I was deadset on playing Dark Elves, read through the Army Book a few times, fell in love with the fluff, the models are pretty nice too, and I just love some of the rules. The whole cold blooded killers tickles me in a way that really nothing else can, and they're graceful in movement and fast. It just touches my heart.
But, I was reading the Vampire Count codex, and now I feel the same way towards Lahmia. The whole evil seduction hits hits annother part of my heart. And the concept of having leathal murderous, beautiful women is great, definately one of my loves. But they are different to the Dark Elves, they walk up to their enimy and just turn their own heart against them. Which is just a void that cold blooded assassins killing everyone in a mad bloodlust can't fill.
If I play Dark Elves, it's going to cost quite allot more. Since I love cavalry, I'd be buying massloads of Dark riders. And if I were to play Vampire Counts I'd be taking loads of Dire Wolves, I could actually get 20 models for 60$ (bitz ordering just the wolf bodies) with them, 4 times as much as with Dark Riders.
Then, for Dark Elves, I have the amazing War Hydra at my fingertips (I'm a huge fan of dragons and such), where as Lahmia doesn't have anything like that. But then I could also play Tomb Kings (looked through their Army Book too, infact I've looked through nearly all of the Army Books, and have them all here with me because I borrowed them from my friends, sadly I have to pay them a buck a book for rent), and they have the amazing Bone Giant. And the Bone Giant is one of my favorites, not because of the model, but because of the picture in the codex, which I would convert the model to look exactly like.
Then, the Dark Elves have bolt throwers and repeater crossbows.
But the Tomb Kings don't offer much on the lines of a Dragon, which is one my my major reasons in playing Fantasy, so they are pretty much out the window, but damn do I love the Bone Giant model.
And then the Lizardmen have the Slaan which is great, and I love the one special slaan character model. Sadly I hate the lizardmen models, and could never play them.
Anyway, here's a synopsis of the great points in my mind about the armies.
Dark Elves:
Great Cavalry
War Hydra
The best Dragon out of the other choices
Graceful leathal cold blooded killers (my kind of girls).
Bolt Throwers
Lahmia:
Dire Wolves.
Dragons which can be used by more characters
Mages that can wear armour
Undead (definately cool)
Invocation of Nehmek
Seduction
Tomb Kings:
Bone giants
Great magic
Undead
Lizardmen:
Slaan
Wood Elves:
Dragons
(I need to look into them more)
Human Armies:
No.
Dwarves:
No.
Chaos:
Most likely a no. Don't really want to look into them, their rules are waaaay to complex and Tzeentch still has to test for magic (unlike in 40k). And Slaanesh isn't as great now. And I hate the other two with a passion.
Ogre Kingdoms:
They look like me.
Not really my kind of army though, reminds me of the mother/son serial killer (the son was like a baby and the mom killed for him).
Orks and Goblins:
No, I hated them in 40k, I hate them here?
Skaven:
Gag.
But, I was reading the Vampire Count codex, and now I feel the same way towards Lahmia. The whole evil seduction hits hits annother part of my heart. And the concept of having leathal murderous, beautiful women is great, definately one of my loves. But they are different to the Dark Elves, they walk up to their enimy and just turn their own heart against them. Which is just a void that cold blooded assassins killing everyone in a mad bloodlust can't fill.
If I play Dark Elves, it's going to cost quite allot more. Since I love cavalry, I'd be buying massloads of Dark riders. And if I were to play Vampire Counts I'd be taking loads of Dire Wolves, I could actually get 20 models for 60$ (bitz ordering just the wolf bodies) with them, 4 times as much as with Dark Riders.
Then, for Dark Elves, I have the amazing War Hydra at my fingertips (I'm a huge fan of dragons and such), where as Lahmia doesn't have anything like that. But then I could also play Tomb Kings (looked through their Army Book too, infact I've looked through nearly all of the Army Books, and have them all here with me because I borrowed them from my friends, sadly I have to pay them a buck a book for rent), and they have the amazing Bone Giant. And the Bone Giant is one of my favorites, not because of the model, but because of the picture in the codex, which I would convert the model to look exactly like.
Then, the Dark Elves have bolt throwers and repeater crossbows.
But the Tomb Kings don't offer much on the lines of a Dragon, which is one my my major reasons in playing Fantasy, so they are pretty much out the window, but damn do I love the Bone Giant model.
And then the Lizardmen have the Slaan which is great, and I love the one special slaan character model. Sadly I hate the lizardmen models, and could never play them.
Anyway, here's a synopsis of the great points in my mind about the armies.
Dark Elves:
Great Cavalry
War Hydra
The best Dragon out of the other choices
Graceful leathal cold blooded killers (my kind of girls).
Bolt Throwers
Lahmia:
Dire Wolves.
Dragons which can be used by more characters
Mages that can wear armour
Undead (definately cool)
Invocation of Nehmek
Seduction
Tomb Kings:
Bone giants
Great magic
Undead
Lizardmen:
Slaan
Wood Elves:
Dragons
(I need to look into them more)
Human Armies:
No.
Dwarves:
No.
Chaos:
Most likely a no. Don't really want to look into them, their rules are waaaay to complex and Tzeentch still has to test for magic (unlike in 40k). And Slaanesh isn't as great now. And I hate the other two with a passion.
Ogre Kingdoms:
They look like me.
Not really my kind of army though, reminds me of the mother/son serial killer (the son was like a baby and the mom killed for him).
Orks and Goblins:
No, I hated them in 40k, I hate them here?
Skaven:
Gag.