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Well my Wood Elf Battalion box set finally arrived yesterday, and wow. I love the Wood Elves. And I REALLY love the Dryands. I had no idea they were going to come with so much variety.

I am more an Empire guy who likes traditional looking armies with a mix of standard troops with some firepower. Never, never for the life of me would I ever think I would like Wood Elves. And when I was looking online on how to paint them, I was surprised that many of the models are still being sold under the Synvaneth line (minus the elves), and I love the look of some of them like the Treelords and Branchwraiths. Even cooler are the little scenery and little creatures that come on the sprues. I am not sure how to use them yet, as I typically do not decorate my stands much. For some armies I don't even know what I would do. So I am eager to do something with these bits even if it just to decorate terrain. I wish the other armies included hits like these. As a matter of fact, its motivated me to look at some 3rd party terrain stuff to add to the atmosphere of the gaming board.

Eternal Guard are on my list, but I am trying to figure out how I could convert some of my Glade Guard archers to the ones with spears. The battalion comes with some but not enough. Maybe I can hunt for some bits.

I was thinking of hunting down a Spellsinger (the female one with the staff), but not sure what model to go for my Commander.

I am really surprised by this set. I only got it because it was cheap and thought why not. Now it might be one of my favorite WFB armies. If I ever spring for some kind of lord model, it will probably be a Treeman Ancient.

Elf Woods are readily available, the whole range plus expansions you can use as characters.

Wood Elves however are rather thin, but nearly the whole range is there as GW mail order. I think there are only two deleted lines for units, Wardancers and Waywatchers. Though many character options have gone. You have to find overything under wierd names though. Look for them under Wanderers, though note that some High Elf units are in this section..

The LoTR range used to have a nice treeman model which can also be used for WHFB

 Moscha wrote:
The LoTR range used to have a nice treeman model which can also be used for WHFB

Yes, I think ents look better, they are smaller though and wont compete with upscaled models. OK if you use older monsters, but if you use new plastic models they will look wrong.