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So I’m going to start working on my Dark Elf Army soon and I sat down to see what I have. Here is what I got so far:

3 boxes of corsairs (30 total)
3 boxes Doom-fire Warloks/Dark Riders (15 total)
1 Box Hydra (Metal)
2 boxes Cold One Chariot
2 boxes Elf Warriors (32 total)
1 box Elf Swordsman (10 Metal Minis)
1 Fleetmaster

So here is the background. My gaming group plays with about 1500 points give or take, with everyone slowly working toward 2k+. Factions I’d be playing against would be Skaven, High Elves, Dwarfs, and Greenskins. We play mostly 8th edition. Not very competitive, we are all friends who got into 8th late. I do like to win though so I’d like to put up a good fight.

So here is my thinking:
10 Dark Riders with repeater Crossbows broken up into 2 units of 5 with shields
1 unit Doomfire Warlocks
2 units of 15 cosairs with repeater handbows
1 Hydra
2 Cold One Chariots (Or 1 depending on points. I don’t have the book handy right now)
1 unit of 40 Spearelves (using the 10 sword elves to round out the unit, like I said casual group)
And the Fleetmaster probably throw in with the spears

Eventually I will get a supreme sorceress, but anything else? I’m looking into some cold one Knights. I would love witchelves but those boxes are few, far between, and pricey. I am thinking of magneto I gotta the weapons on the infantry so I can switch things up (but again casual group and we go by our army lists). Also looking at a sorceress on a cold one but not sure if I should pull the trigger. And an Assassin.

Let me know what you think.

*UPDATE*

Gangland wrote:
Ok so I sat down, laid out all my boxes for Dark Elves again and made a list using what I had. Far more updated from last time. Here is my in progress 2,000 point 8th edition Dark Elf Army list:

Lords: 377pts

Dreadlord - 157pts
-Heavy Armor -Cloak -Shield

LVL 4 Supreme Sorceress - 220pts

Heroes: 95pts

Master (BSB) - 95pts

Core: 565

5 Dark Riders - 80pts

5 Dark Riders - 80pts

15 Corsairs with 2 Hand Weapons - 165pts

10 Dark Shards - 120pts

10 Dark Shards - 120pts

Special: 650pts

10 Executioners - 120pts

Cold On Chariot - 115pts

Cold One Chariot - 115pts

2 Bolt Throwers - 140pts

Hydra - 160pts

Rare: 250pts

5 Doomfire Warlocks - 125pts

5 Doomfire Warlocks - 125pts


I have 63pts to allocate still so feel free to make recommendations. Instead of 10 executioners I can make 15 Black Guards (Although I SHOULD be getting another box that can make both soon. Executioners seem better though). Nothing has been upgraded (given command or anything like that) unless otherwise stated.

Other things I have:

5 Cold One Knights

1 Assassin

1 Sorceress


Things I'm working on:

Witch Elves, Cauldron, and another black gaurd/executioner box or two.

Feel free to double check my math too.

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Well I would say a sorceress is a really good addition to any dark elf army. The lore of darkness is fantastic. I wouldn’t put her on a cold one though, if they fail a stupidity test she can’t cast. I’d put her on a steed with the warlocks or on foot with the crossbows or spears. Keep her out of danger. If you give her lore of beasts you can cast wild form on any of your units making them more effective in melee, especially warlocks or witch elves.

You definitely want a battle standard bearer. I generally put mine with cold one knights. Glittering scales and dawnstone on a cold one with a sea dragon cloak, lance and shield will give him a 1+ re-rollable armour save at -1 to hit.

2 units of 5 Dark riders are a must in every army.

I’ve never had much success with corsairs to be honest, and I think you have too much core. You need more heavy hitters like executioners or cold one knights.

I’m of the opinion that the fleet master is terrible. I would drop him personally.

The dark elves have a lot of cool units that are only strength 3, but remember, strength 3 doesn’t win games. Unless you’re a witch elf with a cauldron and the razor standard.


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Also, always run monsters and chariots in 2’s if you can.

With armies like Dark elves, target saturation is your best friend. Overwhelm the opponent with fast, hard hitting, high priority targets and break his line where it’s weakest. Then come in with the slower stuff and mop up.

You want to be able to break the opponent as quickly as possible and try not to get stuck into protracted combats. Make sure you can break his unit in a turn or two before committing.

