750 wood elves

woodbok · **Joined:** Mon May 02, 2011 9:19 am **Posts:** 3

Hi there,
this is my first post here, so i apoligise if i break any rules.

hereos
(Allies)
Glorfindel
not allies
legolas, cloak

8 woodelves with cloaks, glaives, throwing weapons

7 wood elves, spears, cloaks, throwing weapons
Wood elf with banner
8 woodelves with bows and cloaks

5 sentinals
wood elf with banner and throwing weapons

8 wood elves with bows and cloaks

Noddwyr · **Posted:** Mon May 02, 2011 12:55 pm

Right, first of all welcome to the OR. Now on to the list, you have too many bow men if you are playing LOME legal and you have too few models, you should have at least 45-50 in a 750 point list, and more might be better. So what can you do to make it better:
drop at least 2 of the sentinels, I dont like them so I dont use them at all but if you want to use them 3 is more than enough. Drop at least one banner ( i never use them) and lose the cloaks on all the elves, they just arents worth the points. I would make the list look like this:

Glorfindel on horse (or Twins on horse or Saruman)
Legolas
Banner if you want
3 Sentinels if you want to use them ( I wouldnt)
2/3 Wood Elves with spears
1/3 Wood elves with bows

Hope that helps.

whafrog · **Posted:** Mon May 02, 2011 1:32 pm

Welcome! I agree with Noddwyr, except I like Sentinels...though 3 is plenty at 750 points. The Twins are a better deal than Glorfindel for most purposes. You could also save points on heroes by taking someone like Rumil, or a storm caller. I'd also keep some throwing daggers, putting them on the spearmen. If you don't have enough spear models for 2/3rds of your army, give throwing daggers to your elf blade models.

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

It is often a good idea to list your theme apropriate collection, especially if you don't have that many. Other tha that I agree with the two above me. Try to get 9 or 10 might (normally I would have adviced 7 or 8, but Legolas' can be used to kill bad guys like). In addition to the might issue you should also try to have as many guys as possible and make sure tat 33% of them are bow armed.

Ultragreek · **Joined:** Fri Apr 29, 2011 1:03 pm **Posts:** 294

Illegal list espect for house game...

Anyway you should choose less bows and more cheap warriors.

whafrog · **Posted:** Mon May 02, 2011 9:08 pm

Ultragreek wrote:

Illegal list espect for house game...

What's illegal about it?

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

@ whafrog: I think he is refering to the original list by the OP which included to many archers, but it's really hard to understand this guy in general.
@ Ultragreek: Archers are the biggest strength of a wood elf army, dropping them would be like not taking any uruks in an Isengard army.

Ultragreek · **Joined:** Fri Apr 29, 2011 1:03 pm **Posts:** 294

I know it depends if he plays with the bow limit rule.

Beowulf03809 · **Posted:** Wed May 04, 2011 9:44 pm

I can see no justification for not being maxed with bows for a Wood Elf army. Even with the 33% rule (remembering to push that with Heroes), your Wood Elves can (and many should) have Throwing Daggers which are just as powerful but only work at short range (but you can use them at full move!

). If you have Legolas you have a couple extra shots. If you have Thranduil you have an almost-guaranteed shot (and his Circlet is a great special rule for Wood Elves). And WEs are so cheap you could get both and still build a large, effective WE army.

But without the LoME guidelines I wouldn't play SBG. I've played some special scenarios with 50% bows and wow...just not fun for either side. It's almost as bad as Gray Company play.

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