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Managing the Enemy's Charge Summary Often when receiving a charge with LSG it’s best to stay put and maximise your shooting with volley fire, but in quite a few situations it will be better to move. This might be backwards (to move out of charge range) or forwards (sometimes even marching). Moving ...

A bunch of people liked my post a while back about using chariot runners so I thought I'd do something similar with seaguard. I've been using seaguard as my main core for a while as I don't generally play a sisters-core army, and think they are excellent - when used well. I'm going to make several p...

Honestly the one I'm more likely to take is the Sigil of Asuryan. The problem with the dispell scroll is that if that spell you really don't want to work happened to roll high,, it's a wasted item: the nearly guaranteed "nope, no toy for you" is much more reliably worth it, i find. The imp...

Wild hunt mostly uses cavalry, with a couple of exceptions (like wardancers). It buffs some of your units. Talsyn is an infantry heavy force that mostly aims to grind and ignore Ld penalties Kind regards, Axiem A wood elf army... looking to grind? Are we getting an elite night goblin army next?

1) you use the fly or normal movement, but not both. So M6 and fly 10 can march 12" on the ground and 20" in the air. Outside of the Falcon Horn (that prevents you using fly), i can think of no reason you would not use fly movement as its higher than M in every case i can think of and has ...

They are of course vulnerable to magic missiles which BM have in abundance sadly... It's a case for bringing the loremaster's cloak on the champion. Or maybe even a pair of obsidian lodestones if you want to protect multiple units. Sadly only one LM cloak to go around - it's basically an auto-inclu...

I have moved away from bolt-throwers too. I'm even generally dropping the 25pt one on a skycutter. At the end of the day, Sisters of Avelorn are more reliable damage dealers and easier to keep safe - it is very rare that you will do better with spending on a bolthrower than just buying more sisters,...

They are probably the ugliest and most out of place of any of the re-released models I've seen so far! Its a 1987 sculpt... the look and feel of the minis was totally different back then. Happy for the mages and gladeguard coming soonish: the mages make good stormweavers i think, and gladeguard can ...

They are without doubt a hard nut to crack. I have mostly losses against BM so I'm not going to claim to have solved this. Here's some things I've learnt. 1) you cannot wait for them to come to you. You need find a weak point, but them fast and hard and make them scramble to react 2) their chariots ...

But there simply is no point at all to the SGG list. I have always loved LSG and every edition I have desperately wanted to make them work - but in most cases they simply didn't, being too confused as to their role. This edition, between the changes to how break tests work and naval discipline (and...

This definitely confirms that the whole thing is simply unplayable. The fact that you actually get the same number of total attacks with CC + S&S as having no banner at all just shows how ridiculous the thing is. I'm willing to forgive the army book writers a lot. But this thing is just so bad ...

Confirmed: GW designers have the "Hatred: All Elves" special rule

Ok... another banner comparison for LSG. I didn't look at "what point is it worth it", but rather whether if you have unit of LSG of equal points around ~20 troops, what banner is best. The units are matched in points within 5pts, so more expensive banner = fewer troops. All units had a fr...

Unlike most hexes, vaul's unmaking specifies it needs line of sight to the target so chariot runners lined up perfectly would be good protection against vaul's unless your mage is a large target or on a hill Huh. Thanks for pointing it out... that makes casting in to combat next to useless if you n...

Glad it was helpful! FWIW I don't run full command on units of 5 SH - either no command, or with champ and ring. For the points you're trying to allocated I'd run no command, personally. At that size they're a chaff clearer, flanking unit to useful to help keep chariots etc away from the Swordmaster...

I've taken to calling it "Chaos Bullshit" which anyone from the old days will remember: Chaos gets the goodies, Elves get...I dunno, elven reflexes is nice I guess. We got that ugly wyrm model in our arcane journal I suppose. I don't disagree with this sentiment... even if it wasn't OP th...

Here's how I've been playing it. "Max declarable charge range" is move + 6, or +9 if you have swift stride, and you can only declare in your front arc. Therefore any unit in the front arc within that distance is declarable as a charge *even if there's no way you can complete it*. For that ...

I should have said that the figures include an assumption of a 4+ to hit for both ranged and close combat - realistically on the table that's what you'll be seeing most of the time and it doesn't really change the conclusion if sometimes it's 3+. CTW (chance to wound) is the total ToHit * ToWound * ...

Not meaning to pick on Axiem but I saw this comment in a couple of army threads: Only thing I would think about is taking more Sea Guard before adding on Razor Standard. I think the breakeven is something like 24 Sea Guard. Personal preference. So of course it got me wondering: is this true? Welllll...

I've fielded reavers about 5 times now and they were a spectacular disappointment every time. Pretty much all they have ever done for me is give VP to the enemy... but i was looking at GWs shop and saw that they are currently sold out so SOMEONE must like them and presumably not just to look good on...

I like it. I've played a block of Swordmasters with archmage in a few recent games and it can pack quite the punch. The only thing it struggled with was massed chariots (impact hits hurt) but i think you have a good number of fast moving units that should serve to deal with that. Couple tweaks: Firs...

I've got a shoebox full of a bunch of these and and was considering converting them. The abundance of skulls etc has put me off (or rather I'm going to try and use the shadow-warrior bits left over from my new sisters first), but you can't argue with the premade axe! Certainly spare axe bits are ha...

I've got a shoebox full of a bunch of these and and was considering converting them. The abundance of skulls etc has put me off (or rather I'm going to try and use the shadow-warrior bits left over from my new sisters first), but you can't argue with the premade axe! Certainly spare axe bits are har...

Not sure what to do with Beastmen. It always feels like I'm 500 points behind when facing off against them and I lose the game if I lose the Viletide dispel roll on my dragon princes or my prince. Ah, well. Such is the HE life. I also struggle with them. Best I've pulled off was a draw that would h...

Wodespan is an upgraded phantasmagoria with a slightly weaker Column of Crystal in a single cast...

I don't *really* think it's a big enough difference to shift anything - if we assume you manage 12 casting attempts per level 4 in game (and all in dispell range), then right now we're getting 1 extra success and with the change it's not quite 2 extra... I hope this one isn't real. I think it solves...

This change will make our mages suck even more than they already do. It will just make lvl2-4 mages as bad as lvl1-3. Which means there's almost no reason to bring a normal mage anymore, since you're unlikely to get your spells cast. Relatively speaking, our mages are actually better off from this,...

If there are 2x Falcon Horns in the game, get ready to seriously rethink your flying options! Chalice of the Dark Rain seems like it could be pretty harmful, depending on how long it lasts and if it can be reused. Kind regards, Axiem Well that kills the only sliver of a reason to take a seaguard ga...

I toyed with using exactly the same mounted illusion archmage as well: i think it would be pretty solid. The dual killing blow/monster slayer combo with SD is very nice though - almost anything not on a chariot is going to be very afraid of that unit. I mostly opted for the list choice i used as its...

Took the Storm off Saphery list to a game against Ogre Kingdoms. Lots of T4 units ogres and mournfang with low I, but far from a super hard list. General on stonehorn with a giant mace was the big scary thing. He only had one level 4 mage. The game went very well: I lost 1 mage and the silverhelms, ...