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On September 12 2010 05:03 Zocat wrote:
I have a small Tau army (~1500points) and a moderate Dark Elf army (~2500points). Yes, I am using unbalanced armies (2x Black Guard, 2 Hydras, Cauldron of Blood) - but that's because a friend of me is playing High Elves and their "Always strikes first" rule pisses me off in 8th edition (if you have higher initiative & always strike first you may reroll all failed to hits in every combat round. Even better than Hate wich only helps in the 1st round of combat).
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Really?
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Proper use of dark riders should give you a good flank, and once you crack a flank of theirs, its game over..... I've played Darkelves before..... They have all sorts of amazing options that HE don't have, its just that it takes some finesse to use.....
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I agree that new rule regarding ASF and initiative values is downright stupid.
As if swordmasters weren't unstoppable enough already, lol.
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Heh, last time I played WFB HEs got this spell (some pillar thingie) that made your mage unable to move but also untouchable and it removed range and line of sight restrictions on all of your spells. Pretty sick.
Although, my immortal normal skellies (40+ regiment of regular skellies with lvl 2 necro hiding behind them with raise dead and dance macabre) used to be pretty OP too 
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Yup... you really got to plan for a shooting/magic army against HE as DE these days.
Aside from your unit with the ASF banner, you're going to get crushed in combat. Chariots would be awesome, but stupidity and chariots just do NOT mix.
Personally I'd say HE are my most difficult matchup at the moment.
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On September 12 2010 05:43 Impervious wrote:Show nested quote +On September 12 2010 05:03 Zocat wrote:
I have a small Tau army (~1500points) and a moderate Dark Elf army (~2500points). Yes, I am using unbalanced armies (2x Black Guard, 2 Hydras, Cauldron of Blood) - but that's because a friend of me is playing High Elves and their "Always strikes first" rule pisses me off in 8th edition (if you have higher initiative & always strike first you may reroll all failed to hits in every combat round. Even better than Hate wich only helps in the 1st round of combat). ..... Really? ..... Proper use of dark riders should give you a good flank, and once you crack a flank of theirs, its game over..... I've played Darkelves before..... They have all sorts of amazing options that HE don't have, its just that it takes some finesse to use.....
Hehe, he is way better than me at WFB. I dont say "HE are imba" - he's just pwning me with them (so for me he's imba^^), when I try to build a balanced / flavour army.
And I just think 8th edition rules and 7th edition (or even 6th edition) army books dont mix too well. Especially the unit cost vs "stepping up if casualties happen" (horde Skaven slave regiments frighten me).
How many models does a dark rider unit of you have? I personally only use 5models/unit not enough to negate their ranks, when I flank them (maybe that's an error?). So flank just gives me +1 combat resolution. And I normally only use 10 riders total (2 regiments).
And I cannot see how I win a normal melee combat with the ASF rule.
My Black Guard with ASF banner and +1A (from Cauldron) rips through his army of course 
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I've gotten plenty of perfect scores with DE, but then again I've been playing DE for roughly 13 years now ^^ Lately it's been a lot harder getting any decent score since anything you take that isnt obviously gimped on the face of it gets cries of imba immediatly ^^
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I started collecting Blood Marines when I was 9. But back then, because this little problem of lack of money, I couldn't build a big army =[
I want to get started again though. Loved painting the units.
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I always run my dark riders in units of 5. They can hit flanks and gain all the bonuses, and once they lose that ability, (take 3 casualties), they can no longer panic friendly units if they start fleeing.
And run your harpies in units of 6. God these are such an OP unit lol. I LOVE my harpies, ^.^;
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Oh jeez, I didn't know you played Warhammer. We were just at dinner and could have talked about it!
I played a lot of Eldar when I was younger and am sitting on like.. $800 of unpainted and old edition Eldar, Orks and Space Marines, and planning an art project involving a lot of painting and sculpting and whatnot in the near future, maybe for a Gamesday. Haven't made an effort to really play because my models are so old and out of date with the newer codexes. I made a custom autarch out of like.. dire avenger helment, swooping hawk exarch wings, and all sorts of nonsense but it was tragic.