Dark Elves can do well in every aspect of the game, but I find their true strength lies in combat, they are absolutely vicious when they connect.

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Unfortunately I can only find a soceress on a cold one but my game group would probably let me just run it as mounted on a steed (the green skin player has a “orc shaman” whose model isn’t mounted but places it in with his Boar Boyz anyway.) would it be more worth while to simply place her on foot?

I’m hoping to be able to kit bash a BSB. I think I read that corsairs are good for doing that somewhere (probably 1d4chan). But I do intend to have one, just was waiting till I start opening my boxes.

What would you recommend instead of the corsairs? Just the heavy hitters with my core making up the 40 spears and 10’dark riders I already have? I know corsairs are a mixed bag (probably why they are fairly cheap and available) but my thinking was having the corsairs be backed up by the riders for short/medium range and they seem like they could handle a charge while my riders hit the chargers on the flank. Between the corsair arrows and rider arrows I figured anything coming at them would take a hard hit before they were able to charge the corsairs. But this is working with what I got thinking.

Yeah I was looking at the book with the Fleetmaster and there isn’t a lot to do with him. Would just get left out once I get a Dredlord and supreme sorceress.

I got the 2 cold one chariots so that’s good to hear take them in 2s. Guess I’ll need 1 more hydra.

Thanks for the help.


Also I’m more than willing to hear some 2nd opinions... especially on the corsairs as I’d like to just be able to build them instead of trying to sell em heh.
   
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Why don't you just glue the sorceress onto a horse instead of a cold one?

You could also run the Fleet Master as a Dreadlord or a BSB. just glue a banner in his hand.

Corsairs are better than spears, you could drop the spears and use a large unit of corsairs instead. I prefer Corsairs with 2 hand weapons personally. I find their crossbows are very short ranged and don't have armour piercing.

Dark Riders don't really want to be in combat. They shouldn't be supporting anyone really, they should be upfront march blocking, redirecting charges, harassing small units, taking out warmachines/skirmishers and taking pot shots at small weak units like other fast cav. Use their speed to your advantage and don't charge anything that can hurt you back. They are a tactical unit, not a main fighting one. Only charge warmachines, dogs, other fast cav and skirmishers.


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Bitz order the sorceress from he Black Dragon set, or just buy the dragon, its a nice model. Place the sorceress model on a spare steed, you will get two in each chariot set.

Use excess Corsair models as a basis for your hero characters, the BSB, any lord or hero you want. This is because a sea dragon cloak drops the armour class nicely and cheaply without touching your magic item allowance. Heavy armour and sea dragon cloak is 'standard issue'.
Corsairs are cheap sets and available for little online. You can afford an extra set and sperate a few out for character options.

Also look at Dark Eldar Wyches as material for Dark Elf Shades and characters.


These two plastic sets offer a lot of opportunities. There is a lot that works in the above kit when comboed with Dark Elf warriors or Corsairs parts. You should get a unit of shades, with room for several different hero characters including a BSB and an Assassin. All of which are worth while.

I recommend the Reaper Bones hydra, if you want another


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If you get creative with Dark Elves there are a lot of things you can do that will make your army look good, fight good and cost not so much.

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 Brutus_Apex wrote:
Why don't you just glue the sorceress onto a horse instead of a cold one?

You could also run the Fleet Master as a Dreadlord or a BSB. just glue a banner in his hand.

Corsairs are better than spears, you could drop the spears and use a large unit of corsairs instead. I prefer Corsairs with 2 hand weapons personally. I find their crossbows are very short ranged and don't have armour piercing.

Dark Riders don't really want to be in combat. They shouldn't be supporting anyone really, they should be upfront march blocking, redirecting charges, harassing small units, taking out warmachines/skirmishers and taking pot shots at small weak units like other fast cav. Use their speed to your advantage and don't charge anything that can hurt you back. They are a tactical unit, not a main fighting one. Only charge warmachines, dogs, other fast cav and skirmishers.



not a bad idea for the fleet master.

So a block of 30 corsairs with 2 hand weapons, or are they better in smaller units?

And then for the repeated crossbows (instead of spears) what do I want to field them in, I’m guessing 2 blocks of 15 or so.

Fair enough point on the Dark riders. Flanking should be left for heavy calvery.

I still feel though I have too much core (as you previously stated) so where should I cut corners?


