Enemy of the month.

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Enemy of the month.

#1 Post by geoguswrek »

Hi,

This thread is an introduction and contents page for the "Enemy of the Month" series that i am starting up, something to give the tactics forum a bit more activity and to bulk together the advice and dicussion on each enemy race, so that we slowly build up some sort of how to guide for dealing with different enemies.

Each month, around the 16th, i (or someone else) will start a seperate thread for the specific race of that month and link to it from this thread (which is going to be stickied). This way the old threads don't clog up the top of the tactics forum, but we save all the information in an easy to find place. In the race-specific post i am asking people to post their thoughts on other armies: commonly seen units and character set ups; what High Elf units are good against this army; a break down of the units in the book and how to deal with them; any surprises to look out for and what items we should expect.
If people have any specific requests for a race each month, please PM me.

In these threads i would ask that people refrain from complaining about the army (we don't want to hear that daemons are broken, or orcs are too weak or whatever else), these don't add to the post and just de-rail it.

Thank you in advance for any and all involvement in this series (and special thanks to Eldacar for agreeing to this).

Contents

July '09: Dark Elves http://www.ulthuan.net/forum/viewtopic. ... 89#p638089
August '09: Lizardmen http://www.ulthuan.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=55&t=30315
September '09: Daemons of Chaos http://www.ulthuan.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=55&t=30503
October '09 : Vampire Counts http://www.ulthuan.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=55&t=30647
November '09 : Ogre Kingdoms http://www.ulthuan.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=55&t=30834
December '09 : Wood Elves http://www.ulthuan.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=55&t=31065
January 2010: Skaven http://www.ulthuan.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=55&t=31275
February 2010: Bretonians http://www.ulthuan.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=55&t=31504
April 2010: Beastmen http://www.ulthuan.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=55&t=31922
May 2010: Warriors of Chaos http://www.ulthuan.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=55&t=32123

8th Edition
Spetember 2010: Tomb Kings http://www.ulthuan.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=33274
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#2 Post by madelmo »

awesome! let's get this going!
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#3 Post by Grimmjow Akutabi »

This sounds great XD

Hopefully, even though i'm a new member, the knowledge I have can be used here :)
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#4 Post by SpellArcher »

Is this going to include High Elves? :)
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#5 Post by geoguswrek »

I'm sure we'll get there eventually.... "the talisman of loec is a problem, counter it with the talisman of loec".
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#6 Post by SpellArcher »

"How do I deal with beardy Star Dragon lists?"

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Star Dragon meets 4 RBTs with bored crews.
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#8 Post by SpellArcher »

But how will I deal with ASF?

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#9 Post by Musashi »

Tyrion plus Dragon Princes.
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#10 Post by madelmo »

new enemy of the month gogo
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#11 Post by geoguswrek »

I'm leaving it a few days, it's no where near the 16th yet
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#12 Post by Alathenar »

What is the new enemy of the month gonna be?
Are we gonna have a big vote or who chooses?
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#13 Post by geoguswrek »

I'm gonna pick one at random (i'm thinking lizardmen) unless i get a message asking for some army specifically.
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#14 Post by Foxbat »

I'm for Lizardmen. Given how new the book is, it's a good idea to review now.
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#15 Post by SpellArcher »

It's near the 16th...

Lizardmen?
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#16 Post by geoguswrek »

Lizardmen up. sorry for the delay, i had laptop issues (it refuses to start at all).
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#17 Post by SpellArcher »

What's up next then?
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#18 Post by MoquaN »

I would suggest the one of the so called big three that isn't already discussed, Vampire Counts.
Had a though time against them wednesday, due to extremly bad rolls and good rolls on his side though.
Failed 95% of my 8+ ld tests :? and he saved most of his 5+ saves for his graveguard and every save against 4 S7 dragon attacks on his chariot :evil:

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#19 Post by SpellArcher »

Yep VC's are a good shout.

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#20 Post by MoquaN »

True, but I used an allround stardragon list (more friendly than normal, no battle banner :lol: ), so the one magic banner I had was ellyrion on my DP's.
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#21 Post by pk-ng »

would be really interested to see some advice again bretonnia!
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#22 Post by MoquaN »

pk-ng wrote:would be really interested to see some advice again bretonnia!
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#23 Post by Aethyr »

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#24 Post by SpellArcher »

Any other votes? We're supposed to change over tomorrow!
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#26 Post by Griffon Prince »

Daemons all the way, it'd be a great help for players of all skill levels.
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#27 Post by geoguswrek »

At 2-2 it went to a flip of a coin, Daemons won and the topic is now up.
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#28 Post by geoguswrek »

i'm thinking Vampires for October... any other suggestions.
Also, while we are on the topic, i will be out of internet range for a few days around the 16th, so if i can get a volunteer to put up October's army of the month thread that would be great (pm me if you are willing) and i'll add it to the titles of this when i'm back. Otherwise it's going to be a few days late in appearance.
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#29 Post by daydein »

With Hallowe'en coming up, Vampires actually seems rather fitting for the month.

Have you considered posting a poll for what army tactica should be posted next? I personally would love to see an Ogres tactica posted, but I'm sure there are other armies posters would like to see before an Ogres one is put up.
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#30 Post by lathian »

This is the internet, not a democracy. If you want to see an army's tactica posted that won't be part of the featured articles, you could just always ask for one/start one.
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