<![CDATA[Latest posts for the thread "how about these high elves? @2400"]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/93.page JForum - http://www.jforum.net how about these high elves? @2400 -lvl4
-khaines ring of fury
-scroll
-golden crown of atrazar

noble
-bsb
-standard of dicipline
-dragon armour
-hallberd

archers (19)
-musician

archers (19)
-musician

archers (19)
-musician

tiranoc chariot

tiranoc chariot

tiranoc chariot

white lions (27)
-full command
-banner of the world dragon

10 shadow warriors
-champion

5 shadow warriors

5 shadow warriors

flamespyre phoenix

eagle

eagle

bolt trower

bolt trower
]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/526129/5600951.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/526129/5600951.page GMT how about these high elves? @2400 ASL. So all the I5 in the meta currently, AKA HE, WoC, and possibly soon to be DE, will be striking after your big block of lions. And I'd consider light and the book on the level 4 to make the unit asf. Possibly. I'm not actually sure how that interaction will work. Someone let me know.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/526129/5601486.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/526129/5601486.page GMT how about these high elves? @2400
 imperial commander wrote:
archmage (high lore)
-lvl4
-khaines ring of fury
-scroll
-golden crown of atrazar


General archmage requires a permanent ward save. May I suggest talisman of Endurance for 5++, you should be able to boost that to 3++ easily enough via spellcasting.

 imperial commander wrote:

noble
-bsb
-standard of dicipline
-dragon armour
-halberd


Standard of discipline, why? In general unless there is a very nice 55+ pt banner in an army list the BSB should not be used for a magic banner, the main benefits for the BSB are in the mundane standard. Now you need to keep the standard bearer alive, so keep him out of combat or tool him up. Dragon armour and halberd are fine, a ward save is better. You could however instead take ring of fury and reaver bow for two nasty distance attacks and hope to avoid direct combat.
If you do take ring of fury you unlock more points to boost the archmage with the book of hoeth.

 imperial commander wrote:

archers (19)
-musician

archers (19)
-musician

archers (19)
-musician


I prefer pointy sticks, but each to their own.

 imperial commander wrote:

tiranoc chariot

tiranoc chariot

tiranoc chariot


Too many, you need one per melee block you send in to add additional weight on the charge turn. Use something else to redirect.

 imperial commander wrote:

white lions (27)
-full command
-banner of the world dragon


Nice, to make the most of this you need a way of getting irconcurse icon and the archmage to be surviably placed here.

 imperial commander wrote:

10 shadow warriors
-champion

5 shadow warriors

5 shadow warriors


Overpriced and undereffective. Take some if you like, but not so many.

 imperial commander wrote:

flamespyre phoenix

eagle

eagle


Ok.


 imperial commander wrote:

bolt thrower

bolt thrower


I think you need more at the expense of chariots.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/526129/5602341.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/526129/5602341.page GMT how about these high elves? @2400 Id swap the 10 Shadow Warriors for Sisters. Keep the 5s for wm hunting and harassment.

As suggested het the Wizard a ward save. Or drop a chariot to upgrade the Wizard to Alarielle. Seems tailor made for a big unit of Lions with the Dragon Banner. Though personally Id get a back up caster, High doesn't really have many big spells to chuck a load of dice at and works better by having lots of spell attempts.

As suggested above make the BsB more survivable, also making the switch above gets you Ld10 anyway.

As suggested by another poster the Frost Phoenix would support the Lions better. But then the Chariots aren't needed...

In which case drop them for the above suggestions or put them all into 1 unit to give you a 2nd combat unit.

The biggest issue I have with your list is how you are going to play it against a defensive army. High Magics main damage spells are short ranged which will mean in a ranged war it would be your Archers and Bolt Throwers against his Artillery and Wizard. A battle you will lose. You can try to run interference with the Eagles and Shadow Warriors but the danger is they are just giving up free VPs and stuff for his shorter ranged stuff to do.

By having the Archers as core you have most of your army Anchored back field but the rest of the army does not support this. Spear men would work better and support the Lions approach.
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