Good fun & questions about Waywatchers...
Thank you so much, Erik. I wanted to make sure I at least had a battle against WoC before I replied.
So... I fought them and managed to secure a solid victory. I also played High Elves and scored a massacre! Wood Elves are fantastic and overall everyone had a lot of fun.
It ended up being a 1300pt game and I used some of my friends Wood Elves. I took a group of 6 Waywatchers, 3 groups of GG(lines of 10 which works wonders, thank you!), 12 Dryads and a unit of 11 Dryads w/ a Branchwraith (A cluster of Radiants and A Lamentation of Despairs) I also had a group of 10 wardancers (Musician and Bladesinger) and a noble which was my general w/ HoDA, HotH, LA, Shield.
He took a unit of mauraders, a big unit of chaos warriors, 5 knights, a lone hero, a hero on a juggernaut and a mage.
I deployed my Waywatchers on his side aiming to take down that mage. I managed to do so but pretty late in the game. They managed to get a few shots off at the chaos warriors as well. My archers were able to take out the unit of mauraders before they reached me and whittle down the unit of chaos warriors which allowed the wardancers to finish them off. They cut them down and charged the lone hero and dealt with him as well. Wardancers = Amazing. Though I feel it was risky throwing them in there alone without a supporting unit. His knights annihilated both units of Dryads and a unit of archers which made the knights run off the board but come back on the next turn. I wasn't able to score any wounds on the knights. A unit of archers miraculously took care of the juggernaut hero which was his general. Thank god cause he would have been trouble. HoDA was an epic fail haha scoring a total number of four hits...
A couple of questions about Waywatchers...
I ran into a weird situation playing high elves when I wanted to deploy my WW in his zone. He was saying I couldn't because I had to at least be 10" away(like scouts). Though I was saying they have a rule which states no minimum distance required between them and an enemy unit. So essentially they could be right behind an enemy unit (1 inch away?) as long as the enemy unit is facing the other way, is this correct? Though when reading the scouts rule it says I would have to be behind cover but with no minimum distance required. He had a lone mage back there as well which I know I had to be at least 12" away from. I ended up putting them in my deployment zone.
Also do I have to deploy the WW in the enemy deployment zone or can I deploy them just outside the zone, in plain sight?
I'll be experimenting with some different kinds of army builds and hopefully get around to posting some in the army list section.
Thanks for your help man.
Lenwe