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I agree Crossbows are better Archers. I agree magic is potentially stronger outside of Teclis/Hoeth (and Sorcery banner)... but I can count on one hand the number of non-Teclis/Hoeth mages I've sees in High Elf lists. I agree Hydras are amazing and should probably cost 25 points more than they do.

But counting Light Cavalry as a core unit as one of our strengths? Yes in 7th, but certainly not in 8th where two-thirds of their utility was nerfed into irrelevence. This just puts us back to Crossbows, though.

But your archers and spearmen have ASF and now they can re-roll all misses every round! That totally makes them worth their price!

Holy necrobump Batman!

Airmaniac wrote:Most Dark Elf players field Shades / Harpies / Dark Riders. Charging into Teclis' unit and directing attacks against Teclis would probably work just fine as he is T2 with no saves of any kind.

There are a couple of problems with this tactic, sadly. Teclis is usually stuck with something that will stick around, like Phoenix Guard. Like the rest of the HE army, they strike before those suicide bombers do, so the harpies/shades/riders will simply be dead before they have a chance to swing. The other issue is that you don't have to put him up front for non-LoS casting. For instance, most of the Lore of Shadow is just "hex/buff this unit within x inches".

Yeah that's true, good point!

Vulcan wrote: Or, one can cast a bunch of other stuff in an attempt to get him to burn DD on it, only to turn around and throw your last PD at PoD late in the phase once he's out of DD.

That one's my favorite. Nothing like turning that last die into four power dice to make your opponent make a sad face.