BDP 105 – High Elves Army First Impressions




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Summary: <br> High Elves Army First Impressions<br> In this episode we give our first impressions of the High Elves army. This is by no means a full on in-depth review. We talk about what in the new book is catching our eye and seems fun to use and powerful in the game. We talk a little about the background of the high elves, we write some lists and then take some listeners questions in Gareths Querey corner. To kick things off we cover what we have been up to in the hobby over the past 2 weeks.<br> Fortnight in Fantasy<br> On this episode we have a small change to the way Fortnight in fantasy is going to run. Instead of going around the table based on topic, we go around person by person and first up is Mark.<br> Mark<br> Gaming – No gaming since AdeptiCon<br> Painting – Painting Orcs, finished 1 Troll and 3 Snotling Bases<br> Other – LARPing<br> Coming Up – Warhammer Achievements<br> Gareth<br> Gaming – Played Vampires vs Warriors of Chaos and rocked the Double Terrorghiests and has some ideas about his list.<br> Painting – HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!<br> Other – Had his birthday and went to see the latest Star Trek movie<br> Coming Up – Warhammer Achievements<br> Ben<br> Gaming – 2 games in this last fortnight against Ben Johnson and Adam Hall. Both with High Elves against Daemons.<br> Painting – The Hellcannon is getting som e more progress and some of the swag bag models from AdeptiCon have been started.<br> Other – Ben has been listening to the Wheel of Time series on Audible and is up to book 6.<br> Coming Up – Warhammer Achievements<br> High Elves<br> We start with a summary of the High Elves back story. Then move on to our thoughts on the new book and units.<br> We have a run down the various segment in the book and talk about what we think is Hot or Not. This is by no means a full high elf review, but a chat abou the parts of the book that is exciting us and why we like it.<br> High Elves Lists<br> Gareth wants to rock a Tecils and Tripple Pheonix list. Ben and Mark put him on the spot to find out which 8 spells he would choose to take on Tecilis.<br> Teclis: Lores of Battle Magic<br> Caradryan<br> • Ashtari (Frostheart Phoenix)<br> Noble: heavy armour; Battle Standard.<br> 15 Archers <br> 15 Archers <br> 30 Spearmen: Sentinel; standard bearer.<br> 15 Phoenix Guard: Keeper of the Flame; standard bearer. <br> 5 Dragon Princes of Caledor<br> Flamespyre Phoenix <br> Flamespyre Phoenix <br> <br> Mark went down the MSU approach and tried to get in as many units as he could.<br> Anointed of Asuryan: Star Lance; Other Tricksters Shard; Golden Crown of Atrazar; Enchanted Shield. <br> • Flamespyre Phoenix<br> Noble: Charmed Shield; Elven Steed (Ithilmar barding); lance; Dragon armour; Battle Standard. <br> Mage: Level 2 Wizard. High Magic<br> Mage: Dispel Scroll; Level 2 Wizard. High Magic<br> 10 Archers <br> 10 Archers <br> 5 Silver Helms: shields. <br> 5 Silver Helms: musician; shields. <br> 5 Ellyrian Reavers <br> 5 Ellyrian Reavers<br> 5 Swordmasters of Hoeth <br> 5 Swordmasters of Hoeth <br> 5 Swordmasters of Hoeth <br> 5 Dragon Princes of Caledor: standard bearer gleaming pennant<br> Eagle Claw Bolt Thrower <br> Eagle Claw Bolt Thrower <br> 5 Sisters of Avelorn <br> Frostheart Phoenix<br> 1 Great Eagle <br> 1 Great Eagle <br> <br> Ben went the more traditional mixed arms list and talked about the list that he used in he 2 games this week.<br> Loremaster: Book of Hoeth.<br> Archmage: Dispel Scroll; Level 4 Wizard; Lore of Shadow; Elven Steed (Ithilmar barding).<br> Noble: Dawnstone; The Reaver Bow; Elven Steed (Ithilmar barding); halberd; Dragon armour; shield; Battle Standard.<br> 30 Archers: musician. <br> 15 Archers: musician. <br> 5 Silver Helms <br> 5 Silver Helms <br> 5 Ellyrian Reavers: bows.<br>