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Not a bad idea Kirbinator

As to the list above, while I hate giving tips to defeat my beloved wood elves... I think Waaagh_Gonads is right. You'll almost certainly face two units of glade guard, and those swordmasters are going to evaporate if they got shot with nothing in front of them!

I'd personally be very afraid of your swordmasters, since I don't have much shooting... but your typical wood elves will down them before they make it to combat, I think.

If I were you, at this point level I'd be tempted to just go with one mage for magic defense... it will be nice if you can get off some casts, but you're counting on it with that large of your points percentage devoted to it.

What other models do you have available? For some reason, I feel like this list would do better against all-comers, and that wood elves are not a good matchup for it.

Good points, leighr3029! And nice to see another wood elf player on the boards (we're taking over )

I believe citadel97501 is right on about this, Airmaniac, unless I've been playing things grossly wrong. High Elves will still Always Strike First, even if the dryads charge. This was done against me by dark elves with the banner that gives them this ability, even though I charged.

So, are you considering swapping out for the white lions now? Also, the magic combination idea you have is a good one, I didn't comment on it because I was too lazy to go and look up what the combination of those two things would do . It also didn't occur to me, since an opponent recently took the Lore of Life against me, but since I have no shooting, it did very, very little. So the advice above about NOT taking that lore if he has little or no shooting is good.

If that is the case, I'd go with Lore of Fire (and I'd be tempted to go with that either way, actually ).

I would drop that second mage to boost the units of white lions. What about this list?

Mage- Lvl 2, Staff of Saphery, Dispel Scroll- 185
10 Spearmen- 90
15 Phoenix Guard, Standard- 237
10 White Lions- 150
10 White Lions- 150
5 Dragon Princes, Standard, Banner of Ellyrion- 185
Total- 997

I had to change the archers to spearmen to make it fit. You could also adjust the above list in two directions:

-Drop the dispel scroll (not really needed vs. wood elves, who don't have much offensive magic) and the Phoenix Guard standard to fit in a Drakemaster with Amulet of Light to the DPs, to negate the ward saves of forest spirits (none vs. magical attacks)
...or...
-Drop the dispel scroll, the standard and banner from the DPs, and add in the Banner of Sorcery and a musician to the Phoenix Guard. This would give you magical abilities similar to what you have with two mages, but in a more effective list since your white lions are boosted now. It also takes full advantage of your anvil unit, by making it much more desirable for him to go after it and to try to get rid of that banner (instead of evading you the whole game). If you get 2 extra dice, you can try two 3-dice spells per turn. Pretty nasty at 1000 points! I think this configuration would be unfair to your opponent at this level as far as magic goes, but it'd be very effective!

Well, those are my thoughts, hope it helps!