How To Create Your Own High Elves Army

The best place to start is the High Elves army book. This book contains a bestiary, pictures, painting hints and the history of the High Elves, it is the most essential item you need to start making your own High Elf army.

A High Elf Army is usually a defensive one, making practical use of its troops to gain the advantage in battle. Players usually have most of the army made up of defensive troops but also have some good H2H units to combat stong enemy units to prevent them to getting to vunerable parts of the army such as archers. Well that's my main theory anyway.

Firstly what you need to get is atleast 3 boxes of High Elves, with these you have your 2 core troops, 12 spearmen and 12 archers. To the spearmen, it is a good idea to add a command group (standard, musician and champion), so now you have a 3 by 5 block of spearmen. With the spearmen make use of their extra rank and get charged by enemies and they will suffer the wrath of three ranks fighting back at them!

Now you need some speed in your army and this means calvary. If you are into to H2H combat, get some Dragon Princes, with their high save, free standard and half the price for a magic banner they are quite good but have a very high point cost so every loss matters. If you need some skirmishers to harrass enemy war machines, and to pick on small units Ellyrion Reavers are the way to go.

But my personal favorite are the Silver Helms, they are so very versitile as you can either have them as light calvary or heavily armored knights. I like them to have light armor and shields, just my personal preference. I bought mine in a box set which has the parts to make 4 different Silver Helms. You can buy a champion and additional command to them but I like mounting the general and placing him in charge of the Silver Helms to make a very stong unit.

Next we need some magic power. In small armies it is best to keep the mage either level 1 or 2 because of the high point cost. Most players prefer to put their mage in a unit like the spearmen to protect him from missile fire, or mount him and put him in your calvary unit. A good idea is to mount him on a unicorn, and put him in your calvary unit for more damage and protection from spells and daemons.

Then it is onto war machines. Here you can't go wrong with bolt throwers, they are well worth their points being able to destroy heavily armored knights and deep ranked troops. Mwa ha ha, get lots and lots of them. Mwa ha ha. Always fire volleys unless you are against a really tough monster. Mwa ha ha.

Sorry about that outburst. Tiranoc chariots are next, very dangerous when you charge, always have scythed wheels and never get charged. If you are the good converter, put in 2 extra elven steeds. A good tactic is to hide them behind a building for the first few turns and as soon as most units are in combat, get them to drive like made and charge into the flanks of troops easily breaking them.

I will write a second part soon detailing the more exotic troops, monster use, special characters and so on. Mwa ha ha and Good Luck !