8th Ed. wood elfs about to be updated, thoughts?

Durthu(the treeman on WD cover) is around warhammer for almost 20 years(5th edition), i don't really understand why it should be wielding a sword....

 

I love the tree lord thing model.

Honestly it's the first time I've thought of branching out. Tree spirit army sounds AWESOME

 

Another army getting High Magic

 

Its pretty straight forward I think.

Wood Elves are now the middleground between High and Dark elves fluffwise.

They have both Dark and High Magic and probably also a bit of each camps believes in them.

Durthu is probably now a Khainite being ...after all he DOES look a LITTLE like this guy

 

My bet would elves not getting the extra +1 to cast that high elves and dark elves get on high and dark magic respectively. Keen to see what the attributes will be.

 

I see, Gw just backstabbed again its own BG


Another pic from web

 

I already ordered the wood elves army book and am looking forward to it. In the white dwarf from last week there was artwork of stag riders among the wood elves army. If those are coming out I am definetly picking wood elves as second army.

 

Like those?

 

I like what they said in White Dwarf about that. He's insane after what the dwarfs did to him and now he does things that he never would have before. You can almost hear it -


"Lord Durthu, wtf! A sword?"
"Yep.. Gonna cut me some effing dwarfs in half and watch their sap run onto the ground like they do to us, little effers! "

"But...that's nuts!"

"Yep. Nuts, berries, lettuce...don't give a damn. Stunties gots ta bleed."

 

Big old update coming in:

 

What's that, double-tap and Armour Save ignoring T3 unarmoured Scout Skirmishers? Time to chop more head fins off Skinks to make them into Chameleons!

 

No, one upgrade per unit.

The exception is Waywatchers, who can chose between multi shot or No AS each turn.

 

The more I look at this the more I feel the Lizardmen book just kinda got phoned in over a weekend.

 

Yeah, kinda something exactly like that

They look awesome by the way.

 

Your not alone.

I am very excited for Wood Elf players, they deserve an interesting book after that un-acceptable wait..
...but...I cant help but feel "sad".

I felt from the beginning that "those guys I like and chose to play" got neglected so hard, and every release since then has pretty much confirmed it.

I dont say our book is bad, but its update is just so freakishly un-creative and boring compared to all others.


...must say that I have been flirting with the thought of another army for some time.... after reading this I think woodies might be the answer.

 

Both of the Elf books are solid, imo, and this one is shaping up to be three for three. Multiple viable build options, nothing too grotesquely overpowered (you might get a little bit of moaning about Warlocks, Frosties and BotWD, but you can easily build lists which don't require them or don't rely on them), and not too many dud choices, either.

 

lizardmen were playable, wood elves basically we were not.

its not unsurprising to see them get a better overhaul, especially considering they are actually one of the more popular armies.

the lizardmen book was uncreative, boring, but overall, it did exactly what was required. Gave us more monsters, even if they aren't great, fixed the slann, gave us another lore on skink priests, toned down the skroxigor units.

Tiny point changes here and there, a few new monsters. Personally i would have loved to see some heavy cavalry, but /shrug. At the end of the day a core of low cost poison ballistic skill skirmishing units is going to handicap the book. They are simply too good.

The fluff and artwork were truly fantastic. Since that made up the meat of the book i felt like my money was well spent.