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Some things I noticed while reading: Animosity This doesn't have the same rules as normal animosity, which may cause confusion. You might want to rename it. Blunderbuss It's fun to see a ranged unit that encourages ranking up. Beast Tamer There are two rolls associated with monster reaction tests. D...

Without knowing the exact disposition of the enemy forces, I shall be forced to be somewhat conservative, at least initially. The stables, barracks and warehouse are clearly the highest priorities as they represent the greatest opportunities for the townsfolk to arm themselves and run us over. As su...

I must have been caught up in my anguish for Maria, for some things I long known to me have escaped my mind. The raising of the dead shall surely be a part of my plans but corpses do not simply grow on trees. Is there a graveyard or mausoleum attached to the cathedral? Is it possible to reach it for...

Have you ever been tempted to put the Hydra on a longer base? I know it's not "stRicTLy RaW leEEGal" but it's not like you're getting that thing in base to base contact and facing the right way as-is anyway. I've taken to putting my monsters and chariots on bases which don't allow for any...

Ashley lived the dream and pulled off a move I've wanted to pull off ever since the start of that edition: Skitterleaping the Grey Seer next to the Night Goblins and sending the Fanatics in random directions. Put some focus on Tzeentch and chaos can live the dream too with the indigo fire (or the s...

Finished! Lokhir (and black dragon—just finished it yesterday) for scale. Ended up with even more bamboo stalks than the in progress version—2 full height and 2 small, for a total of 24.

Is that your chaos army? I think I recognize the banners, but the spawn-like things are new to me.

"Model count" is such an alien metric to me (especially since I can spring new Core out of the ground). It's not a metric I care about but an attempt to describe the difference between my expectations and what I saw. I normally play 2000 point or smaller games, primarily because games of ...

This army gives me cognitive dissonance. I think of undead as something that comes in hordes and 4000 points as being twice as big as the games I usually play, yet I routinely face armies that have similar numbers of models (or more!). For example, in this chaos list here , there's 107 models in 200...

The Lion cloak is definitely not magic armour, since it's not listed in the magic items section and not called out as being magical. So any restriction on magic armour doesn't apply here. As you've already noted, if a wizard is wearing armour, then they cannot cast spells unless the armour or model ...

You're not supposed to move a unit through it: Dense Jungle Some areas of the jungle grow so densely that they are all but impassable, the tree trunks pressing so tightly even the light is blocked from passing them. The same rules apply to areas of dense jungle as apply to light jungles, with the ad...

A bamboo forest. I think I finally have the right number of stalks, and it's way more than I anticipated. Now to finish them all off and do some more work on the base.

That does seem rather weighted against you. Skirmishers with movable objectives make for a nasty challenge for dwarfs, especially since they move faster than you can. Dwarfs make it so hard for tournament organizers. It feels like any objective based scenario either gives them a terrible handicap in...

This is the second scenario from the General's Compendium we've played. Raid! is excellent; there's lots of room for interesting decisions and lots of suggestions to tweak it to adjust it to your liking. See this report for instance: while the dark elves pulled ahead on turn 4 and were able to keep ...

A game of Raid! from The General's Compendium with a few modifications and extras. The Dark Elves, as attacker, tried to match the Raiders of Naggaroth list at the back of the Dark Elf book (the unit roster is so limited that I don't have enough models to make a 2000 point list). I took units from t...

I discover to my horror that the store's tables are actually quite a bit narrower than they first seem, leaving quite a bit less than 24" from the sides of the castle to the nearest table edge. This pushes my carefully planned encirclement into a kind of hourglass formation as large chunks of ...

No offense taken. It's one of the few things I don't like about Dark Elves. Their raw cost and +1 bonus to casting really encourage not taking the minimum since you end up paying extra for no advantage in magical defense over any other army and once you start trying for some offense, it costs so muc...

I ascribe my recent losing streak to facing magic heavy opponents. I'm a simple minded orc player and bring fighting characters and large mobs. What's a poor ol Greenskin to do when faced with 4 magic users of various levels ? That was only 3 magic users. I try not to go too ridiculous. High sorcer...

Oh, I also have a suggestion and a hint for my opponent. Since you’re interested in historical battles, consider the Battle of Leuctra when deploying. The echelon formation was a consequence of deployment in much the same way that animosity can cause your own units to fail to advance.

Unfortunately, I didn't think to take any pictures myself, so there isn't anything I can add that way. It was great to play against an army that I never encountered before as Dark Elves (I think I played against Orcs and Goblins in the distant past as Daemons or Lizardmen, but I don't remember the g...

It's back! https://www.classichammer.com/viewtopic.php?t=40 but all the dead links to the pictures are fixed.

That's perfectly okay; it's not an army. It's 5 champions (yes, the Shaggoth counts) and they're competing for who can kill the most on the other side. It's also why they have chariots, just like the ancient Greek heroes in the Iliad who, just like these five, were perfectly willing to challenge eac...

Personally, I'm very partial to Neferra's Plaques of Mighty Incantations. Awesome tablets of grave power are another essential item for a High Priest, and they also do a good job of flattening the curve even further on reliably high powered incantations. Compared to a mere Staff of Mastery, all it ...

It looks like this: Lord of chaos on chariot of Tzeentch, mark of Tzeentch, skull of katam, crown of everlasting conquest, great weapon, shield: 599 Exalted champion of chaos, mark of Tzeentch, in chariot of Tzeentch, great weapon, shield, power familiar: 366 Exalted champion of chaos, mark of Tzeen...

If I had to pick one item for Liche priests, I'd probably go with the Staff of Mastery. It's one of those incremental little things that drives your opponent nuts as they keep running out of dice because you rolled "just a bit" too high to use the same number of dice to dispel. See also al...