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Hello WHFB players, I rarely post in here as is but I've a question. I"m considering starting an Dark Elf fantasy army or a Lizardmen army, but I'm stuck on trying to figure out how the two of them play, and the differences between each other. So I decided to pester the board here and try to get some answers. While I have done some reasearch into this, I'd much rather get a response from the player fanbase instead.

Well, there's a sticky thread at the top of the page you might want to check.

As for Lizardmen, they are one of my favorite armies. Very diverse, they have some excellent heavy infantry with saurus. Tough, disciplined and hard-hitting, they do suffer from low-ish WS and rock bottom I, making them a bit weaker than enemy elites. Fortunately, they are fairly cheap for heavy infantry. Skinks, meanwhile, are excellent light infantry. Cheap, fast, and with no defensive abilities. Finally, Lizards have the best wizard in the game with the Slann mage-priest, and a plethora of monstrous support.

Because of this diversity, Lizards favor a combined arms approach. Saurus and Temple guard form the backbone of your army, generally with a Slann buffing them and providing a Ld anchor. Skinks of all sorts run ahead and redirect enemy chargers/intercept enemy re-directors. Salamanders provide close-ranged fire support.

Generally, I see a Light Slann with multiple units of Saurus (taking advantage of multiple AOE WS/I buffing spells), or a Life Slann in a Temple Guard Death Star.

Thanks for your reply, after viewing the Dark Elves and the Lizard tactica on here, as well as your input, I believe I'll go with them.

Here is a better tatica sight then whats posted above.

http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Category:Warhammer/Tactics


Dark Elves are a brutal army and have the ability to make a near immortal lord! Also your hatred of everything is very useful from time to time.

Dark elves are probably one of the most underrated armies in the game atm. They have a great selection of extremely good infantry for their price in points. They also have assassins that can ruin almost any character if kitted out properly. They can also field way too many pegasus riders (characters on pegasus that count as fast calvary) and can be in the enemy deployment zone first turn ready to unleash havoc from the back while still maintaining and overly threatening force up front. Not to mention hydra at 175 points are the best monster in the game.

Overall lizardmen even with all the new updates and books coming out and them not being updated recently, are still in the top 3 most powerful armies in the game with a good slection of Heavy and light troops but nothing inbetween. Plus everyone loves dinosaurs, lawlz.

Tookyflakes wrote:
Dark elves are probably one of the most underrated armies in the game atm. They have a great selection of extremely good infantry for their price in points. They also have assassins that can ruin almost any character if kitted out properly. They can also field way too many pegasus riders (characters on pegasus that count as fast calvary) and can be in the enemy deployment zone first turn ready to unleash havoc from the back while still maintaining and overly threatening force up front. Not to mention hydra at 175 points are the best monster in the game.

Overall lizardmen even with all the new updates and books coming out and them not being updated recently, are still in the top 3 most powerful armies in the game with a good slection of Heavy and light troops but nothing inbetween. Plus everyone loves dinosaurs, lawlz.

Dark Elves under rated? In my meta they are the 2nd most feared army to face just below skaven in terms of power level.

Wood Elves are best.
Followed by Halflings.
Mass Gnobler Ogres are unbeatable.
All Zombie VC.

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