Will bookmark this thread to read through later. Painting/sculpting is my favorite part of 40k- the game itself is amazing too of course, but I check the Golden Demons quite religiously.
Also, the 40k novels are amazing. Gaunt's Ghosts and Horus Heresy <3
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On September 12 2010 03:14 Manit0u wrote:
Just you wait until I get some free time on my hands so I can finally finish the rest of the miniatures (got ~1k SM army), especially my custom-built captain (used Emperor's Champion model from BTs as the base, the model is badass, already has a relic blade and fits Dark Angels perfectly).
@ r33k: Drybrushing is a perfectly viable painting technique, just like wet blending. It all depends on what final effect you wish to achieve and/or what style do you prefer.
OH GOD PLEASE NO. Seriously, no. Even painting metal with metallic colors has seen drybrushing being dropped as of 2007, don't try and pull that lazy ranting on me.
EDIT: http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/4842/immagine227.jpg
My baby^. One of the last things I painted, I have the 2nd head half-done with yellow one-styled markings, I know what I'm talking about here.
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Woah, revanant titan! Nice!
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On September 12 2010 14:29 Nokarot wrote:
Also, the 40k novels are amazing. Gaunt's Ghosts and Horus Heresy <3
I really did enjoy the Horus Heresy novels. A few summers ago I spent a month or two and read just about everything involved with the heresy i could get my hands on. I always have been interested in 40k, but I don't have anywhere near the amount of disposable income it requires =/
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I liked to play warhammer 40k but i couldnt paint for sure...
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On September 12 2010 14:36 r33k wrote:Show nested quote +On September 12 2010 03:14 Manit0u wrote:
Just you wait until I get some free time on my hands so I can finally finish the rest of the miniatures (got ~1k SM army), especially my custom-built captain (used Emperor's Champion model from BTs as the base, the model is badass, already has a relic blade and fits Dark Angels perfectly).
@ r33k: Drybrushing is a perfectly viable painting technique, just like wet blending. It all depends on what final effect you wish to achieve and/or what style do you prefer. OH GOD PLEASE NO. Seriously, no. Even painting metal with metallic colors has seen drybrushing being dropped as of 2007, don't try and pull that lazy ranting on me. EDIT: http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/4842/immagine227.jpgMy baby^. One of the last things I painted, I have the 2nd head half-done with yellow one-styled markings, I know what I'm talking about here.
Drybrushing metallics is fine for WFB. Black undercoat + very slight drybrush of dark metallic + highlight with lighter metallics makes for some really nice weapons/armour with a bit 'unrefined' look to them (and really, considering this are times comparable to our medieval, unrefined is the look you want). But I was always the propagator of 'realistic' painting
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40k is like 1000x cooler. makes me wanna buy some of that stuff 
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Looks great !
I got just a space marine from holidays in England i hope i will get more soon : P
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hi all, im really new to warhammer fantasy, and i picked high elves as my race,
does anyone know a good forum where they discuss army lists??
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I played Fantasy like 10 years ago and trying to get back. Is there anywhere I can find full battle reports with video? And not video that cuts out when they are about to roll the dices?
Here is some of my stuff:
+ Show Spoiler +![[image loading]](http://img844.imageshack.us/img844/1939/img1162h.th.jpg) Prince Tyrion ![[image loading]](http://img809.imageshack.us/img809/1333/img1167y.th.jpg) Teclis ![[image loading]](http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/461/img1168zi.th.jpg) Alarielle the Everqueen and her maiden guard(removed from the game by now for whatever reason) ![[image loading]](http://img820.imageshack.us/img820/3167/img1165h.th.jpg) Korhil and Caradryan About to start these 2, then finish my zzz archer regiment and then wait until they release the new High Elf models on Oct 2nd.
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Need more pictures! Great job so far!!!
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