Wood Elves Light Council - 2500p theory crafting

So what do we get from lore of light?

From the obvious super bolt Banishment the lore still have more to offer. But what units benefits the most from its augments? And how about wood elves units?

Spells and possible uses:

Shem’s Burning Gaze
So this is a good bolt, with two bolt in the lore my though is: maybe we can cut down on archers?

Pha’s Protection
This one actually looks pretty promising for cheap protection to the unit with a lot of mages. Maybe a horde of spears or bigger unit of glade guard? Combine with MR and we got some solid defense.

The Speed of Light
This is an other of those Augsburg that might not be as strong for elves as they have high WS and initiative from beginning. But in combat most unit will go from hitting you on 3-4 to instead hit on 5s so it might be better but obviously needs a unit that wants to be in combat. Again, spears, dryads and rangers comes in mind.

Light of Battle
I have found my self pretty often failing ld 8 with woodies as they are spread out. Maybe this spell can help out rallying and saving points to those lost units? Also making a unit not failing a break test in combat makes dryads and treekins come to my mind.

Net of Amyntok
Not sure about this one. Strength test will probably only other elves, wizards and archers fail. So if you opponent runs a for example a mage bunker with crossbows its value obviously goes up.

Banishment
This is why we run a Light Council. 2d s6 or s7 hits is pretty nuts. Still it’s just a bolt :/
This again makes me think we need less archers.

Birona’s Timewarp
Double movement, extra attack and ASF. This again directly makes me think of dryads, treekins and treemen. We got a lot of Movement already with our awesome steeds buts it’s still a lot of units that can be aggressive of the other ones.

So this makes me wonder... can lore of light push a wood elves combat list to decent?

So second try:

Light Council
Wood Elves

Spellweaver: Level 4 Wizard; Lore of Light; Asrai longbow; Unicorn; Talisman of Preservation 330

Spellsinger: Lore of Light; Dispel Scroll 105

Spellsinger: Lore of Light; Scroll of Shielding 95

Spellsinger: Lore of Light 80

Glade Captain: Battle Standard Bearer; great weapon; starfire shafts; Hail of Doom Arrow 138

36 Dryads 396

20 Glade Guard: musician; standard bearer; trueflight arrows 320

6 Wild Riders: standard bearer; shields 178

6 Wild Riders: standard bearer; shields 178

8 Tree Kin 360

8 Waywatchers 160

8 Waywatchers 160

2 500 points

My main thought directly is to remove one unit of wild riders and add 1-2 units of wardancers.

God question, maybe I need a leve 4 high/shadow/Death at the side(hope for nukes). Or two eagles to help out avoiding even more.

The usual way is to avoid until you can shoot it down to normal size.

I am also thinking a hord of spear elves might be the right bunker to the mages.

I think banishment and signature bolt works very well against high Armour cavalry.

My though is that a big horde of dryads or big unit of treekins can take on hordes.backed up with Augsburg and war dancers.

So the first try did end up with a clear win even though 0 banishment went through. We choose to play battle line to speed up the process. Woodies got first turn.


After turn ~4



After turn ~2


After turn ~1

I must say treekins managed to stand up very well against hammers because of aug buffs, even though I were on the luckey end.

Dryads block also managed my first combat win against gw warriors, also might been a bit lucky and a fail ld7 helped.

As always the big block of true flight combined with all the way watchers and some magic bolts managed to snipe organ guns, cannons and most important steam guns first 3 turns.


So yes unicorn mage wasn’t any good against cannons. I managed to live through two successful shots because of ward save.

Indeed but really need to find better place for it, like sisters? But misses fast cav rules so might not be good enough. Maybe high magic counters is the only way?

That sounds like a good first outing!

I usually stick my Unicorn wizard in with a unit of Sisters. Offers SO MUCH more protection with the "Look Out Sir" roll, plus the Sisters have a 50/50 chance of surviving the cannon shot too. Plus, the Unicorn will increase their ward save even further against magic missiles. They're a pretty good combo!

Not to mention the "free" spells they come with. I usually opt for Sisters over a unit of Wild Riders. They just have survivability. Something kinda rare in a WE army. And the Poisoned shots are nothing to sneeze at!

I think in my last game running her, I used Dark Magic, because...why not. It didn't do too bad, though, it wasn't game breaking.

Worth a shot. Every time I have run my Wildwood Rangers (who I just LOVE), I usually try to take a Lv4 of Life to keep them coming back, since they die rather easily.

If you do, run the army like that, I'd try to think of a way to keep your other two Lv1's within the Light Council bubble. That's the whole point in running so many.