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does this have a hope in hell of actually working in a tournament?


2397 points

Lords:

Tyrion 400 points

Heroes:

Noble
Elven steed
Great weapon
Armor of Caledor
Dawnstone
Battle Standard Bearer
180 points

Mage
Level 2
Elven steed
The Seerstaff of Saphery
Lore of Life
177 points

Core:

30 Archers
Musician
Standard Bearer
Banner of Eternal Flame
355 points

10 Archers
Musician
Standard Bearer
125 points

10 Archers
Musician
Standard Bearer
125 points

Special:

12 Dragon Princes
Full Command
The Amulet of Light
425 points

12 Dragon Princes
Full Command
410 points

Rare:

Great Eagle 50 points

Great Eagle 50 points

Great Eagle 50 points

Great Eagle 50 points

My knee jerk reaction is to say "No" and "needs spears"

I'm not super familuar with high elves but I do have a rather nice source which seems pretty darn awesome to me.

http://www.ulthuan.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=37969

Should have all you need.

I am inclined to say "no" as well, but I'll actually tell you why.

First off, you don't have an anvil, not even a tiny one. You can argue that reforming 30 archers into a 6x5 can work, but come on, no it can't. If you're dead set on having archers, a big unit like you have is the way to go, but you'd be better off combining the two smaller ones into a single 20 man or trading them in for spears. You should be able to net 20 spears with command for the same price. Drop 10 archers from the other group, and you can have a decent sized spearmen unit to hold things up.

Which is what you need to do with cavalry. You play high elves, not brets. Our cavalry do not charge headlong into enemy units at this point level of a game and expect to survive combat. We hit the flanks, and we hit them hard and without mercy. Your dragon princes are too large, and I think a bit too much having 2 units of 20. I'd go for a hard-hitting unit of 10 with command, and a larger unit of silver helms for Tyrion and the bsb to ride with. They will act as an equally effective character bus as the dragon princes, but at a discount.

The last thing I only have a half problem with, and that can be remedied in swapping princes out. You need a stronger life mage. At over 2000 points, a single lvl 2 is going to get shut down pretty hard. You can expect at least one round of regrowth to be dispelled from a scroll, and another two from being outrolled or unsuccessful.

Get an archmage, make him lvl 4, take the book of hoeth. Chances are very high youll get to pick the two spells you need and still get some other usefull things. The book will make you stop worrying that you just lost half of your dragon princes, because you KNOW they will get to come back.

Eagles look good, BSB loadout is just fine. Tyrion is awesome...but still, you can get a lot of mileage out of a mounted prince at a pretty nice discount. Might want to think about that. Also, Ive found that running several (3+) combat nobles can be surprisingly effective. Keep each one cheap, barded steed, dragon armor, shield or gw (i prefer the gw, but some people just swear by a 2+ save). Don't bother with crazy magic items, just simple cheap ones. Magic attacks, fear/terror causing items, etc. Things which benefit the group as opposed to the lone noble.

Just my two cents

I have run something similar with my High Elves as well but a few things need to be tweaked about your list:

-Lose Tyrion, you could run a similar Prince on a barded elven warhorse who is similar in ablity and much cheaper. Honestly your best bet would be a level 4 with shadow or life to buff your dragon princes after the first round of combat, just have him sit with archers.

-Make your Core choices as close to the minimum point value as you can, you will need to milk as many points as you can out of this list. Archers are a good and most logical choice however I have had success with a big block of Seaguard acting as an "anvil" of sorts.

-I have had alot of success with units of x12 Dragon Princes (when I was running this list) but you do need to be careful and make sure you go into combats that you have a good chance of winning. This is also why I recommend taking a Level 4 with shadow, after the first round of combat Dragon Princes lose alot of their luster falling back to S3, with shadow you can beef your strength or even hex your opponent so they are easy pickings. Also when charging hordes try to hit the horde unit with both units of DP's as they can all swing and it makes a unit vanish especially in combination with magic.

-Only have ever run x2 Eagles at most and might suggest losing 2 to give you some more points, but that just based on my personal opinion. Other then that hope this helps.