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I'm new to Wood Elves so advice is highly wanted.

Characters
Wood Elf Noble- 126
-Light Armour
-Sheild
-Elven Steed
-Bow Of Loren

Spellsinger - 175
-Level 2 Wizard
-2x Dispel Scrolls

Core
12x Glade Guard- 156
-Musician
-Lords Bowman

7x Glade Guard Scouts- 131
-Musician
-Lords Bowman

12x Dryads -144

5x Glade Riders -120
Noble rides with them

Rare
6x Waywatchers -144

Total Points Value = 996

In my opinion, you don't really need Dispel Scrolls in a 1000 points game. I'd give your Spellsinger the Calaingor's Stave to enable him to use all 4 Power Dice on Treesinging when needed.

Dryad units should almost never be bigger then minimum size (8). The same thing can be said about Glade Guard (10 per unit). Glade Guard don't need a Champion. The Musician depends on how often you find your Glade Guard fleeing.

Scouts are generally seen as a terrible unit. Both Waywatchers and regular Glade Guard are better shooting units. I would replace them with a combat unit. At the moment the only unit that is decent in combat are the Dryads.

The Glade Riders need a Musician to re-roll Reform checks after they have fled from a charge.

The Noble should never be with the Glade Riders. Glade Riders are a March blocking and Redirecting unit.
On the Noble's gear: I'd consider the Hail of Doom Arrow instead of the Bow of Loren. It let's you fire 3D6 shots at S4 (one use only), instead of 3 S3 shots per turn. If you decide to stick with the Bow of Loren, at least give him the Waywatchers Kindred and run him with the Waywatchers. That way his shots will benefit from Killing Blow as well.

As said drop down to minimum size for glade guard and dryads. Take musician only in g. guard and g. riders. You really dont need that sorcerer, you can take another unit of g. guard and possibly something else. That hero should be putter in waywatchers.


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As said drop down to minimum size for glade guard and dryads. Take musician only in g. guard and g. riders. You really dont need that sorcerer, you can take another unit of g. guard and possibly something else. That hero should be putted in waywatchers.

Airmaniac wrote:In my opinion, you don't really need Dispel Scrolls in a 1000 points game. I'd give your Spellsinger the Calaingor's Stave to enable him to use all 4 Power Dice on Treesinging when needed.

Dryad units should almost never be bigger then minimum size (8). The same thing can be said about Glade Guard (10 per unit). Glade Guard don't need a Champion. The Musician depends on how often you find your Glade Guard fleeing.

Scouts are generally seen as a terrible unit. Both Waywatchers and regular Glade Guard are better shooting units. I would replace them with a combat unit. At the moment the only unit that is decent in combat are the Dryads.

The Glade Riders need a Musician to re-roll Reform checks after they have fled from a charge.

The Noble should never be with the Glade Riders. Glade Riders are a March blocking and Redirecting unit.
On the Noble's gear: I'd consider the Hail of Doom Arrow instead of the Bow of Loren. It let's you fire 3D6 shots at S4 (one use only), instead of 3 S3 shots per turn. If you decide to stick with the Bow of Loren, at least give him the Waywatchers Kindred and run him with the Waywatchers. That way his shots will benefit from Killing Blow as well.

It only benefits from killing blow if you are using non magical bow and arrows. Read the book.

I do however agree with a few things. get him out of the glade riders. Give him hail of doom arrow. Drop one scroll for caligors stave. Drop the lords bowman. Keep musicians on the glade gaurd.
Make dryads units of 8.

Things I disagree with. Scouts are not terrible. have atleast one unit with the waywatchers to help with march blocking.

Things id suggest. Great weapon on the lord. A small unit of wadancers if you can spare ht epoints.

Captain_Sw wrote:Characters
Wood Elf Noble- 126
-Light Armour
-Sheild
-Elven Steed
-Bow Of Loren

Spellsinger - 175
-Level 2 Wizard
-2x Dispel Scrolls

Core
12x Glade Guard- 156
-Musician
-Lords Bowman

Two characters in a 1k Wood Elf list is one too many, you really only ever want one up to about 2k points.

Captain_Sw wrote:7x Glade Guard Scouts- 131
-Musician
-Lords Bowman

12x Dryads -144

5x Glade Riders -120
Noble rides with them

Don't take Scouts, they are overcosted and lose the main benefit to GG which is the Glade Guard Longbow. Scouts are awful, take more Dryads instead, at 12 points each they are very very good value. Drop your GG unit to 10 because any more and they are getting in each others way, and ditch the champion, too. He's not worth the points. Also, your Dryad unit is exactly four Dryads too large. Skirmishers don't get rank bonuses, and you will rarely get more than 6 or 7 into combat at once. Glade Riders also need a Musician.

Captain_Sw wrote:Rare
6x Waywatchers -144

Total Points Value = 996

This is less fact and more personal opinion but I do believe Wardancers will serve you better, they are less points than Waywatchers, and are great value, and one of the best skirmish combat units in the game, funnily enough right alongside Dryads.