Unfortunately, I just realized that by maxing out my bow limit...that means just adding 2 archers. Now I could probably drop a few Watchers as you said to add both Spears and a few bows, will see what I have knocking around... However, I prefer to have fewer, more reliable archers, than the reverse. Plus, this event I am going to will have a lot of evil on evil games, meaning I need something, other than Martial Pride Mahud to tackle/slow down trolls and such. I feel the Watchers can do that, plus provide a wealth of attacks and such. I guess I will have to playtest this a bit more.
On the subject of cavalry, I have never had any good results with Raiders. I have plans for a cavalry expansion once I have built up the main tribe (which will be the main body of spears, chieftain and banner)To be able to use them effectively, I would have to mount either Khamul or my Chieftain...which would leave my center a bit bare...
On the subject of Khamul, I am growing increasingly tempted to switch him out for the Dark Marshal: he is cool + he saves me 30pts from not having to take a banner, points which can be allocated to switching my Mahud Chieftain to a King and maybe adding some more spears/bows in the form of more Haradrim.
Dilemnas, dilemnas, dilemnas!!!
Keep it coming guys!
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I would definitely max out the bow limit, and might even drop a few Watchers to add in more basic Haradrim bowmen. Even though the Watchers are great, you really need more than 10 shots with a 600 pt force, especially when the majority of your army is D3 or D4, otherwise you will quickly lose a shooting battle and will be subsequently destroyed by enemy bowfire on the way into combat. I would keep a few Watchers for their combat prowess, but build the majority of my archers from the super-cheap, yet effective, Haradrim bowmen.