character, while the Regeneration of the unit only applies to t...

The key issue for me is the pg 74 wording, "if a unit is wounded by a Flaming Attack it loses the Regeneration rule". Is this simply a case of poor wording? These examples we're going through suggest that a character who's joined a unit is not himself 'a unit'. I think it works fine as is...

I've a question. If a Regenerating character joins a Regenerating unit and then the character suffers a Flaming wound, which models lose Regeneration by your reading Minion X? Only the character loses his Regeneration save since he is a separate profile with his own special rules and his own set of...

As per the paragraph SPECIAL RULES on page 100 of the Warhammer rulebook, even if a character and a unit he has joined both have a special rule, and even if they have received the special rule from the same source, this is considered two separate instances of the same rule and specifically negating ...

I haven't had the opportunity to play against Nurgle daemons since the only daemon army at my local club is strictly Tzeentch, but I can see that it would be a common issue with them. In your example, however, the Regeneration save of Model B is not affected by any attacks directed against Model A, ...

First question, does 'it' here refer to the unit or the model? "It" refers to the target, regardless of whether it's a single model or a unit. So your position is that Regen would be negated by Flaming attacks after any relevant armour saves are failed? If the defending model has both a W...

Say a regenerating unit takes one wound from a Flaming source and one from a non-flaming. It then armour saves the Flaming wound but not the non-flaming one. I now feel it then can't Regenerate the non-flaming wound as per above. As long as it saves any wounds caused by attacks with the Flaming Att...

I read the rulebook with fresh eyes after coming across his original claim and it is correct. All attacks at any given Initiative do go through all the individual steps of hitting, wounding and saving simultaneously, which means: 1. To Hit 2. To Wound 3. Armour saves 4. Ward saves and Regeneration s...

Well, for another example: You have a Star Lance High Elf prince in a unit of Dragon Princes with the Banner of Eternal Flame. They charge something with Regeneration. Can I use my Dragon Princes first to hopefully remove Regeneration so that my Prince can then attack without having to worry about ...

I recently played against an artillery-heavy Skaven army and lost in part due to a series of consistently lucky artillery dice rolls by my opponent over multiple turns, but mainly because I failed to move into combat quickly enough and tried to get off big spells that targeted his largely worthless ...

Regarding Spirit Leech, according to the definition of "unmodified Leadership" in the rulebook FAQ, a mount like a Screaming Bell or Plague Furnace would get to use the highest Leadership in the unit, which would likely be the character riding it. Since the Strength in Numbers special rule...

MasterOfNone wrote: ↑Sat Aug 06, 2022 10:48 am
Would love to see your creation.

Unfortunately, it's currenty disassembled since I primed it black and had to strip it. Now that I think about it, the eagle might have ended up as the steed of a Champion of Tzeentch during my last bout of destructive creativity.

It's not that difficult to whip up a skycutter of your own. I made a 90s skycutter using a 5E metal Tiranoc Chariot and an old metal Great Eagle.

The heroes can have lances and spears and get the strength bonus when charging since they are mounted models. The Shield of the Merwyrm on the other hand will only provide a parry save if the Prince loses his chariot and is forced to fight on foot. For example, you could give him something like the ...

Anyway, on the topic of anti-infantry Princes on foot, high elf lords aren't exactly cut out for that role (lacking a base S5 and 4+ armour), but maybe something like Blade of Leaping Gold, Shield of the Merwyrm and Potion of Strength would help to add more wounds to your combat resolution? Otherwis...

I divide my heroes between different units so as not to put my eggs in one basket and to give as many of them as possible a boost. Last time I had a Loremaster as my general in a unit of White Lions with the Standard of Discipline, giving him Ld 10 for Inspiring Presence and protecting the unit with...

Rather than a Prince, I have been fielding a Noble with Dragon Armour, a halberd, the Reaver Bow and a Potion of Strength in my unit of 20 Spearmen (or 19 spearmen and the Noble). As you pointed out, High Elves don't really need heroes for mowing down infantry since their elite infantry is already g...

I am in Sweden and I have about 30 of the old metal Sea Guard sculpted by Gary Morley with quivers, and a command group without quivers, all stripped. How desperate are you for classic Sea Guard, i.e. how much would you consider a fair price per model? Also, keep in mind that tracked and insured shi...