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 Orlanth wrote:
Bitz order the sorceress from he Black Dragon set, or just buy the dragon, its a nice model. Place the sorceress model on a spare steed, you will get two in each chariot set.

Use excess Corsair models as a basis for your hero characters, the BSB, any lord or hero you want. This is because a sea dragon cloak drops the armour class nicely and cheaply without touching your magic item allowance. Heavy armour and sea dragon cloak is 'standard issue'.
Corsairs are cheap sets and available for little online. You can afford an extra set and sperate a few out for character options.

Also look at Dark Eldar Wyches as material for Dark Elf Shades and characters.
http://www.bigorbitgames.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/wychesprue.jpg

These two plastic sets offer a lot of opportunities. There is a lot that works in the above kit when comboed with Dark Elf warriors or Corsairs parts. You should get a unit of shades, with room for several different hero characters including a BSB and an Assassin. All of which are worth while.

I recommend the Reaper Bones hydra, if you want another
https://www.reapermini.com/graphics/gallery/4/77191_w_1.jpg

Mantic Games Gargoyles
https://static.webshopapp.com/shops/179222/files/107258027/800x1024x2/mantic-games-abyssal-dwarfs-gargoyle-troop.jpg

If you get creative with Dark Elves there are a lot of things you can do that will make your army look good, fight good and cost not so much.


I believe my cold one chariots are the old metal models so not sure if I’ll get the horses but I’ll check when I’m home. That’s good to know though. Thanks for the recommendations on other models. I am waiting out to see if I can get the newer hydra kit for a decent price and I’m waiting on the dragon (I love dragons even if I don’t use it I’ll be stoked on it) till I can afford it. (Losing on money right now but that’s changing slowly.

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The plastic cold one chariot is so much better, buy it if you dont have it. The older one sucks. the chariot itself is ok, but the fat lizard style cold ones are not.

If you do have a metal chariot by a plastic chariot set, use the cold ones for one chariot ans the horses (you get both) for the other. One of the two chariots becomes a hunting chariot which is an interesting model in its own right.

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I'm a big fan of the fat Cold Ones, and that's what my brother and I have as our Cold One Riders in his Lizardmen army. I'll be hunting some down if I get Cold One Knights when I get around to building my Dark Elves force.


Quick question, which edition is this for? You never specified, and it affects how I respond with any advice.

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In the first post he said they are playing mainly 8th edition.

My advice for 8th:

Get a Supreme Sorceress, build the Fleetmaster as BSB.
Cold One Chariots paired are fine, Hydra is fine too.
Doomfire warlocks are really strong, overly strong to be honest. 2 units of them are hard layout. Dark riders are very useful, but don't give them shields. makes them less manouverable , as they aren't light cavalry anymore then.
The corsairs...Well. your standard spearmen do the same job for cheaper money. Paired weapons for the corsairs makes them deal a bit more damage. But not much. 2x15 repeater hand bow units... hmm I don't know. What are they supposed to do?
Cold one knights are okay.




   
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Actually, Dark Riders do not have that addendum for taking shields. They are still fast cavalry.

Corsairs also have a 4+ save, so they are also more durable than spears.

Bleakswords at least have a parry save which spears don't, making them a more effective tarpit.

A more expensive option is taking 20-30 man Dark Shard unit with shields. They can move and fire volleys at the enemy, stand and shoot while being charged and still have the exact same fighting capabilities as the Bleakswords in combat because their hand weapon/shield combo gives them parry as well. This is a good, if expensive support unit.

Spears are the worst troop unit basically.

Witch Elves and Dark Riders are the best.

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Special tip. If you have old school plastic dark elf warriors set some aside. Preferably ten per box of Black Guard you buy (if any). This is because the Black Guard arms can easily fit onto the old warrior torsos.

Build plastic Executioners as it shows on the box, and save the halberds and associated bits to add to warriors. The newer dark elf infantry kits other than the witch elves are rather static and the combination of older plastic warriors with varied poses combine better than the formal kit. Yes you could use old metal executioners, butt those have the draich added on at the hilt and are notorious for breakages.

Executioner/Black Guard boxsets are also expensive, so doubling up with cheap warriors makes sense that way also.

Oh and yes, you will find you will need Black Guard and Executioners to have an infantry line with a spine. Two boxes of ten is efficient, or three boxes of ten for two large elite line units.You will need to source 20-30 old school Dark Elf warriors on sprue also, but that is fairly easy to do.

