- May 10, 2012
- 41
Hey guys,
I play warhammer mostly with my brother and he plays only dark elves. He recently switched to running hordes of witch elves for his core choice and combined with hoarded executioners, they are just too powerful.
I try to chaff one of the units and hit the other with the strongest tools I got. Last time this involved 8 horrors and the anvil and a black knight bus as the hammer. All the horrors were wiped out in 1 round of combat, and I barely one combat with the BK bus, which had 2 WK's 1 with nightshroud and the other with fencers blades while being a BS. I ended up with 2 wounds on each character.
But the witch elves are just stupid, they automatically have 3 poisoned attacks each (paired weapons + frenzy) in horde formation, thats 50 poisoned attacks. Thats insane for a core unit. When he gets more points to work with, it starts getting really dumb, because then he gets a Death Hag hero with cauldron of blood which gives them all an additional attack as well as a 5+ ward save.
Now they are toughness 3 with no armor, and thats great, if we had shooting. They are I5-6 with ASF, so they kill around 30 troops before I even get to strike back. I cant attack with my lord either, no matter how equipped either, dealing with 15-18 poisoned attacks is just too much.
Like I said earlier I try to chaff one while throwing everything I have at the other, but theres just no good target for the lord to attack. Either hes dealing with ridiculous amounts of poisoned attacks or has to pray he doesnt get killing blowed by the executioners. They have S6 btw, bc of great weapons but they also have ASF so they hit S6 at I6...
We once had a unit of 40 Executioners versus my 40 GG with GW. 39, no joke, 39 GG were killed before I got my first chance to swing back. yah that wasnt fun. He did have the hero that gave them frenzy, but you get the idea. Anybody have any thoughts for taking down these 2 units? Id really like to avoid having to really on Gaze or Curse of years, we need Vanhels and invocation.
I play warhammer mostly with my brother and he plays only dark elves. He recently switched to running hordes of witch elves for his core choice and combined with hoarded executioners, they are just too powerful.
I try to chaff one of the units and hit the other with the strongest tools I got. Last time this involved 8 horrors and the anvil and a black knight bus as the hammer. All the horrors were wiped out in 1 round of combat, and I barely one combat with the BK bus, which had 2 WK's 1 with nightshroud and the other with fencers blades while being a BS. I ended up with 2 wounds on each character.
But the witch elves are just stupid, they automatically have 3 poisoned attacks each (paired weapons + frenzy) in horde formation, thats 50 poisoned attacks. Thats insane for a core unit. When he gets more points to work with, it starts getting really dumb, because then he gets a Death Hag hero with cauldron of blood which gives them all an additional attack as well as a 5+ ward save.
Now they are toughness 3 with no armor, and thats great, if we had shooting. They are I5-6 with ASF, so they kill around 30 troops before I even get to strike back. I cant attack with my lord either, no matter how equipped either, dealing with 15-18 poisoned attacks is just too much.
Like I said earlier I try to chaff one while throwing everything I have at the other, but theres just no good target for the lord to attack. Either hes dealing with ridiculous amounts of poisoned attacks or has to pray he doesnt get killing blowed by the executioners. They have S6 btw, bc of great weapons but they also have ASF so they hit S6 at I6...
We once had a unit of 40 Executioners versus my 40 GG with GW. 39, no joke, 39 GG were killed before I got my first chance to swing back. yah that wasnt fun. He did have the hero that gave them frenzy, but you get the idea. Anybody have any thoughts for taking down these 2 units? Id really like to avoid having to really on Gaze or Curse of years, we need Vanhels and invocation.