The next unit I'm going to look at also comes from the Wood Elf book, the Wild Riders. The Warhawks also have Armour Piercing and, on the charge, Killing Blow, making the role of the unit more likely to be that of wizard assassination than the hard hitting impact unit cavalry is normally expected to be. The Warhawks, meanwhile, are essentially Great Eagles, albeit with one less Movement and one more Initiative. The riders on top of the Warhawks have the regular elf profile and come armed with Asrai spears and Asrai longbows, although they cannot take any of the enchanted arrows. The only Monstrous Cavalry across the three elf books, the obvious advantage that this unit has is that it flies. First I'm going to take the Warhawk Riders from the Wood Elf book. I'm now going to turn to the units that don't really fit within the standard Cavalry description. On the rider you lose an Attack but gain a point of Strength. For that point you're trading an Elven Steed for a Cold One, for which you lose two inches of Movement but gain an Attack and point of Strength, plus the Fear, Stupidity and Thick-skinned rules. An elven steed combined with Ithilmar Barding means the unit doesn't lose any movement for having barding and that, combined with Dragon Armour on the rider and a shield, gives the unit a 2+ armour and 6+ Ward Save (increased to a 2+ against Flaming Attacks).įor a point more than the Dragon Prince you can get a Cold One Knight. Starting with Caledor's finest, you have an elf with an extra point of Weapon Skill, Initiative and Leadership, as well as an extra Attack. Therefore there are some units with the Fast Cavalry rule that end up being considered in this section.įirst though, I'm going to look at the two traditional cavalry units in the elf army books, the Cold One Knights and Dragon Princes.
Some units are actually capable of running into opposing armies' combat blocks and dishing out the pain, something that straight cavalry units are expected to do. However, within the Fast Cavalry units there are some that do more than just run about the table picking off chaff and diverting combat blocks. When I was setting out my unit selection categories for this fantasy list I thought it would be easy to split the mounted units outside the Core section into Cavalry and Fast Cavalry for consideration. In this concluding part I wrap up by looking at Cavalry, Chariots, War Machines, Monsters and chaff units. In the first part I looked at characters across all three elf books while last time I looked at Core units along with Special and Rare infantry. Welcome to the final part of this article.
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