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hi, so im compleatly new to whfb, but find myself with a reasonable amount of high elves, but no idea where to start making a list, if someone could help me put together say a 1000 and a 1500 point list itd be greatly appreciated. heres what i have:
noble on griffon - from iob
mage from iob
mounted prince/noble with gw
bsb
10 seaguard (hopeing to convert them to reg. spearmen)
30 archers
20 spearmen
10 swordmasters
8 silver helms
5 reavers
2 bolt throwers
and a lion chariot

sorry for the total lack of knowledge here, but at my flgs, their starting a warbands league, which i hope tolearn the game in, starting at 1000 pts, thanks in advance

mage from iob
bsb
10 seaguard (hopeing to convert them to reg. spearmen)
30 archers
20 spearmen
10 swordmasters
and a lion chariot

30 spearmen with some command 300pts
30 archers with musician 340pts
10 swordmasters banner of sorcery and maybe a musician 200pts
mage level 2-4 depending on your point size of game with a magic item or two
bsb with armor of caledor and ward save or rerollable 2+ armor and great weapon 168pts
that's about 1200-1400 depending on your mage level.

You can shoot, magic and fight a little bit. Unfortunately HE are all about their specials, you probably need to beef up the swordmasters a bit or convert some archers into swordmasters and maybe look at adding a second special llike Phoenix Guard or White lions

Thanks for the help, yeah, this is just what i ended up with after splitting iob and the battalion, along with some silver helms i got from an auction for 5 bucks lol, i like the swordmasters alot, but what other special would go along with them well?

Firstly I would boost those swordmasters to size where one turn of shooting wont auto delete them.

After I would look into getting some WLs and PG.

As a basic guideline:
-Take no more than the minimum amount of Core required.
-Only characters that are worth fielding are (Arch)Mages and a Battle Standard Bearer.
-Great Eagles are excellent harassment units and warmachine hunters.
-Sword Masters / White Lions / Phoenix Guard are your primary combat units. I'd invest 25% (at the very least) up to 45% of your total points in these.