Fixed.

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How did you get the arms to fit the old Torso? I tried and there is a bit of a gap.
   
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Sorry, fethed up. You build the Black Guard with the old warriors and build the Executioners normally.

No issues then as the weaponry is all held single handedly.

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Gangland wrote:
Unfortunately I can only find a soceress on a cold one but my game group would probably let me just run it as mounted on a steed (the green skin player has a “orc shaman” whose model isn’t mounted but places it in with his Boar Boyz anyway.) would it be more worth while to simply place her on foot?

I’m hoping to be able to kit bash a BSB. I think I read that corsairs are good for doing that somewhere (probably 1d4chan). But I do intend to have one, just was waiting till I start opening my boxes.

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If you're willing to kit bash/some modelling work I've seen a very good conversion a sorceress on steed using a witch elf and the doom Fire warlock horse base.

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Sorceress on a cold one is a nice model. I didn't pay attention to the stupidity rules when I bought her. Best keep her at level 1-2.

Still it gives you a T4 caster without being on a monster, that offers some insurance.

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 Orlanth wrote:
Sorceress on a cold one is a nice model. I didn't pay attention to the stupidity rules when I bought her. Best keep her at level 1-2.

Still it gives you a T4 caster without being on a monster, that offers some insurance.

Isn't the Toughness of the rider used unless she's riding a monster?
   
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Nope, you don't notice because most mounts are T3.

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Any point in putting a dreadlord on a steed?
   
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Not really. Cold ones are better, stupidity can even be an asset at Ld10, you are unlikely to fail the test yet get the psychology shielding inherent to a stupid model.

Cold ones drop armour class and have some rough attacks and T4. Pretty good.

However in reality you want even want that, because you want your general in your infantry killing rank and file and providing the Ld boost where it is needed most.

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Immune to Psychology is only triggered if the stupidity test is failed.
   
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 Orlanth wrote:
Nope, you don't notice because most mounts are T3.

BRB page 82: CAVALRY
The mount's Wounds and Toughness are never used. We assume the enemy always strikes at the rider, so his Wounds and Toughness are used instead - If the rider is slain, we treat the mount as having fled the battle or been slain alongside its master

You may be confusing Cavalry with Monstrous Cavalry, where the rider inherits his mount's Wound score if it's higher.

Gangland wrote:
Any point in putting a dreadlord on a steed?

You can make a high-speed killy Dreadlord that can march 18".
Adding him to a unit of fully armoured Dark Riders gives your Dreadlord the Fast Cavalry special rule, which can allow him to quickly and effeciently line up for some flank or rear charges.
That said, Fast Cav doesn't get rank bonus so if you fluff you attacks on the charge you're pretty much dead.
Only use if you like high risk/high payoff games or when you're fielding two multiple Dreadlords.

EDIT: spelling

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 Arnizipal wrote:
 Orlanth wrote:
Nope, you don't notice because most mounts are T3.

BRB page 82: CAVALRY
The mount's Wounds and Toughness are never used. We assume the enemy always strikes at the rider, so his Wounds and Toughness are used instead - If the rider is slain, we treat the mount as having fled the battle or been slain alongside its master

You may be confusing Cavalry with Monstrous Cavalry, where the rider inherits his mount's Wound score if it's higher.


Ok. Evidently I have got some edition confusion going on then. Correction accepted.

 Arnizipal wrote:

Gangland wrote:
Any point in putting a dreadlord on a steed?

You can make a high-speed killy Dreadlord that can march 18".
Adding him to a unit of fully armoured Dark Riders gives your Dreadlord the Fast Cavalry special rule, which can allow him to quickly and effeciently line up for some flank or rear charges.
That said, Fast Cav doesn't get rank bonus so if you fluff you attacks on the charge you're pretty much dead.
Only use if you like high risk/high payoff games or when you're fielding two multiple Dreadlords.


Taking advantage of any of the benefits above means taking the Dreadlord out where you dont want him to be.
Dreadlord = Ld10 12" bubble. All other uses are secondary to this, even if the fringe benefits like magic item portage or lots of high skill attacks are nasty they are still secondary to the leadership bubble.

Rarely can you afford multiple Dreadlords, and if you are playing games that big you either don't care about individual points efficiency or you are adding characters to pad the army points. In which case go for it, but take the dragon instead. Very nice model and one of the few times you will get to take it off the shelf.

