Post by jonathan e on Jan 31, 2021 7:55:12 GMT
What have I become?
The Wood Elves used to be the absolute bane of my life back when I was playing week in week out. As soon as the sixth edition army book dropped, my arch rival and nemesis Shiny New John started absolutely pelting me with Dryads week after week, running rings around my ponderous Sylvanians (this was in the years before my Spirit Host joined the party and I'm not sure even they would have been much help). Ever since then I have held a hearty loathing for the smirking woodland sprites and their pet archers, and it has persisted right up until... well, until the new Wood Elf DLC dropped for Total Warhammer. Against all odds I had a great time being Drycha, rampaging around the Old World putting the frighteners on everything up to and including my fellow elves, and now I find myself putting aside the grudge of my eternal lifetime and taking a walk on the wild side.
What you see up here is a 200 point warband for Warhammer Warbands. Five Glade Guard (Oathmark Elf Light Infantry, a little soft and blobby compared to the Citadel figures but perfectly adequate at £25 for 30, i.e. all the archers I will likely ever need), four Dryads (mostly missing their back branches as they're quite tall and busy enough already, although the Champion has a bit of extra shrubbery so I can spot her in the melee) and the newfangled Branchwych model who shall be taking charge of my arboreal hosts.
Going forward the plan is to do something very unlike my Vampire Counts army - which means multiple small units, four Heroes at 2000 points, a mostly defensive approach to magic (three casts of Tree Singing and emphasis on the Dispel pool) and, of course, a robust shooting phase. I have enough stuff for about 1500 points at the moment: the newfangled Treeman and some 'Spite-Revenants' I shall be using as Treekin, plus sixteen Dryads and some semi-dryadic Warhammer Underworlds heroes I'll be using as Alter Kindred. Top that off with thirty archers and two giant march-blocking budgies from non-WFB ranges and I'm doing pretty well for myself.
The final lunge to 2000 points is still up for debate at the moment: second Treeman instead of the Eagles, maybe a big block of Eternal Guard and attendant Noble (more Oathmark figures, this time the Elf Heavy Infantry with the chainmail), maybe some cavalry (although I'd quite like to hold off on those and do a Stillman-style 'detachment' of Lord on Stag, Archmage on Unicorn, Wild Riders and Glade Riders to go, riding to support my beleagured kinband for larger games and flank attacks and so on).
