2500 Dark Elves: Black Guard or Executioners?

The Sorceress on Black Dragon is an interesting choice. The Sorceress wants to be safe out of combat (she only has 1 attack, minimal defence, and some of her spells such as Doombolt require her to be out of combat to use), but the dragon wants completely the opposite - to be smashing things to bits in combat. That's not to say you shouldn't use it - but be aware, that it's hard to get the best out of it.

If you're sticking with the Sorceress on Black Dragon, one suggestion is to give her the Black Dragon Egg in addition to her Talisman of Preservation - it means that when you get stuck in that tricky combat, she can become Toughness 6 for one turn to keep her alive; the breath weapon also helps to inflict a few more wounds. You wouldn't have space for a Dispel Scroll alongside that, though. The other build I'd suggest considering is The Black Amulet (keeps the ward save, also no nasty combat character will want to challenge her), The Other Trickster's Shard (messes up opponent's ward saves) and the Tome of Furion. The Tome is important as it lets you choose Soul Stealer - crucial for a solo Sorceress, as she can use that spell to increase her wounds so she's less vulnerable to warmachines or in combat.

Your other problem is that when you do get into combats, she's going to be challenged by a unit champion - so for the first round your dragon is stuck squelching a measly champion rather than inflicting massive damage on the unit. The way to get around that is to have another flying character (usually a Master on Dark Pegasus) who will charge into the same combats, and take the challenge instead.

With your BSB Cold One Master, I'd recommend replacing the shield with either the Enchanted Shield (5 points, gets you save up to 1+ save) or a Sea Dragon Cloak (6 points, does the same). If you can squeeze in points, the Sword of Might gives him constant Strength 5 attacks - you've got enough S6 from the other knights, and it means you're better off the charge.

Your Dragon, Cold One Knights and Bolt Throwers all have high Strength attacks, so don't feel you need to take the Executioners. The Black Guard will give you a nice solid block that you can rely on not to run away.

Thanks for the replies so far. I know a Sorceress on a Dragon isn’t the most optimal, nevertheless I’ll defenitely look in to those suggestions. To be fair, I just really like the model and wanna play it, and although a Dreadlord would be way deadlier, I think the need for a lvl 4 caster is bigger.

I did feel BG would be somehow better in a list like this, but Nothing wrong with getting Some confirmation.

As for points, if I opt for the BG I have 52 to spare, so magic items and banners are still open (was considering +1 LD on Cold Ones, AP on CO or BG, the usual basicly).

I Will, as soon as it’s actually assembled and painted 😅 I’m actually just starting the army, since I got this bad boy (sealed) for € 80

Thank you mailman (don’t mind the Empire box, it’s for a friend)

I also ordered 3 boxes of BG from GW so the list is defenitely becoming closer to reality. Dragon, Locks and remaining Corsairs are a februari investment tho. In fact the army is kind of a long term plan that I’m likely to make short term considering how much I wanna play this list and models