So in a nutshell dont bother. Now a level 2 sorceress on a dark steed is worth having. Dark magic has a lot of ranged attack spells, place her in dark riders to get onto the flank in a survivable form then blast away.

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mmune to Psychology is only triggered if the stupidity test is failed.


The rules for stupidity changed in 8th, it always makes you immune to psych now.

Yeah, the toughness for cavalry is that of the riders, not the mount.

I love using Dreadlords on Cold Ones, and actually this edition I was running Malus Darkblade. He's actually pretty decent to run with Cold Ones, I don't like the unreliability of the stupidity tests.

That being said, unless its a 3K point game, I usually leave the Dreadlord at home, a Master is fine. Usually I don't have enough points to justify a Lord level combat character.

Sorceresses on steeds are great, I run one with lore of beasts with my Warlocks. She can buff them or Witch Elves with Wild Form.

You could also run a Supreme Sorceress on a Pegasus with the Cloak of Shadows for that 3+ ward save. It keeps her moderately safe, gotta stay away from flying combat units though.

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I got a good deal on ebay couple of weeks ago and got the 5th edition dark pegasus with sorceress for spare change.

I loved that model much better than the later one, though the sorceress is a bit butch. Probably mount a master on it most of the time, yet is will certainly be magnetised or spiked for the purpose.

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I also converted my own Morathi out of the witch elf, black dragon, chariot, cauldron of blood and Dark Eldar scourge kits...I just had some bits lying around.

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Can any of you tell me what the base sizes are for the Doomfire Warlocks/Dark Riders?

I got 2 boxes of what I thought were the old 8th edition set but the seller sent me Age of Sigmar version so if I have to settle for them I’d like to at least put them on square bases. Also where can I get a set of the bases? I’m going to see if I can’t at least get refunded what it will cost me for the bases (which I did not intend to buy so I feel that’s the least the seller could do).
   
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the DR goes on old calvary bases, 25mm x 50 mm; I'd also suggest you magnetize however many of DR you plan to use as doomfire warlocks, you can easily use 1mm x 2mm round magnets at the waist and play both options as the kit supply all the necessary parts.

   
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 Big Mac wrote:
the DR goes on old calvary bases, 25mm x 50 mm; I'd also suggest you magnetize however many of DR you plan to use as doomfire warlocks, you can easily use 1mm x 2mm round magnets at the waist and play both options as the kit supply all the necessary parts.



Thanks! And yes I was thinking about magnitizing them. Though I have 4 boxes now and I figured I’d mostly be running 2 units of 5 each anyway. But nothing wrong with being able to mix it up.

Could anyone recommend me a good magnet brand? Or what to look for. I haven’t magnetized models before. (I’m still a noob)

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Gangland wrote:
 Big Mac wrote:
the DR goes on old calvary bases, 25mm x 50 mm; I'd also suggest you magnetize however many of DR you plan to use as doomfire warlocks, you can easily use 1mm x 2mm round magnets at the waist and play both options as the kit supply all the necessary parts.



Thanks! And yes I was thinking about magnitizing them. Though I have 4 boxes now and I figured I’d mostly be running 2 units of 5 each anyway. But nothing wrong with being able to mix it up.

Could anyone recommend me a good magnet brand? Or what to look for. I haven’t magnetized models before. (I’m still a noob)



go on ebay and put in a search for '1mm x 2mm round magnets'; they'll have a N? next to them, the higher the # the stronger it is, anything from N35 to N50 is fine. I'd typically buy in bulk, the 1mmx 2mm I use most so I'd get 500-1k; the 1mm x 3mm i'd get 300-500; 1mm x 5mm i'd get a 100; I'd also recommend getting some 1mm x 3.5mm Ring type magnets with 1mm hole for magnetize and pinning areas require extra strength due to weight. You'll need a hand held pin vise or 2 and lots of drill bitz.

EDIT: the main thing you'll want to do is make the magnetization universal, meaning marker one side of magnets and not the other; you don't need to get any thicker mags as you can just glue them together when needed. wear eye protection, you'll probably break a few drill bitz in the beginning by using too much force; if you accidentally glue the magnet in the wrong side or didn't drill a deep enough hole, you can drill a small hole next to the mag and pry out the mag with a jewelry tool.

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