Forest Spirits 2500 pts - The Call of the Wild

Lets 's start to speak about the backbone of my army.

I am playing 4 treemen

at 2500 pts it's the max we can reach.
I upgraded all of them with strangleroot.( Imho it's always worth. considering also the fact in this army we miss shooting :-)

For having 4 of them I decided to give up the Lev 4 treemen

This idea has its cons

- less effective in dispel phase
- The throne of wine stuff works better on a lev 4 . and it's pretty useless on a lev 2 or 1
- the nuke spell of life will be casted with just a +2 instead of a 4 +

advantages of this choice are in my opinion more then the cos.
- my general is less expensive and in case I lose him I will give up less points
- I can play 4 treemen instead of 3
- I have more “punch” power and more target saturation
- I can “cover” better the battlefield
- a Treeman lev 4 is the main target for warmachines and once I lose him in the first or second turn everything will be so difficult because the magic phase will be completely compromised.

- i have an additional attempt to channel

considering I play also 2 Branchwraith channelling can be a “thing”

Chaff

-2 eagles are fitting perfectly
they are fast , wm hunters or simply used for delaying enemies.

- 1 unit of glade riders
the only unit of elves :-)
they are ambushers they are there for some tactical reasons
- ambusher rule makes them bit unreliable. But they are there not for making us win :-)
- they can bring a banner ( my first work around to forest spirit list )
- i give them flaming banner
Ambushers mean we can try to make them come on the side we will need them . They can be useful with a rear charge or flanking charge vs a unit with regeneration.
Always attacking first rule + flaming attack + strenght 4 on charge can help us to make that wound needed to remove regeneration an allow our main unit ( maybe dryads or treekin) to do the rest of the job.

MAGIC

I try to assign spells to the 2 treemen before and then to the heroes.
Generally once of them will get the nuke spell and It's ok for me.
And if I am lucky I will have also flesh to stone.
The heroes should have always the signature spell
if not possible on both, alt least one of them should have.

Main stategy
From distance we should try to cast nuke spell on the most powerful enemy unit
once we are in melee
casting flesh to stone on our dryads is a priority
Toughness 6......is a thing
Generally will be dispelled because nobody wants to front an horde of dryads with Toughness 6!
But this will give us the chance to give reg 5+ to the unit and protect them better.
we can heal maybe also a wound to a Lord /hero.
It' s not a game changer but we need to support the main block in all the ways possible.


Dryads Horde

Dryads will provide 13 attacks from the first rank + 18 from the second and third rank ( if they are all in base contact )
31 attacks rerollable on the first turn of melee with WS 4
-6 attacks Strenght 4 with WS 6 rerollable from the 2 Branchwraith
- D3 impact hits ( if he charge) + 2 attacks strenght 5 WS5 from the stag
- 3 attacks form the bsb WS 6 Strenght 4 ( or 5) from te BSB
42 attacks at least ( eleven at strenght 4 or bit more)

Due to our Initiative often we will attack first and due to the composition of the unit, we will get these number of attacks even if we lose 20 dryads before melee!!!
it's not a very manouvrable unit but it's nothing to laugh at .
It will grind the opponent in a fight giving us the time to flank charge with treeman or treemen …
Playing Dryads in his way has a the great advantage to make the signature spell count and flesh to stone really count.

It will give us the confidence to front nasty units and It will be the right anvil ( yeah I say anvil) for flank charging with treemen or treekin.

They are not a top unit but this is a way I suggest you to play them.
Making them stubborn is the key and give them all this ranks will absolutely make them work.

Lore of life is a defensive lore.
I can just say that once in melee we are going to win simply investing in our defence.
Encreasing toughness is very good and so it's regeneration.
All in all they have
Immune to psycology
fear
Ward save 6+
hatred
Weapon skill 4
2 attacks
so they can do a good job.


Strenght 3 is a problem but we cannot do anything here unless we invest in a wizard lore of beast.
The problem is that we will offer an easy target...
the signature spell will be always dispelled and for adding him we have to sacrifice maybe the bsb, a treemen , or other important element.

Drycha 

Drycha is a cool Character but I won't use his special rule for the dryads and ok she is a Lev 2 lore of shadow but she costs us like a treeman with strangleroot or like a unit of 6 Treekins.
So No way...really. )

I love this theme!

The Groot alliance.

Let us know how it goes.

4 treemen is brilliant along with the mega dryads.