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- Do warrior priests count as wizards for the purposes of dispelling and channeling dispel dice? I know in previous editions that they added one to the pool and that the prayers worked like TK incantations.

- Is a wizardless empire force viable? I was hoping to run a "flavor" army: Luther Huss and two or so warrior priests and a nice fat block of flagellants for the crazy Sigmar squad, but I'm worried that without some oomph in the magic phase (especially if WPs can't dispel), it'd be a hopeless cause.

- I'm thinking about two blocks of state troops (~20 spearmen or swordsmen) with two detachments (8 handgunners, 8 halberdiers) each. Actual numbers will change as time goes on, but at the moment I'm going with the models I have.

- Shields with the halberdiers - yay or nay? For some reason, it just seems aesthetically wrong to me, but the upgrade option is there and a ward save WOULD be nice.

Some of these are true newbie questions, to be sure, but I don't see Empire played all that much (which is funny, considering how all the 40K discussions equate them with SM), and I think they'd make a nice counter balance to my 1500-2000 goblin army.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/349489/2490805.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/349489/2490805.page GMT Dabbling with Empire http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/349489/2490863.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/349489/2490863.page GMT Re:Dabbling with Empire
Two blocks of state troops are never a bad thing. One thing though, halbardiers only benefit from the shield at range, so you would never get the parry save. Because of that I've enjoyed using them as a detachment for flanking countercharges with my swordsmen. It's up to you on the shields. I've noticed that my opponent would rather shoot at bigger, scarier units (my Greatsword Horde) than bother with a halberdier detachment, so they usually get into combat undamaged. ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/349489/2490867.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/349489/2490867.page GMT