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Originally Posted by CaptainSarathai  1) shoot us. shoot us alot. T3 is actually easily harmed with a longbow, and a 5+ save isn't going to do much for us. |
This is liable to be my approach. When talking to a games workshop guy in store he was talking about how supreme swordsmasters were. To which I responded that it would take a tactical idiot to allow these close combat loonies to get into combat in the first place, any general with shooting units and half a brain stem will be very likely to focus a lot of fire to mow through swordsmasters, from my dwarven armys perspective theyre practically free victory points with their low toughness and near non existant (by dwarven standards) armour save.
For me its the white lions with the lion cloaks and the pheonix guards with the ward saves that worry my dwarves, not some ponces with oversized butter knives, soon to be turned into lanky crossbow bolt pinions.
Its not going to change my tactics much, but as Squig69 pointed out, I'm one of the lucky ones with the good shooting, high toughness and high armour. All that may happen is to replace one unit of warriors with another squad of ironbreakers, so that at least i have the same WS as the non elite elves on my front line.
