Warriors of Chaos: Dragon Ogres Review

Hooray for Dragon Ogres! Let's go kill some Skaven! If you have a problem with Skaven players using lots of lightning attacks such as Warp Lightning Cannons use Dragon Ogres (or Shaggoth's). Dragon Ogres are great for rat problems, just call 1-800-DRAGON OGRES FTW!!! So always use them against Skaven so you can destroy their stuff without being shot to bits by cannons. First of all, options. I would give them great weapons because they are initiative 2 which is crap. So might as well give them +2 strength with Always Strikes Last. This would make them ideal for killing monsters and models that are hard to kill. They may also do well with killing cannons if you can get them across the board fast enough, movement 7 is pretty good so that could work. Whenever you play against Skaven take some Dragon Ogres, it will annoy the crap out of them (unless they don't have any lightning stuff which is unlikely though because their lightning stuff is good). So use your Dragon Ogres as cover for as much of your army as you can when playing against Skaven so that their lightning cannons don't do much. Charge your dragon ogres into Doomwheels too so that their lightning attacks in close combat (as I believe they can use their guns in close combat or at least when they charge) will do nothing and can't do anything to the rest of your army. So Dragon Ogres are a good unit and are great against Skaven. Not just great but are what saves you from all of the Skaven lightning stuff. I hope you guys have fun with your Dragon Ogres!

High Elves: Phoenix Guard Review

Phoenix Guard is the most balanced unit regarding Phoenix Guard, White Lions, and Sword-Masters of Hoeth. Phoenix Guard are pretty hard to kill as they have their 4+ ward save so will last a good amount of time in a game (unless you roll terribly of course). They also have halberds so do have some hitting power plus weapon skill 5. So they will do a good amount of damage throughout the game plus will survive longer than MOST other High Elf units. White Lions and Sword-Masters aren't as rounded as Phoenix Guard, Sword-Masters don't have very good defense and White Lions only have good defense versus non-magical shooting attacks. They are both more specialized in putting out a lot of damage with not so good defense while Phoenix Guard are half and half. They do good damage and have good defense at the same time. So overall definitely take Phoenix Guard if you can. This doesn't mean not to take Sword-Masters or White Lions, just take Phoenix Guard first.

The Armies of Ulthuan

I have some High Elves from the past and my interest for them has sparked once again. So I have decided to work on my High Elf army. I will be posting reviews on units from the army book as I have done in the past. Have fun with your new stuff High Elf players!

New High Elves

Oooh! Shiny!

That said, I am not starting a new army. I need to at least finish 1 for Fantasy before I start another. What my second army will be remains to be seen, but you won't know yet. I do suspect that despite his current focus on the forces of chaos, Mr. H will be excited for this release. As of yet I am attempting to get him to purchase a Sky-boat(read: Lothern Skycutter), and a bird(read: Phoenix), because I would quite like to see both those things on the tabletop, even if they are pummeling me instead of my opponent. Anyway, there might be more High Elves stuff on here at some point, cause they are back in a big way.

GGH update

Hey all, as Duncan said we are sorry for the lack of posts. I've been wanting to make posts but again like Duncan said we've had school conflicting with our blogging time. I have been wondering what to write about, I do enjoy writing about Warriors of Chaos but I do not know what else to really write about. I could do some more reviews but I have reviewed everything that I thought could use a review (or sometimes I just feel like reviewing a particular unit). So if any of you readers have any ideas go ahead and post a comment on this post. At the Great Gaming Hall we welcome your comments (as long as they're polite) so we can improve this blog and meet your requests. Also if you haven't already I urge any Warriors of Chaos players to visit the Chamber of the Everchosen. It is a Warriors of Chaos forum and is great if you need any advice with your pillaging and slaughter in the name of the dark gods.

Lack of posts...

I can't speak for the other members, but I am sorry about my lack of posting here recently. Homework has been cutting into my free time, especially for writing. I can promise an update for 'Whispers' soon and a new story is in the works, this time for Fantasy.

Vampire Counts Tactica Part 1: Introduction

Well, I guess I just like making tacticas for my friends. I'm not likely to play the vamps soon, mostly cause Tomb Kings are a whole lot like them. That said, they are a nice army, and Rise of Nagash makes me want to play them. We'll see though. This post mainly is to say: I've found a formula for the order of tacticas.
1. Introduction
2. Lords and Heroes
3. Magic items and Magic Lore
4. Core
5. Special
6. Rare