Wood Elf Army

ElfLover · **Posted:** Sun Jan 06, 2013 10:33 pm

How is this for a wood elf army

Legolas
Thranduil
2x Wood Elf Captain
2x Wood Elf Banner Bearer
8x Wood Elf with bow
8x Wood Elf with Elven Blade
8x Wood Elf with spear
Treebeard
2x Ents
3x Wood Elf Sentinels
Radagast the Brown

Please share your thoughts

LordElrond · **Posted:** Sun Jan 06, 2013 11:05 pm

That's an illegal army, as each elf hero can only lead 12 elves in sbg

The Horde Lord · **Joined:** Wed Feb 23, 2011 6:58 pm **Posts:** 301

He's got 2 Captains as well do it's legal in that department. however I think he violates the bow limit, depending on whether the sentinels have bow or not.

LordElrond · **Posted:** Sun Jan 06, 2013 11:15 pm

Sorry didn't see them...

LordElrond · **Posted:** Sun Jan 06, 2013 11:18 pm

I tried playing wood elves once (I normally play high elves)

I got the most kills but lost the game because my army was reduced to 25%!

If you have not played wood elves before, pick your fights carefully!
If you lose the fight, your elf is almost certainly dead, but that's why they gave the shielding rule to wood elf spears...

ElfLover · **Posted:** Sun Jan 06, 2013 11:21 pm

Yeah just realized about the bow limit I will get rid of some bowmen

LordElrond · **Posted:** Sun Jan 06, 2013 11:23 pm

You only need to drop one archer

LordElrond · **Posted:** Sun Jan 06, 2013 11:24 pm

You could spend the points on giving your captains bows
Or just one?

Beowulf03809 · **Posted:** Mon Jan 07, 2013 12:02 am

I'd suggest you can drop one or two Sentinels (at least one) and one or both banners and put the points to more WEs with spears. Keep a Hero or Captain near the generic Ents and use Heroic Combat to maximize their effectiveness. If you don't have a good chance of winning a Fight roll, shield. As mentioned WEs are soft and if you loose the Fight you are likely to loose a model, even against basic Orcs and Goblins.

ElfLover · **Posted:** Mon Jan 07, 2013 12:55 am

Beowulf03809 wrote:

I'd suggest you can drop one or two Sentinels (at least one) and one or both banners and put the points to more WEs with spears. Keep a Hero or Captain near the generic Ents and use Heroic Combat to maximize their effectiveness. If you don't have a good chance of winning a Fight roll, shield. As mentioned WEs are soft and if you loose the Fight you are likely to loose a model, even against basic Orcs and Goblins.

Thanks for the advice

I think I will get more elves with blades instead of spears though

Beowulf03809 · **Posted:** Mon Jan 07, 2013 1:03 am

The Elf Blade is great and highly needed to getting thru the heavier armor of many Evil models. The importance of spears is two fold though. First, it makes your single WEs on their own significantly more potent. The ability to roll two dice (Shielding) with their high Fight value means you can often use one with a spear to hold off multiple enemies until help arrives or to deny an area for a few turns. Second, the spears can back up (and thereby make more potent) the warriors engaged to a fight.

Perhaps an equal split of additional blades and spears? Your own play style will really dictate the most effective though so try out multiple variations.

ElfLover · **Posted:** Mon Jan 07, 2013 1:06 am

Forgot to mention Radagast the Brown who will also be part of that army :oops:

Valamir · **Posted:** Mon Jan 07, 2013 2:42 am

Looks good- be sure to use the terrain to your advantage, and don't ever get stuck somewhere.

LordElrond · **Posted:** Mon Jan 07, 2013 7:30 am

For tactics, take a look at the rivendell tactica in tomes of wisdom

I know it is for high elves, but the tactics at the bottom are very relevant to wood elves

ElfLover · **Posted:** Mon Jan 07, 2013 10:21 am

LordElrond wrote:

For tactics, take a look at the rivendell tactica in tomes of wisdom

I know it is for high elves, but the tactics at the bottom are very relevant to wood elves

Thanks for your help

I will check that out

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