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Lords of The Wildwood
A Wood Elf Forest Spirit Army
2500 Point Army
By Brian Hess

Lord - Durthu - Level 1 - Beast 385

Lord - Yew - Treeman Ancient - Level 4 - Life ( 70), Strangleroots (20) 380

Lord Total: 765

Hero - Drycha - Level 2 - Shadows 255

Heroes Total: 255

Core - Dryads of the Wildwood - Unit size: 20 - Champion (10) 230

Core - Dryads of the Birch - Unit Size: 20 - Champion (10) 230

Core - Dryads of the Oak - Unit Size: 20 - Champion (10) 230

Core Total: 690

Special - Treekin - Unit Size: 9 - Champion (10) 385

Special Total: 385

Rare - Treeman of the Wildwood - Strangleroots (20) 245

Rare - Giant Eagle - Unit Size: 1 50

Rare - Giant Eagle - Unit Size: 1 50

Rare Total: 345
Grand Total: 2440

I understand the theme, with Durthu being a count-as Coeddill? All very cool and well themed. There are a few things i'd suggest to make the army flow better, but i won't suggest anything that breaks the theme.

You should drop the strangle roots off of the Ancient (Bs 4 just isn't worth the 20pt investment) and a single Dryad from the Wildwood Sisterhood. Drycha needs a place to stay and you don't want her hanging off the end of a unit, and placing her in this unit makes the most fluff sense.

Finally i would suggest you get your hands on some Wild Riders. Hear me out, a friend of mine has created some spectacular Wild Riders by greenstuffing Dryad upper bodies onto the necks of horses to make Dryad Centaurs. They looked great. Wild Riders rules basically emulate forest spirits (ItP and 6+ ward save) and they add some much needed punch to your army. Dryads and Treemen and Treekin and hold up an enemy fine, but have trouble grinding through them. Having a unit of Dryad Centaurs thrown into the flank of a combat will help you massively.

I'd suggest trying to fit in 2 units of 6 with Champions. These are not my friends models, but this is where he stole the idea from. Would something like this appeal to you?

I actually made wild riders out of Fenrisian wolves, which if I don't include the rider on the model would do really well to fit the theme. I do like the idea of including them, because when I originally thought up this list it was with Orion at the head of it

They'd do nicely, although looking at your list I'm stumped at where you'll find the points. Drop the excess core points gives you 55pts (dropping 5 Dryads) and dropping 3 Treekin (A unit of 6 is all you need really, remember the third rank wouldn't even get to attack) should give you enough points for one unit. Then swap both Eagles and your unspent 60pts for the next unit? Would that work out?