I have completed buying my Warriors of Chaos, then bought my Vapire Counts and am half way through collecting Dark Elves.
It is not too late to get some and as far as I am aware all he units are still available.
1x Dreadlord / Supreme Sorceress on Black Dragon
- This is a nice kit, I was initially sceptical but found that the dragon armour is separate and can be left off.
YMMV but having molded on armour was a deal breaker, the High Elf dragon looks fantastic but for the awful plates added to it. The armour coverage is about as much use as a chocolate fireguard also.
Th kit has four riders, two naked ladies and two plate armoured males, however each model has one one set of legs. I suggest taking a greenstuff mold of the rider legs so you have four character riders.
I suggest deep pinning the riders with a long dry pin from their bottom to (and through the saddle and into the dragons back. This way you will have a removable saddle (so you can use the dragon for naother faction role playing or other functions and can swap out the riders.
I also suggest you mix and match the riders torsos, so one of the armoured characters could take a female cold one knight torso, methinks your wife might like a dragon lady rather than a dragon lord anyway, and she will still have both options and multiple weapon variants. one sorceress is enough, however by greenstuff molding her legs and positioning them while wet you can have a sorceress on cold one as a fringe benefit, just grab a cold one for her. A lot you can do here to fill out your whole armies character selection with this kit.
1x Supreme Sorceress on foot (was going to run as a normal sorceress for now)
- The rank of a character model is always irrelevant unless they are a special character used as such. If a regular sorceress makes a better supreme sorceress in your option that is what she is. Technically all the dragon rider models above are supreme sorceresses also, so that means you technically have three. I smell a blood fued brewing, better if thier general demotes two before they lose the assets.
1x Box of Doomfire Warlocks/ Dark Riders
- Doomfire Warlocks are broken win buttons, this is partly why I am going to build mine as Dark Riders. If you magnetise at the waist you can have both. Buy a second box.
2x Boxes of Dreadspears / Bleakswords / Crossbows (was thinking 2 units of 10 crossbows?)
- Does your wife like the newer or older dark elf warrior models, I prefer the new ones, but a lot of players don't like them. Units of ten work but I would go for units of 18 with full command, aesthetically it looks just right. Ignore aesthetics if you will. I would get more though, get spearmen or 'Dreadspears' according to
GW's Department of Stupid Names
2x Boxes of Black Arc Corsairs (1 unit of 20 but what load out??)
- Dual wield them, however because they are irregular piratey miniatures you could take a real mix and declare loadout. They look awesome though.
1x box of cold one knights (well not much else to do with them lol)
Ok, I suggest you buy a second box. Five knights is ok, but its a minimum, 6-7 is better. However they do not easily rank up, and to get them to rank up at all you have to play around with the basing. I dont recommend bothering, just take a single rank. They do well though and have a lot of punch for their size. Also supporting ranks don't include the cold one, and frankly after the charge that is the main asset in a drawn out fight.
So one box, unit of five, possibly with reduced command, or two boxes, with a unit of up to eight with full command and two spare cold ones for characters from the dragon set.
If this is wasteful try and find a couple of cold ones in ebay.
Things to look at
Witch Elves and Cauldron. - If you take one take both, maximum synergy is at thirty Witch Elves.
War Hydra - I used the Reaper Bones hydra miniatures.
Cold One chariot - I used the extra beastmaster crew as handlers for Reaper Bones hydras, the extra horses make alternate mounts for characters and sorceresses so you dont need to buy a second cold one knight box. You could take the Scourgerunner chariot instead, its more expensive and not as good
IMHO.
Bolt throwers - Note that there are three types, all use the same rules you can buy any of the three types on ebay at reasonable prices. I got the 1995 pattern ones with a horizontal bow and two magazine stacks,
Harpies - Not easily available from
GW. Buy Mantic Abyssal Gargoyle miniatures for this, they look the part and are better sculpts and a fraction of the price.
Shades - Not made mine yet, but I will be doing so by using Dark Eldar wyches as the base model, converting as needed. Corsair bits help here, an you will have plenty of those. Its a common enough thing done, they make excellent shades. I am thinking of giving mine a who mixed loadout including some with no missile weapons, some with twin crossbows and a squad heavy weapon - the large harpoon crossbow from the scourgerunner chariot. They all will average out as regular Shades.
