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So as I said in a previous post, I recently purchased a TK army and bought a batallion with it. I am kind of at a loss as to what to do with the mounted skellies. I'm hearing mounted archers are hella good in a TK army, but I'm def gonna make 20 archers out of my skellies I bought from my batallion as well as the 2 other boxes I bought and I'm planning on putting Khalida in with them. So I'm wondering if making the mounted skellies archers would not be worth it. I'm thinking making them spearmen would be better for flanking and war machine hunting. So that is my dilemma, what do you guys think?

I'd probably give them bows. Other light cavalry in other armies usually have nice little things going for them whether its M9 Wolves, Poisoned Spiders, Marauder Toughness. Dont find much use for spear horsemen though, they were pretty much useless in their previous incantation too (no pun intended). At least the archers do have fast cavalry and scouts. If you want some melee unit to take down things in the back I'd rather get tomb scorpions/carrion

The Skeleton Archers have some merit as warmachine hunters, since they're fast cavalry and scouts, they can slip behind the enemy pretty easy. Also, they hit on 5's, no matter what, so you can run them while still getting some shots off. Unfortunately, we have things better suited to do what they do, and if you take them as the unit of 8 the battalion gives you, it's just 8 shots, hitting on 5's, at S3...pretty unimpressive. So once you're done killing warmachines with them (assuming they even have any) they're pretty much useless after that point.

However, if you somehow managed to cap off your special and rare without using any anti-warmachine units, you can use these, as they are core units, and you can use them to reach the minimum required.

kenshin620 wrote:I'd probably give them bows. Other light cavalry in other armies usually have nice little things going for them whether its M9 Wolves, Poisoned Spiders, Marauder Toughness. Dont find much use for spear horsemen though, they were pretty much useless in their previous incantation too (no pun intended). At least the archers do have fast cavalry and scouts. If you want some melee unit to take down things in the back I'd rather get tomb scorpions/carrion

I think you mean "their previous incarnation" not incantation. Incarnation means "embodied in flesh", while incantation is a spell. That's like 5 points on the GRE right there

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As to bows or spears, I would be more concerned with bows (not playing skellies). A fragile unit that can't hurt me until it smacks into me or forces me to redirect after charging it, is a unit I can safely ignore if I don't run warmachines. With bows, however, the unit can plink at screening warhounds, small, lightly armored elites or just put a wound or two on a block before killing cannons or stone throwers. Even if they are unlikely to kill anything exciting, whittling down redirecting units and possibly causing them to flee from casualties is worth while, especially I should think to a slower army.

Dang, sorry about that. My brain takes very similar sounding words and warps them

Wehrkind wrote:
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You mean *grammar* police.

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My guess is that the bows will be the more flexible. I think the extra points for the unmodified shooting and scout ability is probably worth it, especially if you're in a one-or-the-other situation.

Red_Zeke wrote:
You mean *grammar* police.

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My guess is that the bows will be the more flexible. I think the extra points for the unmodified shooting and scout ability is probably worth it, especially if you're in a one-or-the-other situation.

LOL how did Chrome not pick that up!? (I seriously suck at spelling, like I learned to spell in 1400's England.)