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2250 Pts - High Elves Roster - Unnamed

Lv. 3 Archmage General 3xDispel Scrolls, Sigil of Asuryan
Lv. 1 Mage Annulian Crystal
Lv. 1 Mage 2x Dispel Scrolls
Korhil on White Lion Chariot

10 Spearmen, Muso, Light Armor
10 Archers, Muso

5 Dragon Princes of Caledor
15 Phoenix Guard Full Command
14 White Lions Full Command, Standard of the Lion
Lion Chariot

2 Repeater Bolt Throwers
2 Great Eagles

Well, seems like you're going mostly defensive with your magic, so I'd say go with High Magic and spam the crap out of Drain Magic. If you're lucky, your Archmage will get Vaul's Unmaking.

In my opinion focusing that much on purely defensive magic doesn't work too well. For example, no need to take that many d-scrolls. I'd say that 2 should be enough (including the sigil) especially if you take the +1 to dispel rolls thingy somewhere. I'd try to beef up the mages' offensive potential instead (giving the guys extra levels and seerstaff for the lord etc). A Banner of sorcery for the phoenix guard would be quite useful also.

I'd also advice to beefing up the spears for 15 and full command or just swapping them to other 10 archers.

Well, I'm gaming with the army that I have, so extra archers will have to wait.

Wow! It seems like if you could commit another 100 or so points you could have good offensive and defensive magic.

Your Phoenix Guard would be a great place to hide the Banner of Sorcery. You could drop a mage, and reconfigure with a Lvl 4 with Silver Wand and Ring of Fury, and a Lvl 2 with Seerstaff. You'd still have room to put in 3 dispel scrolls (or 5 if you'd rather, instead of Ring of Fury).

That's a lot of magic defense, and offense, for about the same points! Also, sorry for resurrecting this, but I didn't see it before I'm starting high elves and have been looking at the magic configurations a lot.

If you reconfigure in this way, you could pick whatever offensive magic you like to try to hurt your specific opponent the most with. With either configuration, I don't think you'll need drain magic (unless up against a Really magic-heavy army!)

What lore were you thinking of going with (or different for each?)?